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NOTES AND QUElilES. 



['2>»<i S. V. 117., Uar. 27. '68. 



Clergymen wearing Gloves in administering the 

 Holy Cominunion (2""* S. v. 190.). — Any such prac- 

 tice as, your correspondent insinuates, exists of a 

 clergyman wearing gloves in administering the 

 Holy Communion, is one which would expose hira 

 to censure by his bishops. The rubric requires 

 the sacred elements to be " delivered into the 

 hands," not into the glove, or set in the tips of 

 the fingers, but " into the hands " of communi- 

 cants. The 6th Council in TruUo, Constantinople, 

 Can. 101. A. D. 692, forbade the use of golden 

 plates, and desired persons " to hold their hands 

 across and so receive it ; " as was the custom in 

 the time of S. Cyril of Jerusalem ; and thus our 

 reformers insist on the consecrated bread being 

 " placed in the hand." (Zurich Let. xxv. p. 178.) 

 " Be not afraid to take and handle it with thy 

 hand." (Hutchinson, First Sermon, p. 230.) 

 Becon pointedly says : 



" A layman to touch the Sacramental Bread or cup 

 with his bare hand is counted in the parish-church a 

 grievous sin ; but if the layman have a glove on his hand, 

 made of a sheep -skin, then he may be bold to touch it ; as 

 though there were more holiness or worthiness in a sheep- 

 skin than in a Christian man's hands ! " — The Catechism, 

 P. V. p. 301. 



So also the Fathers, on whose practice in con- 

 formity with the Saviour's example, this order 

 was founded. Hist. Trip. lib. ix. c. xxx. p. 526. ; 

 Chrys. De Sacerd. 1. in. c. iv. ; Epist. ad Heb. 

 c. X., Horn. xvii. ; Epist. ad Ephes. c. i., Horn. iii. ; 

 Eusebius, in Hist. Eccles. lib. vi. c. xliii. ; S. 

 Basil, ad Caesar, Ep. xciii. ; S. Nazianzen, Orat. 

 viii. Many other passages of ancient writers 

 could be cited. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



" Oo where the Water glideth," Sfc. (2""^ S. v. 

 214.) — J. M. A. must be an inattentive student 

 of his " N. & Q.," otherwise he would remember 

 that his question has been answered before by 

 Ma. H. E. Carrington (2"^ S. ii. 219.) The 

 poem is to be found In a volume entitled The 

 Garden of Florence, and other Poems, by John 

 Hamilton Reynolds. John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



Rood-loft Staircases (2"^ ^ iv. 481. and 409.).— 

 The staircases are common enough, though they 

 are generally walled up. At Bitton I opened the 

 doorways, which were probably closed at the Re- 

 formation, and adapted the staircase to a new 

 pulpit. 



Rood screens are not so often met with, though 

 portions of many very beautiful ones remain in 

 this as well as other counties, and some with the 

 original doors, and in all the brilliancy of gold 

 and colour ; but it is probable that none exist in a 

 perfect state with all the appendages. The loft 

 or upper part where the rood was, has been more 

 or less universally destroyed, though a searching 



eye may sometimes find the mortice in which the 

 rood was footed. 



Very interesting and valuable information on 

 Rood-lofts, called also the Jubes, may be seen in 

 Pugin's Treatise on Chancel Screens, 1851, and iu 

 Thiers's Dissertation sur les Jubes des Eglises. 

 Paris. 1688. H. T. Ellacombb. 



Clyst St. George. 



Leigh of Cheshire (2»'» S. v. 215.). — Subjects 

 of this kind can rarely be discussed within the 

 limits of " N. & Q.," but the present Query can 

 easily be answered. 



Y.S. M. states that Harl. MS. 2187 makes the 

 ancestor of Leigh of Ridge, " Jenkyns " (read 

 Jenkyn for John) " Leigh, second son of Sir 

 Pierse Leigh of Hanley." 



And that " Ormerod makes the Leighs of 

 Ridge a branch of the Leighs of Lyme," and 

 asks " which account is the correct one ? " 



y. S. M. is obviously not aware that Lyme, or 

 Lyme Hanley, was anciently called Hanlegh only, 

 and that the accounts, which he considers to vary, 

 perfectly agree. 



It may be added, that all the Cheshire branches 

 of the line of de Lega, mentioned by him, namely, 

 those of Booths {not Bsethes, as printed in " N. & 

 Q.") Adlington, Lyme and Ridge, write the name 

 Legh, not Leigh, as printed in the Inquiry. 



Lancastriensis. 



Robertson's Sermons (2°* S. v. 147. 222.).— 

 Mr. Phillips's kind attempt to remove a stum- 

 bling-block out of my way has only added another 

 to that already existing, for 1 find his explanation 

 still less intelligible than the original passage. I 

 fancy the latter must be mis- printed, and that 

 " softens the eye of truth" should either be 

 " shuns the eye of truth," or " stifles the voice of 

 truth. If the editor of Mr. Robertson's Ser- 

 mons would refer to the original MS. the difficulty 

 might be cleared up. Jaydee. 



«' Officium Beatce Marice," &c. (2'"> S. v. 170.)— 

 The only feature to give extra value to the copy 

 inquired about, is that it has well executed 

 coloured plates. In other respects the book is 

 of small value, being extremely common of all 

 editions and sizes. F. C. H. 



HoweWs '' Londinopolis" (2°^ S. v. 197.) — My 

 own copy, like the one possessed by your cori-e- 

 spondent L. O. (2°'> S. iv. 521.) skips from p. 124. 

 (not 128.) to p. 301. Has Mr. Offor made a 

 mistake in the last figure ? J. H. M. 



Bowel-hive Grass (2'"^ S. v. 48.). — I think it Is 

 highly probable that the bowel-hive disease is the 

 irritation caused by the presence of intestinal 

 worms. The word " hive," although in common 

 parlance applied to a collection of bees, yet I 

 presuaie may also have applied to the habitation 



