Mak. 31. 1855.] 



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in London, the corpse was carried to and rested 

 a night at Althorpe House ; but that, when it 

 ■ was next day carried to the family place of inter- 

 ment at Great Brington, which is situated beyond 

 Althorpe Park, instead of going on to the west- 

 ward through the park, the procession went back 

 out of the gate nearest to London by which it had 

 entered, and made a great detour round the out- 

 side of the park to get to Great Brington (of which 

 Father Ignatius was for some time the incumbent). 

 And the reason given for this was, that it was to 

 prevent any future claim of a right of public way 

 through Althorpe Park. J. Sd. 



Door-head Inscription (Vol. ix., p. 89. ; Vol. x., 

 pv 253., &c.).— In the High Street of St. Peter- 

 Fort, Guernsey, is a house, which, from a date 

 over one of the doors, appears to have been built in 

 1616. The upper stories of the house project, and 

 the two stone corbels supporting the first storey 

 are ornamented with shields bearing merchants' 

 marks ; surrounded, the one with the words "En 

 Dieu j'ay mi tout raon appuy;" and the other, 

 " Et sa providence m'a conduit." The house is 

 said to have been built by John Briard, and Rachel 

 his wife ; their initials appearing on many parts of 

 it. The only sister of Sir Henry de Vic, baronet, 

 and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, temp. 

 Charles II., married William Briard, apparently 

 the son of the above-named John and Rachel. 

 Their daughter, Rachel Briard, was the wife of 

 Sir Charles de Vic, the second baronet, with whom 

 the title became extinct. After his death, she 

 became the wife of Dr. John de Saumarez, ap- 

 pointed Dean of Guernsey and Canon of Windsor 

 at the Restoration. The name of Briard is ex- 

 tinct in Guernsey, but exists still in the sister 

 island of Jersey. Edgar MacCulloch. 



Guernsey. 



St. Cuthherfs Remains (Vol. ii., p. 325. ; Vol.xi., 

 p. 173.). — The undersigned had not seen the 

 Query of J. R. N". in Vol. ii., till his attention 

 was drawn to it by the recent communication of 

 P. A. F. ; or the following information would 

 probably have been sent earlier. In the year 

 1828, being the year following the examination of 

 the body ibund by the Rev. James Raine and 

 others in the feretory of St. Cuthbert in Durham 

 Cathedral, a small work appeared at Newcastle, 

 entitled Remarks on the Saint Cuthbert of the Rev. 

 James Raine, M.A., with this significant motto : 



" Quodcumque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi." 

 This treatise is now extremely scarce. It is not 

 generally known that it proceeded from the 

 pen of the late Rev. Dr. Lingard. A vein of 

 pungent satli-e pervades it ; but after perusing it 

 carefully, the reader will hardly be able to say 

 what was the author's real opinion as to the iden- 

 tity of the remains discovered in 1827. The pre- 



sent writer felt this, and wrote to his revered 

 friend, who had presented him with the little work, 

 to ask him to clear up the difficulty. He an- 

 swered that he had been requested to expose the 

 vulnerable portions of the book published by Mr. 

 Raine ; but that he had little doubt that the body 

 found was that of St. Cuthbert ; adding that there 

 would have been no difficulty in detecting his 

 real opinion, if his little treatise had been printed 

 as he wrote it. His friend had taken the liberty 

 of suppressing a page or two, which sufficiently 

 disclosed his opinion, though he had shown up 

 Mr. Raine's work wherever it was open to criti- 

 cism. Dr. Lingard farther observed, that he did 

 not attach any credit to the asserted tradition of 

 the Benedictines. 



Now it is a remarkable corroboration of the 

 above, that in Dr. Lingard's last edition of his 

 History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, 

 vol. ii., in a note at the end of chap, ix., he makes 

 no secret of both his opinions : that the remains 

 found in 1827 were most probably those of St. 

 Cuthbert; and that the tradition of the monks 

 could not be correct for reasons which he there 

 adduces. F. C. H. 



The Fashion of Brittany (Vol. x., p. 146.). — 



" The eldest (daughter) of Madame de Chatillon mar- 

 ried the Duke of Crussel, her uncle, after the fashion of 

 Brittanj'." 



The literal translation of the French phrase, 

 " Oncle a la mode de Bretagne," and the placing 

 of a comma after the word uncle, have completely 

 changed the meaning of the original passage ; the 

 writer of which intended it to be understood, that 

 the daughter of Madame de Chatillon, in marrying 

 the Duke of Crussel, had married a person who 

 stood in the relation of first-cousin to her father 

 or mother ; such a relative being, according to the 

 Breton custom, invariably styled uncle. I believe 

 that the custom of giving the title of uncle or 

 aunt, to persons thus related, is common to Wales 

 and Cornwall as well as to Brittany. 



Edgar MacColloch. 



Guernsey. 



Custom at Feasts (Vol. ix., p. 21.). — At Win- 

 chester School the old custom was observed of a 

 boy, who saw his neighbour drink, and wished to 

 follow the example, saying, " Pledge you." It ia 

 somewhat similar to the custom your correspon- 

 dent mentions, and which was always observed at 

 the parish meetings and churchwardens' dinners 

 of St. Mai-garet's, Westminster : the cover of the 

 loving-cup being held over the head of the person 

 drinking by his neighbours on his right and left- 

 hand. jMackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



P.S. — As regards inn signs, I think, in London, 

 the "Cross Keys" will usually be found near a 

 church of St. Peter. 



