Sept. 30. 1854.] 



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of two plane mirrors inclined at an angle ; the 

 cylindrical form of the envelope is but a con- 

 venience. 



The cylinders alluded to are described in many 

 works on optical curiosities. Look at a drawing 

 as it is reflected in a glass cylinder, and the ap- 

 pearance is "monstrous." But let the drawing 

 itself be a " monstrous projection," then, if the 

 monstrosity be duly adapted to the intended po- 

 sition of both drawing and spectator, there will be 

 seen in the reflection a " beautiful image." I 

 think these cylinders are noticed in Mutton's Re- 

 creations. Chloroform. 

 [We are also indebted to C. A. L. for a similar reply.] 



Paterson, Founder of the Bank (Vol. x., p. 102.). 



— B. will find some information relative to this 

 enterprising man in Tales of a Grandfather, 

 vol, ii. p. 142., 19th edit. Cubricus (D). 



Bermondsey Abbey (Vol. x., p. 166.). — Hazle- 

 wooD will find a resume of the history of Ber- 

 mondsey Abbey in Phillips' History of Bermond- 

 sey, London, tJnwin, 1841 ; in which, at p. 36., 

 will be found a notice of remains then existing. 

 Some of these are, I believe, now removed, but 

 the " old square-fronted house, built chiefly of 

 stone," still remains, " where the hooks are yet to 

 be seen on which the gates hung." T. S. N. 



Grange Eoad, Bermondsey. 



The Pope sitting on the Altar (Vol. x., p. 161.). 



— The Eev. J. C. Eustace, a Eoman Catholic 

 priest, speaking of the adoration of the Pope after 

 his election, thus expresses himself: 



"But why should the altar be made his footstool? the 

 altar, the beauty of holiness, the throne of the victim 

 Lamb, the mercy-seat of the temple of Christianity ; why 

 should the altar be converted into the foot-stool of a 

 mortal .' " — Classical Tour, Sj-c, vol. iii. p. 353., 8th edit., 

 London. 



Clericus (D). 

 I beg to suggest to H. P. that supra altare (or 

 altaria, for one or other I infer it should have 

 been) is not necessarily to be translated " upon," 

 i. e. down upon the altar. I know very well 

 supra has sometimes this meaning ; but in the 

 great variety of cases in which it is used, do we 

 not much oftener meet with the idea of above or 

 beyond f I have no access to the Cceremoniale, and 

 therefore cannot tell what help the context might 

 give to determine the exact sense. But if it be 

 over or above, the absurdity of the assumption 

 H. P. mentions vanishes, Wm. Hazel. 



Latten-jawed or Leathern-Jawed (Vol. x.; pp. 53. 

 116.). — Are not your correspondents Fervus 

 and Neglectus equally in error, as to the proper 

 reading of this word ? I conceive it to be no 

 other than a corruption in either form. The 

 original compound is evidently lantkorn-jawed — 



an expression which I should think few of your 

 readers (especially such of them as are at all ac- 

 quainted with the London cabmen's vocabulary) 

 can find much difficulty in recognising or in in- 

 terpreting, Anojt. 



FuRvus and N^eglectus very unconsciously 

 adopt Latin expressions, and then are puzzled at 

 the sound. Latten is from laterna, and lantern- 

 jawed is a very well understood term, and, un- 

 fortunately so ; it may be found sufficiently ex- 

 plained in any dictionary. Infantulus. 



Female Parish Overseer (Vol. x., p. 45.). — 

 With reference to what appeared in one of the 

 late Numbers of " N. & Q.," I can inform you that 

 about thirty years ago a woman was appointed 

 and served as " overseer of the poor " of the parish 

 of Reusing, near Seven Oaks, in Kent. I believe 

 that many women have been from tune to time 

 appointed to, and have served, that office. 



Ignotus. 



Brasses restored (Vol. x., p. 104.). — Having 

 had a good deal of practice in rubbing brasses, 

 and seen them in all stages of preservation, I can 

 only exhort John Stanley, M.A., to patient per- 

 severance in rubbing off impressions. There is 

 no method of restoring a worn brass but re-en- 

 graving. Something may be gained by careful 

 cleaning out the letters with a hard brush ; but I 

 have often found that an inscription which defied 

 decyphering on the brass, came out legible on the 

 rubbing. F. C, H, 



Lindsay Court House (Vol. ix., pp. 492. 552. 

 602.). — Thinking that I had seen a somewhat 

 similar inscription on the continent, I referred 

 back to my notes, made many years ago, and find 

 that it occurs on the front of the arsenal at Delft 

 in Holland, in two lines, exactly as follows : 



" Hsec domus odit amat punit conservat honorat 

 Nequitiam pacem crimina jura probos." 



S. K. 

 Lydiate. 



Hero of the ^^ Spanish Lady's Love" (Vol. ix., 

 p. 573.). — I have heard of the Spanish lady's 

 picture at Rev. T. B. Wright's, Wrangle, Some of 

 the Bolles are interred at Haugh. And in olden 

 times, report says, she also was fond of paying her 

 nightly visits to that old mansion. A place well 

 fitted for her wanderings : for the yew-trees would 

 add to her romance, and the thick walls of the 

 house would lead you to suppose that they were 

 made to have an escape — some say to Greenfield, 

 or Belleau — in the way to Thorpe Hall, Theta. 



Works on Bells (Vol. ix., p. 240.; Vol. x., p, 55,), 

 — The instrument called :ZitiJ.avr{>ov, to which W. 

 B. H. has kindly called our attention, is no doubt 

 the same which is described by Magius, in his 



