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that the Englishman, also, on parting from his 

 friend, will commit him to the care of Providence. 

 On the other hand, it must be admitted that the 

 Germans, who, as well as the English, are sup- 

 posed to entertain a deei:)er sense of religion than 

 many other nations, content themselves with a 

 mere " lebe-wohl." I should be obliged if some 

 one of your readers will favour me wiih the forms 

 of taking leave used by other nations, in order 

 that I may be enabled to see whether the above 

 test will hold good on a more extensive appli- 

 cation. X. Z. 

 Gregory the Great. — This is clearly a mere 

 slip of the pen in Lady Morgan's pamphlet. I 

 think it may confidently be asserted that Gre- 

 gory YII. has not been thus designated habitually 

 at any period. K. D. H. 



True Blue (Vol. iii., p. 92.). — "The earliest 

 connexion of the colour blue with truth " (which 

 inquiry I cannot consider as synonymous with the 

 original Query, Vol. ii., p. 494.) is doubtless to 

 be traced back to one of the typical garments 

 worn by the Jewish high priest, which was (see 

 Godwyn's Moses and Aaron, London, 16.31, lib. i. 

 chnp. 5.) " A robe all of blew, with seventy 

 two bels of gold, and as many pomegranates, of 

 blew, purple, and scarlet, upon the skirts thereof." 

 He says tiiat " by the bells was typed tlie sound 

 of his (Christ's) doctrine ; by the pomegranates 

 the sweet savour of an holy life;" and, without 

 doubt, by " the blew robe " was typified the im- 

 mutability and truthfulness of the person, mission, 

 and doctrine of our gi-eat High Priest, who was 

 clothed with truth as with a garment. The great 

 Antitype was a literal embodiment of the symbolic 

 panoply of his lesser type. Blowen. 



Drachmarus (Vol. iii., p. 157.). — Your cor- 

 respondent has my most cordial thanks both for 

 his suggestion, and also for his conjecture. 



1. Perhaps you will kindly afibrd me space to 

 say, that the name of Draiihmarus occurs in a well- 

 written MS. account of Bishop Cosin's controversy, 

 during his residence in Paris, with the Benedictine 

 Prior Kobinson, concerning the validity of our 

 English ordin.ition : in the course of which, after 

 stating the opinion of divers of the Fathers, that 

 the keys of order and jurisdiction were given John 

 XX., " Quorum peccata," &c., Cosin adds : 



" I omit Hugo Cai-diiialis, the ordinary gloss, 

 Drachmarus, Scotiis, as men of a later age (though all, 

 as you say, of your church) tliat might be produced to 

 the same purpose." 



I should here perhaps state, that no letter of 

 Prior Robinson's is extant in which any mention 

 is made either of Drachmarus or of Druthmarus. 



2. Before my Query was inserteil, it had not 

 only occurred to me as probable that the tran- 

 scriber might have written Drachmarus in mistake 

 for Druthmarus, but I had also consulted such of 



Druthmar's writings as are found in the Bill. Pair. 

 I came to the conclusion, however, that a later 

 writer than Christi:in Druthmar was intended. 

 My conjecture was, that Drachmarus must be a 

 second name for some known writer of the age of 

 the schoolmen, just as Carhajalus may be foinid 

 cited under the name of Loysiiis, or Loisiits, which 

 are only other forms of his Christian name, Ludo- 

 vicus. J. Sansom. 



The Brownes of Cowdray, Siisser. — E. H. Y. 

 (Vol. iii., p. 66.) is wrong in assigning the title of 

 Lord Mountaade to the Brownes of Cowdray, 

 Sussex. In 1 & 2 Phil, and Mary, Sir Antony 

 Browne (son of the Master of the Horse to 

 Henry VJIL) was created Viscount Montague 

 (Collins). When curate of Eastbourne, in which 

 ])arish are situated the ruins of their ancestral 

 Hall of Cowdray, I frequently heard the village 

 dames recite the tales of the rude forefathers of 

 the hamlet respecting the family. 



They relate, that while the great Sir Antony 

 (temp. Hen. VIII.) was holding a revel, a monk 

 j)resented himself before the guests and pro- 

 nounced the curse of fire and water against the 

 male descendants of the fiimily, till none shoidd be 

 left, because the knight had received and was re- 

 taining the church-lands of Battle Abbey, and 

 those which belonged to the priory of Eastbourne. 

 Within the last hundred years, destiny, though 

 slow of foot, h.as overtaken the fated race. In 

 one day the hall perished by fire, and the lord by 

 water, as mentioned by E. H. Y. The male line 

 being extinct, the estate passed to the sister of 

 Lord Montague. This lady was married to the 

 late AV. S. Poyntz, Esq., M!P. The two sons of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Poyntz were drowned at Bognor, 

 and the estate a second time devolved on the fe- 

 male representatives. These ladies, still living, 

 are the JNIarchioness of Exeter, the Countess 

 Spencer, and the Dowager Lady Clinton. The 

 estate passed by purchase into the hands of the 

 Earl of Egmont. 



The olil villagers, the servants, and the de- 

 scendants of servants of the fiimily, point to the 

 ruins of the hall, and religiously cling to the 

 belief that its destruction and that of its lords re- 

 sulted from the curse. It certainly seems an il- 

 lustration of Archbishop Whitgift's words to Queen 

 Elizabeth : 



" Church-land added to an ancient inheritance halh 

 proved like a moth frttting a garment, and secretly 

 consumed both ; or like the eagle that stole a coal from 

 the altar, and thereby set her nest on fire, which con- 

 sumed both her young eagles and herself that stole it." 



E. Kds. 

 Queen's Col., Birm., Feb. 20. 1851. 



Bed Hand (Vol. ii,, p. 506., et ante). — A cor- 

 respondent, Aeun, says, " Your correspondents 

 would confer a, heraldic benefit if they would 



