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in years says, that in his youth he remembers 

 that officers on furlough or half-pay wore a blue 

 frock coat with scarlet collar, and a cocked hat, in 

 the streets. Mackenzie Walcott, M. A. 



Monuments in Churches (2°'" S. iv. 70.) — It is 

 not " customary " to have a faculty from the Bi- 

 shop's Court. Though a faculty is strictly re- 

 quired, it is in practice generally dispensed with, 

 under the confidence placed in the minister, but 

 either his consent or the ordinary's is absolutely 

 necessary. The Querist had better consult the 

 clergyman of the parish. See Prideaux, Burn, 

 &c. H. T. Ellacombe. 



Bishop Godwin cle Pi'CESulihus Anglice (2"'' S. iv. 

 70.) — 'J'he succession suggested by the writer 

 seems fully carried out by Mr. Hardy in his ad- 

 mirable edition ofZe Neve's Fasti Ecclesice Angli- 

 cance, published by the University of Oxford, a 

 work (3 vols. Svo.) which has not perhaps been 

 seen by your correspondent. X. Y. 



The Mazer Bowl (1" S. iv. 211. ; 2°* S. iv. 58.) 

 — ^ Whitaker (Hist. Craven, 35.), describing a 

 drinking horn of the Lister family, says : 



" Wine in England was first drunk out of the mazer 

 bowl ; afterwards out of the Bugle Horn (Cliaucer). 

 Silver Bowls were next introduced, and about the end of 

 Elizabeth's reign were superseded, as wine grew dearer, 

 or men grew temperate, by glasses." 



The Oent. Mag. (p. 180.) reporting proceedings 

 of Brit. Arch. Association, held Aug. 1845, gives 

 the following : 



" Mr. Evelyn P. Shirlej', M. P., exhibited a remarkably 

 perfect bowl of the time of Richard II. (1377 to 1399). 

 The bowl is formed of some light and mottled wood, 

 highly polished, probably ma/>Ze, with a broad rim of silver 

 gilt, round the exterior of which, on a hatched ground, is 

 the following legend : 



' In the Name of Trinite, 

 Fill the Kup, and drink to me.'" 



Mazer is, without doubt, from the Dutch ; but 

 the Germ, has also maser, wood with veins ; mO' 

 serle, maple ; maserholz, veined wood. 



E. S. Chabnock. 



Gray's Inn. 



Cornish Prefixes (2""^ S. iv. 50.) — Camden, in 

 his Remains, gives six prefixes to Cornish names, 

 as he had heard, he says, in this rythm : 



" Bj' Tre, Ros, Pol, Llan, Caer and Pen, 

 You may know the most Cornisli men," — 

 « which signifies," he adds, " a Town, a Heath, a Poole, 

 a Church, a Castle, or City, and a Foreland or Promon- 

 tory." — See Remaines concerning Britaine, p. 98. 



S.D. 



Colour (2"-^ S. iv. 36.)— Notsa, in quoting 

 me, makes a slight mistake in saying that " blue 

 and red" are usually appropriated to our Blessed 

 Lord. My position is that there is no appropria- 

 tion whatever. Blue and red together was a fa- 



vourite combination, and so used often for our 

 Lord and the Blessed Virgin, but not more fre- 

 quently than several other colours. J. C. J. 



Translations of Bishops (2°^ S. iv. 68.) — To 

 guard against ambition and avarice, it was forbid- 

 den by the councils of Nice, Antioch, Sardica, &c., 

 for bishops (o be translated from the churches 

 which they had first undertaken. Nevertheless, 

 this rule was departed from in cases where neces- 

 sity or great utility required it, and this from 

 very early times. G. L. is mistaken in supposing 

 that the first translation of a bishop was that of 

 Formosus of Porto, in 891. There had been many 

 instances of translations of bishops several centu- 

 ries before. The first on record is that of St. 

 Alexander of Jerusalem, translated to that See 

 in 212. The historian Socrates mentions many 

 bishops who had been translated, on account of 

 the necessities of various churches : ob interveni- 

 entes suhinde Ecclesice necessitates. He instances 

 Perigenes, St. Gregory Nazianzen, St. Meletius, 

 Dositheus, Reverentius, John of Proconnesus, 

 Palladius, Alexander, Theophilus, &c. (Socrates, 

 lib. vii. cap. 36.). Sozonien relates that even in 

 the Council of Nice, Eustathius, Bishop of Bera;a, 

 was translated to the See of Antioch. (Sozomen, 

 lib. i. cap. 2). The intention of the church was 

 to forbid avaricious and ambitious translations, 

 but not such as necessity or utility required. On 

 which Pope Pelagius II. has well expressed him- 

 self:— 



" Non mutat sedem, qui non mutat men tern, id est, qui 

 non caussa avaritise, aut dominationis, aut proprise volun- 

 tatis, vel su£E delectaiiouis migrat de civitate in civitatem, 

 sed caussa necessitatis, vel utilitatis mutatur." 



F. C. H. 



The Peacock. — As you have permitted the in- 

 sertion (2°'i S. iv. 98.) of an article by P. P. on 

 the habits of the peacock, in which a statement 

 and opinion of mine regarding that bird are pro- 

 nounced both false and ridiculous, I will trust to 

 your love of fair dealing to give a place in an 

 early number of your publication to the following 

 reply : — How far P. P. is a trustworthy observer 

 of facts in natural history, I have not the means 

 of judging ; but it implies no small share of self- 

 confidence to affirm, that what he has not himself 

 seen cannot be true, as well as that an explana- 

 tion different from his own must necessarily be, 

 not only false but silly. The facts referred to in 

 my work, I have myself witnessed in numerous 

 instances. The advance towards it of a dog, a 

 pig, or a man in a somewhat threatening attitude, 

 have been seen repeatedly to cause the male bird 

 to erect its plumes into a circle, incline them for- 

 ward over the head, and then to make a slight 

 advance, as if to daunt the supposed enemy. A 

 nearer approach of the dreaded object will, of 

 course, subdue the affected boldness of the bird ; 

 but the circumstance of its subsequent flight is 



