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prince he was sent to. Besides, it is likely that 

 Lord Howard was chosen for the embassy as 

 being a Catholic, and therefore more acceptable 

 to a prince of the same religion. 



2nd. Fuller's words only refer to testimony on a 

 disputed fact, on which Catholic evidence to the 

 etl'ect quoted by him would have peculiar weight. 



3rd. The words to Garnet, who had declared 

 his innocence and abhorrence of the imputed crime, 

 are such as a Catholic would be most likely to use. 

 .4th. The word '■'■our" in the royal instructions, 

 is the word of ibroi, and resembles the editorial 

 " tve." In royal instructions to Mr. Shiel at 

 Florence, Mr. Wyse at Naples, or Mr. More 

 O'Ferrall at JNIalta, her Majesty would use the 

 words " our religion;" would tliat imply that any or 

 all of those gentlemen were Protestants? 



After all, Lord Howard may have conformed to 

 the court religion after the period of the Armada : 

 occasional conformity was frequent at the period. 



Kerriensis. 



Separation of the Sexes in Clim-ch (Vol. ii., 

 p. 94.; Vol. iii., p. 94.). — In Collectanea Topo- 

 graphica, c^-c, vol. iii. p. 134., is printed the " Ac- 

 count of the Proctors of the Churcli of Yeovil, 

 CO. Somerset, 3G Hen. VI. 1457-8." The learned 

 editor says : 



" The first item is remarkable, .is affording an in- 

 stance of seats being made subject to sale at so early a 

 period ;" and proceeds : " it may be observed that the 

 two S2xes must have sat in different parts of the church, 

 as, with only one exception, the seats are let to other 

 persons of the same se.x as before." 



Llewellyn. 



Separation of the Sexes in Time of Divine Ser- 

 vice (Vol. ii., p. 94.). — A proof of the correctness 

 of the remark advanced in this note is afforded by 

 the practice followed in the little church of Co- 

 vington, Huntingdonshire, where a few of tlie old 

 open seats remain towards the western end, in 

 which each sex still sits on its proper side, although 

 the custom does not hold with respect to the pews 

 which some of the farmers and others h.ave erected 

 for themselves at the eastern end. Arun. 



Separation of the Sexes at Church. — Many of 

 your correspondents have taken up the separation 

 of the living at church, but none have alluded to 

 the dead. I extract the following from a deed of 

 the 34th of Elizabeth : — 



" But also in the two several! vawtes or towmbes in 

 the sayd chappell, and In the sowthe syde of the same, 

 and iu the wall of tlie snyd church, ffbr themselves only 

 to bury in ; that is to say, in the upper of the same, 

 standing eastwards, to bury the deade bodyes of the 

 men, being ancestors of the sayd A. B. ; and in the 

 lower, standing westwards, to bury the deade bodies of 

 the women, being wyves or children female of his, the 

 said A. B.'s ancestors." 



Perhaps some of your correspondents can tell us 

 whether such separate vaults were customary? 



Vox Populi Vox Dei (Vol. i., p. 370.). — Your 

 correspondent Daniel Rock states these words to 

 have been chosen by the Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury, Simon Mepham, as his text for the ser- 

 mon he preached when Edward III. was called to 

 the throne; and in your Notices to Correspondents, 

 Vol. iii., p. 254., you repeat the statement. 



The prelate by whom the sermon w.as preached 

 was not Simon Mepham, but his predecessor, Wal- 

 ter Reynolds, who was Archbishop of Canterbury 

 when the second Edward was deposed, and when 

 Edward III. was crowned, on February 1, 1327. 

 This AValter Reynolds died on November 16, 1327, 

 and Simon Mepham was appointed his successor 

 on December 11, 1327. John Toland, in his 

 Anglia Libera, p. 114., has this reference to the 

 sermon which was preached by the Archbishop 

 Reynolds on the occasion of the king's coronation: 



"To Edward I. succeeded his son Edward II., who 

 growing an intolerable tyrant, was in a parliament 

 summoned by himself formally accused of misgovern- 

 mont, and on his own acknowledging the truth of this 

 charge, solemnly deposed. When his son, Edward III., 

 was elected with universal consent, Walter, the Arch, 

 bishop of Canterbury, preached tlie coronation sermon, 

 and took these words for his text, " Vox populi Fox 

 Dei, the voice of the people is the voice of God," — so 

 little did they dream in those days of the divine right 

 of monarchy, or that all power did not originally derive 

 from the people, for whom and by whom all govern- 

 ments are erected and maintained." 



Sir Harris Nicolas in his Synopsis of the Peer- 

 age, and Dugdale in his Monasticon, give the 

 name of this Archbishop as Walter Reynolds. Sir 

 Richard Baker, in his Chronicle, describes him as 

 Walter Reginald; and in Iltime's England he is 

 called Walter de Reynel. St. Johns. 



Mazer Wood (Vol. iii., p. 239.). — The Querist 

 asks, " Has the word Mazer any signification in 

 itsslf?" 



It is used to signify a cup. Vide Walter Scott's 

 Lord of the Isles, where Robert Bruce is speaking: 



" Bring here, he said, the Mazers four, 

 My noble fathers loved of yore.' 



And it is probably derived from the Irish " Maed- 

 dher," a standing cup, generally of wood, of a 

 quadrangular form, witli a handle on e.ach of the 

 sides. The puzzle was how to drink out of it, 

 which was done from tlie angles. A silver " Maed- 

 dher" was presented to Lord Townshend when 

 leaving Ireland, who puzzled many of his English 

 friends by placing it before them filled with claret. 

 Uninitiated persons usually attempted to drink 

 from the flat side, and poured the wine over their 

 clothes. I tliink another was presented to Lord 

 Normanby when in Ireland. We see guttapercha 



