Perhaps the word subarration may suggest to R. C. a clue, by which he can mend his extract?
J. Sansom.
Clarence (Vol. viii., p. 565.).—I made no note of it at the time, but I remember to have read, I think in some newspaper biography of William IV., that the title of Clarence belonged to the Plantagenets in right of some of their foreign alliances, and that it was derived from the town of Chiarenza, or Clarence, in the Morea. As many of the crusaders acquired titles of honour from places in the Byzantine empire, this account may be correct. Lionel Plantagenet's acquisition of the honour of Clare by his marriage with Elizabeth de Burgh, may have induced his father Edward III. to revive the dormant title of Clarence in his favour.
Honoré de Mareville.
Guernsey.
"The spire whose silent finger," &c. (Vo1. ix., p. 9.).—
"And O! ye swelling hills and spacious plains!
Besprent from shore to shore with steeple-tow'rs,
And spires whose silent finger points to heav'n."
Wordsworth, Excursion, vi. 17.