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[No. 202. 



which they presented to theii* landlord, each re- 

 taining a lithograph copy of it. Many of these 

 copies I have seen. Two years after this I con- 

 versed with the old man, who was then keeping 

 cows on a common. There was nothing remark- 

 able about him except his voice, which was very 

 loud and powerful. He has now been dead some 

 time, but I do not know his exact age at death. 



In the register of burials for the parish of 

 Eunham, Norfolk, is this entry : 



"August 12, 1788. William Russels, aged One 

 hundred and one years." 



The clergyman has entered the age in round text- 

 hand, evidently that the entry might not escape 

 notice. E. G. R. 



^ Irish Bishops as English Suffragans (Vol. vii., 

 p. 569.). — The following instances of Irish bishops 

 acting as bishops in England will be additional 

 illustrations of the facts adduced by An Oxford 

 B.C.I... 



" Requisitus idem Simon de suis Ordinibus dicit, 

 quod apud Oxoniam recepit Ordinem subdiaconi a 

 quodam Episcopo Ybernice, Albino nomine, tunc vicario 

 Episcopi Lincolnlensis. Item ab eodem recepit Ordi- 

 nem diaconi ^ Capellanus de Sandhurst 



Johannes De Siveburn dicit, quod ordinatus fuit sudia- 

 coniim apud Cicestriam, Diaconum apud Winton., 

 ah Episcopo Godfrido, in Yhernia." — Maskell's Ancient 

 Liturgy of the Church of England, p. 181., note. 



W. Fbasee. 

 Tor-Mobun. 



Green Pots used for drinking from hy Members 

 of the Temple (Vol. viii., p. 171.). — The green 

 pots mentioned in Sir Julius Ca2sar's letter had 

 been introduced into the Inner Temple about 

 thirty years before its date. This appears from 

 the following passage in Dugdale's Origines Ju- 

 ridiciales (1680), p. 148., where he refers to the 

 register of that Society, fol. 127 a. : 



" Untill the second year of Q. Eliz. reign, this So- 

 ciety did use to drink in Cups of Ashen- Wood (such 

 as are still used in the King's Court), but then those 

 were laid aside, and green earthen pots introduced, 

 which have ever since continued." 



When were these green pots discontinued ? 

 Paper Buildings were erected nearly fifty years 

 before Dugdale's time. The new part built in 

 1849 was on the south of these, which may, 

 perhaps, have been the site of the dust-hole of the 

 Society, and thus become the depositary of the 

 broken pots mentioned by B. Edward Foss. 



Shape of Coffins (Vol. viii., p. 104.). — As bearing 

 somewhat upon Mr. Ellacombe's Query, allow 

 me to remark that when travelling a few years 

 since in the United States, having about an hour's 

 delay in the city of Rochester, N. Y., I entered 

 one of the churches during a funeral service. 



When the ceremony (at which a considerable 

 number of persons attended) was concluded, the 

 congregation left their seats and walked in very 

 orderly procession towards the reading-desk, in 

 front of which was placed the coffin, without any 

 pall or covering. They then slowly walked round 

 it, in order, as I afterwards found, to take their 

 last look at the departed. This they were enabled 

 to do without the removal of the lid, by raising 

 the upper or head portion of it, which was hinged, 

 a square of glass beneath allowing the face to be 

 seen. This strange custom, which, for my own 

 part, I think would be " more honoured by the 

 breach than the observance," as the recollection 

 of the living face to me is far preferable to that 

 of death, I do not remember to have seen noticed 

 by any of our many travellers in America, though 

 I afterwards found it to be general. The coffins, 

 which are somewhat differently shaped to ours, 

 sloping towards the feet, are rarely covered with 

 cloth ; but are generally made of some hard wood, 

 such as walnut, highly polished. 



Robert Wright. 



Old Fogies (Vol. viii., p. 154.). — There may- 

 be too much of even a good thing, and I wish 

 some of the writers in "N. & Q." would study 

 compression a little. A short paragraph which I 

 wrote, more in jest than earnest, on the above 

 phrase, has drawn down on me no less than two 

 columns from J. L. But this comes of meddling 

 with Scotland. 



One might fancy that J. L. was the Irish, not 

 the Scottish advocate, for he proves the prior 

 claim of Scotland by showing that the word which 

 I had stated to have been in use in Dublin in the 

 first half of the last century, was known in Edin- 

 burgh in the last half of it. He must also excuse 

 my saying that he does not seem ever to have 

 studied etymology, one of the rules of which is, 

 that if a probable origin of a word can be found in 

 the language to which it belongs, we should not 

 seek elsewhere. 'No'wfugie (i. e.folkie, the Dutch 

 volkje) comes as surely from folk, as lassie from 

 lass, or any other diminutive from its primitive. 

 I now have done with the subject. 



Thos. Keighti-ey. 



Swan-marlis (Vol. viii., p. 62.). — W. Colltns's 

 remark on swan-marks may mislead ; therefore it 

 is worth noting that " the swan with two necks " is 

 not "a corruption of the private mark of the owner 

 of the swans, viz. two nicks made by cutting the 

 neck feathers close in two places." The nicks were 

 made in the beak; and the privilege of having 

 swan-marks was by grant from the crown. 



The Vintners' Company's mark for their swans 

 on the Thames was two nicks ; hence a two-nicked 

 swan was a very appropriate sign for a tavern. 

 The royal swans are marked with five nicks, two 

 lengthwise, and three across the bill. (See Hone's 



