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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 154. 



the congregation's prayers, yet the custom is so 

 universal that it leads one to suppose there must 

 have been once authority for it. IndeeJ, in a little 

 book called l^he Institutions of the Church of 

 England of Divine Authority, by the Rev. J. 

 Baylee, D.D., I read : 



" It is often asked, may there not be occasions in 

 which additional petitions are needful [in the public 

 service] according to the varying circumstances of 

 society ? To this we answer, that our Liturgy makes 

 provision for this. In the Litany there is one of the 

 petitions in which the minister is at perfect liberty to 

 insert any supplications he deems expedient for those 

 of his congregation who need it : and again, in the 

 Thanksgiving, there is a similar opportunity afforded 

 for returning thanks for mercies received. Before and 

 after the sermon also, he is at liberty to use extempore 

 prayer." — P. 45. ed. 3. 



What is the ground for the last assertion ? The 

 pulpit seems little adapted as a place for prayer. 



A.A.D. 



The Royal "TTe" (Yol. v., p. 489.). — The 

 Query of your correspondent Francis J. Grubb, 

 when royalty in their grants first substituted the 

 plural for the singular number, appears to have 

 been satisfactorily answered by Cowgill (Vol. vi., 

 p. 232.). But under what circumstances the change 

 took place remains yet a moot point. Archdeacon 

 Nicolson, in his JEng. Hist. Library, page 3., states 

 that — 



" None of 'em (our Kings) seal'd with any seal of arms 

 before Richard the First ; the seals of his Predecessors 

 bearing only the Pourtraicture of the King, sitting in 

 a chair on one side, and on Horseback on the other. 

 This Richard seal'd with a seal of two Lyons ; because 

 the Conqueror (for England) bore two Lyons ; But 

 King John (in the right of Aquitaine, the Duke 

 whereof bore one Lyon) was the first that seal'd with 

 three ; and all our succeeding Kings have follow'd his 

 Example." 



May not the lions be typical of the royal We, 

 and have occasioned the use of Nos, instead of 

 Ego, in grants and charters? Fkaijciscus. 



General Wolfe's Family (Vol. vi., p. 245.). — 

 General Wolfe Avas never married. E. H. 



"Roma tibisuiito" (Vol. vi., p. 209.). — B(E0TICUS 

 inquires whence comes the palindrome : 



" Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor." 



I send in reply a short extract from DTsraeli's 

 Curiosities of Literature, p. 108., edit. 1840 : 



•' The following lines, by Sidonius ApoUinaris, were 

 «nce infinitely admired : 



• Signa te signa temere me tangis et angis.' 

 ' Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.' " 



I have read, I know not where, a legend, in 

 which the above two lines are said, if I remember 



rightly, to have been a dialogue between the fiend, 

 under the form of a mule, and a monk, who was 

 his rider. Perhaps some one of your correspon- 

 dents can say where the tale is to be met with. 



W. W. T. 



Frebord; Deer Leap (Vol. v., pp. 595. 620. 

 &c.). — At an inclosure of a parish in Lincolnshire, 

 under act of parliament, about forty years since, 

 the proprietor of an adjoining lordship claimed an 

 allotment in lieu of a deer's leap, F. L. 



"Nobilis antiquo veniens" (Vol. vi., p. 127.). — • 

 Perhaps the reference given in Compitum, bk. i, 

 ch. ix. p. 284.: London, Dolman, 1848, to the 

 epitaph " Nobilis antiquo veniens," &c. on Chrono- 

 pius, Bishop of Perigueux, may, if consulted, help 

 K. P. D. E. to an answer. It is as follows : " Pere 

 Dupuy, VEstut de VEglise du Perigord, tom. i." 



E. D. Pi. 



" Sun'''' of the Feminine Gender (Vol.vi., p. 232.). 

 — The following passage seems to show that the 

 peculiarity adverted to by Cowgill had not 

 ceased at the middle of the sixteenth century : 



" I have learned, and thereafter speake, that a sin- 

 ner cannot turne without the grace of God, which God 

 distributeth by degrees, as the sonne sheweth herselfe in 

 the morning, in whom there is encrease by successe 

 tyl the Sonne come to the highest at noon." — Bishop 

 Gardiner, Declaration (against George Joye), fol. clvi., 

 Lond. 1546. 



C. H. 



St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge. 



Cross-legged Effigies (Vol. v., pp. 136. 227.). — 

 At Thurlaston, in tliis county, in the parish church, 

 under the second arch from the east, which divides 

 the chancel from the chantry at the east end of the 

 north aisle, is a cross-legged effigy, not in armour, 

 but having a tunic only, which is gathered up over 

 the knee ; the feet rest upon a lion. This effigy 

 laid originally under a canopied arched recess in 

 the north wall of the chantry, and in Nichols's time 

 had a fragment of the inscription visible, which 

 cannot now be discerned. The legs are broken 

 off" at the ankles, but enough remains to show the 

 cross-legged position, which has been overlooked 

 by the historian. Tuos. L. Walkeb. 



Leicester. 



Collars of SS (Vol. v., pp. 227. &c.). — At 

 Thurlaston, in this county, in the chancel of the 

 parish church is a large and handsome altar tomb 

 of alabaster, with recumbent effigies of a knight 

 and his lady, each of whom wears a collar of SS. 

 Tills tomb originally stood in the north-east corner 

 of the sacrarium, but has been removed further 

 westward under an arch which divides the 

 chancel from the chantry chapel at the east end of 

 the north aisle. It is figured in Nichols's History 



