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writing, a note of all fuch coats of arms 
-@s are in the church-windows, and of all 
fuch monuments, grave-ftones, and in- 
feriptions, whether of antient or later 
times, as are yet remaining in their feve- 
ral refpective churches or chapels, or the 
chancels thereof.” 
QUEEN ELEANOR. 
Licence from Pope Innocent IV. to 
Eleanor, Queen of Henry III. 1250, to 
lodge at Ciftercian convents: from the 
original autograph,-formerly in the pof- 
feffion of Dr. Richard Rawlinfon, and now. 
preferved in the Bodleian Library at Ox- 
ford, with the leaden Bull appéndant. 
‘* Innocentius Epifcopus, fervus fervo- 
rum Dei, carifiime in Chrifto filie Regi- 
nz Angliz, falutem et apoftclicam bene- 
diétionem. Celfitudinis tuze precibus in- 
clinati, intrandi cum tuis domitiabus do- 
miccllis et familia Abbatias et Cenobia 
Ciftercien’ ordinis, ac pernoétandi rbidem 
quotiens opus fuerit, plenam tibi conce- 
dimus, auctoritate prefentium, facultatem, 
ftatuto Ciftertien’ ordinis, vel, aliquo alio 
per quod poffet impediri hac gratia, non 
obftante. Nulli ergo omnino hominum 
liceat hanc Paginam noftre conceffionis 
infringere,aut ei auf temerario contra ire. 
Si quis autem hoc attemptare prefumpfe- 
rit, indignationem Omnipotentis Dei et 
Beatorum Petri et Pauli Apoftolorum ejus 
fe noverit incurfurum. Dat. Lugdun. 
ij. kal. Maij, Pontificatus noftri anno fep- 
timo.” 
CEREMONY OF THE BOY-BISHOP. 
«© In feveral churches formerly the pro- 
ceffion of the boy-bifhop was obferved.— 
Goodwin, in his Antiquities, has given 
the draught of one in Salifbury Cathedral. 
Ihave fomewhere, but at prefent cannot 
recolleét where, made fome obfervations on 
the ceremony, which was by ftatute to be 
obferved at Eton College. 
In a curious book, called Voyage Li- 
turgique de France, Paris, 8vo. 1718, is 
this account of the fame praftice in the 
church at Vienne, in Dauphiny, p. 33:— 
«© Le jour de Nuél apres Vépres, le jour de 
S:. Etienne, et le jour de St. Jean l’Evan- 
gelifte, on faifoit des proceffions folennel- 
Jes pour les Diacreb, les Pretres, et les 
Enfans. de Cheeur, comme autrefois a 
Rouen. Ily avoit auffi le lendemain, a 
Ja Meffe folennité pour eux. Les Enfans 
de Chceur y avoient leur petit Evéque, 
qui faifoit tout VOffice, excepté a la 
Mefle.”” 
Geoffrey Blithe, Bifhop of Litchfield, 
1530, leaves by will feveral ornaments to 
Eton and King’s College, for the Barne. 
bifhhop , 
Coleana. 
rOd. ts; 
FATHER COURAYER. , f 
Meeting with Father Courayer at the 
Bifhop of London's, at the Temple, im 
November 1749, he faid he was then fixty- 
nine years of age. He was a fwarthy 
little man, very lean and meagre, bat full 
of {pirits and vivacity ;"he was drefied as 
a layman, in a brown cloth coat, ruffles, 
and wig. The Bifhop inftituted me be- 
fore him, in his parlour in the Temple, 
to the Rectory of Hornfey, to which he 
had collated me a few days before. 
LE DROIT D’AUBAINE. 
This barbarous and favage cuftom is 
ftill exercifed by the French on the Englifh, 
whom they affect to call the favages of 
Europe, and to look upon themfelves as — 
the moft polithed people of it. The Earl 
of Lincoln, eldett fon of the Duke of New- _ 
caltle, who died in October 1778, at Mon- 
treville, in his way to Nice, fuffered laft 
month the full extent of this impolitic as 
well as cruel law, which forfeits allthe 
effects of the deceafed tothe Crown. The 
late Dowager Countefs of Sandwich, who 
lived all her time at Paris, where fhe died 
about 1763, whofe fon was a Minifter in 
England, and had been Ambaffador, was 
treated without any diitinétion. I re- 
member I wrote to Mr. Walpole about 
that time, as I had then a mind to have 
gone and lived there,-to inquire if it could 
not be avoided: he told me what had 
happened to Lady Sandwich, which deter- 
mined me to ‘be fatisfied at home. The 
Scotch, as the antient allies of France, 
are exempt from this law; which their 
courtefy to the Americans has alfo grant. 
ed to them. May zhey never feel the in- 
difcretion of their new alliance !—Nov. 7, 
1778. } | 
DOGS. 
The greateft inftance of affection and 
fagacity in dogs, I met with in a French 
bock, called Mémoires du Marquis de Lan- _ 
gallery, printed at the Hague, in 8vo. 
1743, at-p. 233. The Marquis had been 
in the army two years, and returning: 
home, the dog met him, jumped upon 
him, and died of joy.—‘** Un Chien cou- 
chant, que j’avois jaiflé au logis, et que 
confequemment je n’avois pas vil, depuis 
deux ans, fuivoit ma Mere qui nous venoit 
au devant dans la Cour du Chateau. . Cet 
animal me reconnoiflant, comme s7il ne 
m’etit perdu que depuis deux jours, vint 
me fauter au cot, d’ou len me Varracha 
roide mort de la joie qu'il eit de me re- 
trouver. Quel fujet de confufion pour les 
ingrats !”” 
Their fagacity is well marked by the 
following ftory, ina Janfenilt book, which 
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