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as competent to a clergyman to publish banns .on 
any holiday as upon a Sunday. The limitation of 
publications to Sundays may be regarded there- 
fore as having placed a restriction on the facilities 
for solemnising marriages. What, in the terms of 
the authentic rubric, is there to restrain the so- 
lemnisation of a marriage within eight days from 
the first calling of the banns; say in the Christmas 
week, the publication taking place on the Sunday 
before, on the festival itself, and on the Sunday 
after Christmas Day? Or, to go yet further, 
within four days, supposing the banns to be called 
on Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, and 
the parties to be married on the Wednesday, or at 
the close of the Tuesday's service? A clergyman 
might not find it expedient to volunteer such a 
course ; but were he peremptorily called upon to 
take it, could he justify a refusal? On this point 
I should be glad to hear the opinions of some of 
‘your correspondents. In the meantime the ci- 
tation from Fielding is important, as illustrating 
the practice of the time (1742) of which he wrote, 
which I do not doubt but he faithfully represents. 
He was himself a lawyer of no mean attainments. 
I should be obliged by a notice of any parishes 
in which the original time of publication of banns 
has been adhered to throughout, or of those in 
which it has been resumed. eB: Nid: 
Fielding is quite correct as to the publication 
of banns of marriage on holidays. Such was the 
law in England in his day ; and such it is in Ire- 
land at the present day. E. H. D. D. 
Superstition regarding Banns of Marriage. —A 
Worcestershire woman was asked the other day, 
why she did not attend church on the three Sun- 
days on which her banns of marriage were pro- 
claimed? She replied, that she should never 
dream of doing so unlucky a thing; and, on 
being questioned as to the kind of ill-luck that 
would have been expected to have followed upon 
her attendance at church, she said that all the 
offspring of such a marriage would be born deaf 
and dumb ; and, that she knew a young woman 
who would persist in going to church to hear her 
banns “asked out,” and whose six children were 
tn consequence all deaf and dumb! 
Curusert Bene. 
Pope Pius and the Common Prayer Book (2° S. 
i. 135.) — Your correspondents who have been 
discussing this question may not have seen a little 
book entitled : 
“A Carrier to a King; or, Doctour Carrier (Chaplayne 
to K. Tames of happy memory), his Motiues for renounc- 
ing the Protestant Religion: and persuading to Re- 
vnion with the Cath. Roman. Directed to his Sacred 
Majesty. Permissu Superiorum. 1635.” 
Towards the conclusion of his persuasions, the 
pervert chaplain, in telling King James that re- 
union is not so difficult a8 may be supposed, makes. 
the following demi-official proposal of accommoda- 
tion : 
“T receaued,” says B. Carrier, “ assurance from some of 
the greatest, that if your Majesty would. admit the an- 
cient subordination of the church of Canterbury ynto that 
mother church by whose authority all other churches in 
England at the first were, and stil are subordinate vnto 
Canterbury, and the free vse of that’ sacrament for which 
especially all the churches in Christedom were first 
founded; the Pope for his part would confirme the interest 
of all those that have present possession in any ecclesi-~ 
astical liuing in England; and would also permit the 
free vse of the Common Prayer-booke in English for 
Morning and Evening Prayer, with very little or no alter- 
ation.” 
J. O. 
Epitaph (A* §. xi. 190.) — 
“ Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade,” &c., — 
inquired after by R. W.D. is to be found in 
Crayford churchyard, Kent. It is on a stone — 
“In Memory of Fanny Sevenoaks, died Nov. 1, 1841, 
aged ten months. Also Francis Sevenoaks, died March 6, 
1843, aged seven months.” 
As the occasion required, “ bud” was changed to 
“buds,” and “it” to “ them.” 
I enclose a very sweet epitaph from a large 
tomb in the now closed churchyard of Old St. 
Pancras. It is just one hundred years old, an 
age seldom reached by churchyard epitaphs. The, 
lady to whom this epitaph refers was a Miss Bas- 
nett, who “died the 10th day of Feb., 1756, aged 
twenty-three : ” 
“ Go spotless honour and unsully’d truth, 
Go smiling innocence, and blooming youth: 
Go female sweetness, join’d with manly sense, 
Go winning wit, that never gave offence ; 
Go soft humanity, that blest the poor, 
Go saint-eyed patience from aftliction’s door; 
Go modesty that never wore a frown, 
Go virtue and receive thy heavenly crown. 
Not from a stranger came this heartfelt verse, 
The friend inscrib’d thy tomb, whose tear bedew’d thy 
hearse.” 
Epwin Rorre. 
Grammar Schools (2"4 S. i. 145.) — The conclu- 
sion of the prayer used at Tiverton school is 
“ beatam resurrectionem atque xterne felicitatis 
premia consequamur, per Jesum Christum Do- 
minum Nostrum.” The song of ‘“‘Dulee Domum ” 
was introduced by a former head master, Dr. 
Richards, from Winchester College, where he had 
himself been educated. Y.B.N. J. forgets to 
mention a prescriptive usage attendant upon the 
floods, viz. to break open the brewery and use the 
tubs as punts. Ho (.) 
Bristol Tolsey (2"4 S. i. 133.) —The Tolsey, or, 
as more usually written, Tolzey, in Bristol, stood 
at the top of Broad Street, opposite the west door 
of Christ Church. There is probably no print of 
it in existence. It was apparently no more than 
