the name of Purgatory. Can any of your correspondents throw
further light on the matter, or tell us if the custom extended to other
counties?

P. P.

_Epitaph in Hall's "Discovery."_--The following epitaph occurs in _Bishop
Hall's Discovery of a New World, by an English Mercury_, an extremely rare
little volume, unknown to Ames or Herbert; and is, I should imagine, a
satire on some statesman of the time. Query, on whom?

"_Passenger._,

"Stay, reade, walke, Here lieth Andrew Turnecoate, who was neither
Slave, nor Soldier, nor Phisitian, nor Fencer, nor Cobler, nor
Filtcher, nor Lawier, nor Usurer, but all; who lived neither in citty,
nor countrie, nor at home, nor abroade, nor at sea, nor at land, nor
here, nor elsewhere, but everywhere. Who died neither of hunger, nor
poyson, nor hatchet, nor halter, nor dogge, nor disease, but
altogether. I., I. H., being neither his debtour, nor heire, nor
kinsman, nor friend, nor neighbour, but all: in his memory have erected
this, neither monument, nor tombe, nor sepulcher, but all; wishing
neither evill nor well, neither to thee, nor mee, nor him, but all unto
all."--P. 140.

C. J. FRANCIS.

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Minor Queries Answered.

_Canon and Prebendary._--What is the difference between a _canon_ and a
_prebend_ or _prebendary_ in a cathedral, or a collegiate church
establishment?

W. J.

[The distinction seems to be this, that a prebendary is one who
possesses a prebend, which formerly a canon might or might not hold.
Subsequently, when canons received prebends for their support, the two
classes became confounded; the one, however, is a name of office
(_canon_), the other of emolument (_prebendary_).

"Une partie du clerge etait toujours aupres de l'eveque, pour assister
aux prieres et a toutes les fonctions publiques. L'eveque consultait
les pretres sur toutes les affaires de l'eglise: et pour l'execution il
se servait des diacres et des ministres inferieurs. Le reste du clerge
etait distribue dans les titres de la ville et de la campagne, et ne se
rassemblait qu'en certaines occasions, d'ou sont venus les synodes. De
cette premiere partie de clerge sont venus les chanoines des
cathedrales. Il est vrai que du commencement on nommait clercs
canoniques, tous ceux qui vivaient selon les canons, sous la conduite
de leur eveque; et qu