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day, at Colleges and Halls of Oxford, the list of | Collier says : “He (Martin V.) made his nephew, 
bachelors is given as Dr. [i.e. Dominus or Sir] | Prosper Colonna, a youth of but fourteen years of 
Williams; Dr. or Sir Jones; Dr. or Sir Warren, | 
&e., &e«. The Masters are entered as Mr. [i.e. 
Magister] A. B.C. D., &c. Both titles are strictly 
academical ; they have no reference to ordination. 
P. B. 
Replies to Minor Queries. 
“Catechism for the Swinish Multitude” (2°4 S. 
i, 254.) — I have in manuscript “ A Catechism for 
the Use of the Natives of Hampshire, necessary to | 
be had in all Sties,” and in a note, in my father’s 
handwriting, “‘ Never printed, but copied from a 
manuscript lent me by Mr. Porson,” and in an- 
other note, “ Advertized in the Morning Chronicle, 
Dee. 1, 1792.” I have heard my father say it was 
written by Porson, with whom he was intimate. 
The “Orgies of Bacchus” is also in manuscript, | 
bound up in same volume with the “ Hymn to the 
Creator, by a New-made Peer,” and “ Imitations 
from Horace,” with a note of my father’s, “all the 
above, Mr. Porson told me, were written by him.” 
“The Death of Agricola,” and “ Boxing Intel- 
ligence,” are in the same volume, with a note b 
my father, from copies “lent me by a Fellow of 
Trinity College, Cambridge, who was well ac- 
quainted with him [Porson].” 
Axrecernon Horr Wuire. 
The “Public Advertiser”: “The Gazetteer” 
(1* S. xii. 509.) — Files of both these papers of 
the dates mentioned, I have no doubt could be 
procured at Pailthorpe’s, 19. Red Lion Passage, 
Red Lion Square. ALEXANDER ANDREWS. 
Pope Martin V.— After citing from England 
and Franc@under the House of Lancaster this 
passage : 
“ He (Pope Martin V.) actually conferred the Arch- 
bishopric of Canterbury on his nephew, a boy of fourteen 
years, who also held by his uncle’s appointment fourteen 
benefices in England,” 
Mr. Denton (2™ S, i. 113.) asks: “‘ What does 
this refer to? What foundation has it in fact ? 
And what preferments did this Pope's nephew 
hold ?” 
As my Lord Brougham would say, the writer 
of England, §c., has shown very crass ignorance 
in this matter. Chicheley sat in the primatial 
chair of England from a.p. 1414—1443; Martin 
in the chair of Peter from s.p. 1417—1431: so 
that Chicheley was Archbishop of Canterbury 
three years before, and twelve years after Martin 
was Supreme Pontiff. Our good primate was 
never suspended from his episcopacy, nor saw an 
intruder of any age, much less a beardless boy of 
fourteen, pushed into the throne of St. Dunstan | 
and St. Thomas i Becket. 
age, Archdeacon of Canterbury” (vol. iii. p. 327.) ; 
but mentions nothing of the fourteen benefices. 
Between an archbishop and primate of all Eng- 
land and an archdeacon, there is the widest dif- 
ference. CrPHas. 
“ Mort-Tax” (24 S, i. 192.) —A mortuary ? 
an oblation made at the time of a person’s death. 
In Saxon times there was a funeral duty to be 
paid, called “ pecunia sepulchralis,” and “sym- 
bolum anime,” or the “ soulshot,” which was re- 
quired by the Council of Znham, and enforced by 
the laws of King Canutus; and was due to the 
church which the party deceased belonged to, 
whether he was buried there or no. (Stilling ficet, i. 
171.) See also the curious cases mentioned in 
Jacob’s Law Dic., sub voe. ** mortuario.” R. C. 
Cork. 
Cutting Teeth in advanced Age (1* §S. xii. 25.). 
— Some years ago, at a place called Ardnamul- 
logh, about four miles from Castlerea, in the co. 
Roscommon, I met with a case somewhat similar 
to those already mentioned. I was sent for to see 
a woman named Dillon, zt. seventy-five years, who 
was labouring under a singular form of mental 
aberration; her husband had died about six 
months previously, and she firmly maintained the 
belief that she herself was dead also for the same 
period. I shall transcribe a portion of the notes 
which I made of her case at the time, June 28, 
1843 : 
“A remarkable circumstance in this case is, that she 
has cut an incisive tooth in the lower jaw within the last 
few weeks, and is now cutting another, which fact con- 
firms her in the strange belief that she is leading a post 
mortem existence, and has commenced at infancy again ; 
for upon one of her daughters asking me if | thought it 
probable she would die, she exclaimed angrily, ‘ How can 
I die twice? I am only a child; see, I have not cut all 
my teeth yet.’” 
H. M. 
Tau Cross (2°° §. i. 211.) —The Tau Cross is 
that of St. Anthony, as the Saltire was that of St. 
Andrew and St. Patrick; the cross humetteé of 
St. Thomas, the cross moline of St. Stephen, &e. 
The Trinitarians wore a cross moline az. and gu. 
The crouched Friars a cross gu. 
A canon of St. John Baptist a cross of Calvary 
sa. 
A canon regular of the Holy Sepulchre a cross 
patriarchal, arg. 
A Knight Hospitaller a cross pattée; a Knight 
Templar the same, gu. 
Mackenziz Watxcort, M.A. 
The Doldrums (2"* S. i. 231.) — Mr. W. Fra- 
zeR is perfectly right about their locality. He 
will find “a full, true, and particular account” of 
them, and a “plain why and because” of their 
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