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cost of repairing the edifice, so as to have all the practical 
requisites of a cathedral, would be about 18,0002. towards 
which sum nearly 43002 was subscribed at the meeting. 
It is a pleasing and hopeful sign to find so many of the 
gentry and clergy of Hertfordshire treading in the track 
already marked out for them by the labours of Leland, 
Hearne, Dugdale, Camden, and others, who in their day 
and generation inspired the public mind with a zeal for 
the preservation of our ancient ecclesiastical edifices. 
And surely there is no spot more sacred in the annals of 
antiquity, and identified more than any other with the 
primitive Christianity of our country, than the abbey de- 
dicated to St. Alban, the proto-martyr of this island. ] 
Hinor Nutes, " 
A Model Ecclesiologist and Church Restorer. — 
Cardinal Baronius renewed the old church of 
SS. Nereus, Achilleus, and Domitilla, in 1596 ; 
decorated its walls with frescos, and had the bodies 
of its titular saints translated to the new church. 
Then he put up an inscription, at the south of 
the apse, that embodies the true spirit of church 
restoration : 
“Presbyter Card. successor quisquis fueris, per me- 
rita horum martyrum, nihil demito, nihil minuito nec 
mutato: restitutam antiquitatem pie servato: sic te Deus 
martyrum suorum precibus semper adjuvet.” 
Gerbet, in his Esquisse de Rome Chrétienne, 
gives the following, but less correct version of the 
inscription : 
“ Quisquis es futurus Cardinalis successor, 
Obsecro te per gloriam Dei et merita 
Sanctorum martyrum, nil minuito, 
Nil demito, nil mutato, antiquitatem 
Pie restitutam servato, et sic te 
Deus adjuvet per orationes Sanctorum.” 
« Blessed,” he adds, “is the country where the pre- 
servation of ancient edifices is demanded, not only in the 
name of national glory and the interest of the arts, but 
also in the name of the glory of God, and of the merits of 
the Saints.” 
CEYREP. 
Old Week's Preparation for Holy Communion.— 
A new edition of the book, the title of which is 
commonly thus abridged, has been published by 
Mr. Fraser, of Alton; and the authorship, if I 
remember rightly, has been inquired for in “ N. 
& Q.” I cannot supply this, but it may be in- 
teresting to notice two books from which parts of 
it are taken. ‘The editions which I am using are 
of The Week's Preparation, the 22nd., London, 
1698 ; of Bishop Cosin’s Devotions, London, 1852 ; 
and of Sutton’s Meditations, Oxford, 1838 :-— 
Prep., p.1. The introductory sentences are from Bishop 
Cosin, p. 24. 
Prep., p.14. “Yor this sacrament is a sacrament of 
love,” &c., is from Sutton, ch. ii. p. 8. 
Prep., p. 15. “Consider how great care,” &c., is from 
a Prepep. 20, “The Holy and good rules” 
sy P» 20. 1e Holy and good ru i i 
Pk ol g Peery yandg es” is from Bishop 
Prep., p. 23. The first two in the catalogue of sins is 
from Bishop Cosin, p. 12. 
ri tee p. 86. “ Many there are,” &c., is from Sutton, 
Prep. p. 37. “If in our earthly,” &c., is from Sutton, 
ch. xv. p. 82. 
Prep., p. 59. “Consider that the devil cannot endure,” 
&c., is from Sutton, ch. x. p. 60. 
Prep., p. 59. “That whereas,” &c., is from Sutton, p. 61. 
Prep., p. 65. “O most good,” &c., is from Sutton, 
ch. liv. p. 206. 
Prep., p. 73. “O most good,’ &c., is from Sutton, 
p. 207. 
Again, two of the passages taken from Sutton, 
at pp. 8. 60., are among those which have been 
translated and adopted by him from Pinel. See 
“ Pinelli Meditationes de Sanctiss. Euch. Sacram., 
etc., ex Ital. in Lat. com. a Busaco,” in his Opus- 
cula Piarum Meditationum, Duaci, 1606, pp. 181. 
273.; and compare the Preface to Sutton, p. xii. 
E. M. 
Hastings. 
Incumbents of Syston. —In Nichols’s History 
of Leicestershire, vol. iii. pt. i. p.455. is an imper- 
fect list of the incumbents of Syston. Allow me 
to supply two omissions, which I am accidentally 
able to do from the registers of the University of 
Oxford : 
1593. 1 Oct. William Wilkinson (no college named) : 
the presentation published and sealed.” 
“1681. Aug. 8. John King, of St. Mary Hall, elected 
Aug. 8, in Convocation. Mr. Vaughan, Alban Hall, 
49 votes; Mr. Thompson, Lincoln College, 74; Mr. King, 
78; King died in 1697.” aya 
Wooden and Stone Crosses. — 
“We use in cross ways to set up a wooden or stone 
cross, to admonish the travelling man which way he 
must turn when he cometh thither, to direct his journey 
aright.” — 1st Part of the Homily on Alms Deeds. 
May not this quotation be useful in the appeal 
respecting the church furniture of St. Barnabas ? 
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rail- 
way Motto. — The following ingenious motto is 
painted on the carriages of the Oxford, Worcester, 
and Wolverhampton Railway, together with the 
arms of the three towns, whose name it bears : 
“ Persevera, Per severa, Per se vera.” 
Who is the author of it ? Crp. 
Rueries. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES. 
Can you oblige me with the names (not given 
by Lowndes) of the authors of all or any of the 
following works ? 
1, “Histoire de la Vie de St. Patrice. 
12mo.” 
Paris. 1651. 
