Witty, I admit, but that "touch of the same" (blue facings?) for a sky is ambiguous. Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.
The uniform of the royal regiment of Horse Guards, from 1758 to 1770, consisted of a dark blue coatee, with red facings, red breeches, jacked boots, and three-cornered hats bound with gold lace.
G. L. S.
Convocation and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (Vol. viii., p. 100.).—The Archdeacon of Stafford, in his last visitation charge, at Stafford, May 23, 1854, said of Convocation:
"He was not aware that the two venerable societies, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, owed their existence to it."
Atterbury, writing to Bishop Trelawny, March 15, 1700-1, says:
"We appointed another committee, for considering the methods of Propagating the Christian Religion in Foreign Parts, who sat the first time this afternoon in the Chapter House of St. Paul's"—Atterbury's Correspondence, vol. i. p. 88.
Though the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts does not owe, strictly speaking, its existence to Convocation, yet it certainly is indebted to it, both for the general outline of its operations, and also for its name.
Wm. Fraser, B.C.L.
Cassie (Vol. ix., p. 396.).—With regard to W. T. M. about cassie, he will find an approximation to that word as used for causeway, in the old editions of Ludlow's Memoirs, and others, where causeway is always spelt causey.