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cannot fail to notice the elaborate workmanship 

 of the new altars of wood in the church of S. Gu- 

 dule at Brussels. J. H. C- 



Poetical Epithets of the Nightingale (Vol. vii., 

 p. 397.; Vol. viii., pp. 112. 475.). — In addition 

 to the one hundred and ten epithets which I gave, 

 Mb. Pinkerton contributed sixty-six. I now 

 subjoin four others, making a total of one hundred 

 and eighty epithets applied by the British poets 

 to the song of the nightingale : 



Blessed. Spenser. 

 Preaching. W. Dunbar. 

 Pretty. T. Lodge. 

 Raptured. Rev. F. W. Faher. 



I may here correct an erratum in my list of 

 epithets, Vol. vii., p. 398, For " Mrs. Thompson," 

 read " Wm. Thompson." The epithet " Early," 

 attributed by Me. Pinkerton to " C. Smith," is 

 also used by Ben Jonson. Cuthbert Bede, B. A. 



Military Records (Vol. xi., p. 234.). — The 

 Records of the 4th Regiment (King's Own) is one 

 of the very interesting volumes of the Historical 

 Records of the British Army, published under the 

 superintendence and direction of the Adjutant- 

 General. The issue was begun in 1836, by com- 

 mand of his late Majesty. The volumes have 

 been prepared by Richard Cannon, the principal 

 clerk of the Adjutant- General's Office. Clowes 

 and Co. of 14. Charing Cross are the publishers. 

 Between sixty and seventy volumes have issued ; 

 each is a separate work. H. T. Ellacombe. 



Earthenware Vessels found at Fountains Abbey 

 (Vol. X., pp. 386. 435.). —Casually taking up the 

 last November Part of your interesting " N. & Q," 

 I saw in two distinct Numbers the question 

 mooted as to the probable uses of the earthenware 

 jars found mortared up on their sides, with their 

 open necks outwards, and, in some cases, several 

 inches beyond the wall, in various religious build- 

 ings. I am sorry that I cannot agree with the 

 conjectures of your correspondent F. C. H. on this 

 matter. In the course of my several visits to the 

 Continent, — I am almost sure it was in France, — 

 somewhere in the south, I think, I frequently ob- 

 served similar earthenware protrusions from the 

 eaves and gable-ends of houses, which were used as 

 columbaries ; and, if I mistake not, England is not 

 without them in the court-yards of several of our 

 old family mansions, where their open mouths, as 

 the Illustrated News observes, protrude from the 

 walls like cannon from the sides of a ship. That 

 these vessels were intended for the feathered tribe 

 is, I think, partly borne out by your correspondent 

 F. C. H.'s observation, that " a dozen or more of 

 these jars were found at intervals, in a line, in the 

 masonry under the stalls of the choir " (at St. 

 Peter's Mancroft, Norwich, three years ago). 

 I have myself seen such jars so placed, but cer- 



tainly not in an ecclesiastical building. Could 

 doves have been encouraged in the penetralia of 

 monastic edifices for the sake of the mystical em- 

 blem ? or, were birds of the swallow and sparrow 

 tribe so errant and troublesome among the lifrhted 

 tapers, &c., that it was thought better to comfort- 

 ably locate them in nests, whither they might at 

 once proceed, rather than disturb the devotees, 

 and possibly injure the building ? The fact of the 

 vessels having been discovered so low down in 

 the walls very likely is owing to the circumstance 

 of the raising of the floor, or, not improbably, to 

 the foundation of a crypt. A. M. 



Redland Park, near Bristol. 



Fir-trees found in Bogs (Vol. x., p. 305.). — 

 W. E. H. inquires, " To what species the firs 

 belong that have been dug out of the bogs in 

 England and Ireland ? " Dr. Croker of South 

 Bovey, Devon, has cones of the Scotch fir (P. SylvJ) 

 carbonised, taken from the coal-pits of Bovey 

 Heathfield, originally an immense lake and bog 

 below the level of the sea, in which had floated 

 the aboriginal drift-wood from the forests of Dart- 

 moor, brought down by the river Teign, and which 

 during the lapse of ages has been carbonised, and 

 is now the substance called " Bovey coal," which 

 supplies the fuel for the extensive potteries there. 

 The form of the trees, their bark, and internal 

 laminae, are very perceptible ; and there are large 

 lumps of what they call there Biiumy, or Bitumen, 

 which burn like a candle, and are no doubt in- 

 spissated turpentine. Wm. Colltns, M.R.C.S. 



Drewsteignton. 



Dedication of Heworth Church (Vol. xi., p. 186.). 

 — I fear there are no records extant showing to 

 whom the ancient church or chapel of Heworth 

 was dedicated. Mr. Surtees, the Durham his- 

 torian (vol. ii. p. 83.), who had unreserved access 

 to the archives of the Benedictine cell of Jarrow, 

 now in the possession of the Dean and Chapter of 

 Durham, makes no mention of the dedication of 

 this church. The present chapel, as he observes, 

 " is entirely modern ; it probably occupies the site 

 of a foundation not much inferior in antiquity to 

 the present church of Jarrow ; " and so scanty 

 are the records relating to the chapel of Heworth, 

 that Mr. Surtees adds in a foot-note, " The names 

 of very few of the incumbents occur : Robert Abel, 

 1395, John Walker, 1633. — Randall's MSS." 



Fra. Mewbubn. 



Mitres (Vol. xi., p. 152.). — Your correspondents 

 who have been collecting instances of the use, &c. 

 of mitres by bishops of the English communion, 

 have not yet noticed that of Seabury, the first 

 American bishop, still preserved at Trinity Col- 

 lege, Harford ; it is described as being of black 

 satin embroidered with gold. J. H. C. 



