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[No. 152. 



sively for the business of the Stock Exchange. Beneath 

 the stone the following inscription, engraved on copper, 

 was placed : 



' On the 18th of May, in the year 1801, and forty- 

 one of George III., the first stone of this building, 

 erected by private subscription, for the transaction of 

 business in the public funds, was laid, in the presence 

 of the proprietors, and under the direction of William 

 Hammond, ■William Steer, Thomas Roberts, Griffith 

 Jones, William Grey, Isaac Hensley, Jo. Brackshaw, 

 John Capel, and John Barnes, managers ; James Pea- 

 cock, architect. At this era, the first of the Union 

 between Great Britain and Ireland, the public funded 

 debt had accumulated, in five successive reigns, to 

 552,730,9Si4/. The inviolate faith of the British 

 nation, and the principles of the Constitution, sanction 

 and secure the property embarked in this undertaking. 

 May the blessing of that Constitution be secured to the 

 latest posterity ! ' " 



This inscription, as marking an important era 

 in the history of the money market, may perhaps 

 be deemed worthy of a place in your columns. It 

 is here copied from Mr. Francis' Chronicles and 

 Characters of the Stock Exchange, 8vo. : London, 

 1851, second edition, p. 200. 



W. Spabbow Simpson, B.A. 



Veronica Plant and Saint (Vol. vi., p. 199.). — 

 In Dr. Maitland's Church in the Catacombs, p. 133., 

 R. A. of A. will find the history of St. Veronica. 

 The following observations are copied from The 

 Roman Advertiser, Rome, April 3, 1847, pp. 187-8.: 



" Veneration of the Relics. — The ' Volto Santo,' said 

 to be the impress of the countenance of the Saviour on 

 the handkerchief of St. Veronica, or Berenice, was 

 placed in the Vatican by John VII., 707. It was 

 afterwards transferred to San Spirito, where six noble 

 Romans had the care of it, each taking charge of one 

 of the keys with which it was locked up. Amongst 

 the privileges they enjoyed for this office, was that of 

 receiving every year from the hospital of San Spirito 

 two cows at the feast of Pentecost ; which, as an ancient 

 chronicle says : 'si mangiavano li con gran festa.' In 

 1 440 this relic was carried back to St. Peter's, whence 

 it has not since been moved." 



Let me refer to Dante (Paradiso) ; the stanza 

 begins : 



" Quale c colui, che forse de Croazia 

 Viene a veder la Veronica nostra." 



In Gary's translation, in a note, Chaucer is 

 quoted : 



♦' A vernikle had he sewed upon his cappe." 



F. W. T. 



A correspondent E. A. of A. asks for a reference 

 to any book where he can find the history of St. 

 Veronica. There is an allusion to her story in 

 Gibbon's account of the Iconoclastic persecution 

 (Decline and Fall, ch. xlix.), but it difiers from 

 the current legend, which is, that when Jesus was 



bearing His cross on His way to Calvary, a pious 

 woman of Jerusalem handed to Him a cloth to 

 wipe His brow, and on returning it, it was found 

 impressed with the veritable portrait of the Sa- 

 viour. The sacred cloth is the celebrated suda- 

 rium or Veronica (leprt eww;') whence the saint has 

 derived her hagiological title. Duplicates of it, 

 strange to say, are numerous in the Roman Ca- 

 tholic reliquaries, and it ranks with the linen por- 

 trait of Abgarus, and the sindone or sepulchral 

 garment of Christ, amongst the most venerated of 

 the acheiropoetic images. An account of St. 

 Veronica and the legend will be found in Reis- 

 chius, De Imaginibus Christi Exercitationes, 

 Exerc. I. ch. i. p. 60. ; Molanus, Historia S. S. 

 Imagin. et Picturar., lib. iv. ch. ii. p. 474. ; and 

 Chiffletius, De Linteis Sepulcralibus Christi, ch. 

 xxxiv. p. 204. Ralph Hospinian, in his work 

 De Templis, S^c, has preserved the Leonine verses 

 addressed to the sudarium, beginning, 



" Salve sancte facies nostri Redemptoris, 

 In qua nitet species divini splendoris 

 Impressa panniculo nivei coloris, 

 Dataque Veronicae, signum ob amoris," &c. 



J. Emeeson Tennent. 



Histoire des Hosties Miraculeuses (Vol. vi., 

 p. 127.). — A volume in my possession oi Histoire 

 des Hosties Miracideuses, published at Brussels in 

 1770, is at the service of your correspondent 

 A. N., should he wish to have the loan of it. 



Magdalensis. 



Paler/ s " Lectures on Locke''' (Vol. vi., p. 243.). 

 — The information that I should like to have 

 respecting these lectures would be answers to the 

 two (or three) following questions, which I wish 

 to ask, not from any flippant or inquisitive feeling, 

 but simply because they seek for information 

 which I think your readers might reasonably have 

 expected to find in Mb, Munfoed's note, viz. : 

 How long the MSS. have been in his possession ? 

 and why they have not been printed and pre- 

 sented to the world ? 



Now Paley's Public Letters are not Paley's 

 Private Letters, but is that any reason why they 

 should not be rea^Z.? C. Foebes. 



Temple. 



Wells and Springs (Vol. vi., p. 28.). — At 

 Wavertree, near Liverpool, is a well bearing the 

 following inscription : " Qui non dat quod habet, 

 Dasmon infra videt, 1414." Tradition says at one 

 period there was a cross above it, inscribed "Deus 

 dedit, homo bibit;" and that all travellers gave 

 alms on drinking ; if they omitted to do so, a devil, 

 who was chained at the bottom, laughed. A 

 monastic building stood near, and the occupants 

 received the contributions. 



A well at Everton has the reputation of being 

 haunted, a fratricide having been committed there ; 



