"This and another parliamentary decision, which your lordship not long after with equal difficulty obtained, and by which the bishop's sole right to judge of the qualifications of persons applying for institution was unutterably confirmed, are such instances of your magnanimity and public spirit as will remain in memory while the church or the law of England lasts."
E. H. A.
Minor Queries Answered.
Companion Ladder.
—Why are the stairs leading from the deck to the chief cabin of a ship called "the companion ladder?"
A CONSTANT READER.
[The companion in merchant ships is a wooden porch placed over the entrance or staircase of the cabin. Hence the ladder by which officers ascend to and descend from the quarter-deck, is called the companion ladder.]
Macaulay's Ballad of the Battle of Naseby.
—Where is Mr. Macaulay's ballad of the "Battle of Naseby" to be found printed entire? It is not republished in the last edition of his Lays of Ancient Rome.
D. B. J.