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[No. 217. 



was prohibited to bold such assemblies by Fitzherbert, 

 Chief Justice, because he had not tlje King's licence; 

 but he adds that tlie archbishop would not obey it, and 

 he quotes Speed for it. I shall not consult that lame 

 historian for a law-point, and it seems strange that 

 RoUe should cite him." — L. C. M., p. 38. 



I have not lately had an opportunity of looking 

 Into either RoUe's Abridgment of Cases, or Speed's 

 History of Great Britain, but I am not able to 

 discover to what event in any of Henry VIII.'s 

 convocations allusion is here made. I am there- 

 fore led to think that Fitzherbert must be a 

 misprint, and that we should read in the above 

 passage " Fitz-Peter," and that the following is 

 the circumstance, in King John's reign, which is 

 referred to by the author of the Letter : 



" This year (1200), Hubert, Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury, held a National Synod at Westminster, notwith. 

 standing the prohibition of Geoffrey Fitz-Peter, Earl 

 of Essex, and Chief Justiciary of England." — Collier's 

 Ecclesiastical History, vol. i. folio, p. 410. 



I shall be glad if any of your readers can throw 

 farther light on the passage. W. Fkaseb. 



Tor-Mohun. 



Veneration for the Oak (Vol. vili., p. 468.). — 

 Since my Query upon this matter appeared, I find 

 that Mr. Layard, in his work upon Nineveh and 

 Babylon, at p. 160., describes a cylinder of green 

 felspar, which he believes to have been the signet 

 of Sennacherib, and upon which is engraved a 

 rare mode of portraying the supreme deity, and 

 a sacred tree, whose flowers are in this instance in 

 the shape of an acorn. Whence did the Assyrians 

 derive this veneration for a tree bearing acorns ? 

 Did they derive this notion, as they did their tin, 

 from Celtic Britain ? I believe they did. G. W. 



Stansted, Montiichet. 



Happing no Novelty (Vol. vili., p. 512.). — De 

 Foe, in his veracious History of Mr. Duncan 

 Campbell (2nd ed., p. 107.), quotes a story of 

 spirit-knocking from " the renowned and famous " 

 Mr. Baxter's History of Apparitions, prefacing it 

 thus : 



"What in nature can be more trivial than for a 

 spirit to employ himself in knocking on a morning at 

 the wainscot by the bed's head of a man who got drunk 

 over night, according to the way that such things are 

 ordinarily explained ? And yet I shall give you such 

 a relation of this, that not even the most devout and 

 precise Presbyterian will offer to call in question." 



According to De Foe, Mr. Baxter gave full 

 credit to the story, adding many pious reflections 

 upon the subject, and expressing himself " posed 

 to think what kind of spirit this is." R. I. R. 



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