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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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would seem from the above, that the slaves in 

 Jamaica were, even as late as 1792, punished with 

 great severity. Vox. 



Reading of the Psalms (2"^ S. i. 213, 214.)— In 

 the reply to the Query, in the concluding sen- 

 tence, it is stated, that "to maintain a chorus (not 

 a singing, but a responding chorus,) without a 

 choragus, is an impossibility." 



What is here pronounced impossible is done 

 every Sunday in the United States. Clerks to 

 lead the responses of the congregation were not 

 unusual thirty-five years ago, but I believe that 

 they are now entirely dispensed with ; at any rate, 

 I have met with none in my travels in the eastern, 

 middle, and western states, during the last twenty 

 years. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



[Responding in order and unity — that is to say all 

 persons using the same rhj'thms and tones — is one 

 thing : responding in disorder and confusion — every 

 man extemporising the rhythms and moving from in- 

 flexion to inflexion as he may please — is another. lie- 

 sponding in order and unity is not done in America, or 

 anywhere on this melodious planet, Avithout a leader and 

 without labour.] 



''Instructions for Lent'' (2"'» S. ii. 329.) — The 

 author of this work was the Rev. John Gother. 

 It forms the third volume of the sixteen contain- 

 ing his spiritual works, apart from his works of 

 controversy. He was a convert to the Catholic 

 Faith, and was the chief instrument, under God, 

 of the conversion of the eminent Bishop Challoner. 

 This book of Instructions for Lent is well known, 

 and highly esteemed. F. C. H. 



Bones, Manure (2""* S. ii. 99.) — I have heard 

 it stated that the contents of the charnel-houses in 

 the north of Germany are shipped in vast quanti- 

 ties to Hull, and that a considerable proportion of 

 the cargoes imported there consists of human 

 bones. Perhaps some of your readers may be 

 able to state more positively whether or not this 

 is the fact. Henky T. Riley. 



General Epistles (2"* S. i. 209.) — I apprehend 

 that the disquisition on the point raised by 

 Abhba will scarcely suit your columns. I there- 

 fore furnish him with the following references : 



Whitby on New Testament, vol. iv. p. 939., ed. 1847. 

 Home „ „ vol. iv. p. 427., ed. 9. 



Tomline „ „ p. 322., ed. 19th. 



Lardner „ „ vol. vi. p. 467. 



Kitto, sub voce Epistles, Bib. CycL, p. 644. 

 Theological Critic, ed. T. K. Arnold, vol. ii. p. 373., "On 

 the Most Ancient Canon of the New Testament." 



Also consult Alford and Hug, Lachmann and 

 Tischendorf, or Olshausen. F. S. 



Thorolds (2"" S. ii. 289.) — Burke would make 

 his statement on the authority of the Thorolds 



themselves. He applied to each family for their 

 pedigree, and certain other particulars, and pub- 

 lished the information he received. He did not 

 pretend to correct people's pedigrees for them, 

 or to test the accuracy of their family traditions. 

 Of course he was anxious his work should be 

 correct, but he was obliged to depend on the 

 parties he applied to. Oke of those Parties. 



Mottoes for a Common-place Book, Index He- 

 rum, or Note Book (2"<i S. ii. 327.) — Your cor- 

 respondent may add the following to his collec- 

 tion : 



" Because it is but a counterfeit thing in knowledges 

 to be forward and pregnant, except a man be deep and 

 full, I hold the entry of common- places to be a matter of 

 great use and essence in studying, as that which as- 

 sureth copie of invention, and contracteth judgement to 

 a strength. But this is true, that of the methods of 

 common-places that I have seen, there is none of any 

 suSicient worth ; all of them carrying merely the face of 

 a school, and not of a world; and referring to vulgar 

 matters and pedantical divisions, without all life, or re- 

 spect to action." — Bacon's Advancement of Learning, \. 2. 

 c. 16. s. 1. 



" Nihil tmquam legit, quod non excerperet." — Plinius 

 junior, Ep. iii. 5., dicens de avunculo suo. 



" Maximi quique viri et commendant et adhibent sedu- 

 1am excerpendi curam. Profecto fidem superat, si quia 

 et accurate, et continenter script© conservet, quidquid 

 constans lectio memoria dignum in dies ofTert, quanta, 

 quam brevi egregiarum rerum copia congeratur." — Sac- 

 chinus, de ratione libros legendi, p. 76. 



" Dicit Justus Lipsius, ' lectionem ipsam non suflScere, 

 ne repetitam quidem, imo nee in felicissima memoria, sed 

 opus esse excerptis quibusdam, et notis rerum verborum- 

 que singularium. ' " — Epist. Instit., cap. 12. 



N. R. 



Lines on a Watch (2°^ S. ii. 109.) —The beau- 

 tiful lines on this subject by Dr. Byrom are 

 equalled, I think, by the following, which deserve 

 to be made more widely known by insertion in 

 "N. & Q. :" 



" To a Lady with the present of a Watch. 

 " "With me while present, may thy lovely eyes 

 Be never turn'd upon this golden toy : 

 Think every pleasing hour too swiftly flies, 

 And measure time by joy succeeding joy. 

 " But when the cares that interrupt our bliss, 

 To me not always will thy sight allow, 

 Then oft with fond impatience look on this. 

 Then every minute count — as I do now.' 



Can any of your correspondents name the 

 author ? N. L. T. 



^S"^. Peter ivith a closed Book (2°'* S. ii. 268. 

 319.) -T- Since my former communication, I have 

 met with an instance of St. Peter represented with 

 a closed book, as well as the keys. It occurs in 

 Bottesford Church, Leicestershire. The brass of 

 Henry de Codyngtoun has his effigy vested in a 

 cope ; and St. Peter appears thus on the orphrey. 

 St. Paul is on the opposite side, and it is remark- 

 able that he bears a sword only, and no book. 



F. C. H. 



