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keepin<ir up the proper equilibrium of animal and 

 vegetable life. Sea plants, therefore, are as ne- 

 cessary as sea animals. Corallina officinalis, and 

 the common green Ulva, are among the best for 

 the purpose. Margabet Gatty. 



A Cockney Naturalist will have no difficulty 

 in procuring specimens to stock a marine vivarium 

 in London. 



William Thompson, Esq., of Weymouth, has for 

 some time constantly employed a dredge, for the 

 purpose of supplying the Zoological Society with 

 .specimens for their tanks, and also undertakes to 

 supply any one who wishes to make the experi- 

 ment. It would be necessary to have a zinc 

 ta-avelling tank made, but Mr. Thompson can give 

 your correspondent every information about this. 



The carriage by mail train, including immediate 

 delivery by special messenger, does not cost more 

 than three or four shillings, and I think that a 

 moderate-sized tank (tor instance, 2 feet long, 

 16 inches wide, and 16 inches deep) could be 

 stocked at an expense of fifteen to twenty shil- 

 lings. Coral rag is the best material for rock-work, 

 and I should advise your correspondent to have a 

 basket of sea-sand and fine gravel sent up. 



J. G. H. 



Clapham. 



A Cockney Naturalist is requested to apply 

 to Mr. W. A. Lloyd, 164. St. John Street Road, 

 Clerkenwell, for marine animals, sea-weeds, and 

 the saline ingredients for the manufacture of arti- 

 ficial sea- water. Mr. Lloyd's name is mentioned 

 in the paper quoted from Fraser, " Periwinkles in 

 Pound," by Dr. Badham. Anon. 



PBESTBURY PRIORY, GLOUCESTEBSHIBE. 



(Vol. xi., pp. 266. 335.) 



I am much obliged to your correspondent H. J. 

 for drawing my attention to the extract from the 

 work of the Rev. G. Roberts ; for, though it does 

 not answer my question, it enables me to point 

 out a manifest error into which Mr. Roberts has 

 fallen. First, then, there was an abbey at Llan- 

 thony, in Monmouthshire. Secondly, an abbey 

 (called Llanthony Abbey, after the one in Mon- 

 mouthshire) at or near Gloucester, that is to say, 

 within half a mile of St. Peter's Abbey, now the 

 cathedral. Thirdly, there was I believe a priory 

 at Prestbury, which Is, be it observed, ten miles 

 and a half from Gloucester, whei-e the monastery 

 of Llanthony, at Gloucester, certainly possessed 

 lands, and the parish church dedicated to St. Mary. 

 Milo clearly was buried at the Llanthony I have 

 mentioned second, which It appears was founded 

 by him ; to this one also I think It is evident that 



Clement, the monk and historian, refers. I see no 

 reason to believe there were three religious houses 

 called Llanthony ; two there were beyond a doubt, 

 one In Monmouthshire, one at Gloucester. I feel 

 sure My. Roberts has fallen into some mistake, and 

 that the religious house (whatever it was, which 

 is what I want to discover) at Prestbury never 

 was called Llanthony, and consequently that Cle- 

 ment the monk has been misquoted. Catholicds. 



This house may probably have been erected by 

 the monks of Llanthony as a vicarage, or a manor- 

 house. The priory of Llanthony appears to have 

 possessed the advowson of the vicarage, as well as 

 the lordship of the manor. Tanner makes no 

 mention of any religious house in the parish. In 

 the great civil wars. Colonel Massie, Governor of 

 Gloucester, placed a garrison of 150 foot, in a 

 strong house in this village to protect the market 

 of that city, preserve a communication between 

 the Parliament's garrison at Gloucester and War- 

 wick, and to check the king's at Sudeley Castle. 

 Could this have been the house ; or does any 

 house at all answering the description now remain 

 in the village ? Has any engraving of the priory 

 been published ? W. A. 



TIMES PROHIBITING MARRIAGE. 



(Vol. xi., p. 374.) 



I venture most respectfully to protest against 

 the admission into " N. & Q." of such paragraphs 

 as that published under the signature K. P. D. E. 

 That writer says : 



" It is probable that there never has been a law forbid- 

 ding members of the Established Church of England to 

 marry during times of solemn fasting or feasting. The 

 Catholic Church forbids marriage from the first Sunday in 

 Advent," &c. 



It is Impossible, in dealing with the words of an 

 anonymous writer, to determine whether such 

 statements are the result of ignorance or of design. 

 In either case they are grossly offensive to all true 

 members of the Church of England. The great 

 communion of the Anglican Church is as much a 

 branch of the Church Catholic, and from the purity 

 and Catholicity of her doctrine much better en- 

 titled to the name, than the corrupt communion 

 which now most offensively claims the exclusive 

 right to be called the Catholic Church. If K. P. 

 D. E. is a member of this latter communion, he 

 ought to consider, that as he expects us to refrain 

 from giving to his Church the title of Popish, on 

 the ground that the term Is hurtful to the feelings 

 (why I know not) of Roman Catholics, so we may 

 reasonably expect him to refrain from the use of 

 language which so distinctly Implies that we are 

 not members of the Catholic Church. At all events, 



