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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 276. 



was first instituted." In the Supplement to the 

 same work, H(enry) W(harton) says Paul II. 

 (1464) was the first to make the grant. "If I 

 mistake not," Cave is right. Paul added the pal- 

 lium or cloak, and Gregory XIV. made some other 

 alterations. • B. H. C. 



Archbishop Leighton. — The Rev. J. N. Pearson, 

 in his sketch of the above prelate's life, mentions 

 that — 



" There is still in existence a humorous poem on Dr. 

 Aikenhead, Warden of the College (at Edinburgh), which 

 Leighton wrote when an undergraduate. It evinces a 

 good-natured playfulness of fancy, but is not of a merit 

 that calls for publication." 



I doubt not many of your readers would, 

 nevertheless, agree with me in thanking any one 

 who has access to this document, by bringing 

 it to light through your pages ; provided it be of 

 reasonable dimensions, and unpublished by any 

 other biographer. If even one of the Juvenilia 

 of Leighton should prove to be without merit, the 

 greater would be its literary curiosity. 



C. W. Bingham. 



Marriages decreed hy Heaven. — What is the 

 origin of this saying ? I find that the opinion 

 prevails among the Chinese. I have also met 

 with it in the writings of Dieterich, a Lutheran 

 divine who wrote early in the seventeenth cen- 

 tury. B. H. C. 



Greek "Dance of Floivers." — Where is the 

 best account of this ancient dance? On what 

 authorities do the moderns found their descrip- 

 tions? Did similar dances obtain among other 

 nations, either of old or to-day ? A. Challsteth. 



Theatrical Announcements. — Can any of the 

 readers of " N. & Q." inform me when the custom, 

 now universal among the daily papers, originated, 

 of placing the theatrical announcements of the 

 evening's performances immediately preceding the 

 leading articles ? I should also like to know the 

 rationale of the custom in question, and whether 

 the notices are considered as advertisements, and 

 paid for accordingly. H. W. D. 



"At tu, quisquis eris" Sfc. — Dr. Johnson has 

 prefixed to the 41st number of his Idler (the 

 paper on the death of his mother) the following 

 not very appropriate verses. Can any of your 

 readers tell me whence they are taken ? 



" At tu, quisquis eris, miseri qui cruda poetae 

 Credideris fletu funera digna tuo, 

 Haec postrema tibi sit flendi causa, fluatque 

 Lenis inoffenso vitaque morsque gradu." 



Some of the editions have given them to Ovid, 

 but I cannot find them anywhere in the works of 

 that poet. F. W. 



iHtnor <!h\xtnti tuftS ^n^tti. 



Right Rev. Charles Llo7/d, D.D., Bishop of 

 Oxford. — Can any of your correspondents furnish 

 reminiscences of this prelate, who was also Regius 

 Professor of Divinity at Oxford, and prematurely 

 removed by death in 1829? Have any notes of 

 his Lectures on the Book of Common Prayer ever 

 been published, or could you be the medium of 

 collecting some of their disjecta membra from 

 among your readers ? 



Dr. Lloyd was, I believe, the first Professor for 

 many years who gave private lectures in addition 

 to his formal prelections on theology, when ap- 

 pointed in 182'i. The announcement of them 

 created a sensation at the time ; but, from cir- 

 cumstances, it was not my happiness to have heard 

 them. I may mention one happy suggestion of 

 his, viz. that the versicle, towards the end of the 

 Litany — " O Son of David, have mercy on us," — 

 had always appeared to him to be incorrect, and 

 not agreeable to the meaning of the first com- 

 pilers of the formulary ; inasmuch as our Saviour, 

 after His ascension, was never invoked with re- 

 ference to His ancestor according to the flesh. In 

 the course of our examination of some ancient 

 MSS., or editions of the Liturgies to which our 

 own is indebted, the corresponding invocation was 

 found written contractedly, " O fill D. viv." (i. e. 

 Dei viventis), in such a way that a hasty glance 

 might lead a copyist to transcribe it as " fill 

 David." 



Bishop Lloyd was son of the Rev. Thomas 

 Lloyd, who died at High Wycombe in 1815, 

 having held the rectory of Aston-sub-Edge, co. 

 Gloucester, from 1782. Balliolensis. 



[Our correspondent is probably aware that Mr. Palmer, 

 in his Origines Liturgka, has made some use of Bishop 

 Lloyd's liturgical notes. In his preface he states, " That 

 the' late Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Lloyd) was so convinced 

 of the expediency [of having the English Offices in their 

 original languages], that he was himself collecting mate- 

 rials for the purpose, which he intended to publish as 

 soon as his avocations should permit. His lordship's col- 

 lections were entered on the margin of a folio Prayer 

 Book, in the library given by Dr. AUestree for the use of 

 the Regius Professor of Divinity in this university [Ox- 

 ford] ; and having been kindly permitted to compare 

 them with the results of my own investigations, I have 

 derived from them several valuable observations, which 

 are acknowledged in their proper places." In a note Mr. 

 Palmer adds, "I have been informed that his lordship 

 delivered several private lectures, entirely on this topic, 

 to a class of theological students in this university." 

 Some passing notices of these private lectures, delivered 

 in 1826, will be found in Froude's Remains, vol. i. pp. 30. 

 39. 47, 48. ; but the lectures have never been printed. In 

 1825, Dr. Lloyd edited for the Clarendon Press the Formw 

 laries of Faith, put forth by authority during the reign 

 of Henry VIII. In 1827 he published a revised and en- 

 larged edition of the Sylloge Confessionum ; and in 1828 

 produced a very correct and elegant edition of the 

 Greek New Testament, for the use of junior biblical 

 students, Avhich has been reprinted in 1830 and 1847. 



