2nd §, No 17., Aprin 26. ’56.] 
King Osviu, tells that prince that, besides some 
relics of the Apostles SS. Peter and Paul, and of 
other saints, he has sent : 
“Conjugi vestre — per prefatos gerulos crucem cla- 
yem auream habentem de sacratissimis vinculis beatorum 
apostolorum. Petri et Pauli.” — Beda, Hist. Eccl. iii. 29. 
As late as a.p. 1079, writing to Alphonso, King 
of Castile, Pope Gregory VII. says: 
“Ex more sanctorum misimus vobis claviculam auream 
in qua de catenis beati Petri benedictio continetur.” — 
Concil. General. xii. 460. ed. Mansi. 
In the following century we find the first men- 
tion of the golden rose, on Mid-Lent Sunday. 
That many links of these chains must have, during 
so many centuries, been worn away by the filing, 
is certain: hence is it that they are now found so 
short and light. Often have I kissed them and 
had them put about my neck in the church of San 
Pietro in Vincoli at Rome, on August 1, the feast- 
day of St. Peter’s chains. 
The very keys themselves, which were used to 
lock and unlock the doors of the little sunken 
chapel, wherein lies enshrined the body of S. 
Peter, at Rome, and is even yet called the “ con- 
fessional,” were looked upon and sought after as 
relics: St. Gregory of Tours tells us this: 
“Multi enim et claves aureas ad reserandos cancellos 
beati sepuleri faciunt, qui ferentes pro benedictione priores 
accipiunt quibus infirmitati tribulatorum medeantur.” — 
De Gloria Marty., i. 28. op. ed. Ruinart, p. 751. 
D. Rock. 
Newick, Uckfield. 
A few years ago I saw, in a small oratory 
of the Mammertine (Nero’s) prison at Rome, 
the chains which were said to have bound the 
Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul. It is probable 
that from these chains the pieces referred to are 
cut. Over the vault in which the Apostles were 
confined, the church of St. Joseph is built. The 
priest was so kind as to light his lamp, and show 
me the vault,—a large room, with a stone post, to 
which the Apostles were attached; and, I think 
also in it, a miraculous well of water that had 
sprung up. The church has commemorated the 
place by a long inscription on the top of the arch- 
way leading down to the vault. 
As to the “gold and silver keys,” about which 
I felt some curiosity, I could never find any trace 
of them, farther than their representation on the 
Pope’s arms in the passports, with which every 
traveller will be acquainted. The old Presby- 
terian divines used to assert that the keys “hung 
on the Pope’s girdle,” but in no respect possessed 
any spiritual power. 
On seeing a vast number of the ecclesiastical 
relics of that venerable city, when I could with 
decency, and without danger of giving offence, 
put the question, if the parties really themselves 
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believed in their authenticity, —the general reply 
was, “all by tradition.” That might well enough 
satisfy the pious, but meagre to the antiquary. 
The practice of presenting keys containing (as 
was said) filings from St. Peter's chains, appears to 
have originated with St. Gregory the Great, and 
such gifts are often mentioned in his Epistles, e.g. 
l. vi. 6.3 vii. 26.3 vii. 28. fe (Gg ite 
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT, 
N@ Sa 
I mention the following 
Cartwright the Nonjuror, to whom one of your 
correspondents referred in a previous Number. 
In my collection of works by Nonjurors I have 
a copy of Deacon’s Devotions, which was formerly 
in the possession of Cartwright, who has written 
as follows on a fly-leaf : 
“To his worthy and much esteemed friend, the Rev. 
Mr. Prythereck. 
NONJURING BISHOP, 
175.) 
particulars relative to 
“From Wm. Cartwright. 
Se Onan ks 
“ After Mr. Prythereck’s death this book was given 
back to me at my request. nah Wek Use 
On the page opposite to these notices is the fol- 
lowing: “ W. G. Rowland, 1800.” 
Cartwright died in 1799. On his dying bed he 
received the Lord’s Supper from Mr. Rowland, to 
whom he declared his adherence to the Church of 
England. It is evident that the volume was pre- 
sented to Rowland by Cartwright. 
The volume is remarkable on another account. 
It has a third title, which I have not seen in any 
copy that has fallen under my notice, and I have 
examined nine or ten. The volume has the ordi- 
nary titles; but it has this in addition: 
“The Order of the Divine Offices of the Orthodox 
British Church: containing the Holy Liturgy, the Morn- 
ing and Evening Prayer, the Penitential Office, and the 
Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrat- 
ing Bishops, Priests, Deacons, and Deaconesses: Together 
with other occasional Offices as authorized by the Bishops 
of the said Church. To be used in the Public Assemblies 
of the Faithful. London, 1734.” 
By implication, this title brands the Church of 
England as unorthodox. ‘This copy also has a 
leaf of Proper Psalms, which is not found in the 
ordinary copies. Though the book was arranged 
by Deacon, yet this title mentions the consent of 
the other nonjuring bishops. In the other titles 
their consent is not mentioned. 
It is probable that this title was retained only 
in such copies as remained in the hands of Deacon 
and his friends. ‘This idea is partly confirmed by 
Cartwright’s anxiety to have the volume again 
after Mr. Prythereck’s death. 
