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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 84, Aug. 8. '57. 



sfortunate 1' ingratitudine del silentio. E come v' inari- 

 diste 6 inchiostri di Scotia nelle attioni di Fr. Arcangelo ? 

 dunque i rigori d' Arturo fanno ancora gelare gl' ingegni, 

 nfe si trovb che dicessi, che con brevi notitie havereste 

 scritto ad ogni modo per 1' eternita. Infelice Aberdone, 

 esilio piu tosto, e non patria. Godi pure fra le ribellioni 

 del Cifelo, de i disprezzi d' un figlio. L' eretica oscurita 

 non sh schiarirsi, che al falso, e solamente s' ottenebra a i 

 lampi della veritk" — P. 225. 



There is a description of a " vescovo Eretico, 

 che accompagnato da nobile comitiva, se n' andava 

 alia visita," who meets Fr. Arcangelo, and sends 

 twenty-five followers to catch him ; but they only 

 steal his portmanteau and a beautiful chalice. 

 Bishops so attended were scarce in Scotland ten 

 years before the Restoration, but I do not find 

 any thing else at variance with the then state of 

 things. The journey from London to Aberdeen 

 is twenty-two days (p. 114), and the Calvinistic 

 chaplain of Arcangelo's mother has " 300 scude " 

 a-ycar. 



Lysandre et Calisle. — In Upham and Beet's 

 Catalogue for last June is — 



" Tragi-comical History of our Times, under the bor- 

 rowed names of Lysander and Calista, small folio. 1627." 



A full account oi Argenis and the supposed key 

 is given by Bayle, and repeated with additions in 

 the JEnci/clopcedia Britannica. 



I cannot find any notice of Ze cochon Militaire. 

 May it be Le cochon Mitre? for which, and much 

 interesting matter on the libels of the end of the 

 seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth 

 centuries, see Le Noveau Steele de Louis XIV., 

 Paris, 1857. H. B. C, 



U. U. Club, 



AN ORDINATION QUEKY (2"'^ S. iv. 70.) : SPECIAL 

 LICENCE FOR MARRIAGE (2°"^ S. iv. 89.). 



Although neither a clergyman nor a lawyer, to 

 whom M. W. C. addresses his Query, I may, on 

 the authority of Cripps's Practical Treatise on the 

 Laws relating to the Church and the Clergy, state, 

 in reply, that as the age for the ordination of a 

 priest (twenty-four years) is fixed not only by 

 the canon, but also the statute law, there can be 

 no dispensation with regard to this order of the 

 clergy : — 



" But," saya Cripps, " with regard to Deacon's orders, 

 the regulation being by the canon law only, the qualifi- 

 cations of age might possibly be dispensed with, and by 

 virtue of a faculty or dispensation from the Abp. of Can- 

 terbury, allowed sometimes to persons of extraordinary 

 abilities, a person might be admitted to Deacon's orders 

 sooner." 



This appears very explicit, but is really worth 

 little : for Cripps, after stating, as above, that the 

 regulation, with respect to age for the ordination 

 of Deacons, is made by the canon law only, im- 

 mediately adds, at some length, that there is a 

 statute law also, dating from 1804, which declares 



the ordination of Deacons, before the age of 

 twenty-three, to be utterly void in law. While 

 on the subject of ecclesiastical and statute law, 

 allow me to answer Abhba, — as to title to be mar- 

 ried by special licence, — that Abp. Seeker, who 

 held the primacy from 1758 to 1768, and who was 

 the friend of AVatts, Doddridge, and Dissenters 

 generally, was the author of the arrangement of 

 special licences which' dispensed with, both time 

 and place. It is curious that this primate, who 

 was of humble birth, like many other Abps. of 

 Canterbury, adopted the regulation for the sake 

 of the aristocracy. As the old common licence was 

 only granted to " persons of quality," so now Seeker 

 confined the special licence to peers, peeresses 

 in tlieir own right, dowager peeresses, members 

 of the privy-council, the judges, baronets, knights, 

 and members of parliament. The Abp. of Can- 

 terbury is, of course, empowered to grant favours 

 beyond the limits implied above. (See 4 Geo. IV. 

 c. 76., Cripps, citante.) This author says that a 

 special licence dispensing with the particular 

 parish, or with the canonical hours, required by 

 the act, is sometimes granted, on a particular ap- 

 plication, to persons of inferior rank. J. Doran. 



The present Rubric is very clear that " none 

 shall be admitted a Deacon, except he be twenty- 

 three years of age, unless he have a Facnlty." 



These words, unless he have a Faculty, were 

 added in the last review. 



In " The Form and Manner of Making and 

 Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons," of 

 1552, it says : 



" None shall be admitted a Deacon, except he be 

 Twenty-one years of age at the least." 



According to Stephens, in his I^otes on the Hook 

 of Common Prayer, — 



" A faculty or dispensation is allowed for persons of 

 extraordinary abilities to be admitted Deacons sooner. 

 Which faculty must be obtained from the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury." 



By statute 44 George III. c. 43. s. 1. : 



" No person shall be admitted a Deacon before he shall 

 have attained the age of three and twenty years com- 

 plete." 



And by section 2., nothing therein contained — 

 " Shall extend, or be construed to extend, to take away 

 any right of granting faculties heretofore lawfully exer- 

 cised, and which now be lawfully exercised by the Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury' or the Archbishop of Armagh." 



M. W. C. should therefore apply to the Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury for a Faculty. In Dr. 

 Hook's Church Dictionary, under the head of 

 " Faculty Court," he says, the " Faculty Court 

 belongs to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and his 

 officer is called ' The Master of the Faculties.' " 

 Although I am neither a "clergyman nor a lawyer," 

 yet I have ventured to answer the query. 



G. W. N. 

 Alderley Edge, 



