April 2. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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consequence of the option apparently given by the 

 Canons of wearing either hood or tippet. 



It is not correct to restrict the customary use of 

 the scarf to doctors, prebendaries, and chaplains. 

 In some cathedrals the immemorial custom has 

 been to assign it to minor canons and clerical 

 vicars also. At Canterbury, indeed, the minor 

 canons, except otherwise qualified, do not wear it. 

 (But is not this an exception ? Was it always so ? 

 And, by the way, can any cathedral member of 

 old standing testify as to the customary distinc- 

 tion in his church between the two scarfs, either 

 as to size or materials ?) The very general use of 

 it in towns cannot be denied. 



I may add, that Bishop Jebb used to disapprove 

 of its disuse by country clergymen. In his Charge 

 he requests that " all beneficed clergymen " of his 

 diocese " who are Masters of Arts, or of any supe- 

 rior degree, and who by chaplaincies or otherwise 

 are entitled to the distinction, may with their sur- 

 plices wear scarfs or tippets.'" This apparently was 

 his construction of the Canons. John Jebb. 



The narrow scarf, called the stole or orarium, is 

 one of the most ancient vestments used by the 

 Christian clergy, representing in its mystical sig- 

 nification the yoke of Christ. Though it may be 

 true that its use is not enjoined by any modern 

 rubric or canon, custom, I think, fully warrants 

 the clergy in wearing it. What other sanction 

 than custom is there for the use of bands ? 



E. H. A. 



A great deal of very interesting matter bearing 

 upon this question, both in an ecclesiastical and 

 antiquarian point of view, though no definite con- 

 clusion is arrived at, will be found in a pamphlet 

 by G. A. French, entitled The Tippets of the 

 Cations Ecclesiastical. An Oxfoed B. C. L. 



INSCRIPTIONS IN BOOKS. 



(Vol. vii., p. 127.) 



The following were lines much used when I was 

 at school, and 1 believe are still so now : 



"This book is mine 

 By right divine ; 

 And if it go astray, 

 I'll call you kind 

 My desk to find 

 And put it safe away." 



Another inscription of a menacing kind was, — 

 " This book is one thing, 

 My fist is another ; 

 Touch this one thing, 

 You'll sure feel the other." 



A friend was telling me of one of these morsels, 



which, considering the circumstances, might be 



aid to have beeu "insult added to injury;" for 



happening one day In church to have a book 

 alight on his head from the gallery above, on 

 opening it to discover its owner, he found the 

 following positive sentence : 



" This book doant blong to you, 

 So puttem doon. " 



IIUSSELL GOLE. 



The following salutary advice to book-borrowers 

 might suitably take its position in the collection 

 already alluded to in " N. & Q." : 



" Neither blemish this book, or the leaves double 

 down, 

 Nor lend it to each idle friend in the town ; 

 Return it when read ; or if lost, jilease supply 

 Another as good, to the mind and the eye. 

 With right and with reason you need but be friends, 

 And each book in my study your pleasure attends." 



O. P. 



Birmingham. 



Is not this curious warning worthy of preserv- 

 ation in your columns ? It is copied from a black- 

 letter label pasted to the inside of an old book 

 cover : 



" Steal not this booke, my honest friende. 

 For fear ye gallows be ye ende ; 

 For if you doe, the Lord will say, 

 ' Where is that booke you stole away ? ' " 



j.c. 



To the collection of inscriptions in books com- 

 menced by Balliolensis, allow me to add the 

 following : 



" Hie liber est mens, 

 Testis et est Deus ; 

 Si quis me quasrit, 

 Hie nomen erit." 



In French books I have seen more than once, — 



" Ne me prend pas ; 

 On te pendra." 



And on the fly-leaf of a Bible, — • 



" Could we with ink the ocean fill, 

 Were ev'ry stalk on earth a quill. 

 And were the skies of parchment made, 

 And ev'ry man a scribe by trade, 

 To tell the love of God alone 

 Would drain the ocean dry. 

 Nor could the scroll contain the whole, 

 Though stretch'd from sky to sky." 



Georgk S. Master. 

 Welsh-Hampton, Salop. 



I beg to subjoin a few I have met with. Some 

 monastic library had the following in or over its 

 books : 



" ToUe, aperi, reclta, ne \sedas, claude, repone." 

 The learned Grotius put in all his books, — 

 «' Hugonis Grotii et araicorum." 



