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who was captured within the British lines, having 
volunteered for a similar desperate service, failed 
also; and met, in as cool and courageous a man- 
ner, a similar fate. His biography has not, that 
I am aware of, been written ; neither has a monu- 
ment been raised to his memory. 
Before closing this note, which I fear may oc- | 
cupy too much space in “N. & Q.,” I would only 
remark, that a lineal descendant of a most dis- 
tinguished American officer, who sat on Major 
André’s court martial, is now in the English army, 
and has served with distinction in the present 
war. WE VG 
Malta, 
PASSAGE IN PLUTARCH. 
(1 S. xii, 205.) 
I think the following passage will show that the 
author of Thoughts on Manners, was more in- 
debted to Cudworth than to Plutarch for his 
clever illustrations : 
“ Plutarch somewhere observes it as a strange and un- 
couth rite, in the worship of the goddess Hecate, that 
they which offered sacrifice to her did not partake of it. 
And the same author reports of Catiline and his con- 
Spirators, 67 katabvcavres avOpwrov éyevoavTo THY TapKar, 
‘that sacrificing a man, they all did eat somewhat of the 
flesh ’—using this religious rite as a bond to confirm them 
together in their treachery. But Strabo tells us of a 
strange kind of worship used by the Persians in their 
| A.D. 13838. 
sacrifices, where no part of the flesh was offered up to the | unhesitatingly adopt, give the word socipes without 
gods, but all eaten up by those that brought it, and their | 
guests: they supposing in the meanwhile, that while 
they did eat the flesh, their god which they worshipped 
had the soul of the sacrifice that was killed in honour to 
him. The author’s own words are these in his fifteenth | 
book: ‘Mepicavros 58 tod Méyou ra Kpéa rod vpnyoupmévov 
et Rose SETA , - Ney 3 - 
Thy Lepovpytav, amracr SteAdmevor, Tots Oeots ovdSEev arovetavTes | 
pepos. Ths yap Wuxis bact rod tepetow SetoOas Tov Gedy, adrAoU 
6@ ovdevds.’’— Cudworth, Discourse concerning the true 
Notion of the Lord’s Supper: Works, vol. iv. p. 228., ed. 
Birch. 
The “somewhere” is the seventh symposiac, 
t. villi. p. 831., ed. Reiske: 
“"Dare racxew tovs Sermvigovras, & taaxovew ot TH ‘Exaty 
Kat Tots arorpoTratots éxbépovres ra detrva, [Ly Yevop.evous avTovs, 
pnbe rods oixor, wAHY Komrvod Kat Bopbfov p.eTéxovTas.”, 
On this Mosheim says : 
“ Sed hie locus Plutarchi alienus mihi videtur a pre- 
senti negotio. Nam de sacrificiis Hecates haud agitur in 
eo, sed de Hecates cena que vocabatur inter Grecos. 
Moris nimirum inter Grecos erat, ut huic Dex, in novi- 
luniis mensam publice ponerent, variis cibis instructam, 
qui a pauperibus consumebantur, nulla illis parte relicta, 
qui eos apponi jusserant.” 
Mr. Birch, in the preface to his edition of Cud- 
worth, says that he has given all Mosheim’s re- 
ferences. The last he has not, and I think in 
many other instances he has not made the best 
use of the excellent notes with which Mosheim 
has enriched his translation, H. B. C. 
U U Club, 
THE OLD ENGLISH ALR. 
(24 S. i. 113.) 
Quoting from Mr. Digby’s Mores Catholici 
these words : 
“The priests of England bore upon their albs, on the 
left shoulder, ‘Quasi socipes de panno serico assutas,’ 
the upper closed in sign of their (there?) being but one 
| faith, but the lower divided, asa sign of their having 
| been twice converted to the faith,” &c. 
Cryrep asks, “Can any light be thrown upon 
this ornament of the alb from any existing se- 
| pulchral monuments, brasses, or stained glass 
windows? Do any English liturgical writers 
notice it, or can we find any clear allusion to it 
in our numeral lists of albs belonging to English 
| churches and cathedrals ?” 
1. Cryzep, I fear, will look in vain amid En- 
glish art-works for a satisfactory illustration of 
what he is seeking. Of priests’ figures clothed in 
the alb only, that is, without a cope or a chasuble 
over it, I know very few, and in none of these 
can I bring to mind that the shoulder apparel is 
shown. 
2. Mr. Digby’s sole authority for any apparel 
having been worn on the left shoulder of the old 
English priestly alb is a passage from the Chro- 
nical of St. Bertin’s Church, written by John of 
Ypres, an abbot of that house, and who died 
Mr. Digby and Cryrer, while they 
any attempt at translating it, and wisely too. The 
| volume of that valuable work in which the Chro- 
| nicon Ecclesie S. Bertini is printed now lies open 
before me, and I see that its editor Martene, him- 
self a celebrated writer on the liturgies, dissatisfied 
with this very word, suggests, as another reading, 
| foreipes, which to me does not seem a happy 
guess. That socipes is a blunder which dropped 
from the pen of the old writer himself, or of his 
| transcribers, cannot be doubted, as it is nowhere 
to be found in any other monument of classic or 
of medieval Latinity. To conclude, then, at once 
that an ornament worn on the left shoulder of 
our old English alb was called by the unheard-of 
term socipes is unwarrantable. But a few lines 
before, for the Welsh people, we have Ubalenses 
instead of Walenses, affording some presumptive 
evidence that Abbot John did mistake in names ; 
to my thinking he also fell into a mistake about 
this very fact that it was on the /eft shoulder only 
that an apparel was worn here in England. 
That at one period in England there was worn 
down behind and from both shoulders, and not 
merely from the left, as the Chronicle of St. 
Bertin’s affirms, a particular sort of apparel is 
certain. This we learn from an Englishman 
writing in England, and for the especial instruction 
of the English people, at the very -time albs so 
ornamented were in use; this writer is thought to 
