variation all over England. I have always heard for that sum, sell for now as bullion? Before this the old Latin quoted thus: "Si sol splendescat, Maria purificante, It is one of those old sayings, which it is impossible to trace to any known source. I would remark, however, that when your correspondent proclaims the striking verification of this in the present year, he forgets that, like many similar wise sayings, it applied to the old style; so that it is not now to be proclaimed of Candlemas, but of St. Valentine's Day. There are many other old rhymes for different days; for instance, on St. Vincent's Day, January 22: "Vincenti festo si sol radiet, memor esto, Para tuas cuppas, quia multas colliges uvas." And on the Conversion of St. Paul, Jan. 25. : "Clara dies Pauli bona tempora denotat anni; Si fuerint nebulæ, pereunt animalia quæque; Si fuerint venti, designant prælia genti; Si nix, si pluvia, designant tempora cara." F. C. H. Prestbury Priory (Vol. xi., p. 266.). The following extracts from the Rev. G. Roberts' History of Llanthony Priory will, I think, answer the Query of your correspondent CATHOLICUS, If there ever was any priory at Prestbury? "Milo, Earl of Hereford, was in ye year 1144 buried in the chapter-house of Llanthony, near Gloucester. The name of the old priory in Monmouthshire was given to the new one at Prestbury, as Clement, a monk and historian of Llanthony says, 'to prevent any doubt in after years, as to which was really the mother, which the daughter, which the church, which the cell.' And in Abbott Froucestre's MS. Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Peter's, Gloucester, the following notice occurs : 'On the 8th of the kalends of June (May 25th) was founded the Priory of Llanthony, near Gloucester, by the Lord Milo, Constable of England, A.D. 1136.' Atkyns, in his History of Gloucestershire, says, 'Prestbury was so named because it was a town belonging to the priests.' The Bishops of Hereford erected a moated mansion in the parish. In Ecton, Prestburie V. St. Mary, Pri. Llanthony Proper.'' H. J. Handsworth. can be answered, it must be said whether gold coins or silver be meant. If the former-and they are supposed to conform accurately to the mint regulations of 1604-according to which a pound troy of gold of the present standard, coined into 371. 4s. by tale, we shall find that at the present price of gold, namely, 37. 17s. 101d. per oz., coins then rated at 17. sterling would now sell for 1-25605 pounds sterling: so that the sum specified would, to the nearest farthing, be equivalent to 131. 77. 114d.; but if silver coins are meant, no such precise answer can be given, for the following reason:-Since 1816, there is no mint price for silver bullion. The silver coinage is altogether in the hands of government, which, from time to time, purchase silver in the bullion market at the varying price of the day. The two principal writers, who, since 1816, have written on the subject of the exchange, Dr. Kelly and Mr. Tate, assume, respectively, sixty-two and sixty pence as the price of the ounce of standard silver. As, by the mint regulations of 1604, the pound of silver was coined into 62s., a shilling of that coinage would, on Dr. Kelly's supposition, be now worth a shilling; on Mr. Tate's, the value would be reduced in the proportion of thirty to thirty-one. The same remark of course applies to any other amount of silver coin. In "N. & Q." (Vol. xi., p. 248.) it was stated that 31s. of Charles' time are equivalent to 33s. of the present time. They are doubtless equivalent in weight; but if we found thirty-one old shillings, one could not melt them down and sell the bullion for 33s. The reason of the difference being, that since 1816 silver circulates in England at more than its intrinsic value; and has ceased to be, except in small sums, a legal tender. The error of omitting this consideration seems to be a common one. It affects, for instance, the determination of the value of Greek silver coin, which will be found in the English edition of Boeckh's Economy of Athens, one of the translators of which is now Chancellor of the Exchequer. A. H. Latin and English Nomenclature (Vol. xi., p. 311.). Among the 150 "copper cuts" in this curious manual, is one which may be said to present something like the germinal idea of the phrenological theory. A human head, with the cerebral mass exposed, and marked in three divisions, is said to contain the inward and outward senses: "The inward senses are three: the common sense, under the fore part of the head, apprehendeth things taken from the outward senses; the phantasie, under the crown of the head, judgeth of those things, thinketh, and detaineth; the memory, under the hinder part of the head, layeth up every thing, and fetcheth them out; it loseth some, and this is forgetfulness.” J. H. Burial Custom at Maple Durham (Vol. xi., p. 283.).—I cannot answer the Query of your correspondent E. H. A., but the following fact may perhaps convince him there is a probability of truth in it. On the death of Lord Ferrers, of Baddesley Clinton, co. Warwick, which took place some time about the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Bill, many gentlemen were invited to the funeral as pall-bearers who were Protestants. Greatly to their astonishment, when the cortège arrived at the church, a Roman Catholic priest met it at the gate, and performed the Catholic service. I knew personally some of the gentlemen who were present; and although there was one, if not more, Protestant clergymen amongst the bearers, all were so amazed at the suddenness of the act, that it was suffered to proIceed without interference. The rector of Baddesley was from home at the time, but on his return, and being made acquainted with the circumstance, he made so much inquiry into it, that the priest who had officiated thought it most prudent to leave the country. The Ferrers were an old Roman Catholic family in the county. Handsworth. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. H. J. Well does Mrs. Jameson observe, that the names of certain important social movements which have recently been made have been sounded through the brazen trumpet of publicity, and mixed up unhappily with party and sectarian discord, instead of being whispered tenderly and reverently in our prayers. The object she has proposed to herself in her newly-published little volume, Sisters of Charity, Catholic and Protestant, Abroad and at Home, is not to treat of a particular order of religious women belonging to a particular church, but of the vocation of a large number of women in every country, class, and creed; and "to show, from what has been done in other countries, what may be done in our own, to make this vocation available for public uses and for social progress." It is fortunate for the question that it has found an advocate in Mrs. Jameson, whose unsectarian spirit will secure her listeners who would turn deaf ears to appeals in the same direction, if addressed to them by those who might feel authorised to speak upon such points. The question has been looked at with a natural jealousy by many rightminded persons, whose alarms have been excited by the injudicious advocacy of a measure, which, however good and wise in itself, is and has been liable to abuse. Jameson has done much to clear away the misapprehension which exists; and her volume will be read with attention and respect by all who take an interest in that special "vocation" of women which it is intended to promote. Mrs. Many and valuable as have been Mr. Bohn's recent additions to the long series of useful works which constitute his Standard Library, few have been more important and useful than his new edition, in two volumes, of the Lectures on Modern History, from the Irruption of Under the title of The Widow's Rescue, Sir Fortunatus his early writings, for the benefit of the widow of a former Dwarris has just issued a little volume of selections from colleague. This is stated, not to deprecate criticism, but to invite liberality; but who would be critical, even if criticism were called for, on a volume put forth for so excellent a purpose? We could not, and so we bid the book God speed! The Parker Society, having brought to a close the series of works for the publication of which the Society was instituted, is about to complete its useful labours by issuing a most elaborately and carefully compiled index to the whole series. This, we understand, will occupy a couple of volumes, and, from what we have heard, promises to be one of the most admirable indices, and consequently, with reference to the period to which it refers, one of the most useful works which have lately been given to the press. BOOKS RECEIVED.-A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by various Writers, edited by William Smith, LL.D. Part XII. The new number of this most valuable contribution to our knowledge of Greek and Roman geography extends from the article Macrobii to Na samones. 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