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book in hig parish." (Fuller's Church History^ 

 under May 29, 1618; and Collier's Eccl Hist, ii. 

 712., ed. 1714.) Scotds. 



Surplice on Good Friday at the Communion. — 

 In the j:eview of the " Rev. Dr. Campbell's visit 

 to England in 1778," in the Edinburgh of October, 

 1859, page 3.39., occurs the passage : — 



" Dodd (the notorious Reverend Doctor) did not read 

 the Communion Service rubrically, for he kneeled at the 

 beginning, and though it -was a Fast Day, he and his 

 coadjutors wore surplices." 



As I have always seen the surplice worn on 

 Good Friday by the officiating minister, I should 

 be glad to learn whether this is an innovation 

 since 1775, or whether the gown was then used by 

 the Irish church only, of which Dr. Campbell was 

 a member. I am aware in the University in Pas- 

 sion Week only the reader in chapel wears his 

 surplice. J. H. L. 



Play/ord. — Was Playford, who collected the 

 Musical Companion, a Norfolk man, or in any 

 way connected with that county ? Is anything 

 known of his descendants ? F. C. B. 



The Style of Grace. — When was this style first 

 given to the Archbishops and to Dukes f J. 



Munro. — What is the origin of the name Munro 

 or Monro ? It appears to be principally borne by 

 Scottish families, some of whom, I believe, con- 

 sider themselves of English extraction. 



Mark Antont Lowee» 



Lewes. 



Zomax, or Lomas Family. — What is known of 

 the origin of the name and family of Lomax, or 

 Lomas ? Mark, ANTC«nr Loweb. 



Lewes. 



William Dunkin, D. D, — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents give the dates of the birth and death* 

 of William Dunkin, the friend and collaborateur 

 of Swift, and author of various poems and epistles 

 which were published in 2 vols. 4to. about the 

 year 1774 ? W. J. F. 



Owenson the Player. — I have heard from a gen- 

 tleman now in his eighty-ninth year that he well 

 remembers Owenson, the father of Lady Morgan, 

 acting the part of Captain O'Cutter in Colman's 

 comedy of the Jealous Wife, with infinite humour 

 and success, about the year 1789. What other 

 characters used Owenson to sustain besides Major 

 O'Flaherty in the West Indian, Sir Lucius O' 

 Trigger in The Rivals, and Teague in The Com- 

 mittee f Any information about Owenson would 

 be very acceptable. Eblana. 



Writers loho have been bribed to Silence was a 

 subject started in "N. & Q." nearly two years ago, 



[* Ob. Nov. 24, 1765.— Ed.] 



but it seems to have hung fire. May I be per- 

 mitted to revive it by directing attention to a 

 statement made in Timperley's Cyclopcedia to the 

 effect that Mary Anne Clarke received 10,000/., 

 and an annuity of 600Z., for suppressing a work of 

 hers of which 10,000 copies had been printed ! 

 Plowden, in his History of Ireland, and Curran 

 in his Sketches of the Irish Bar, insinuate that 

 one of Sir Jonah Barrington's historical works 

 was silenced by the government with a bribe. 



W. J. F. 



John Phipps. — Wanted, information regarding 

 John Phipps, author of MS. comedies. The Con- 

 trasts, The Important Discovery, The Sycophant. 

 These pieces were sold as part of the Duke of 

 Roxburgh's library in 1812. Z. A. 



" Decanatus Christianitatis." — On the map of 

 the diocese of Worcester attached to the Valor 

 Ecclesiasticus, temp. Hen. VIII., the south-wes- 

 tern quarter of Warwickshire, apparently nearly 

 corresponding to the hundred of Barlichway, is 

 tinted as a separate ecclesiastical division, and 

 bears the above inscription, by which I under- 

 stand the Deanery of Christianity. Can any of 

 your readers suggest the reason of so strange a 

 designation ? J. S. 



Major Thomas. — A gallant officer, Majpr 

 George Powell Thomas, of the 3rd European 

 Regiment, died from the effects of wounds re- 

 ceived in battle before Agra, 1857. It is said he 

 was the son of an old Indian officer, the late 

 Major-General Lewis Thomas, C. B. 



From which of the many families of Thomas 

 were these heroes descended ? G. L. T. 



" Death of the Fox.''' — Can any one inform me 

 whether Sir Walter Scott composed a song on 

 the " Death of the Fox," and whether this song 

 was sung in Edinburgh at a Pitt dinner? Can 

 the song be found ? G. F. 



Seal of SS. Serge and Baccus. — I should be 

 glad to know where I can meet with any en- 

 graving or sketch of the seal used by the monas- 

 tery of SS. Serge and Baccus in France. I 

 have a deed with the seal attached, but it is some- 

 what damaged ; and I am anxious to know the 

 entire legend, as also some minutiae of detail, 

 which are destroyed in my specimen. 



William Henby Hart. 



Folkestone House, Eoupell Park, Streatham. 



Goethe's Clavigo.—ln the (Old) Monthly Mag- 

 azine for 1834, vol. xviii., there is a translation of 

 Goethe's Clavigo by A. T. Who was the trans- 

 lator ? Z. A. 



" The Sack of Baltimore."— Many of your cor- 

 respondents have, doubtless, read that beautiful 

 ballad, " The Sack of Baltimore," by Thomas 



