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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 83. 



I must note that there are variations in the 

 service depending upon the season, &c. &c. 



1 have indicated the ?-u//ric of the Breviary by 

 Italics. J. Yalc. 



Preston, Lane. 



Commoner marrying a Peeress (Vol.ii., p. 230.). 

 — Your correspondent L. R. N. inquires whtitlier 

 there is any decision subsequent to tliat in the 

 reign of Henry VIII. on the chiini to the Tayl- 

 boys barony, respecting the right of a Commoner 

 marrying a peeress to assume her title and 

 dignity, he having issue male by her. In reply 

 I beg to inform him that there appears to have 

 been one on the claim of liichard Bertie, in 1580, 

 to the Barony of VVilloughby, in riglit of his wife 

 Catherine Duchess of Suffolk, as tenant by the 

 curtesy, which was rejected, and Peregrine Bertie 

 her son was admitted in the lifetime of his father. 

 It seems, however, from the want of modern in- 

 stances, as also by the elevation of ladies to the 

 rank of peeresses, with remainders to their 

 children, thus enabling the issue to sit in the life- 

 time of the father, that the prevailing notion is 

 against curtesy in titles of honour. This subject 

 will be found treated at some length in Cruise's 

 Digest, vol. iii. pp. 187, 188. 198. ed. 1818. 



O. S. 



Ancient Wood Engraving (Vol. iii., p. 277.). — 

 The subject of The Hermit of Holyport's ques- 

 tion is an engraving of the " Pinax" of Cebes, a 

 Tlieban philosopher, who wrote circa a. m. 3600, 

 and who, in his allegin-ical work of that name, 

 described human life under the guise of a picture. 



This information is for the Hermit's especial 

 benefit, as I suppose it will be old news to most of 

 your correspondents. 



I have an olil Dutch edition of the "Pinax" 

 (Gerard de Jagcr, 1683), bound in vellum, with 

 the Enchiridion and otiier works of Epictelus ; 

 the frontispiece of which is the fellow to the 

 Hermit's engraving. F. I. 



Bradford. 



Vegetating Insects (Vol. iii., p. 166.). — As the 

 Query of Mr. i\1anley in No. 70. has not been 

 answered, I beg to say that Vegetating Insects 

 are not unconnnon both in New South Wales and 

 New Zealand. The insect is the caterjiillar of a 

 large brown moth, and in New Soutli \Vales is 

 sometimes Ibund six inches long, buried in the 

 ground, and the plant above ground about the 

 same length : the top, expanded like a ilower, has 

 a brown velvety texture. In New Zealand tiie 

 plant is different, being a single stem from six to 

 ten inches high : its apex, when in a state of fruc- 

 tification, resembles the club-headed bulrush in 

 miniature. When newly dug up, and divided 

 longitudinally, the intestinal canal is distinctly 

 visible, and frequently the hairs, legs, and man- 

 dibles. Vegetation invariably proceeds from the 



nape of the neck ; from which it tnay be inferred, 

 that the insect, in crawling to the place where it 

 inhumes itself, prior to its metamorphosis, while 

 burrowing in the light vegetable soil, gets some of 

 the minute seeds of the fungus between the scales 

 of its neck, from which in its sickening state it is 

 unable to free itself, and which consequently, being 

 nourished by the warmth and moisture of the in- 

 sect's body then lying motionless, vegetates, and 

 not only impedes the process of change in the 

 clirysalis, but likewise occasions the death of the 

 insect. The New South Wales specimen is called 

 " Sphajria Innominata," that of New Zealand 

 " Sphasria Robertsii ; " both named, I believe, by 

 Sir W. J. Hooker. In some specimens of the New 

 Zealand kind now before me, the bodies of the 

 insects are in their normal state, but the legs, &c., 

 are gone. 



Both specimens are figured and described in the 

 Tasmanian Journal, vol. i. No. 4. Viator. 



Chatham. 



Prayer at the Healing (Vol. iii., p. 352.). — 

 N. E. R. inquires whether this prayer found a 

 place in the prayer-books printed at Oxlbrd or 

 Cambridge. 



I have it before me in the folio Book of Com- 

 mon Prayer, " O.xford, printed by John Baskctt, 

 Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and 

 to the University, mdccxv." It is placed be- 

 tween the form of prayer for Aug. 1. (the King's 

 Accession) and the King's Declui-ation preceding 

 the Articles. 



This form differs from that given by Sparrow, 

 in his Collection, edit. 1684, p. 165., as follows : — 



Sparrow gives tiuo Gospels : Mark, xvi. 14., 

 St. John, i. 1., the imposition of the King's hands 

 taking place at the words " they shall lay," &c. in 

 the reading of the first, and the gold being placed 

 at reading the words " that light" in the second. 



In Baskett's form, the Jirst Gospel only is used, 

 with the collect " Prevent us, O Lord," before it. 



In Baskett's form, the supplicatory versicles and 

 Lord's Prayer, which agree in their own order 

 with the earlier form, follow this first Gospel, and 

 precede the imposition and the suspension of the 

 gold, during which (it is directed) the cha[)lain 

 that offii'iates, turning himself to his Majesty, shall 

 say these words following : 



" God give a blessing to this work, and grant that 

 these sick persons, on whom the king lays his hands, 

 may recover through Jesus Christ our Lord." 



This does not appear in Sparrow's form of 1684, 

 neither does the following* address, at the close, by 

 the "chiiplain, standing with his face towards them 

 that come to be healed." 



" The Almighty God, who is a most strong tower to 

 all thtm that put their trust in Him, to whom all 

 things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth do bow 

 and obey, be now and evermore your defence, and 



