"When Coke was sent to the Tower they punned against him in English. An unpublished letter of the day has this curious anecdote. The room in which he lodged in the Tower had formerly been a kitchen; on his entrance the Lord Chief Justice read upon the door, 'This room wants a Cook.'"
E. N. W.
Southwark.
Use of Misereres (Vol. iv., p. 307.).
—The following facts may serve towards deciding the use of "miserere" chairs in old churches. In the Greek church, near London Wall, every seat is on the miserere construction. During those parts of the service (and they are very frequent) where the rubric requires a standing posture, the worshipper raises the stall to support the person, which it does in a very sufficient manner.
In the parish church of Mere, in Wiltshire, the "misereres" are furnished with hooks, to prevent their falling down again when once elevated.
RECHABITE.
Inscription on a Pair of Spectacles (Vol. iv., p. 407.).
—The words are evidently all proper names except the third and fourth, Seel. Erb. I imagine the words to be German. Seel. a contraction for the genitive (sing. or plur.) of Selig, a German euphemism for late (lit. blessed, happy), and the other word a contraction for Erbe or Erben, heir or heirs. I interpret it, "Peter Conrad Wiegel, heir of the late John May."
SC.