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any other evidence to show that old nuns were 
ever spoken of in this disrespectful way ? 
Joun J. S. PERONNE. 
King’s College, London. 
Sir Charles Sedley (24 §. i. 153.) — Noble, in 
his continuation of Granger's History (vol. i. 
p. 249., edit. 1806), mentions two engraved por- 
traits of Sir Charles Sedley, one by Van der Gucht, 
and the other by Richardson, both 8vo. In the 
edition of Sir Charles Sedley’s Works, two vols. 
12mo., 1722, is “his picture curiously engraved 
from an original painting.” Wie EW el: 
Somerset House. 
Legal Jeu d' Esprit (2° §. i. 171.) —To the spe- 
cimen of legal wit given as above allow me to add 
the following, which was handed about at the time 
of the Gorham appeal to the Privy Council, as 
from the pen of Sir George Rose : : 
“ Argument for : 
“ Baptiz’d a baby, 
Lit sine labe ; 
As the act makes him, 
So the Church takes him. 
“ Argument against. 
“ Unless he be fit 
We very much‘doubt it; 
And, devil a bit 
Is it valid without it. 
« Judgment. 
“ Bishop and vicar, 
Why do you bicker 
Each with his brother, 
Since both are right, 
Or one is quite 
As wrong as the other? 
“ Adjudication. 
“ Bishop nonsuited, 
Priest unrefuted, 
To be instituted ; 
Costs deliberative, 
Pondering well, 
Each take a shell, 
The lawyers THE NATIVE.” 
Y.B.N. J. 
French Protestant Refugees (2™ S. i. 192.) — 
Having written a History of the French Protestant 
Churches in England, I can give G. R. some in- 
formation, I have lists of some thousands of the 
refugees, and very many original wills and other 
documents relating to them. Is this inquiry con- 
nected with the advertisement in The Times of 
last week, intituled “ Large Estates of Refugees 
from France ?” Joun S. Burn. 
Grove House, Henley. 
Lay Readers (2 §. i. 152.) —In 1774, ac- 
cording to some topographers, there was only one 
ecclesiastical person upon the Scilly Islands whose 
residence was at St. Mary’s, and who visited the 
other islands once a year. But Campbell, in his 
Political Survey, says that — 
“Divine service is performed, and sermons preached, or 
rather read, every Sunday, in the churches of those 
islands, by an honest layman appointed for that purpose.” 
Also at Fair Isle: 
“They have a very pretty church but no minister, 
being annexed to one of the parishes in Shetland, or 
served by an itinerant minister. A layman reads the 
scriptures every Sunday in the church.” 
R. W. Hacxwoop. 
Kennerleigh Manor lost by a Game at Cards 
(i* S. xii. 102.) — In Oliver’s Monasticon Exo- 
niensis, I find the following : 
“By Indenture enrolled in Chancery, April 26, 1609, 
between Thomas Dowriche, of Dowriche, and Catherine 
his wife, of the one part, and John Northcote, of Crediton. 
The former conveyed to the latter, in consideration of 
800/., the fee of the manor of Kennerleigh alias Kin- 
wardleigh.” 
Your correspondent Jur1a R. Bocxerr, however, 
seems to have some authority for her statement, 
and as I am collecting materials for a history of 
Crediton, I shall be greatly obliged by any further 
information on this subject. J. T—1. 
Wine for Easter Communion (2°°S. i. 58.) — 
The following extract from a French work may 
possibly interest your correspondent W. Denton. 
The title of the book is Les Raretés qui se voyent 
dans ( Eglise Royale de S. Denis, Paris, 1762. 
At p. 5. we have the following information : 
“Dans le Sanctuaire du cdté de l’Evangile on voit vis- 
a-vis l’Autel funebre du feu Roi, un petit Autel, ou tous 
les Dimanches de l’année et & toutes les solemnités, le 
Diacre et le Sou Diacre apres avoir reci du Celebrant le 
précieux Corps de Notre Seigneur au grand Autel, vien- 
nent prendre eux-mémes avec un chalumeau de vermeil, 
le Précieux Sang, selon l’ancien usage de l’Eglise de Saint 
Denis, qui se conserve encore.” 
Cierticus (D.) 
Painting and Inscription found at Shrewsbury 
(2™ §. i. 149.) —I have no hesitation in classing 
the interpretation assigned to the supposed initials 
“ M. M.,” viz. “ MARIA MATERNITATEM SECO,” “I 
Peter Roberts decide (the question of ) the ma- 
ternity or legitimacy of Mary” with the more 
celebrated one that was once decyphered from 
“ Alice Lang’s Ladle.” And I have not the least 
doubt that the true reading of the inscription 
should have been “ A°, Mz. Sec®. 1555,” or 
“A .R.M.,” &e., te. Anno regni Marie, “in se- 
cond year of Queen Mary,” the last figure of the 
date having been misread. The year 1555, up to 
the 6th of July, belonged to that year of the 
queen’s reign. Joun Govex NicHots. 
Pope Martin V. (24 §. i. 113.) — This pope 
was elected in November, 1417, and died in Fe- 
bruary, 1431. Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of 
