Eryx.
Stoup.—There is a holy-water stoup, in good preservation, on the exterior of the north wall (by the nave door) of the church of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham. What other examples are there of exterior stoups? Their usual situation was within either the porch or the church.
Cuthbert Bede.
Casper Ziegler and the Diaconate.—There is a book in Latin with the following title:—Casparis Ziegleri de Diaconis et Diaconissis Veteris Ecclesiæ Liber Commentarius. Wittebergæ: Sumptibus Hæredum Jobi Wilhelmi Fingelii. Anno 1678.
What copies of this book are known to be extant? Would a translation of the whole, or selected parts, be useful at the present time, when attention is being called to the subject?
What particulars are known about the life, religion, &c. of the author? At the foot of the frontispiece are the following lines:—
"Omnis in hoc vultu vasti compendia juris,
Cæsarii, sacri, Saxonicique vides.
Non Divæ unius tam multum crede laborem,
Cujus vix umbram pingere possit homo."