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goodly folios of classics and divinity. It was origin- 
ally founded by Thomas, second Lord Trevor, of 
Bromham, in the reign of George II. Numerous 
additions have since that time been made to it. 
OXxonIENsISs. 
Inscriptions on Bells (1* 8. Gen. Index.)—I cut 
the following from the Doncaster Chronicle of June 
13, under the head “ Gainsborough :” 
“Tn removing one of the parish church bells for recast- 
ing, the following inscription was noticed on the fifth 
bell : — 
“Tn wedlock bands all ye who join with hands your 
hearts unite, 
So shall our tuneful tongue combine to laud the nup- 
tial rite.” 
Perhaps some Gainsborough reader will be good 
enough to verify this report, if it is a correct one ? 
T. Lampray. 
Morning Dreams (2° S. i. 392. 479.) — It is, I 
think, very probable that the line respecting which 
Sartor sent a Query, inserted at page 392, is in- 
distinctly remembered by him. If instead ef — 
“For morning dreams, you know, come true,” 
the line that lingered in his memory really was — 
“For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true,” 
then it will be found in Michael Bruce's Poems. 
But that part of the “ Elegy on Spring” in which 
the line occurs, was printed in the 36th No. of 
The Mirror. The extract begins: 
“ Now spring returns; but not to me returns.” 
The stanza in which the line in question occurs 
is: — 
“ Oft morning dreams presage approachin 
And morning dreams, as poets tell, af true. 
Led by pale ghosts, I enter Death’s dark gate, 
And bid the realms of light and life adieu.” 
The idea of the veracity of morning dreamgis, 
T believe, widely spread, but I am not able to r€fer 
to any observations on the subject. 8. SS. 
Paraph (2°° 8. i. 373, 420.) — The Prompto- 
rium Parvulorum has Paraf of a book (or para- 
graf); Paraphus, Paragraphus; Parafyd, Para- 
graphatus; Paraffyn, Paragrapho. E.G. R. 
Heybridge Whitsunday Custom (2" S. i. 471.) 
— Churches were commonly strewn with rushes 
and decked with flowers, on the Feasts of | 
Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost (Witeson-Day, | 
a corruption of the German pingsten, fiftieth). 
The custom was preserved until a recent date | 
in several of the City churches, on all those days, 
Mackenziz Watcort, M.A. 
F. N. asks a question concerning the strewing 
of rushes, &c. in churches. A field at Glenfield, | 
- 
near Leicester, was bequeathed to the church | 
there, on condition that the grass should be mown, 
and the hay strewn in the aisles of the church on 
the Feast Sunday. Hence the custom, which is 
continued to the present day. Perhaps F. N. 
might find a similar reason for the custom at Hey- 
bridge. Rusticus. 
The Rev. Robert Montgomery (2 S. i. 293. 
321. 400.) — The sooner the discussion as to the 
name of the late Rev. Robert Montgomery’s 
father is over the better. Robert Montgomery’s 
friends (and he had some who were attached, but 
not very prudent ones) should be satisfied to rest 
his merits on what he was as an author and a 
preacher, and not seek to add ancestral honours. 
The statement given by D. (27S. i. 293.), and 
taken from the Gentleman’s Magazine, as to the 
father’s name, is correct. Robert Montgomery’s 
father was in the Bath Theatre, and not only 
went by the name of Gomery, but was married by 
that name to a Mrs. Power, whose house subse- 
quently became his home; and his name is thus 
recorded in the Bath Directory for 1841: 
“ Gomery, Robert; Gent. of Lambridge.” 
After her death he withdrew to Walcot Buildings, 
Bath, where he died June 14, 1853, aged seventy- 
five. The Bath newspapers record his name as 
* Robert Gomery,” and state what was perfectly 
well known, that he was “ formerly of the Bath 
Theatre.” 
I quite enter into Mr. Dartine’s feelings 
(2™2 S. i. 321.), and make this communication for 
the sake of accuracy only, which is indispensable 
in a work of such frequent reference, and of such 
reputed authority, as “N.& Q.” And I certainly 
should not have done so, had not your correspond- 
ent W. have ventured to tell your readers (2"" S. 
i. 400.) that Robert Montgomery’s father was 
* still living in Bath,” G. 
Canonicals worn in Public (2% S, i. 82.) —In 
1773, Boswell mentions seeing in the street at 
St. Andrew’s a nonjuring clergyman in his cano- 
nicals (Thursday, Aug. 19). In 1774, Lieut. 
Troughton, R.N., though on half-pay, when he 
met Dr. Johnson, was wearing his uniform. Dr. 
Johnson found fault with Lord Monboddo for 
wearing a round hat; and Lockhart remarks 
(1835), that, till a late period, the judges in 
London and Edinburgh had “certain grave pecu- 
liarities of dress.” The distinctive habits of the 
clergy, and of men of various professions, there- 
fore, probably fell into disuse about the same 
period. Query, when? 
Mackenzie Watcort, M.A. 
Annueller (1* S. vii. p. 438.) — The annueller 
sang the annual or anniversary mass of the dead ; 
as a chaplain without cure of souls. In statute 
36 Edward ITI. c. viii., there are two classes men- 
tioned: “Chapelleins parochiels” and “chauntantz 
