Aug. 26. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Bachelor of Arts. Degrees in the canon law 

 (sometimes desijinated Bachelor and Doctor of 

 the Decretals — Decretalium) seem to have fiillen 

 into disuse at the Reformation, though degrees in 

 both laws {Utriusque Juris, or In utroqiie Jure) 

 are still, in name, continued and usually expressed 

 by LL.B. and LL.D. The corresponding de- 

 grees in the common law (conferred in London or 

 Westminster) are Barrister and Serjeant. 



In divinity, in medicine, and in music, we have 

 the two degrees, Bachelor and Doctor. The 

 brilliant idea of Masters and Doctors in the self- 

 same faculty (which reminds us of a Mary and a 

 Maria in one family) was reserved for the nine- 

 teenth century. H. G. 



" TAe Perverse Widow." — In the book-cata- 

 logue of Mr. Kerslake, of Bristol, there is men- 

 tion made of a copy of Cowley's Works, " with 

 Autograph of Sir Roger de Coverley's ' Perverse 

 Widow,' and her ' Confidante ; ' " a note to this 

 folio informing us that the fly-leaf contains the 

 following : 



« ' Oatharina Boevey, February the 10th, 1688-9,' 



under which the following verses, blotted out, but can be 



read: 



' Surely a pain to love it is 

 and tis a pain that pain to mis 

 but of all pains the greatest pain 

 it is to love and love in vain,' 



under which, unblolted, 



' Discreet wit 

 Catharina BoeVey, 1691,' &c. 



On the title is written, 



* Mademoiselle Maria Pope, 

 Le Livre Catharina Boevey,' 



" Mrs. Mary Pope, the cause of Sir Roger's disappoint- 

 Inent, and the object of his detestation, was for forty years 

 the constant companion of Mrs. Boevej', and became her 

 executor, and erected her monuments in Westminster 

 Abbey and at Flaxley." 



Whether the above be authentic or not, it is 

 worthy of a corner in " N. & Q." Abhba. 



" Domhey and Son." — Knowing the care with 

 which Mr, Dickens has selected his names, in indi- 

 cation of the characters or peculiarities of his 

 dramatis personcB, I was curious to discover if the 

 individual described (p. 122.) as having "two un- 

 broken rows of glistening teeth, whose regularity 

 and whiteness was quite distressing — the ob- 

 servation of which it was impossible to escape, 

 for he showed them whenever he spoke," &c., and 

 who is generally spoken of throughout the book as 

 "the man of teeth," derived his name " Carker" 

 from the Greek Ka.pxap6^Qvs. I received a cour- 

 teous reply from the author, stating that " the 

 Coincidence in question is accidental." 



John South Phillips, M. A. 



Buiy St. Edmunds. 



Northumbrian Burr. — Is it not possible that 

 this burr, or, as the Northumbrians term it, 

 " cinder in the thrOat," may be the last trace of 

 the mode in which the Saxons pronounced many 

 words which now begin with the simple r? 

 For instance, Ripon, in York.shire, is called by 

 the earlier chroniclers Hripum; in later times 

 we find the first two letters changing places. 

 Now it appears to me, that if we attempt to pro- 

 nounce the word Hripum as it is written, the 

 result will necessarily be a guttural sound ; either 

 identical with, or closely resembling, the burr of 

 the Northumbrians when dealing with the letter 

 r. Henky T, Riley. 



Bishop Cartwright. — The following items, ex- 

 tracted from the register books of St. Margaret's, 

 Barking, may interest those of your readers who 

 possess the bisliop's diary, edited for the Camden 

 Society by Mr. Hunter: 



" 1662. May 27. Thi^ day was married, Thomas Cart- 

 wright, D.D., and Sarah y" daughter of Henry Wight, 

 Esq., and Margaret his wife, both of tliis parish." 



" 1688. June 17. Here Mr. Chisenhall was turned out 

 for not reading the declaration, nn<i Mr. Hall was ap- 

 pointed his successiir bv the Bp of Chester, D''Cartwrif;lit." 

 "1689. Feb. 3. Exit Mr. Hall, restored ]Mr. Chisenhall." 

 "1718. Dec. 19. Mrs. Elizabeth Chisenliail liuried." 

 " 1724, April 3. Buried, liev. Jno. Chisenhall, Vicar." 



Mr. Hunter has added several useful notes to 

 this Diary ; but at p. 31. it seems to have escaped 

 his notice, that the " Thomas Wilson, B.A., 

 deacon," to whom a licence was given, was after- 

 wards the^celebrated Bishop of Sodor and Man. 



W. Denton. 



eauertfif. 



THE POPE SITTING ON THE ALTAK. 



What is the origin of this custom at the Pope's 

 election, and what is its meaning? 



Catalaiii, in his Caremoniale, mentions that its 

 introduction is comparatively modern. A writer 

 in a late number of the Christian Bemembrancer 

 treats it as a mere optical delusion ; and sa\ s, that 

 the Pope merely sits upon his thnme placed in 

 its primitive position behind the altar, and raised 

 above it. It appears however plainly, from the 

 Caremoniale, that he actually siis upon tlie altar, 

 supra ultara; and lie is so <iepl(ted in the illustra- 

 tions of his coronation, published at Rome. But 

 why does he sit there ? 



The absurdity of treating it as an assumption of 

 divine honour, needs no elaborate refutation. 

 The altar is not the seat of Deity, but the place 

 for the victim sacrificed to him : as a table is the 

 place not for the person eating, but for the thing 

 eaten. 



In Menin's Description of Coronations, p. 184., 



