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inform the parishioners who have not been able 

 to attend in the morning, that divine service will 

 be celebrated in the afternoon. In scattered 

 villages, or where a single clergyman had to per- 

 form the duties of more than one church, this was 

 formerly quite requisite. At a neighbouring 

 village of Tytherly, the custom is still observed, 

 though no longer necessary. W. S. 



There is little doubt that priests in olden times 

 were fond of hot dinners, and the bell at the con- 

 clusion of the service must have been intended as 

 a warning to their cooks (and many others) to 

 make ready the repast. This is merely a sup- 

 position ; but I shall cherish the idea in the want 

 of a better explanation. The custom has been, 

 until very lately, observed in our little country 

 church. There are other customs which are still 

 kept up, namely, that of tolling the church bell at 

 eight o'clock on Sunday morning, and again at 

 nine, as well as that of ringing a small bell when 

 the clergyman enters the reading-desk. E. W. J. 



Crawley, Winchester. 



I believe that the custom of tolling the bell 

 when the congregation is leaving the church, is to 

 notify that there will be another service in the 

 day. This is certainly the reason in this parish 

 (in Leicestershire) ; for after the second service 

 the bell is not tolled, nor if, on any account, there 

 is no afternoon service. - S. S. S. 



When I was Lecturer of St. Andrew's, Enfield, 

 the bells rang out a short peculiar peal immedi- 

 ately after Sunday Morning Prayer. I always 

 thought it was probably designed to give notice to 

 approaching funeral processions that the church 

 service was over, as in the country burials — 

 usually there always on Sundays — immediately 

 follow the celebration of morning service. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



I beg to inform your correspondent J. H. M. 

 that this is often done at Bray, near Maidenhead. 



Newbcbiensis. 



The custom observed at Olney Church after 

 the morning service, I have heard, is to apprize 

 the congregation of a vesper service to follow. 



W. P. Stobee. 



Olney, Bucks. 



Archpriest in the Diocese of Exeter (Vol. ix., 

 p. 185.). — Besides the archpriest of Haccombe, 

 there were others in the same diocese ; but, to 

 quote the words of Dr. Oliver, in his Monasticon, 

 Dioc. Exon., p. 287., 



" He would claim no peculiar exemption from the 

 jurisdiction of his ordinary, nor of his archdeacon; he 

 was precisely on the same footing as the superiors 

 of the archpreshyteries at Penkivell, Beerferris, and 

 Whitchurch, which were instituted in this diocese in 



the early part of the fourteenth century. The found- 

 ation deed of the last was the model in founding that of 

 Haccomhe." 



In the same work copies of the foundation 

 deeds of the archipresbytery of Haccombe and 

 Beer are printed. 



One would suppose that wherever there was a 

 collegiate body of clergymen established for the 

 purposes of the daily and nightly offices of the 

 church, as chantry priests, that one of them would 

 be considered tbe superior, or archipresbyter. 



Godolphin, in Rep. Can., 56., says that by the 

 canon law, he that is archipresbyter is also called 

 dean. Query, Would he then be other than 

 " Primus inter pares ? " 



Prince, in his Worthies, calls the Rector of 

 Haccombe " a kind of chorepiscopus ; " and in a 

 note refers to Dr. Field Of the Church, lib. v. c. 37. 



With regard to the Vicar of Bibury (quoted by 

 Mr.Sansom, "N. & Q.," Vol. he., p. 185.), he 

 founded his exemption from spiritual jurisdiction, 

 I believe, upon his holding a Peculiar, and not as 

 an archpriest. H. T. Ellacombe. 



Clyst St. George. 



Dogs in Monumental Brasses (Vol. ix., p. 126.). 

 — I have always understood (but I cannot say on 

 any authority) that the dogs at the feet of monu- 

 mental effigies of knights were symbolical of 

 fidelity. That signification would certainly be 

 very appropriate in monuments of crusaders, 

 where, I believe, they are generally found. And 

 I would suggest to Mb. Alford, that the idea 

 might not have been confined to fidelity in keep- 

 ing the vow of the Cross, but might have been 

 extended to other religious vows : in which case 

 the ladies undoubtedly might sometimes claim the 

 canine appendage to their effigies. The lion might 

 perhaps symbolise courage, in which ladies are not 

 commonly supposed to excel. M. H. 11. 



The Last of the Palceologi (Vol. v., pp. 173. 280. 

 357.). — The following scrap of information may 

 be useful to L. L. L. and others, if too long a 

 time has not gone by since the subject was under 

 discussion. In The List of the Army raised under 

 the Command of his Excellency Robert Earle of 

 Essex, &c. : London, printed for John Partridge, 

 1642, of which I have seen a manuscript copy, the 

 name of Thco. Palioligus occurs as Lieutenant in 

 " The Lord Saint John's Regiment." 



Edward Peacock. 



Bottcsford Moors, Kirton in Lindsey. 



Long Names (Vol. viii., pp.539. 651.). — Allow 

 me to add the following polysyllabic names to 

 those supplied by your correspondents: — Llanvair- 

 pwllgivyngyll, a living in the diocese of Bangor, 

 became vacant in March, 1850, by the death of 

 its incumbent, the Rev. Richard Prichard, ast. 



