Jan. 20. 1855.] 



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and moustaches, a looker-on would see more indi- 

 viduality of countenance in the regiment that was 

 shaven, Novacula. 



The Episcopal Wig (Vol. xi., p. 11.). — I be- 

 lieve that the first bishops that appeared without 

 wigs in the House of Lords were some of the 

 Irish bishops after the Union. I remember par- 

 ticularly that Archbishop Beresford, who had a 

 very fine figure, a bald patriarchal head, and most 

 benevolent expression of countenance, made a 

 great and favourable impression amongst his pe- 

 ruqued brethren of England ; but the custom was 

 not general even on the Irish bench. The adop- 

 tion of it by English bishops has been recent. I 

 remember to have heard, fifty years ago, that an 

 English bishop, whose name I heard but have for- 

 gotten, applied to George III. for his sanction to 

 leave off the wig, alleging that the bishops of even 

 as late as the seventeenth century wore, as their 



f)ictures testified, their own hair. " Yes, my 

 ord," said the king, " but the same pictures show 

 that they then also wore beards and moustachios. 

 I suppose you would hardly like to carry out the 

 precedent. I think a distinction of some sort 

 necessary, and I am satisfied with that which I 

 find established." C. 



I believe that the present Bishop of London 

 was the first to commence the disuse of the un- 

 sightly and unecclesiastical wig. When a loyalist 

 Cantab appeared in the recently imported 

 Louis XIV. wig, Charles 11. issued an order for- 

 bidding such imitation of lay costume. Tillotson 

 is the first bishop represented in a wig, and wrote 

 a sermon to defend himself. The archbishops and 

 Bishops of Gloucester and Durham alone retain 

 it, I believe. Anti-Wig. 



Ribbons of Recrmting Sergeants (Vol. xi., p. 11.). 

 — Allow me to answer Russeix Goi,e by asking 

 him in return why cockades are worn ? why 

 ribbons are worn by parties at elections ? why by 

 benefit clubs on Whit Monday? why by Free- 

 masons ? why by horses in a fair ? why by ladies 

 at all times? and why by princes, lords, and 

 heroes when they can get them — blue, green, or 

 red ? Simply for distinction, to attract attention. 



A RlBBONMAN. 



Recruiting ribbons show the colours of the 

 clothing of the particular regiment for which the 

 party is employed. We have red, white, and blue 

 for a royal regiment, the red cloth, white lace, and 

 blue facings : other corps have yellow, green, buff, 

 black and purple ; in such cases no blue is em- 

 ployed in the cockade and its streamers. 



Centueiok. 



Account of the Jubilee (Vol. xi., p. 13.), — An 

 account of the celebration of the jubilee was 

 printed in quarto by Mr. R. Jabet, proprietor of 



the Commercial Herald, Birmingham, either in 

 the year 1809 or 1810; and bears as a frontis- 

 piece a very excellent portrait of George III,, 

 drawn and engraved by P. Egginton of Birming- 

 ham. The volume consists of 203 pages ; and 

 contains, according to the alphabetical order of 

 the counties, accounts, in some instances copious, 

 of the rejoicings upon this occasion in the various 

 cities, towns, and villages in the kingdom. 1 

 should have stated, that the book begins with the 

 celebration of the jubilee in the metropolis. The 

 title-page states that the compilation was made 

 by a lady, the wife of a naval officer. This was 

 really the case. Her name was Davis, and she 

 resided at Solihull, Warwickshire. The expenses 

 of the work were defrayed by subscription, of 

 which the book furnishes the names of nearly 

 350 subscribers. The profits were given to the 

 Society for the Relief of Prisoners confined for 

 Small Debts, The work is curious, and I know 

 of no other similar account of this celebrated 

 national rejoicing. From some knowledge of the 

 family of the printer of the work, I think it may 

 be stated that but few copies found their way to 

 other persons than the subscribers, 



John Woddbrspoon. 

 Norwich, 



True Cross, Relic of, in the Tower (Vol. xi., 

 p, 12.). — I am enabled so far to enlighten J. A, D. 

 on the above, as to inform him that I have seen a 

 small piece of wood, with accompanying docu- 

 ments attesting that it was a portion of the stump 

 of the true Cross, and that it was formerly kept in 

 the Tower of London among the jewels of King 

 James I. I begged a splinter of this, and have it 

 still ; set in a silver fiUagree cross, with crystal on 

 both sides, in the form of a cross. It is more 

 than thirty years since this occurred, but I re- 

 member thinking the attestations very curious 

 and worthy of credit. If I do not mistake, they 

 accounted for the way in which the supposed 

 relic was removed from the Tower, and came into 

 the possession of the party who then held it. If 

 I can obtain farther particulars, they shall be 

 given ; but, at this distance of time, I almost de- 

 spair of finding the person in whose hands the 

 treasure then remained. F. C, Husenbeih. 



The last Jacobites (Vol. x., p. 507.)-— Valentine, 

 Lord Cloncurry was a nobleman who was on very 

 intimate terms with Cardinal York. Whether 

 he was one who " indulged the hope of placing 

 him upon the throne of Great Britain " or not, I, 

 cannot say. But it looks suspicious, when we bear 

 in mind that as a young man he joined, heart and 

 soul, the anti-government party, was an United 

 Irishman, became a member of the Executive- 

 directory of the United Irish Society, wrote a 

 pamphlet, and becoming an object of government 



