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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n4S. No 111., Feu. 13, '58. 



Henry, whose reuolucyon began in June the ycre passed, 

 shallin the beginnynge of this yere prospere in ioy and 

 myrthe conueniently, he shall treate of thinges con- 

 ceVnyng the church, Jupyter beynge in the opposicyon 

 of the hous eclypsall, and the eclips passed in the signe 

 of his ascendent. Virgo nyghe to the same degre pro- 

 myseth some melancolj'. But Jupyter beynge in a good 

 aspecte of the descendent lesseneth the efFecte, his grace 

 will not be greatly inclined to warre. The realme of 

 Englande shall be prosperous in merchaundyses, sub- 

 staunce and vytayle, with some discorde, stryues, hate, 

 and envy amonge the people." 



" No. 52. An Almanack, 1551, large sheet. Imprinted 

 at London by John Turck. This is in type similar to 

 that used in Days Becke's Bible, 1549." 



The principles of the Reformation were pro- 

 moted by the publication of Almanacks. In 1549 

 Coverdale published — 



" A faythful and true pronosticatio vpo the yeare 

 M.ccccc.xLix, and parpetually after to the workles ende, 

 and an almanack for euer." 



Another was under the title of — 



" A Spirituall Almanacke wherin euery Christe man 

 and woma may se what they ought daylye to do, or 

 leaue vndone. Not after the doctrine of the Papistes, not 

 after the lernynge of Ptolomy, but out of the very true 

 and wholsome doctryne of God, shewed vnto vs in his 

 worde." 



A history of Almanacks from the earliest to the 

 present day would be highly interesting, — not 

 omitting a penny book Almanack, published Nov. 

 1856, which plainly foretells that the rebellion in 

 India would take place in 1857. Geobge Offor. 



WOMEN RECEIVING THE LORD S SUPPER IN GLOVES : 

 the" DOMINIC ALE," THE PENITENTIAL, THE VEIL. 



(2"^ S. V. 48. 98.) 



I. " Durant les deus premiers Siecles nous ne lisons 

 point que I'on observast aucune ceremonie h recevoir le 

 Sacrament: mais dans les Siecles suivans, les C6munians 

 le recevoient avec les mains dispos^es en forme de Croix. 

 Les homes avoient les mains nues, et les femes les avoient 

 eouvertes d'vn linge Mane." — Drelincourt, Dufaux Visage 

 de V Antiquite, Genfeve, 2nd ed. 1666, p. 146. 



II. " The Synod of Antisiodorum (^Auxei-re"). This was 

 not a Council of Bishops, bu? only a Synodical assembly 

 of Abbots and Priests of the Diocese of Tours, held in the 

 year 578, by Aunachai-ius Bishop of Tours." 



"The five and forty Constitutions which were made in 

 it, are signed by the Bishop, the seven Abbots, the four 

 and thirty Priests, and three Deacons." 



" The six and seven and thirtieth (Constitutions) for- 

 bid Women to receive the Eucharist with the naked 

 hand, or to touch the Linen-cloth which covers the Body 

 of our Lord." 



"The two and fortieth orders Women to have the Do- 

 minical for receiving the Communion. Some have thought 

 that this is the Linen upon which they receive the Body 

 of Jesus Christ, being forbidden to receive it with their 

 naked hand, as was declared in Constitution 36. Others 

 think that it is a kind of Veil which covers their head. 

 Whatsoever this be, the Synod declares, That if they have 



it not, thej' shall wait till another Sunday to receive the 

 Communion." — Du Pin's Ecclesiastical History. English 

 translation, London, 1693, vol. v. p. 152. 



III. " Theodorus of Canterbury. Theodorus, bred a 

 Monk of Tarsus, was ordained Bishop by Pope Vitalian, 

 and sent in 668 into England, to govern the Church of 

 Canterbury. He was well entertained by King Egbert, 

 who had sent to Rome to desire a Bishop to be sent to 

 him. He laboured much in the establishing of the Faith 

 and the Church-discipline in England." 



" He is the First that composed a Penitential among the 

 Latins, made up of Canons, taken out of the Councils 

 of the Greek and Latin Church. This Book was soon 

 spread all over the West, and many undertook to make 

 such like Works, which in process of time became very 

 common and very bad." 



Of the " Fourteen Titles or Chapters " which, 

 more or less genuine, remain of the above, — 



"the Seventh Chapter is of Women's Functions in the 

 Church or Monaster}'. They are forbidden covering the 

 Altar with the Corporal, laying the Oblations on the Cha- 

 lice upon the Altar, &c." — "But they are permitted to 

 receive the Eucharist upon a black Veil, according to the 

 use of the Greeks ; they may make the Oblations (that is, 

 the Loaves oli'ered upon the Altar), but not according to 

 the practice of the Romans." — Idem, vol. vi. p. 45. 



S. H. IT. 

 St. John's Wood. 



" RULE BRITANNIA." 

 (2"'> S. V. 91.) 



M. ScH(ELCHER having incidentally remarked 

 in his paper that Arne " knew, liked, and admired 

 Handel," I called to mind that, in M. Sch(elcher'8 

 Life of Handel (p. 326.), a conversation is quoted 

 from the Somerset Home Gazette, in which the 

 speakers are Handel, Arne, and Pupasch, and 

 which M. Schcelcher inclines to receive as 

 genuine. I can, however, assure him that it is 

 purely imaginary. Ephraim Hardcastle was the 

 pseudonym used by the late Mr. W. H. Pyne, an 

 eminent water-colour artist, and author of a work 

 in 2 vols, called Wine and Walnuts, in which are 

 several of such "Imaginary Conversations." In 

 the first volume there is a conversation which ex- 

 tends over fourteen pages, and in which the inter- 

 locutors are Handel, Roubilliac, and Henry 

 Fielding. I may add that I was well acquainted 

 with Mr. Pyne, who evidently delighted in such 

 inventions ; without, however, the least idea or 

 wish that they should be taken for anything else, 

 although he would doubtless have considered it as 

 a compliment. 



M. Schoslcher will excuse me if I point out, 

 that in his first quotation from Dr. Burney, rela- 

 tive to the air Giustino, the words '■'■alia moderna" 

 are omitted : the plain English of those words 

 being, that Handel had modelled on the Italian 

 masters. 



Again, in the second quotation, only Dr. Bur- 

 ney's note being given, the general reader must 

 think that " Cedo alia sorte" was composed by 



