Anon.
Confirmation Superstition (Vol. vi., p. 601.).—It is singular, that though the office is called "the laying on of hands," the rubric says, "the bishop shall lay his hand on the head of every one severally." When was the ἐπίθεσις χειρῶν (Heb. vi. 2.) changed into an ἐπίθεσις χειρὸς?
A. A. D.
Degree of B.C.L. (Vol. vii., p. 38.).—On Feb. 25, 1851, a statute was passed at Oxford, by Convocation, which requires that the candidate for the degree of B.C.L. should have passed his examination for the degree of B.A., and attended one course of lectures with the Regius Professor of Civil Law. In the case of particular colleges, twenty terms must have been kept: by members of other colleges, twenty-four terms must have been completed. The examination is upon the four books, or any part of them, of the Institutes of Justinian, or works which serve to illustrate them in the science of civil law, of which six months' notice is previously given by the Regius Professor.
At Cambridge, a B.A. of four years' standing can be admitted LL.B. The candidate must have passed the previous examination; attended the lectures of the professor for three terms; be examined; and after four years' standing, and residence of three terms, keep his act.
Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.
Robert Heron (Vol. vi., p. 389.).—The literary career of this individual in London is selected by D'Israeli as an illustration of his Calamities of Authors. Some farther particulars of him, in an editorial capacity, will be found in Fraser's Magazine, vol. xx. p. 747.
William Bates.
Birmingham.
Shakspeare's "Twelfth Night" (Vol. vii., p. 51.).—If the term "case," as applied to apparel, requires any further elucidation, it may be found in the "Certaine opening and drawing Distiches," prefixed to Coryat's Crudities, 4to., 1611. And the engraved title, which the verses are intended to explain, places before the eye, in a most unmistakeable form, the articles which compose a man's "case."