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make you know and feel that there is none other 

 Name under heaven given to man, in whom, and 

 through whom, yon may receive health and salvation, 

 but only the name of our Lord Jesus Clirist, Amen." 



Objectionable as the ceremony was, there can 

 be no doubt that a much more Protestant charac- 

 ter was given to it by these alterations. 



Lancastriensis. 



M. or N. (Vol. i., p. 415.; Vol. ii., p. 61.; 

 Vol. ill., p. 323 ). — With reference to the initials or 

 letters M. and -N^. found in the Catechism and the 

 Marriage Service of our Common Prayer Book, 

 it has struck me that a fancy of mine may satisfy 

 some of those who wish to find more than a mere 

 caprice in the selection of them. 



It is remarkable that in the Catechism we read 

 N. or M., while in the service for Matrimony 

 M. is for the man, N. for the woman. 



I have imagined long ago that " N. or M." may 

 mean " nonien viri ; aut wiulieris:" that M. may 

 stand for " maritus" in the other place, and N. for 

 " nupta." Tyro Etitmologicus. 



N. stands (as it constantly did in MS.) for 

 "nomea" or name; M. for N. N., "nomina" or 

 names. You will observe that in black letter the 

 forms of N and M are so very similar that by an 

 easy contraction double N would pass into M, and 

 thus the contracted form N. N. for " nomiua" might 

 have come into M. Corroborating this is tlie fact 

 that the answer to \\''hat is your name? stands 

 thus : Answer N. or M., and not M. or N. 



J. F. T. 



P.S. Throughout the Matrimonial Service I ob- 

 serve M. attached to the man's name, but N. to 

 the woman's. 



Dancing Trenchmore (Vol. iii., p. 89.). — Your 

 corres[)ondent S. G. asks the meaning of this 

 phrase? Trenchmore was a very popular dance 

 in the sixteenth an 1 seventeenth centuries. The 

 earliest menti')n I find of it occurs in 1564, and 

 the latest in 1728. The figure and the musical 

 notes may be seen in the fifth and later editions 

 of The Dancing Master. See also Chappell's 

 National English Airs, vol. ii. p. 181., where some 

 amusing quotations concerning its popidarity are 

 given. Trenchmore (the meaning of which we 

 Lave to seek) was, however, more particularly the 

 name of the dance than the tune. Tiie dance, in 

 fact, was perfoi-med to various tunes. In proof of 

 this I give the following ([notation from Taylor 

 the water-poet's Navy of Land Ships, 1627 : 



" Niinhle-heel'd mariners (like so many dancers) 

 capring in the puinpes and vanities of this sinful world, 

 Kuinelimes a Morisco, or Trenchmnre of forty miks long, 

 to the time of Dusty my lieure. Dirty come thou to me, 

 Dun out of the viire, or / waile tn woe ami plunge in 

 paine : all these dances have no other nuisicke." 



EuwAao F. II1MUAUI.T. 



Demosthenes and New Testament (Vol. iii., 

 p. 350.). — If your correspondent C. H. P. had 

 referred to the Critici Sacri, he would have found 

 his questions answered. AVith regard to the 

 quotation from Acts .wii. 21., I beg to inform him 

 that Drusius makes the same reference, but gene- 

 rally only, as Pricasus ; while Grotius gives the 

 passages with particular references, in the same 

 manner as Lagnerius. As to the passage from 

 St. Matthew xiii. 14, he would have found, had 

 he consulted the Critici Sacri, that Grotius quotes 

 the same passage from Demosthenes as Pricajus ; 

 but, as far as I can see, they are the only commen- 

 tators in that work who observed the parallel 

 passages. However, the fact of its being " em- 

 ployed as an established proverb by Demosthenes 

 having been generally overlooked," as C. H. P. 

 supposes, is not quite correct, as it is mentioned in 

 tlie brief notes in Dr. Burton's Greek Testament, 

 O.Kon., 1831. H. C. K. 



Rectory, Hereford, May 3. 1851. 



Roman Catholic Church (Vol. iii., pp. 1 68. 409.). 

 — E. II. A. will find the information which he 

 requires in the Notizie per Vunno 1851. It is a 

 ■vary small annual published at Home by authority. 

 Its price cannot exceed 4«. or 5s. F. 



Yankee, Derivation of (Vol. iii., p. 260.). — In 

 AVebster's American Dictionary, and in the Impe- 

 rial Dictionary, English, Technological, ami Scien- 

 tific, J. !M. will see the etymology of Yankee, 

 which M. Philarete Charles supposes not to be 

 given in any work American or English. 



J^ORTHMAN. 



English French (Vol. iii., p. 346.). — I take the 

 liberty to infi)rm C. W. B., for the justification of 

 my countrymen, as well as of his own, that the 

 Guide to Amsterdam was probably written by a 

 British subject born between the tropics, and will 

 point out, not by way of reprisals, but as a curi- 

 osity of the same sort, an example of French- 

 English to be found in a book just published by 

 AVhittaker and Co., entitled Whafs What in 1851? 

 Let any one who understands French try to read 

 the article, p. 69., headed " Qu'est que, qu'est 

 que la veritable luxure en se promenant," and if 

 he can guess at the meaning of the writer, no 

 foreign-English I ever met with will ever give 

 him trouble. G. L. Kepper. 



Amsterdam, May 10. 1851. 



Deans, when styled Very Reverend (Vol. iii., 

 p. 352.). — I caimot answer this question, but I 

 can supply a trace, if not a clue. I find in a long 

 series of old almanacks that the list of deans is 

 invariably given as the Reverend the dean down to 

 1803 inclusive. I unluckily have not those for 

 the three next years, but in that for 1807 1 find 

 " the very Reverend the dean." C. 



