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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 242. 



reason cannot apply here. I remember well the 

 custom of the congregations kneeling when the 

 Lord's Prayer occurred in the lesson ; it was left 

 off in my own church about thirty years since, 

 this custom, curtseying at the " Gloria," and some 

 others, being considered ignorant, and therefore 

 discountenanced by those who knew better. P. P. 



Arch-priest in the Diocese of Exeter (Vol. ix., 

 pp. 105. 185.). — A question has been asked: 

 *' Does a dignity or office, such as rector of Hac- 

 combe, exist in the Anglican Church?" I find 

 something similar in the case of the vicar of 

 Newry, who is entirely free from ecclesiastical 

 control; he holds his appointment from the ex- 

 officio rector (Lord Kilmony), who derives his title 

 from the original patent granted by Edward VI. 

 to his Irish Marshal Sir Nicholas Pagnall, who, 

 on the dissolution of the " Monasterium Nevora- 

 cense," obtained possession of the land attached, 

 and was farther granted : 



" That he shall have all and singular, and so many and 

 the like courts leet, frank pledge, law days, rights, 

 jurisdictions, liberties, privileges, &c. &c, in as large, 

 ample, and beneficial a manner as any abbot, prior, 

 convent, or other chief, head, or governor of the late 

 dissolved monastery heretofore seized, held or enjoyed," 

 &c. 



The seal of the ancient charter, on which is in- 

 scribed the legend, " Sigillum exemptae jurisdic- 

 tionis de virido ligno alias Newry et Mourne," is 

 still used in the courts. A mitred abbot in his 

 albe, sitting in his chair, supported; by two yew- 

 trees, is also engraved on it; to perpetuate (it ; is 

 said) the tradition that these trees had been 

 planted by St. Patrick in the vicinity of the con- 

 vent. N. C. Atkinson. 



85. Waterloo Road, Dublin. 



Holy -loaf Money (Vol. ix., pp. 150. 256.). — In 

 Normandy and Brittany, and probably in other 

 Roman Catholic countries, bread is blessed by the 

 officiating priest during the performance of high 

 mass, and handed round in baskets to the congre- 

 gation by the inferior officers of the church. On 

 inquiring into the meaning of this custom, I was 

 told that it represented the agapce of the primitive 

 church ; and that, before the first ^revolution, 

 every substantial householder in the parish was 

 bound in turn to furnish the loaves, or a money 

 equivalent. It is now, I believe, a voluntary gift 

 of the more devout parishioners, or furnished out 

 of the ordinary revenues of the church. 



HoNORE DE MaREVILLE. 

 Guernsey. 



(Vol. ix., p. 445.) 



In Mr. Harry Lerot Temple's Popiana, 

 allusion is made to Pope's Imitation of Horace, 

 Second Satire, Book I., and the question is asked, 

 In what modern editions of Pope is this Imitation 

 to be found ? It is in Warton's edition, and also 

 in the Aldine edition published by Pickering. It 

 appeared to me (as to Bowles, Roscoe, Mr. Cary, 

 and others) too glaringly indecent for a popular 

 edition of Pope. The poet never acknowledged 

 it ; he published it as " Imitated in the manner of 

 Mr. Pope," but it is a genuine production. See 

 note in my edition of Pope, vol. iv. p. 300. 



Mr. Temple says, — 



" Roscoe and Croly give four poems on Gulliver's 

 Travels. Why does Mr. Carruthers leave out the 

 third ? His edition appears to contain (besides many 

 additions) all that all previous editors have admitted, 

 with the exception of the third Gulliver poem, the 

 sixteen additional verses to Mrs. Blount on leaving 

 town, the verses to Dr. Bolton, and a fragment of 

 eight lines (perhaps by Congreve) ; which last three 

 are to be found in Warton's edition." 



The third Gulliver poem was not published with 

 the others by Pope in the Miscellanies. It should, 

 however, have been inserted, as it is acknowledged 

 by Pope in his correspondence with Swift. The 

 omission must be set down as an editorial over- 

 sight, to be remedied in the next edition. The 

 verses on Dr. Bolton are assuredly not Pope's ; 

 they are printed in Aaron Hill's Works, 1753. 

 See a copious note on this subject in " N. & Q.," 

 Vol. vii., p. 113. The two other omissions noticed 

 by Mr. Temple (with others unnoticed by him, 

 as the parody on the First Psalm, &c.) were dic- 

 tated by the same feeling that prompted the ex- 

 clusion of the Imitation of Horace. In several of 

 Pope's letters, preserved at Maple Durham, are 

 grossly indecent and profane passages, which he 

 omitted himself in his printed correspondence, 

 and which are wholly unfit for publication. The 

 same oblivion should be extended to his unac- 

 knowledged poetical sins. R. Carruthers. 



Inverness. 



CATHOLIC FLORAL DIRECTORIES (Vol.viii., p. 585.): 



Anthologia Borealis et Australis ; Florilegium 

 Sanctorum Aspirationum. 



Since I last wrote, I have not succeeded in un- 

 ravelling the mystery which envelops these two 

 works; but I have gotten some clue to it, for which 

 I am indebted to the extreme courtesy and kind- 

 ness of two correspondents. 



One of these gentlemen informs me that the 

 Anthologia is quoted at p. 280. of Dr. Forster's 

 work on the Atmosphere : London, 1823. My 



