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[204 § No 4., Jaw, 26, °56. 
hampstead and Hatfield, to Sion College. The 
college would be glad to find out their benefac- 
tor’s armorial bearings; also, whether the same 
Samuel Brewer was a member of the Inner Tem- 
ple, or in any other way distinguished, or even 
known ?P WiLiAm Scort. 
The Parsonage, Hoxton. 
Titular Bishop of Orkney. — Would Mr. MAc- 
KENZIE WALcoTT, whose researches in the inte- 
resting but obscure subject of suffragan bishops in 
England will, I hope, be completed and find a 
publisher, throw some light on the title of Bishop 
of Orkney used by suffragans of the Archbishop 
of York. In Collier’s Ecclesiastical History 
(vol. ii. p. 50., edit. Lathbury), we read of a Ralph 
consecrated Bishop of Orkney by Thomas, Arch- 
bishop of York, assisted by Wulstan of Worcester 
and Peter of Lichfield, which therefore must have 
taken place between 1074-85. At the Battle of 
the Standard, 1138, we meet with another titular 
Bishop of Orkney, suffragan also to an Archbishop 
of York, Ralph Howell. (See “N.& Q.,” 1% S. 
xii. 357.) Was this title used commonly by suf- 
fragans of York ? and how happens it that this 
was done whilst the see was occupied by a de 
facto and de jure bishop owning obedience to the 
Bishop of Drontheim ? W. Denton. 
“Invalide Russe.”—Will one of your correspon- 
dents be kind enough to explain the meaning of 
the title of this celebrated Russian newspaper ? 
J. S. M. M.- 
Norwich. 
Minor Queries with Answers. 
St, Mirren’s Day. — I have looked in vain over 
several Saints’ Calendars for the day dedicated to 
St. Mirren, the patron saint of Paisley. Perhaps 
some of your learned correspondents will inform 
' me if there is a day so dedicated, and what day 
it is. W. B. M‘Kintay. 
[The following brief notice of this saint is given in 
Dempsteri Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum, tom. ii. 
lib. xii. “S. Merinus monachus, S. Regulo Greco per- 
familiaris, qui vel una cum illo in Scotiam appulit, vel 
cum ille appelleret, strenuam, Deoque acceptam, instru- 
endis Christiana pietate popularibus operam impendebat. 
Scripsit Homilias de Sanctis, lib. 1. Florebat anno 
ecclxix,” ] 
“ Advice to a Reviewer.” — Who is the author 
of Advice to a Reviewer, and where is it to be 
found? Archbishop Whately mentions it in his 
Rhetoric as an instance of irony taken seriously. 
Dublin. 
[This work is entitled Advice to a Young Reviewer, 
with a Specimen of that Art, 8vo., Oxford, 1807. It was 
written by Dr, Copleston, late Bishop of Llandaff. ] 
Suchet in der Schrifft.—I have chosen these 
words in the hope that they may attract the notice 
of some one learned in German biblical lore, and 
as not unappropriate to my calling attention to 
Galatians v. 17., ‘Das Fleisch geliistet wider den 
Geist, und den Geist wider das Fleisch.” 
The second den, I think, should be der; but I 
have not seen it in any impression printed other- 
wise than den. I should be very much obliged to 
any one who would construe the words as they 
stand ; and scarce less obliged to one who would 
point out to me some first-rate authority for the 
substitution of der. In the latter vase I might 
hope that the alteration might be made in the 
next impression of the German Bible of the So- 
ciety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, who 
now very properly hesitate to adopt the reading 
suggested. In the former case I should be more 
than content to let the words stand as they are. 
Geo. E. Frere. 
Roydon Hall, Diss. 
{Martin Luther has been called a heretic; but his 
greatest foe has never said that he was deficient as a 
grammarian. The passage in question may be expressed 
thus, where the italics show the construction: “ Denn es 
geliistet das Fleisch wider den Geist, und es geliistet den 
Geist wider das Fleisch.”  Geliisten in this instance is an 
impersonal verb. Das in both cases is the accusative 
neuter, and den in both cases the accusative masculine. } 
Etrennes, Etymology of the Word. — The Paris 
correspondent of the Times the other day derived 
the French étrennes from the offerings made by 
King Tatius to the Sabine goddess Strenua. This 
etymology seems to me to carry its own refutation, 
but Iam ata loss for a better. Can any of your 
readers suggest one? Ihave not Diez’s Roman- 
isches Worterbuch at hand; probably soporte 
may be found there. R. E. B. 
Chelmsford. 
[The correspondent of the Times appears to be correct. 
Strenia, or Strenua, was a goddess of the Romans, who 
had her temple in the fifth region of the city, and had 
superintendence of new-years’ gifts, hence called Strene. 
Her feast was celebrated on New Year’s Day, and offer- 
ings were presented to her in a small temple in the Via 
Sacra, where the altar was bound with verbenam, or the 
plant which was brought from her Duco, or sacred grove. 
The name Strenua was also particularly given to her, be- 
cause ‘she conferred bravery and courage (strenuam) on 
the Roman youth, for which reason she was farther called 
Agenoria (ab agendo), and Stimula (a stimulando), See 
Varro, lib. iv.; Symmachus, lib. x. epist. 27.; and for a 
full explanation of the word, Danet’s Dictionary of Greek 
and Roman Antiquities, 4to., 1700. ] 
Gold Signet Ring. —I have a gold signet ring 
in my possession, weight equal to a sovereign and 
a half. It was found in the province of Leinster, 
about thirty years ago. I send an impression of 
the arms. The initials are P. B. I think it may 
be two hundred years old. The arms of Beytagh, 
in the Abbey of Kilconnell, co. Galway, are 
