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quities from the British Museum; Dr. Diamond's Tray 
of Admiral Smyth's Roman Coins and Fac-simile of En- 
gravings ; and Mr. Thurston Thompson’s Copies of Anti- 
uities from the Louvre, and then say if we have not been 
justified in giving special encouragement to an art of such 
immense value, for the fidelity of its results, to all who 
are engaged in literary, historical, and antiquarian pur- 
suits. 
Replies ta Minor Rueried. 
Dictionaries chained in Schools (1% 8. xii. 479.) 
—In the records of the corporation of Boston, 
under the date 1578, I find the following entry. 
Agreed — ; 
“ That a Dictionarye shall be bought for the scollers of 
the Free Scoole; and the same boke to be tyed in a 
cheyne, and set upon a deske in the scoole, whereunto any | 
scoller may have accesse, as occasion shall serve.”’ 
Pisury Tompson. 
Stoke Newington. 
“ Quid magis est” (1%. S. x. 309.) — The lines 
commencing “ Quid magis est durum” (not du- 
rum est), are certainly Ovid's. J. RR. 
Bridge the Organ Builder (1* S. xii. 46.) — 
Richard Bridge is supposed to have been trained 
in the factory of the younger Harris. Bridge, 
together with Jordan and Byfield, had nearly the 
whole organ-building business of the country, 
from ‘the death of Harris till the arrival of Snetz- 
ler. Byfield, Bridge, and Jordan are usually 
spoken of as in partnership. This was not strictly 
the case, as their factories were separate, and the 
organs of each maker have distinetive character- 
istics. heir union was simply a private ar- 
rangement to obviate underselling each other, 
by which it was agreed that whoever was the 
nominal builder of any organ, the profits should 
be divided between the three. 
Organs built by Bridge. 
Christ Church, Spitalfields, 1730. 
St. Leonard, Shoreditch, 1757. 
St. Anne, Limehouse, 1741; burnt, 1851. 
St. George in the East, 1738. 
St. Alban, Wood Street, 1728. 
St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, 1751. 
St. Luke, Old Street, 1730, 
St. Dionis, Fenchurch Street, 1732. 
St. James, Clerkenwell, removed, in 1796, to Beccles, 
Suffolk. 
Chelsea Old Church, now at Bideford, Devon. - 
Spa-Fields Chapel. 
Woolwich, Kent, 1754. 
Utham, Kent (small). 
Faversham, Kent, 1754. 
Bishops Stortford, Essex, 1727. 
Minehead, Somerset. 
St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, 1732. 
St. George, Great Yarmouth, 1740. 
Farnham, Surrey, 1736. 
A similar list of organs by Byfield and Jordan 
can be forwarded, should I. H. desire it. 
PHILORGANON, 
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phalia, and are both cheap and well-toned. 
Steel Bells (2°4 §. i. 12.) — Some steel bells 
were exhibited in the Paris Exhibition of last year 
by the Société Anonyme des Mines et Fonderies 
d@’Acier, They were cast at Bochum, in West- 
CrYREP. 
In reply to your correspondent A. A., these 
bells are solely manufactured in England by 
Messrs. Naylor, Vickers, & Co., Sheffield, and so 
far have been found successful. Their cost is 
about half the price of ordinary bell-metal, and 
can be cast to almost any size. One is now used 
in a church in this town, and another in Bristol. 
G. A. 
Sheffield. 
Bread converted into Stone: an enduring Mi- 
racle (18'S, x. 8385.) — Where the stone is now, 
T know not, but an old picture representing a loaf 
converted into stone at Leyden, in 1316, still 
hangs in the vestibule of the hospital at Middel- 
burg. — From the Navorscher. J.J. Wotrs. 
The loaf converted into stone here, at Leyden, 
my dwelling-place, disappeared, I believe, about 
the time of the Reformation; but I saw it, or 
something like it, a few weeks ago, in the hospital 
at Middelburg. Here I was shown the miraculous 
relic, which has exactly the form of a loaf, and is 
of great weight. As I am no geologist, I cannot 
say what kind of stone it is; it is such as children 
call white kittelsteen (pebble). O sancta simpli- 
citas of the middle ages! — From the Navorseher. 
The Mirakelsteeg (Miracle Street), at Leyden, 
derives its name fromthe miracle which happened 
there, in 1315, and which is thus related in the 
Kronyh van Holland van den Klerk : 
“Tn the aforesaid year of famine, in the town of Leyden, 
there occurred a signal miracle to two women who lived 
next deor to each other; for one having bought a barley- 
loaf, she cut it into two pieces, and laid one half by, for 
that was all her living, because of the great dearness 
and famine that prevailed. And as she stood and was 
cutting off the one half for her children, her neighbour, 
who was in great want and need through hunger, saw her 
and begged her for God’s sake to give her the other half, 
and she would pay her well. But she denied again and 
again, and affirmed mightily, and by oath, that she had 
no other bread; and as her neighbour would not believe 
her, she said in angry mood: ‘If I have any bread in my 
house more than this, I pray God it may turn to stone.’ 
Then her neighbour left her, and went away. But when 
the first half of the loaf was eaten up, and she went for 
the other half, which she had laid by, that bread was be- 
come stone. Which stone, just such as the bread was, is 
now at Leyden, in St. Peter’s Church, and as a sign, they 
are wont, on all high feast-days, to lay it before the Holy 
Ghost.” . ; 
Joun Scort. 
Norwich. 
Bunting — Norfolk Pedigrees (1% 8. xii. 509.) 
—TIn reply to your correspondent S. A. hereon, T 
am enabled, through the medium of my ZS. Index 
