i etaient sur le canon ou la matricule de
l'eglise, pour etre entretenus a ses depens, soit qu'ils servissent
dans l'eglise matrice, ou dans les autres titres. Depuis, le nom de
canonique ou chanoines fut particulierement applique aux clercs, qui
vivaient en commun avec leur eveque."--_Institution du Droit
Ecclesiastique_, par M. l'Abbe Fleury, 1iere partie, chap. xvii.

So much for the origin of canons. As to prebendaries:

"Praebenda, est jus percipiendi reditus ecclesiasticos, ratione divini
officii, cui quis insistit. Alia est canonicatui annexa, alia sine ea
confertur. _Gl. in c. cum M. Ferrariensis, 9. in verbo receperunt de
constit._

"_Praebendam, beneficium et titulum_ nihil reipsa interest: usu tamen
loquendi in alia ecclesia vocatur Praebenda, in alia beneficiam, seu
titulus. _Secund. Pac. Isag. Decret. hoc tit._"--Lib. 2. tit. xxviii.
of the _Aphorisms of Canon Law_, by Arn. Corvinus. _Paris_, 1671.

In the _Quare Impedit_ of Mallory, the distinction is thus expressed:--

"There is a difference taken between a _prebendary_ and a _canon_, for
a prebendary is _a praebendo_ and _nomen facti_ in respect of the
maintenance given to him: but _Canonicus est nomen juris_; and in our
usual translations a secular is translated to a regular, but not _e
converso_, a regular to a secular, _Palm 501_."--p. 34. sub titulo
_Advowson_.]

_What Amount of Property constitutes an Esquire?_--The practice of
subjoining "Esquire" to the names of persons has become so universal, that
the real significance of the title is quite lost sight of. Will some one of
your correspondents inform me what amount of property really constitutes an
Esquire?

W. L.

[No fixed amount of property is a qualification for the title or rank
of Esquire. For the description of persons so entitled to be
designated, see Blackstone's _Commentaries_, vol. i.; and the later the
edition, the greater advantage W. L. will have in the notes and remarks
of the latest law writers.]

_Cromwell Family._--Will some of your correspondents be so good as to
inform me, to whom the children (sons and daughters) of Oliver Cromwell's
daughter Bridget were married, those by her first marriage with Ireton as
well as those by her second marriage with Fleetwood. I can learn but the
marriage of one: Ireton's daughter Bridget married a Mr. Bendyshe.

M. A. C.

[Cromwell's