The service then proceeds with very much repetition. The performance of the whole would probably occupy twenty minutes.
I must note that there are variations in the service depending upon the season, &c. &c.
I have indicated the rubric of the Breviary by Italics.
J. YALC.
Preston, Lanc.
Commoner marrying a Peeress ([Vol. ii., p. 230.]).—Your correspondent L. R. N. inquires whether there is any decision subsequent to that in the reign of Henry VIII. on the claim to the Taylboys barony, respecting the right of a Commoner marrying a peeress to assume her title and dignity, he having issue male by her. In reply I beg to inform him that there appears to have been one on the claim of Richard Bertie, in 1580, to the Barony of Willoughby, in right of his wife Catherine Duchess of Suffolk, as tenant by the curtesy, which was rejected, and Peregrine Bertie her son was admitted in the lifetime of his father. It seems, however, from the want of modern instances, as also by the elevation of ladies to the rank of peeresses, with remainders to their children, thus enabling the issue to sit in the lifetime of the father, that the prevailing notion is against curtesy in titles of honour. This subject will be found treated at some length in Cruise's Digest, vol. iii. pp. 187, 188. 198. ed. 1818.
O. S.
Ancient Wood Engraving ([Vol. iii., p. 277.]).—The subject of THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT'S question is an engraving of the "Pinax" of Cebes, a Theban philosopher who wrote circa A. M. 3600, and who, in his allegorical work of that name, described human life under the guise of a picture.
This information is for the HERMIT'S especial benefit, as I suppose it will be old news to most of your correspondents.
I have an old Dutch edition of the "Pinax" (Gerard de Jager, 1683), bound in vellum, with the Enchiridion and other works of Epictetus; the frontispiece of which is the fellow to the Hermit's engraving.
F. I.
Bradford.