This portion of ecclesiastical furniture appears to me sufficiently unusual to be worth noting in your pages: is it to be found elsewhere than in churches in and near London? If not, a list of these churches in which it is now to be seen would be acceptable to ecclesiologists.
W. Sparrow Simpson.
Oxford.
D. Ferrand; French Patois (Vol. viii., p. 243.).—The full title of Ferrand's work, referred to by your correspondent Mr. B. Snow of Birmingham, is as follows:
"Inventaire Général de la Muse Normande, divisée en XXVIII parties où sont descrites plusieurs batailles, assauts, prises de villes, guerres etrangères, victoires de la France, histoires comiques, Esmotions populaires, grabuges et choses remarquables arrivées à Rouen depuis quarante années, in 8o. et se vendent à Rouen, chez l'arthevr, rue du Bac, à l'Enseigne de l'imprimerie, M.DC.LV., pages 484."
There is also another publication by Ferrand with the title of—
"Les Adieux de la Muse Normande aux Palinots, et quelques autres pièces, pages 28."
The author was a printer at Rouen, and the patois in which his productions are written is the Norman. The Biographie Universelle says they are the best known of all that are composed in that dialect.
J. Macray.
Wood of the Cross (Vol. vii., pp. 177. 334. 437. 488.).—Is it an old belief that the cross was composed of four different kinds of wood? Boys, in a note on Ephesians iii. 18. (Works, p. 495.), says, "Other have discoursed of the foure woods, and dimensions in the materiall crosse of Christ, more subtilly than soundly," and refers in the margin to Anselm and Aquinas, but without giving the reference to the exact passages. Can any of your readers supply this deficiency?