Notes and Queries Volume 53 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...Conventual Cathedral Churches (5th S. v. 208.)--I have given a list of foreign churches of regulars, which were also cathedral, in my Cathedralia (Masters, pp. 23, 24, 71, 72, 73, 74). As in the ease of Carlisle, St. Andrews, and Whitherne, they were usually held by canons regular, whom two English bishops from Lorraine ineffectually tried to introduce into two cathedrals of the old foundation. Mackenzie E. C. Walcott. Jewish Physiognomy (5lh S. iv. 248.)--May I supplement my query by the following extract i--"Here at Utsora, as in other parts of the Caucasus, the resemblance between the Jewish and Caucasian types was great, and to distinguish them was often by no means an easy task."--The Frosty Caucasus, by F. C. Grove (1875), p. 61. J. C. Rust. The Vicarage, Soham, Cambridgeshire. John Chamber, Esq. (not Chambers) (5lh S. v. 187), Recorder of Norwich, Southwold, and Yarmouth, and Steward of the Courts to the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, died June 15, 1788, aged sixty-two, and was buried in Norwich Cathedral or the graveyard adjacent. His monument is on the east side of the third pillar from the east, on the north side of the choir, with a shield bearing the following arms: --Argent, a fesse chequy or and azure, in chief two lions' heads erased sable (?); impaling Azure, on a fesse between three rhinoceroses or, as many escallops gules, for Tappes. Where his first wife was buried I do not know. C. J. Evans. Ovington Rectory, Thetford. Hurtling (5th S. v. 225.)--The natural phenomenon referred to by Mr, Randolph is described in Gray's lines, --"Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air." C. Ross. Links wiTn The Past (5"1 S. V. 225.)--I wish to correct some slight errors in the letter from C. H. with reference to Capt. M...