2-1 S. VI. 139., Aug. 28. '58.] 



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of your readers possess a copy of the Common 

 Prayer then in use in Scotland, against which the 

 good bishop inveighs ? and whether it was pub- 

 lished by authority ? and whether, besides the 

 points above referred to, it deviates from the 

 Common Prayer-Book now in use in our church ? 



PfllLO-LElGnTON. 



[In 1660, when episcopacy was restored in Scotland, 

 the Common Prayer was not ordained to be used ; but 

 the public worship was to be conducted in the extem- 

 porary manner. The Book of Common Prayer sanctioned 

 by Abp. Land can hardly be said to have been used : it 

 was silenced by a popular tumult, as soon as the attempt 

 was made to introduce it, on July 23, 1637. Seven years 

 afterwards a sort of remembrance of it was issued by the 

 Kirk, entitled " The New Booke of Common Prayer, ac- 

 cording to the Forme of the Kirke of Scotland, our Bre- 

 thren in Faith and Covenant," 1644, with C. R. on the 

 title-page, 12mo. It was a brief abstract of Calvin's Ge- 

 neva Prayer-Book, derived through Knox's Book of 

 Common Order, and contains the Apostles' Creed and 

 Lord's Prayer, but not the doxologj'. It is probable that 

 Bishop Leighton may have used this feeble production. 

 Cf. Stephens' Hist, of the Church of Scotland, ii. 460., and 

 Hall's Fragment. Lit. i. 85—98.] 



Private Chaplains. — Will some reader of "N. 

 & Q." kindly resolve the following questions ? — 



1. Can every peer appoint his private chaplain ? 

 if not, by what right do certain noblemen do so ? 



2. Can a commoner do the same ? 



3. If a commoner build a chapel in connexion 

 with his dwelling, intending it for family worship 

 according to the rites and ceremonies of the 

 Church of England, could he call upon the bishop 

 to consecrate it ? or, would it be necessary to have 

 the bishop's licence for its being used as a place of 

 Divine worship ? And would consecration, or 

 licensing, throw such a chapel open to all who may 

 choose to demand admission, although situated in 

 the private grounds of an individual ? M. C. 



\_AU peers, as well as certain commoners, are allowed by 

 law (according to their rank and office) to " retain " one or 

 more private chaplains. Thus an archbishop may have 

 eight; a Duke or Bishop six; Marquis or Earl five; a 

 Viscount four ; a Baron three ; the Master of the Rolls, 

 the Kirk's Secretary, Treasurer, Dean of the Chapel 

 Royal, and Almoner, each of them two; the Superior 

 Judges.theChancellorsof the Exchequer and of the Duchy 

 of Lancaster, the Attorney and Solicitor-General, &c. each 

 of them " one chaplain having one benefice with cure," but 

 who may be non-resident on the same. Chaplains " re- 

 tained " by Peers of the Realm may purchase a licence or 

 dispensation, and take two benefices with cure of souls, 

 provided such benefices are not farther distant from each 

 other than thirty miles. 



Private chapels attached to the dwellings of peers or 

 commoners need no consecration by a bishop : such places 

 of worship are wholly independent of him ; he neither 

 grants a " licence " to the officiating chaplain, nor has he 

 the power to "deprive" him. Such chapels being strictly 

 private the public therefore cannot demand admission into 

 them.] 



" The Land o* the Leal." — Who wrote our 

 much-admired lyric " The Land o' the Leal." It 



has been generally, but erroneously, ascribed to 

 Burns, among whose writings it has no place. 

 As he does not even name the piece in his pro- 

 tracted correspondence with Thomson, in which 

 he alludes to nearly all the gems of Scottish sou<r, 

 we may conclude it to have been published sub- 

 sequent to his death in 1796. T. 



[Wilson, in his Songs of Scotland, has the following 

 note on this song : " This beautiful pathetic song is by 

 many considered to have been written by Burns, and fre- 

 quently do I receive requests to sing Burns's song of 

 ' The Land o' the Leal ' ; it was written, however, by a 

 lady, who has contributed many excellent songs to The 

 Scottish Minstrel, under the signature of B. B. She still 

 lives [1842], but has an objection to her name appearing 

 in print as an author sss. The song of ' The Land o' the 

 Leal' was written, I believe, as the supposed dying 

 thoughts of Burns, when bidding a last farewell to his 

 Bonnie Jean." Consult also The Select Songs of Scotland, 

 published by W. Hamilton, 1848, p. 202.] 



Bishop Kennett's Register. — Was the second 

 volume of this valuable work ever published ? 

 If not, where^are the collections which the bishop 

 made for it ? Hilton Hesburt. 



[The second volume of Bishop Kennett's Register is 

 among his other numerous manuscripts in the Lansdowne 

 collection in the British Museum. The Bishop's MSS., 

 chiefly relating to Ecclesiastical History and the biogra- 

 phy of churchmen, consist of 107 volumes.] 



Oast Houses — What is the derivation of the 

 word oast ? The word does not appear in Richard- 

 son's Dictionary ; and though it does in Johnson's 

 no derivation is there given. O. 



[Todd says, " perhaps from the Latin ustiis, of vro, to 

 burn. In some places it is pronounced oost." Webster 

 queries it from Greek eo-Tin, or Lat. ustiis, a kiln.] 



Sir Thomas Scawen. — Information of the date 

 of the death of Sir Thomas Scawen, who was Al- 

 derman of Cornhill Ward, and had died before 

 the end of the year 1748, will much oblige F. H. 



[Sir Thomas Scawen died September 22, 1730. See 

 Manning and Bray's Surrey, ii. 510.] 



newton's apple. 



(2°* S. V. 312.) 



" Apples," says Phillips, " in Herbarism or sim- 

 pling, are used, not only for the fruit of the apple- 

 tree, but for all sort of round fruit." I have a 

 book by a French philosopher to prove that the 

 moon is an egg laid by the earth. Put these things 

 together, and we may arrive at an understanding 

 of the true conclusion, which is, that Newton's 

 apple was the moon, and that he made use of no 

 other. All who know the great first step in the 

 verification of gravitation will sec this at once. 



