April 21. 1855.] 



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my description of one of the jars found in St. 

 Peter's Mancroft, Norwicli, he will find that there 

 was no appearance that their mouths had ever 

 protruded, or been visible. They were concealed 

 by masonry altogether, and this led me to conclude 

 that they could neither have been placed for ven- 

 tilation or sound ; but probably for the reception 

 of the heart or intestines, or some portion of the 

 remains of persons connected with the church. 

 The jars found at Norwich were shaped very 

 diflFerently from those used for birds. They were 

 much wider in the body than at the mouth, and 

 indeed shaped very much like a housewife's sugar- 

 jar, decreasing in bulk downwards. They were 

 evidently placed intentionally beneath the choir of 

 the church, and I have no doubt that they had 

 always been entirely closed round with masonry 

 and concealed, I hope this may prove satisfactory 

 to my fellow-townsman of Redland Park. 



F. C. H. 



Many reasons induce me to consider A. M. mis- 

 taken in thinking that the earthen vessels found 

 in the interior of churches were used as resting- 

 places for birds. It seems obvious that they 

 would never, except accidentally, be admitted 

 within a sacred building. With regard to those 

 in Fountains Abbey, there is decisive evidence 

 that, whatever may have been their use for birds' 

 nests, they never could have been intended, for 

 they are close upon the floor, and it is obvious to 

 any one examining the building that its level has 

 not been raised. Moreover, they must have been 

 hidden by the stalls of the choir if the usual ec- 

 clesiastical arrangements were followed. 



Edward Peacock. 



Bottesford Moors, Kirton-in-Lindsey. 



Ancient Beers (Vol. vi., pp. 72. 233. ; Vol. xi., 

 p. 154.).— 



" Est autem Sabaia ex hordeo vel frumento in liquo- 

 rem conversis paupertinus in lUyrico potus." — Ammianus 

 MarcelUnus, xxvi. 8. 



The above is quoted by Cardinal Wiseman, in his 

 notes to Fahiola. William Fraser, B.C.L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



Episcopal Wigs (Vol. xi., p. 53.). — Anti-Wig 

 states that Tillotson is the first bishop represented 

 in a wig, and that he " wrote a sermon to defend 

 himself." Is this sermon in print? If so, may I 

 ask a reference to it? I presume that Anti-Wig 

 does not allude to the archbishop's oft-quoted 

 reference to the times when " the wearing the 

 hair below the ears was looked upon as a sin of 

 the first magnitude ;" for this is introduced in a 

 sermon " Of the Education of Children " (Sermon 

 LIII. of Tillotson's Works, vol. i. p. 505. ; edit. 

 1728), and includes no defence of the wig. 



The Puritans of New England had no wigs 

 episcopal, but there were others which exercised 



the hearts and consciences of grave and godly 

 men there, as sorely as any of their brethren in 

 England. The fashion of wearing wigs, from its 

 first introduction, was strenuously opposed, espe- 

 cially in Massachusetts ; and there were not want- 

 ing those who looked upon it as " a sin of the first 

 magnitude," long after Tillotson's day. The fol- 

 lowing notes from the diary of Judge Sewall 

 (Chief Justice of Massachusetts) prove with how 

 jealous eyes the progress of innovation was 

 watched : 



" 1685, Sept. 15. Three admitted to the church ; two 

 wore periwigs." 



" 1696. [Kev.] Mr. Sims told me of the assaults he 

 had made on periwigs ; seemed to be in good sober 

 sadness." 



" 1697. Mr. Noyes of Salem wrote a treatise on peri- 

 wigs," &c. 



" 1704, Jan. Walley appears in his wig, having cut off. 

 his own hair." 



« 1708, Aug. 20. Mr. Cheever died. The welfare of the 

 province was much upon his heart. He abominated peri- 

 wigs." 



The Society of Friends, at their monthly meet- 

 ing in Hampton (Mass.), Dec. 21, 1721, voted 

 that " j" wearing of extravagant superflues wigges 

 is altogether contrary to truth" Vertaue. . 



Hartford, Connecticut. 



Shakspeare's " Twelfth' Night" (Vol.vii., p. 256.). 



— This reference to Mr. Thomas EIeightlbt's 

 note on — 



" Oh thou dissembling cub, what wilt thou be 

 When time hath sewed a grissle on th}' case ? " 



Act V. Sc. 1. 



is not made with a view of disputing his decision 

 for the word case, in which he is undoubtedly 

 right ; but to remind him, when he doubts the use 

 of the term " cubs " as applied to children, before 

 the time of Congreve, that it was one of the 

 charges in Sir Walter Raleigh's indictment, that 

 he used this plirase when expressing a desire for 

 the death of King James's offspring. J. W. 



Superstition of Educated Persons (Vol. vi., p. 5.). 



— Can a more remarkable instance of this be 

 cited than the essay on the royal remedy for the 

 " evil " by the renowned Dr. Thomas Fuller, com- 

 mencing at vol. i. p. 224. of his Church History^ 

 Nichols edition; a writer styled by that editor as 

 " incomparably the most sensible, the least pre- 

 judiced, great man of an age that boasted a 

 galaxy of great men ; " and this, too, when he had 

 before him the rebuke of Queen P^lizabeth, which 

 she administered to the ignorant people who 

 thronged her in Gloucestershire, " Alas ! poor 

 people, I cannot — I cannot cure you : it is God 

 alone can do it." J. W. 



" Who drives fat oxen" Sfc. (Vol. xi., p. 245.). 



— I have heard the story told differently, and I 



