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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»<i S. VI. 138., Aug. 21. '58, 



success. He apparently approves of conglomerate 

 offices ; at least, he does not condeuin tbera ; and 

 asserts that the most usual mode of conducting 

 service — i. e. modern irregular practice prompted 

 bj private judgment — is Nvhat Jacob condemns. 

 It seems, then, that modern use and recent 

 authorities are against us. Perhaps some one will 

 enlighten us as to ancient and Catholic custom. 



O. S. 



On the subject of holy^days falling on Sundays, 

 and the rules for the reading of the lessons, &c. in 

 such case, your correspondent Jacoi? will find 

 the following in Wheatly on the Common Prayer, 

 p. 190. : — 



" In relation to the concurrence of two holy-days to- 

 gether, we have no directions either in the rubric or else- 

 where whicli must give place, or which of the two services 

 must be used. . . . For this reason some ministers, when a 

 holy-day happens upon a Sunday, take no notice of the 

 holy-day (except that sometimes they are forced to use 

 the second lesson for such holy-day, there being a gap 

 in the column of second lessons in the calender), but use 

 the service appointed for the Sunday; alleging that the 

 holy-day, which is of human institution, should give way 

 to the Sunday, which is allowed to be of divine. But 

 this is an argument which I think not satisfactory; for 

 though the observation of Sunday be of divine institu- 

 tion, yet the service we use on it is of human appoint- 

 ment. Nor is there anything in the services appointed 

 to be used on the ordinary Sundays, that is more peculiar 

 to, or tends to the greater solemnity of the Sunday, than 

 any of the services appointed for the holy-daj's. What 

 slight, therefore, do we show to our Lord's institution, if, 

 when we meet on the i\a.y that He has set apart for the wor- 

 ship of Himself, we particularly praise Him for the eminent 

 virtues that sliined forth in some saint, whose memory 

 that day happens to bring to our miud ? Such praises 

 are so agreeable to the duty of the day, that I cannot bui 

 esteem the general practice to be preferable, which is, to 

 make the lesser holy-day give way to the greater; as 

 an ordinary Sunday, for instance, to a saint's day ; a 

 saint's diiy to one of our Lord's festivals ; and a lesser 

 festival of our Lord to a greater : except that some, if 

 the first lesson for the holy-day be out of the Apocrypha , 

 will join the first lesson of the Sunday to the holy-day 

 service: as observing that the church, by always ap- 

 pointing canonical Scripture upon Sundays, seems to 

 countenance their use of a canonical lesson even upon a 

 holy-day, that has a proper one appointed out of the 

 Apocrypha, if that holy-day shallhappen upon a Sunday." 



M. C. H. 



In the Clerical Papers, edited by the Rev. W. 

 H. Pinnock (Cambridge, 1853) pp. 368—372., 

 your correspondent will find the opinions of vari- 

 ous bishops and eminent writers, with regard to 

 the concurrence of holy days, given at full length. 

 The following directions of Dr. Mant, Bishop of 

 Down and Connor, seem to have been followed 

 at the Abbey : — 



" In the case of the Lord's Day concurring with a 

 Saint's day, I prefer the First Lesson for the latter, unless 

 it he from the Apocrypha, when the Sunday Lesson from 

 a Canonical Book may on the whole be preferable .... 

 When a Saint's day coincides with the Lord's Day, I 



prefer the Collect for the former. The reading of both 

 Collects is not agreeable to the provision of the Church." 

 — Ilor. Lit. pp. 45. -18. 



The late Bishop of London, however, in his 

 Charge for 184'2 (p. 65.) recommends the use of 

 the Lessons for the Sunday, the Collects for both 

 days, and ths Epistle and Gospel for the Saint's 

 day. R.E8UP1NUS. 



FOTUEUISGAY CASTLE AND CHUIU3H. 

 (2"'' S. vi. 91.) 



In reply to the inquiries of Mb, Staunton, I 

 beg to mention that I visited the site of Fother- 

 ingay Castle in May, 1857, and May, 1858. The 

 quotation which he has referred to, relative to 

 the fetterlock, appears substantially, although in 

 other words, in Camden's Mag. Brit. ; but there 

 is a slight want of accuracy in Camden's stating 

 that, when Edv/ard of Langley rebuilt the castle, 

 he made the keep in the form of a fetterlock : " the 

 highest fortification, commonly called in castles the 

 heepe, in the form of a fetterlock." The lofty cir- 

 cular mount, where the keep once stood, yet re- 

 mains ; and it does not differ from those which 

 may be seen in many other places where keeps 

 of castles were formerly standing. It was not 

 the keep, but the Castle of Fotheringay, which 

 was built in the form of a fetterlock. All the 

 walls of the castle have been completely demo- 

 lished, the stonework has been removed, and it 

 is believed that the Talbot Inn at Oundle, which 

 is evidently of tlie age of James I., who demolished 

 the castle, was built with the stones from it. 



Sufficient remains of the earthworks and ram- 

 parts of the castle, however, are yet there (except 

 on the side (western) nearest to the village of 

 Fotheringay, (where they have been levelled within 

 the memory of persons now living,) to show that 

 the castle was built in the form of a fetterlock, 

 with a flat face or portion on the side (westward) 

 nearest to the village, and circular on the east- 

 ward portion. A very small mass of masonry, a 

 few feet long, lies near the river, and seems to 

 have slipped or been thrown down from the outer 

 wall. 



I cannot reply to the part of the inquiry as to 

 where a view of the castle (as I presume in its 

 original state) can be seen, for I never saw one. 



The church of Fotheringay must once have 

 been a magnificent edifice; but at present all 

 that remains of it is the nave with its side aisles, 

 and the tower, which are very beautiful. The 

 nave is now used for divine service. The church 

 contains a very handsome and large stone font, 

 apparently of the early part of the fifteenth cen- 

 tury ; which is not only an object of interest from 

 its beauty, but as King Richard III. was born at 

 Fotheringay on October 2, 1452 (see William of 



