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spent tUrough Age, or disguised by Smoa)^, and so that 

 common Saying may stand good still." 



"What was this common saying? 



CUTHBEET BeDE, B.A. 



iiltn0i* cauerteS toitfj ^nSbiexi. 



I'he Common Prayer Book, — I met with some 

 Prayer Books printed at Cambridge about 1780, 

 in which the " Prayer that may be used after any 

 of the former " was placed after the " Prayer for 

 all conditions of men." At present, according to 

 the Rubric, this prayer can only be used in Umber 

 weeks, or when the prayers for special wants are 

 used. Is it incorrect to use it ordinarily ? and 

 how comes it in the place I have noted above ? 



M. W. C. 

 Alnwick. 



[This collect occurs in the Sacramentary of Gregory, 

 and in the most ancient monuments of the English offices 

 (Palmer). According to VVheatly, in Queen Elizabeth's 

 Common Praj'er, it followed the prayer in the time 

 of any common plague or sickness. At the Review of 

 the Common Prayer Book after the Restoration, it was 

 ordered to be placed immediately after the two prayei'S 

 for the Ember weeks. The printers, however, put it be- 

 tween the prayer for all conditions of men and the ge- 

 neral thanksgiving; but the commissioners compelled 

 them to cancel the leaf, so as to restore it to its proper 

 position. For many years, nevertheless, this collect was 

 placed in the Prayer Books immediately before the ge- 

 neral thanksgiving ; but in more recent editions it has 

 been inserted before the prayer for the Parliament, so as 

 to be exactly conformable to the Sealed Books.] 



William Soivyer's Annuities. — Can you furnish 

 the particulars of the qualifications required of 

 candidates for the annuities to journeymen com- 

 positors ? A Galley Slave. 



[The following is an extract from William Bowyer's 

 bequest of 30/. a year to one journeyman compositor; — 

 "The Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Stationers' 

 Company, shall nominate for this purpose a Compositor, 

 who is a man of good life and conversation, who shall 

 usually frequent some place of public worship every 

 Sunda}', unless prevented by sickness, and shall not have 

 worked on a Newspaper or Mag.izine for four years at 

 least before such nomination, nor shall ever afterwards 

 whilst he holds this Annuity, which may be for life if he 

 continues a Journeyman. He shall be able to read and 

 construe Latin, and at least to read Greek fluently with 

 accents ; of which he shall bring a Testimonial from the 

 Rector of St. Martin's Ludgate for the time being. I 

 could wish that he should have been brouglit up piously 

 and virtuously, if it be possible, at Merchant Taylors', or 

 some other public school, from seven years of age till he 

 is full seventeen j and then to serve seven years faithfully, 

 as a Compositor, and work seven years more as a Journe}'- 

 man ; as I would not have this Annuity bestowed on any 

 one under thirty-one years of age. If, after he is chosen, 

 he should behave ill, let him be turned out, and another 

 chosen in his stead." William Bowyer also bequeathed 

 a sum of money to purchase '20G0/., "three per cent., the 

 interest of which to be divided for ever equally amongst 

 three piinters, compositors or pressmen, to be elected by 

 the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Stationers' 



Company, and who at the time of such election shall be 

 sixty-three years old or upwards.] 



S. Margaret. — Where can I find a good life of 

 this saint ? Were any monasteries or convents 

 in the North of Ireland ever dedicated to her P 

 There was a celebrated Scottish saint of this name, 

 but I wish to discover if she was ever connected 

 with Ireland. A. T. L. 



[There are six saints of this name in the Roman 

 calendar; probably the one inquired after is St. Mar- 

 garet, Queen of Scotland, commemorated June 10. See 

 Butler's Lives of the Saints. For some notices of the 

 eastern saint of that name, see " N. & Q.," 1"' S. vi. 76. 

 156.] 



Goldsmiths* Year Marks. — What was the " year 

 mark" upon silver plate for the years 1580 to 

 1590. I know that portions of a complete list of 

 year marks (perhaps the whole) have been pub- 

 lished by Mr. Octavius Morgan in the Journal of 

 the Archceological Institute ; but as I have not access 

 to that jouf-nal, I venture to solicit information 

 through your columns. Pishey Thompson, 



Stoke Newington. 



[The year marks, as given by Mr. Morgan in The ^r- 

 chcBologkal Journal, vol. x. p. 35., are as follow : " Roman 

 Capitals in escutcheon, lion passant: C 1580, 1> 1581, 

 S 1582, P 1583, O 1584, B 1585, I 1586, X 1587, Zi 

 1588, VS. 1589, W 1590."] 



%t^\izi. 



LORD MANSFIELB's CONDUCT IN THE DOUGLAS 

 CAUSE, AND LOKD BEOUGHAm's OPINION OF IT. 



(2''^S. iv. 111.) 



My attention has just been called to a passage 

 quoted by a correspondent from Malcom's Lite- 

 rary Gleanings, in which Mr. Malcom, describing 

 Lord Brougham's sketch of the great Chief Jus- 

 tice, says : — 



" He vindicates him (Lord Mansfield) with anxious 

 and painful elaboration against the bitter charges of the 

 implacable Junius ; but not one word has he said in vin- 

 dication of the Chief Justice against the far more serious, 

 and perhaps not less caustic charges contained in Andrew 

 Steuart's celebrated Letters on the Douglas Cause. The 

 silence of Lord Brougham on this remarkable point, so 

 painful to every admirer of great talents, may very justly 

 be held to be conclusive as to the guilt of Lord Mans- 

 field." 



Now as I happen to know that Lord Brougham's 

 silence as to Lord Mansfield's corruptibility, so 

 far from arising from any belief in it, had its 

 origin in a totally and entirely different feeling, 

 namely, the belief that no person of ordinary- 

 sagacity could suppose it even possible that he for 

 one moment gave the least credit to Sir Philip 

 Francis's furious denunciations of Lord Mansfield 

 and Lord Camden, ^- for if Lord Mansfield was 

 corrupt, so must have been Lord Camden, be- 



