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must be regarded as a pledge and guarantee that 

 no such case as this could occur. On the faith of 

 that assurance, and in the hope of receiving valu- 

 able editions of our standard theology, as well as 

 with a wish to encourage a most useful under- 

 taking, many persons have given their names and 

 their subscriptions. There is too much reason to 

 think now that this assurance is of less value than 

 could have been anticipated. And when proof so 

 unquestionable is tlms forced on one's notice, it 

 can scarcely be thought surprising, that regret 

 and disappointment should be expressed by one 

 who has been, from the beginning, 



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monastic churches that retain their ancient fit- 

 tings. I would also ask when were they first 

 introduced, and by whose authority ? Quidam. 



caucn'r^. 



THE CSE OF MISERERES. 



I notice the following paragraph in Mr. Howitt's 

 Visits to Remarkable Places, 1840, pp. 470, 471. : 



" Perhaps the most curious things about the chapel 

 [of Winchester College] are the ancient stall-seats now 

 affixed to the wall of the ante-chapel. These have 

 their seats so fixed upon hinges that those who sit in 

 them can only maintain their position by balancing 

 themselves with care, and resting their elbows on the 

 seat-arms; so that if the monks who used them dropped 

 asleep during divine service, the seats came forward 

 and pitched them headlong upon the floor ; nay, if 

 they only dozed and nodded the least in the world, the 

 hard oaken seat clapped against the hard oaken back, 

 and made a noise loud enough to attract the attention 

 of the whole audience. Nothing was ever more 

 cleverly contrived to keep people awake at church or 

 chapel ; and, no doubt, most of us know where they 

 would be especially useful now." 



On the latter point there is little room for 

 doubt ; but allow me to ask whether this account 

 of the use of the miserere can be supported by 

 adequate authority, and is anything more than a 

 joke ? Mediaeval monks were, doubtless, some- 

 times caught napping ; since Dr. Maitland (^Dark 

 Ages, 2nd edit. pp. 336. and 337. n.) mentions an 

 amusing expedient employed in the monastery of 

 Cliigni for the detection of drowsy brethren. 

 AVhat I doubt is, whether the viiserei-e was in- 

 tended for that useful ])urpose. In the Glossary 

 of Architecture (4th edit. p. 242.) its use is thus 

 described : — 



" They [mi«erere«] were allowed in the Roman Ca- 

 tholic church as a relief to the infirm during the long 

 services that were required to be jierformed l)y the 

 ecclesiastics in a standing posture." 



Iti such matters, I should imagine Mr. Parker 

 to be a better authority than his versatile con- 

 temporary ; but if they were intended and per- 

 mitted only for the infirm, it seems rather remark- 

 able that they arc so general in most cathedral or 



JOCELINBS LEGACY. 



The Mothers Legacy to her unborn Child, by 

 Elizabeth Joceline. This is the title to a thin 

 octavo volume printed at " O-sford at the Theater 

 for the satisfaction of the person of quality herein 

 concerned, 1684." This, the first edition, is of 

 rare occurrence ; that in the British IMuseum being 

 a dirty duodecimo chap book. "The Approba- 

 tion" of the volume bears the signature of " Thos. 

 Goad." It is addressed as a legacy " to her truly 

 and most dearly-loved husband, Tourell Joceline." 

 The letter to her husband, and The Mothers 

 Legacy, are two of as beautiful, pious, and feeling 

 [ compositions, as were ever penned by woman. 

 The latter is so full of religious instruction and 

 exhoi tation to faith in the mercies of a Kedeemer, 

 under the apprehension that she might not survive 

 the birth of a child, that it is surprising this 

 valuable little tract has not become a standard 

 book for distribution by the Society for Promoting 

 Christian Knowledge. 



jNIy reason for bringing it under the notice of 

 the correspondents of "Notes and Queries" is 

 my strong desire to learn of what family was 

 Tourell Joceline, the husband of this most excel- 

 lent lady. Of that of the lady herself, I gather 

 the following particulars from Mr. Goad's Appro- 

 bation of the volume. 



Elizabeth Joceline was the wife of Tourell 



Joceline, granddaughter of Doctor Chaderton, 



sometime Master of Queen's College, Cambridge, 



and Professor of Divinity in that university; 



I afterwards Bishop, first of Chester, and then of 



I Lincoln; by whom she was, fiom her tender 



years, carefully nurtured. Her father was Sir 



■ Richard Brooke ; her mother the daughter of 



Dr. Chaderton. She was born in 1595, and died 



in childbed in 1622, six years after her marriage, 



' as she seems to have anticipated ; and hence her 



previiius writing of the Legacy. The child, a 



daugiiter, survived the mother. 



1 I ought to add, that I parted with the first 



' edition of The Mother s Legacy to the Rev. C. H. 



Craufurd, Rector of Old Swinford, Worcester- 



I shire, in exchange for a volume of his sermons, 



! 1840; at the end of which he had printed the 



I entire of The Mother s Legacy, which is well 



worthy to be printed separately. J. M. G. 



Worcester. 



j^tiiar CDucn'csS. 



261. Early Muster Rolls. — Are the muster 

 rolls of the army that landed with King William 

 at Torbay, or of the army that served in Ireland 



