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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°^ S. Ko 87., Aug. 29. '67. 



Littleton (Lat. DicL), Gesenius, and Parkhurst 

 (Heb.), Monier, Williams, Wilson, Bopp, and 

 Vans Kennedy (Sansk.), and the different forms 

 of and in the old Teutonic dialects. 



E. S. Chabnock. 

 Gray's Inn. 



Alteration of the Liturgy : Dr. Tillotson. — Ex- 

 tract from a private letter, dated Nov. 21, 1689 : 



" Our convocation for the settling of religion is broken 

 all to pieces. Our presbyterian part}' hoped D"^ Tillotson 

 ■would have been chosen prolocutor as they call it, but the 

 vote being between him and D"" Jean, the latter had it. 

 D' Tillotson would have granted us all we could have 

 •wished for, both in the alteration of the Liturgies, prayers, 

 ceremonies, and. so forth. But D"^ Jean is so stiff for the 

 Church of England, that he will grant nothing. D'' Fair- 

 fax proposed an alteration in the Lord's prayer, viz. " Our 

 Father which art ir^ heaven" that it was not grammar, 

 and therefore ought not to be. That the petition, ' Lead 

 us not into temptation,'' should be expunged, as it made 

 God the author of sin. This was not regarded, and Bax- 

 ter, and all the other presbj'terian good men will, we are 

 afraid, declyne meeting any more." * 



Cl. Hopper. 



A Note from Chester. — The first line of one of 

 the inscriptions on the front of houses, sent to you 

 by Mr. Mackenzie Walcott, I saw a few days 

 since on the front of a house in Chester, namely, 

 " God's providence is my inheritance." The 

 house which bears this pious device is popularly 

 said to have been the only house in Chester which 

 escaped the plague. In this ancient city the 

 curfew is still regularly rung, at nine o'clock, not 

 merely as a memorial, but with a purpose. At 

 that hour the leave of absence to the maids and 

 female servants of the city expires, and there is a 

 general scudding of holiday damsels homewards, as 

 the curfew tolls. It is customary for these ancillce 

 to be told, on being engaged, that curfew time is 

 that observed in the household. This is perfectly 

 understood, and at that hour the humble and 

 happy lovers lingering in the street cover up 

 their fires and separate. There are some illus- 

 trious names in this imperial city of Chester. The 

 first costermonger's cart I encountered in the High 

 Street boasted no less a proprietor than " Au- 

 gustus Cffisar." Indeed, very ancient and royal 

 families are not extinct in other parts. Last May 

 I was loitering along the street between Battle 

 Abbey and the fields beyond, and there, close to 

 the old fighting ground on which William con- 

 quered, I saw that " Harold " was quietly settled 

 as a chemist and druggist. J. Doran. 



Prison-rents under the Stuarts. — One of your 

 correspondents (to whose communication I am 

 unable to make clear reference, being far away 

 from my books and papers,) recently expressed 

 some surprise at the amount of rent which the 



[• See Birch's Life ofAbp. Tillotson, p. 184., edit. 1753 ; 

 and Life of Dr. Frideaux, Dean of Norwich, pp. 54 — 56.] 



French ambassador is said, in Monarchs retired 

 from. Business, to have given for the hire of a 

 mansion in London, in the reign of William III. 

 High prices had been no uncommon thing for 

 a long time previously. In the article in the 

 AthencBum, on Luttrell's Diary, I see that, under 

 Charles II., a guinea was the price of a ticket of 

 admission to a public political dinner. It is not 

 more now, nor so much if the difference of value 

 of money be taken into account. With regard to 

 prison-rents, they were exorbitantly high before 

 the latter reign. In a " humble remonstrance and 

 complaint of many thousand poor distressed pri- 

 soners, in prison in and about London, to the 

 High Court of Parliament," a.d. 1642, I find the 

 remonstrants saying that " the extraordinary rent 

 of our chambers in prison surpasses all the usage 

 and brokery in the world, 50, 30, 20, 10, and 8 

 pounds per annum being an ordinary rent for a 

 chamber which a man can scarce turn himself in." 



J. Doran. 



Abergele, N. Wales. 



P. S. Permit me to add here, in reference to 

 the hope expressed by J. P. K., that I would not 

 transfer the French King John's prison from 

 Somerton in Lincolnshire to Somerset, that I had 

 never thought of doing so. When Balliol de- 

 clared that there was no Somerton in Lincoln- 

 shire (the topography of which county is among 

 the very many things of which I know nothing), 

 I concluded he did so on personal knowledge. It 

 then occurred to me that Somercot might have 

 been the locality. The interesting communica- 

 tion of J. P. K., however, leaves no excuse for 

 any mistake hereafter made in this matter. 



Sun-Dial Mottoes. — 



"Discite justitiam moniti." — New Palace Yard, West- 

 minster. 



" Vestigia nulla retrorsum." — Essex Court, Temple. 



"Time and tide tarry for no man." — Brick Court, 

 Temple. 



"Pereunt et imputantur." — Opposite the Library, 

 Temple. 



Mekcatob, A.B. 



Posies for Wedding Rings. — I send for your 

 consideration the following posies for wedding 

 rings, if worthy of " N. & Q." 



" Hearts united live contented." 



" None can prevent the Lord's intent." 



" As God decreed so we agreed." 



" Christ for me hath chosen thee." 



" By God alone we two are one." 



" God's blessing be on thee and me." 



" L(5ve me and be happy." 



" The love is true I owe you." 



" God did foresee we should agree." 



" In God and thee my joy shall be." 



" Absence tries love." 



" Virtue surpasseth riches." 



" Let virtue rest within thy breast." 



W. p. L. 



Greenwich. 



