rkable ones
at Bottisham, Cambridgeshire. There are several of these in the south
aisle, with arches _internally and externally_: the wall between resting on
the coffin lid. They are, of course, coeval with the church, which is fine
early Decorated. They are considered, I believe, to be memorials of the
priors of Anglesey, a neighbouring religious house. They will, no doubt, be
fully elucidated in the memoir of Bottisham and Anglesey, which is
understood to be in preparation by members of the Cambridge Antiquarian
Society. At Trumpington, in the same county, is a recessed tomb of
Decorated date, in the south wall of the chancel, externally.

C. R. M.

_Defender of the Faith_ (Vol. ii., pp. 442. 481.; Vol. iii., pp. 9.
94.).--Should not King Edward the Confessor's claim to _defend the church
as God's Vicar_ be added to the several valuable notices in relation to the
title _Defender of the Faith_, with which some of your learned contributors
have favoured us through your pages?

According to Hoveden, one of the laws adopted from the Anglo-Saxons by
_William_ was:

"Rex autem atque vicarius Ejus ad hoc est constitutus, ut regnum
terrenum, populum Dei, et super omnia _sanctam ecclesiam_, revereatur
et ab injuriatoribus _defendat_," &c.

Which duty of princes was further enforced by the words--

"Illos decet vocari reges, qui vigilant, _defendunt_, et regunt
Ecclesiam Dei et populum Ejus, imitantes regem psalmographum,"
&c.--Vid. _Rogeri de Hoveden Annal._, par. post., Sec.. Regis Officium;
ap. Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam, ed. Francof. 1601, p. 604.
Conf. Prynne's _Chronol. Records_, ed. Lond. 1666, tom i. p. 310.

This law appears always to have been received as of authority after the
Conquest; and it may, perhaps, be considered as the first seed of that
constitutional church supremacy vested in our sovereigns, which several of
our kings before the Reformation had occasion to vindicate against Papal
claims, and which Henry VIII. strove to carry in the other direction, to an
unconstitutional excess.

J. SANSOM.

_Sauenap, Meaning of_ (Vol. ii., p. 479.).--The word probably means a
_napkin_ or _pinafore_; the two often, in old times, the same thing. The
Cornish name for _pinafore_ is _save-all_. (See Halliwell's _Arch. Dict._)
I need not add that _nap_, _napery_, was a common word for linen.

GEORGE STEPHENS.

Stockholm.

_Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs_ (Vol. ii., p