Minor Queries Answered.
Temple Church and Lincoln's Inn Chapel.—Why is it, and whence results the practice of putting ladies on one side of the church and chapel, or in a separate place by themselves, in these societies? Are the lawyers so attractive that the devotions of the fair sex would be interrupted?
L. I.
[The lawyers no doubt are lovers of hoar antiquity and primitive customs. "Let the doorkeepers attend upon the entrance of the men; and the deaconesses upon the entrance of the women." (Apost. Const., lib. ii. can. lvii.; see also lib. vii. can. xxvi.) In the First Book of King Edward, A.D. 1549, the following rubric occurs: "As many as shall be partakers of the Holy Communion shall tarry still in the quire; the men on the one side, and the women on the other side."—See Wheatly on the Common Prayer, chap. vi. sect. 13.]
Edmund Bohun.—In Bright's Catalogue appears, "No. 2939. Historical Collections, 1675-1692. 8 vols. folio; formed by Edmund Bohun." Has this collection been dispersed? or where is it now? Bohun refers to it repeatedly in his private diary, which I am printing.
S. W. Rix.
Beccles.
[From the article "Bohun" in Rose's Biographical Dictionary it appears that these Historical Collections have been used in the following work: "The great Historical, Geographical, and Poetical Dictionary, Lond. 1694, folio, wherein are inserted the last Five Years' Historical and Geographical Collections, which the said Edm. Bohun, Esq., designed for his own Geographical Dictionary, and never extant till in this work.">[
"Nimrod."—Will some of your correspondents be good enough to tell me who is the author of a very remarkable book entitled Nimrod: a Discourse upon certain Passages of History and Fable, London: Priestley, 1828, 4 vols.; and can any one inform me for what purpose or with what intention the book was written? I believe it was suppressed soon after its publication. I have only met with two other copies, besides my own.
H. G.
[We believe that this work, for some reason or other, was suppressed, but not till after about one hundred copies had been circulated. It is attributed to the Hon. Algernon Herbert, author of Cyclops Christianus; Antiquity of Stonehenge.]