the Mercian kingdom was to be erected.

Throughout the various documents relating to this church, which are
preserved in Dugdale's _Monasticon_, vol. iii. pp. 219-255, Savoy edition,
{91} the cathedral is generally styled the church of St. Mary and St. Chad.
And again, on a recently discovered seal of the dean and chapter, engraved
some two hundred years after Stephen's reign, the inscription is this:

"S' DECANI ET CAPL'I ECCLE'IE SCE MARIE ET SCI CEDDE LYCHFELD' AD
CAS."[4]

But in a grant from King Stephen to Bishop Roger de Clinton, who commenced
the present fabric, it is simply styled _ecclesia Sancti Ceddae de
Lichfield_; and in the year 1341 a document was addressed _Decano et
Capitulo ecclesiae Sancti Ceddae Lych'_, as may be learned from the
_Foedera_, vol. ii. p. 2.

We thus perceive, that the original name of Lichfield Cathedral has been
dropped for centuries, and so has that of the church which Bishop Chad
built in honour of the Virgin Mary at Stow; for this Church has, for a long
time, been known only by the name of Stow Church, or by that of St. Chad's,
Stow.

And in this manner, I fancy, may be reconciled the different names of
Saviour's, or St. Saviour's, Canterbury, and St. Martin's, Canterbury; both
alluding to the same church, THE MOTHER CHURCH of _Saxon_ England.

J. RAWSON, M.D.

Lichfield.

[Footnote 3: See Brady's _Clavis Calendaria_, November 12.]

[Footnote 4: See the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for August 1848; in which an
accurate representation of this seal is given.]

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Replies to Minor Queries.

_The Frozen Horn_ (Vol. ii., p. 262.; Vol. iii., p. 25.).--In an old
edition of _Hudibras_ now before me, I find the following note on the lines
quoted by J. M. G.:--

"Some report that in Nova Zembla and Greenland men's words are wont to
be frozen in the air, and at the thaw may be heard."

The application of the idea by Charles Dickens, in his _Old Curiosity
Shop_, is also, I think, extremely felicitous.

"'Don't be frightened, mistress,' said Quilp, after a pause. 'Your son
knows me: I don't eat babies; I don't like 'em. It will be as well to
stop that young screamer though, in case I should be tempted to do him
a mischief. Holloa, Sir! will you be quiet?' _Little Jacob stemmed the
course of two tears which he was squeezing out of his eyes, and
instantly subsided into a silent horror.... The moment thei