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NOT|:S AND QUERIES. 



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Registration Act (Vol. x., p. 144.). — J. P. A.'s 

 Query may be easily answered, and I am sorry 

 that the registrar-general should have been puz- 

 zled on so unpuzzling a matter — " which is the 

 legal name?" Let J. P. A. write this question 

 out without abridgement, and he can answer his 

 own Query. There never has been a legal name. 

 Christian names have been heard of, and sur- 

 names, but a legal name never. J. P. A. meant 

 to ask, which is the legal Christian name? The 

 answer is, the one received when the child was 

 made a Christian, and none other. In all legal 

 proceedings it may be requii'ed to state the Chris- 

 tian name and the surname, but it is not required 

 to state the civil registration name. W. Denton. 



The Domum Tree at Winchester (Vol. x., p. 66.). 

 — Your correspondent Me. Heney Ebwaebs is 

 assured, that " Dulce Domum" was formerly sung 

 under an old tree that stood in the ground re- 

 cently used as a wharf, but now converted into a 

 garden. I say this on the authority of the Rev. 

 Henry Sissmore, late Fellow of Winchester Col- 

 lege, who died in 1851, at the age of ninety-five. 

 He once related to me, that when he was a boy at 

 school, it was the custom to sing " Domum" round 

 the old tree ; and that he well remembered how, 

 on^ one occasion, a shed of some sort had been 

 built round the tree, and that the boys, before 

 singing, set to work to demolish the obstruction 

 vi etarmis, while Dr. Warton, the head master, sat 

 on his pony close by, looking on and enjoying the 

 fun. Mb. Mackenzie Walcott says that the 

 practice of singing there ceased in 1773. 



The tree standing in the same piece of ground 

 now is not the true " Domum" tree, but is, I 

 believe, an offshoot of it. W. H. Gunnee. 



Winchester. 



Prince Charles's House in Derby (Vol. x., 

 p. 105.). — The house at Derby, where Prince 

 Charles Edward lodged, was lately occupied by 

 Eaton Mousley, Esq. It is noticed and engraved 

 in the Pictorial History of England. I have heard 

 that the room is shown in which the council was 

 held, when the " Retreat frona Derby " was de- 

 cided on. I propose going to see the house, and 

 I will let L. M. M. R. know if I hear anything on 

 the subject worth communicating. Stewaet. 



Churches erected (Vol. x., p. 126.). — The in- 

 formation required by A., " as to the number of 

 new churches erected in each county," can only 

 be obtained through the bishop of each diocese, 

 and involves much trouble. It would be less 

 difficult to obtain the number erected in each 

 diocese. A short time before the death of the late 

 Bishop of Salisbury, he kindly forwarded to me, 

 in answer to inquiries similar to those of A., a 

 return of all churches consecrated by himself; 



distinguishing new churches from those which had 

 been merely rebuilt, and specifying the parish and 

 county in which each was built. This return 

 must, I presume, have cost Bishop Denison some 

 trouble, as he requested me to return the docu- 

 ment to him when I had made the use of it which 

 I required. His death prevented this. As to the 

 expense of each church, and how much was " de- 

 frayed almost, or entirely, by individuals," this 

 can I believe only be obtained by inquiries made 

 in each new parish. The gross amount A. will 

 find in the last census. Let me add that the 

 number of new churches, and the amount ex- 

 pended on the buildings, will give no adequate 

 idea of church progress ; as the following extract 

 from a letter of one of the bishops in answer to 

 my inquiry, " How many churches have been con- 

 secrated in your diocese ?" will show : 



" There have been, in the last ten years, fifty 

 churches consecrated ; of which, forty have been 

 during my episcopate. But this gives an imper- 

 fect view of the case : for in the same period, 

 besides these, seventy-five churches have been 

 re-opened by me after restoration ; amounting, in 

 some cases, almost to rebuilding, and varying in 

 their cost from 500^. up to 3000Z." 



W. Denton. 



Church building and restoration from 1844 to 

 1854 in the county of Leicester : 



1. Iioicester : church built. 



2. St. Margaret: restored. 



3. Little Dalby, restored. 



4. Waltham or the Wolds : restored, open seats, chan- 

 cel elaborate, with three stained windows. 



5. Coston : restored, open seat. 



6. Woolsthorpe : church built. 



7. Knipton: restored. 



8. Melton Mowbray : partially restored, externally. 



9. Thorpe Arnold : restored. 



10. Croxton Kerrial : restored. 



All these (except Leicester) are in a circle of 

 about ten miles. R. J. Shaw. 



The information which your correspondent A. 

 desires respecting " the number of new churches 

 that have been erected in each county," &c., can 

 be obtained by application to the registrar of each 

 diocese in England and Wales. It is customary 

 upon the consecration of every new church for 

 the bishop to direct that the deed of consecration 

 be deposited in the registry of the diocese ; it may 

 not be so easy to ascertain those which have been 

 built at the sole expense of individuals, but a 

 reference to the form of petition presented to the 

 bishop, praying him to proceed to the act of con- 

 secration, would show the names of those most 

 interested in the work, from whom farther inform- 

 ation might be sought. A return such as your 

 correspondent desires would be very interesting ; 

 and, I have no doubt, would show that at no 

 period since the time of Henry VII. has so much 



