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account, deducing them from the Murrhine cup. 

 For a particular account of these Mazer cups, 

 with engravings of one of them, and figures of the 

 murrhine and other drinking vessels, see W. H. 

 Turner's Usages of the Middle Ages, Archaeol. 

 Journal for Sept. 1845. Cl. Hopper. 



Anne, a Male Name (2"'* S. iii. 508.) — Forty 

 years ago or thereabout (that we may not minute 

 out the time, as Camden says), at which time I was 

 a chubby-faced laddy under the care at Aberdeen 

 of a good old grandfather, a member of Mr. Prim- 

 rose's Burgher Seceder Congregation, the care of 

 my precious head of hair was entrusted by him to 

 a fellow member of that congregation, — a slight, 

 prim, spruce, elderly little man, always dressed in 

 a full suit of black ; the coat after the fashion of 

 what is now called a court coat, small-clothes, silk 

 stockings, shoes and buckles, who rejoiced in the 

 name of Anne Frazer. At that time in Scotland 

 the honourable prefix of Master (Mr.) was only 

 given to the superior orders : respectable trades- 

 men, and men something above that, were ad- 

 dressed and spoken of simply by their christian 

 and sirnames, and I very well remember that my 

 customary salutation on entering Frazer's little 

 shop in the Guestrow was " Anne Frasher {sic 

 loc.) ye'U cut my heed " (head). 



How the worthy tonsor got his feminine appel- 

 lation remains to be told. His parents at his 

 baptism had to present twins, a girl and a boy ; 

 the boy, my friend, was by mistake held up for the 

 girl, name Anne, and the girl got a boy's name ; 

 but whether this latter was Simon or Solomon, or 

 Paul or Peter, or what else, I never heard. 



KiRKTowN Skene. 



Dr. Moor, Prof. Young, and the Poet Gray 

 (2"" S. iii. 506.) — Your correspondent, Y. B. N. 

 J., is in error in ascribing the criticism upon 

 Gray's Elegy to Dr. Moor. The pamphlet he 

 alludes to is A Criticism on the Elegy written in 

 a Country- Church-yard, being a Continuation of 

 Dr. Johnsons Criticism on the Poem of Gray, 

 2nd edit. Bvo. Edin. : Ballantyne, 1810, pp. xi., 

 148. This is ascribed in the Brit. Mus. Cat. to 

 Joh7i Young, Professor of Greek at Glasgoiv ; but 

 unless Young's connexion with it can be traced 

 twenty-seven years further back, I am prepared 

 to show that the quiz upon Johnson is neither 

 his nor his predecessor Moor's (who died in 

 1797), as I possess the first edition, published 

 at London by Wilkie, in 1783, which corresponds 

 in every respect with the Edinburgh reprint, with 

 the exception that Johnson's name is contracted 

 in the original, and that it occupies but pp. xi. 

 90., being a larger octavo than the 2nd edition. 

 Believing this jeu d'esprit to be better known 

 than your correspondent supposes, I content my- 

 self with adjusting its bibliography. The Edin- 

 burgh reprint was probably put forth by Pr. 



Young, but it owes nothing more to him, and I 

 may now ask who is the critic who dates his ad' 

 vertisement from Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 15, 1783 ? 



J.O. 



Kirlipatrichs and Lindsays (2"^ S. vi. 7.) — The 

 ballad by Mrs. Erskine Norton, called " The Earl's 

 Daughter," will be found in a work she published 

 in 1852, under the title of The Gossip, vol. iii. 

 p. 129. R. F. S. 



KOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The annual gathering of the Members and friends of 

 the ArchcBological Institute, which will be held this year 

 at Chester, commences on Tuesday next. Lord Talbot de 

 Malahide will preside, and the following announcements 

 are made of the Presidents of Sections : — Historj', The 

 Bishop of Chester; Antiquities, E. Guest, Esq., D.C.L., 

 Master of Caius and Gonville College, Cambridge ; Archi- 

 tecture, Sir Stephen R. Glynne, Bart. A General Pro- 

 gramme of Proceedings states the particulars, with dates : 

 — Tuesday, July 21, The Reception Room will be at the 

 Town Hail, Northgate Street; Opening Meeting at the 

 Town Hall, at Twelve ; The Museum of the Institute will 

 be opened at the King's School. Visits to objects of in- 

 terest in Chester or the immediate vicinitj' — the Cathe- 

 dral, St. John's and the other Churches, the City Walls, the 

 Museums of the Chester Archaeological Society and of 

 the Mechanics' Institute, the Roman Wall, Hypocaust 

 and other remains, Ancient Crj-pts and Houses, Stanley 

 House, Watergate, "The Rows," &c. Evening Meeting. 

 Wednesday, July 22, Meetings of the Sections (Historj', 

 Antiquities, Architecture,) at the Town Hall, at Ten. — 

 Visits to objects of interest in or near Chester in the 

 afternoon. The Annual Banquet of the Institute will 

 take place on this day. Thursday, Jul}' 23, Visits to the 

 extensive Collection of Art-Treasures of the United King- 

 dom, at Manchester. Friday, July 24, Meetings of the 

 Sections at the Town Hall, at Ten. — Examination of the 

 Cathedral and adjoining buildings. Evening Meeting at 

 the Music Hall. Saturday, June 25, Excursion to Liver- 

 pool, by special invitation from the Historic Society of 

 Lancashire and Cheshire. — Visit to the extensive and 

 valuable Museum of Antiquities and Art Examples, 

 formed by Mr. Joseph Maj-er. — By the kind invitation 

 of Mr. Watt, the Members of the Institute will be re- 

 ceived at Speke Hall, a most interesting example of Do- 

 mestic Architecture. Conversazione at St. George's Hall 

 in the evening. Mondaj', July 27, Excursion by Special 

 Train to Carnarvon and Conway Castles, with such ob- 

 jects of interest as may be accessible, time permitting. 

 Tuesdaj', July 28, Meetings of the Sections. — A short 

 Excursion to certain objects of special interest will be 

 arranged for the afternoon. — Conversazione at the Mu- 

 seum of the Institute, in the Evening, at Eight. Wed- 

 nesday, July 29, Annual Meeting of Members of the 

 Institute, at the Town Hall, for Election of Members, and 

 the business of the Society, at Nine. General Concluding 

 Meeting at Twelve. 



A General Meeting of the London and Middlesex Archceo- 

 logical Society will be held on Tuesday, July 21st, 1857, 

 at the Tower of London, by permission of Field Marshal, 

 the Right Honble. Viscount Combermere, G.(1B., &c. &c. 

 On this occasion the White Tower, with St. John's 

 Chapel, &c., the various Towers, the Armories, &c., will 

 be visited and examined, and brief descriptive Notices of 



