respecting the MS. in question
(which only came into his possession within the last two or three months),
if he will communicate with him as below.

WILLIAM KELLY.

Town Hall, Leicester.

_Ecclesia Anglicana_ (Vol. ii., pp. 12. 440.).--I am much obliged to your
correspondent W. FRASER for his answer to my Query, and the references with
which he supplies me. I shall be glad to ask a still more extensive
question, which will probably explain the object of the former more limited
one. Is it _usual_, in any of the unreformed branches of the church on the
continent, to find a similar appellation (implying distinct nationality)
employed in authoritative documents, _e.g._ would it be possible to find in
the title-pages of any Missal, &c., such words as "in usum Ecclesiae
Hispanicae, Lusitanae, Gallicanae?" If not now, was it more customary in
mediaeval times, and when did it cease?

Should we be justified in saying, that at _every_ period of her existence,
with rare exceptions, the _Anglican church_, consciously or unconsciously,
maintained the theory of her nationality with greater distinctness than any
of the continental churches? I fancy I have heard, though I cannot state on
what authority, that this assertion might be made most truly of the
Portuguese church, and should be very glad to have any light thrown on the
subject by your able correspondent. Certain it is, that amongst the various
complaints made against Cardinal Wiseman and the Papal aggressors, it has
never been laid to their charge, that they arrogated to themselves the
title of members of the _Anglican church_.

G. R. M.

_Gibbon's Library_ (Vol. vii., p. 485.).--In 1838 I purchased some of
Gibbon's books at Lausanne, out of a basketful on sale at a small shop, the
depot of the Religious Tract Society! Edward Gibbon, printed on a small
slip of paper, was pasted in them.

A. HOLT WHITE.

_Golden Bees_ (Vol. vii., p. 478.).--When the tomb of Childeric, father of
Clovis, was opened in 1653, there were found, besides the skeletons of his
horse and page, his arms, crystal orb, &c., {536} "more than three hundred
little bees of the purest gold, their wings being inlaid with a red stone
like cornelian."

CERIDWEN.

_Passage in Orosius_ (Vol. vii., p. 399.).--May not the "twam tyncenum,"
between which Cyrus the Great's officer attempted to cross a river, be the
inflated skins which the Arabs still use, as the ancient inhabitants of
Assyria did, for crossi