Part 4

_St. Paul_ (Vol iii., p. 451.).--In answer to EMUN, allow me to name a _Life of St. Paul_ by the Rev. Dr. Addington, an eminent dissenting minister of the close of the last century; a work on the life and epistles of St. Paul by Mr. Bevan, a member of the Society of Friends; and two books by Fletcher and Hannah More on the character of the same apostle.

O. T. D.

_Commissioners on Officers of Justice in England_ (Vol iv., p. 152.).--I can give no information respecting the commission of July 27, 1733; but on June 2, 8 GEO. II. [1735], a commission issued to Sir William Joliffe, Knt., William Bunbury, Simon Aris, Thomas Brown, Thomas De Veil, Esquires, and others, for inquiring into the officers of the Court of Exchequer, and their fees, "and for the other purposes therein mentioned." I imagine this commission also extended to other courts. The names of the jurors impannelled and sworn as to the Court of Exchequer, July 9, 1735; their oath, presentment, and six schedules of fees, are given in Jones's _Index to the Originalia and Memoranda Records_ (London, fo. 1793), vol, i. Preface, xxxiii.-xliv.

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge.

_Noble and Workhouse Names_ (Vol. iii., p. 350.).--I can enumerate several old names, some Anglo-Saxon, in the parishes of Burghfield and Tylchurst, in Berks, belonging to the peasantry, many of whom may have been gentry in bygone years; such as Osborne, Osman, Seward, Wolford, Goddard, Woodward, Redbourne, Lambourne, Englefield, Gower, Harding, Hussey, Coventry, Avery, Stacy, Ilsley, Hamlin, Pigot, Hemans, Eamer, and Powel. A respectable yeoman's widow, whose maiden name was Wentworth, told me she was of the same family as Sir Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, beheaded in Charles's reign.

JULIA R. BOCKETT.

Southcote Lodge.

_Poulster_ (Vol. iv., p. 152.).--The meaning of this word is undoubtedly as D. X. surmises. The original term was _upholder_, which is still in occasional use; next _upholster_; and, thirdly, _upholsterer_. In Stowe's _Survey of London_, it appears in the second form: and so also _poulter_, which still exists as a surname. "Mr. Richard Deakes, Uphoulster," was buried at St. Dunstan's in the West, London, in 1630. (_Collectanea Topog. et Geneal._, v. 378.) It would be worth inquiry _when_ the incorrect duplication of termination first produced our modern words _upholsterer_ and _poulterer_? Mr. Pegge remarks, that "Fruiter_er_ seems to be equally redundant;" and that "cater-_er_ is written _cater_ in the margin of the _Life of Gusmand de Alfarache_, folio edition, 1622, p. 125. (_Anecdotes of the English Language_, edit. Christmas, 1844, p. 79.)"

J. G. N.

_Judges styled Reverend_ (Vol. iv., p. 151.).--Your correspondent. F. W. J., before he receives an answer to his Query, "When did the judges lose the title of Reverend and Very Reverend?" must first show that they ever bore it. By the example he quotes he might as well argue that they bore the title of "Très Sages," as that of "Très Reverend." The fact is, that, _as a title_, it was never used by them, the words quoted being nothing more than respectful epithets applied to eminent men of a past age, by the editors or publishers of the work.

I very much doubt also whether the style of "The Honorable" is properly given to the judges.

It would be curious to trace the commencement of the practice of addressing a judge on the bench as "My Lord." In the Year Books are numerous instances of his being addressed simply "Syr." Off the bench the chief alone is entitled to the designation "My Lord," and that address can be properly given to the puisne judges only when they are on the circuit, and then because they are acting under a special royal commission.

EDW. FOSS.

_The Ring Finger_ (Vol. iv., p. 150.).--In the ancient ritual of marriage, the ring was placed by the husband on the top of the thumb of the left hand, with the words "In the name of the Father;" he then removed it to the forefinger, saying, "and of the Son;" then to the middle finger, adding, "and of the Holy Ghost;" finally, he left it as now, on the fourth finger, with the closing word "Amen."

R. S. H.

Morwenstow.

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