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fourteenth bishop, as it contains a statement which 
will probably be new to many of your readers: 
“ Zepherinus was a Romaine borne, a man, as writers 
do testifie, more addicted with all endeavour to the 
seruice of God, than to the cure of any worldly affayres. 
Whereas before his time the wine, in the celebrating the 
comunio, was ministered in a cup of woode, he first did 
alter that, and in sfeade thereof brought in cuppes or 
chalices of glasse. And yet he did not this upon any su- 
persticion, as thinking woode to be unlawefull, or glasse 
to be more holy, for that use, but because the one is more 
comly and semely, as by experience it appeareth, then 
the other. And yet some wooden doultes do dreame that 
the wooden ecuppes were chaunged by him, because that 
part of the wine, or, as they thought, the royall bloud of 
Christe, did soake into the woode, and so it cannot be in 
glasse: Surely soner may wine soake into any woode 
than any witte into those winie heads that thus both de- 
ceive themselves and slaunder this Godly martyr, who, in 
the yeare of our Lorde 220, suffered martyrdome under 
Aurelius.” 
I do not find any statement in the Pageant of 
Popes as to who it was that subsequently intro- 
duced for the first time silver or gold sacramental 
vessels instead of those of glass. Can any one 
settle this point ? Henry Kensineton. 
Thoresby MSS. — Any reader who can inform 
me of the present habitat of the MS. letters of 
the Earl of Strafford, which were formerly in the 
Thoresby Museum, will conter a favour, by 
making known the information. Bis dat qui cito 
dat ! B. H.C. 
Porcelain that indicates Poison. — There is a 
porcelain highly prized in the East from its sup- 
posed property of indicating poison in food. 
Whence originated the idea? Where can one 
see specimens of the china in England ? 
J. D. GaRpner. 
Wolves. — When were Dorset, Devon, and 
Hampshire cleared of wolves ? G. R. La 
“ The Lady and Spaniels.”—I believe that “the 
lady” in this beautiful and twice-engraved pic- 
ture of Sir Edwin Landseer’s is a portrait. Query, 
-of whom ? Curiiprert Bepe. 
Arms on a Seal. — Information is desired as to 
the family to whom the following arms belone. 
They are on a seal apparently of the time of 
Elizabeth, with helmet and lambrequin, a lion 
passant, on a chief three martlets. Crest, an 
eagle displayed. It is suggested that as the arms 
cannot be traced among authentic collections of 
English arms, and from the general appearance of 
the seal, they may be those of some fureign 
family. N. B. 
“The Rath,” or Burmese State Carriage. — 
Some thirty years ago there was exhibited at the 
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, the “rath,” or Burmese 
state carriage, which was, I believe, taken at 
Rangoon by our troops. Can you or your readers 
tell me what has become of the same? Is it 
among the “old stores” at the Tower or Wool- 
wich? As far as I recollect it was a very fihe 
specimen of carving and gilding.* | Cenrurron. 
Athenzum Club, 
Coadjutor Bishops. — There is an act of parlia- 
ment, 52 Geo. III. c. 62., respecting the appoint- 
ment of coadjutor bishops in Ireland. Can any 
of your correspondents inform me of any other 
acts of parliament bearing on this point? Also, 
whether coadjutor bishops have ever been aps 
pointed in Ireland under the above act of 
George III. ? Aurrep T. Les. 
Tetbury, Gloucestershire. 
Dictionaries of the English Language. — Having 
looked through matty bibliographical works to 
find a list of the dictionaries of the English lan- 
guage, I have found them all dreadfully deficient ; 
the names and titles only being given of those 
that are well known. I have no doubt in the 
British Museum the subject may be catalogued 
and consulted, but it seems remarkable to me that 
whilst an almost obsolete science like heraldry 
should have a volume to guide us to the works 
that have been written upon it, that the English 
language should never have called the attention 
of any person to compile a chronological cata- 
logue of works upon the subject. I do not mean 
to include glossarial works. I cannot remember 
to have seen anything in the shape of an English 
dictionary of more than 250 years old. I may 
enumerate Phillips's World of Words, 1657; 
Henry Cockeratn’s curious little volume, 1642 ; 
and later, Bailey’s and Ash’s. As anything in the 
shape of a correct list would be a valuable ad- 
dition to English bibliography, I know of no 
better medium to attain it than “‘ N. & Q.,” where 
I feel confident your valuable contributors will 
lend a helping hand to bring abeut such a de- 
sideratum, which would go far to enable those 
who wish to consult the various works at different 
dates of publication, to attain a knowledge of 
those words which were common in our language, 
that are not found in later works. J.R. J. 
Elizabeth Lady Lovell.—Flizabeth, wife of Sir 
Richard Lovell, of Ballumbie, was maid of honour 
to Joanna, Queen of Scotland, On the attack 
made on the apartment by assassins, 1437, this 
lady endeavoured to secure the door ; and finding 
the bar had been removed, put her arm through 
the staple. Her arm was broken, and the door 
forced opén. f ; 
Does the picture in the Polytechnic, with 
“Loyalty” under it, represent this circumstance ? 
HiT: 
[* See engravings of it in The Mirror, vol, vi. p. 385., 
and Hone’s Every Day Book, p. 1521.) 
