Sept. 9. 1854.] 



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parliament. By another parliamentary decision 

 which he obtained (I believe Bishop of Exeter v. 

 Sampson Hele is reported in Shower's Cases in 

 Parliament, 88.), he established the sole right of 

 the Bishop to judge of the qualifications of persons 

 •applying to him for institution to a benefice. 

 These were not mere temporary services, says 

 Atterbury, to be made use of, to be talked of for 

 a while and then forgotten, but (as the historian 

 ■said of his own vtr\\\ng&) perpetual acquisitions laid 

 up for the benefit of succeeding ages. The whole 

 •dedication is worthy of attention. E. H. A. 



A Note on Chaucer: Jacke of Dover : Dovering. 



" And many a Jacke of Dover hast thou sold 

 That hath been twies hot and twies cold. 



Chaucer, Coke's Prologue, I. 4345. 



The night after the Lord Mayor's banquet in 

 November, 1853, several of the waiters who had 

 been engaged to attend applied to Sir Peter Laurie 

 to complain of a breach of agreement on the part 

 of the contractor for the banquet. Here Is a por- 

 tion of the dialogue copied from a newspaper of 

 that date : — 



** Sir Peter Laurie. — But had you no wine? 



Second Waiter. — Oh dear, no, sir; they looked too 

 sharp after it for that. 



Sir Peter Laurie. — What became of the opened bottles, 

 then ? 



Third Waiter. — Oh, they were collected by the wine- 

 men, and went into the cellar for what we call ' Dover.' 



Sir Peter Laurie. — What do you mean ? 



Third Waiter. — Why, sir, the half-bottles are used to 

 fill up others, which are sent up to table again as imopened 

 bottles ; and that is what we call ' Dovering.' " 



I believe the term " Jacke of Dover" made use 

 of by Chaucer has not been clearly traced. Does 

 it occur in any other writer ? It is curious that 

 the somewhat analogous practice in respect of 

 wine should have received and retained to the 

 present day an appellation so similar, and there- 

 fore I thought it would be of Interest to preserve 

 this record of the practice in connexion with those 

 lines of Chaucer. 



Possibly the cant word of the fraternity of 

 waiters may simply be a corruption of do-over- 

 again. J. M. B. 



Supposed Origin of the Expression " He has 

 hung up his hat." — This sentence, which is some- 

 times used in reference to persons recently de- 

 ceased, probably originated in a custom which 

 prevailed many years since at Great Bromley in 

 Essex. In the steeple of the superior parish 

 church in this place, is a peal of sweet-toned 

 bells, upon which a first-rate company of ringers 

 formerly practised ; when one of these votaries of 

 the science of campanology died, it was the prac- 



tice of his companions to nail up the last hat worn 

 by the deceased in the belfry, several of which are 

 still to be seen there. These relics of the departed 

 convey a somewhat mournful memento mori to the 

 mind of the spectator, serving to remind him that 

 the lovers of harmony, whose heads they once 

 covered, are now laid low in the adjoining church- 

 yard. 



One of these hats, by the breadth of Its verge, 

 might be supposed to have been worn by a 

 member of the Society of Friends ; this, however, 

 is very improbable, for we are not aware that 

 there is any instance on record of one of that re- 

 spected sect having entered " a steeple house " for 

 the purpose of practising as a bell-ringer. 



It occurs to us that the respected landlady of 

 an inn on the banks of the Stour, for several 

 years after the decease of her husband, kept the 

 last hat worn by him hanging up in her bar, it 

 being supposed that it was not to be removed 

 except in the case of a second marriage ; of course, 

 like other widows, the good lady was open to an 

 offer of the kind. G. Blencowe. 



Richard Graves, D.D., Dean of Ardagh. — In 

 the detailed and interesting Memoir prefixed to 

 The Works of Richard Graves, D.D., Dean of 

 Ardagh, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the 

 University of Dublin (4 vols. 8vo.), the date of his 

 death is given ; but no mention is made of the 

 place of his interment. It may be well, for 

 more reasons than one, to record the locality in 

 "N. & Q. ;" and, therefore, I am induced to send 

 a copy of an entry in the register of burials In the 

 parish of St. Mary, Donnybrook, near Dublin. 

 The following is No. 157. : 



"The Very Eeverend Richard Graves, of Harcourt 

 Street, in the parish of St. Peter [Dublin], aged sixty- 

 five, was buried this 3rd day of April, 1829." 



A stone, with a suitable inscription, covers 

 the grave of this learned divine and servant of 

 God, in the old churchyard of Donnybrook. 



Abhba. 



Matrimonial Advertisement. — Mr. Burke, in his 

 Anecdotes of the Aristocracy, furnishes the follow- 

 ing specimen of an advertisement of Sir John 

 Dinely for a partner: — 



" To the angelic fair of true English breed, — Sir John 

 Dinely, of Windsor Castle, recommends himself and his 

 ample fortune to any angelic beauty of good breed, fit to 

 become and willing to be a mother of a noble heir, and 

 keep up the name of an ancient family, ennobled by deeds 

 of arms and ancestral renown. Ladies at a certain period 

 of life need not apply, as heirship is the object of the 

 ladies' sincere admirer. Sir John Dinely. Fortune favours 

 the bold. Such ladies as this advertisement may induce 

 to apply or send their agents (but not servants or matrons) 

 may direct to me at the Castle, Windsor. Happiness and 

 pleasure are agreeable objects, and should be regarded as 

 well as honor. The ladj' who thus becomes my wife will 

 be a baronetess, and rank accordingly as Lady Dinely of 



