d Simon Mepham was
appointed his successor on December 11, 1327. John Toland, in his _Anglia
Libera_, p. 114., has this reference to the sermon which was preached by
the Archbishop Reynolds on the occasion of the king's coronation:

"To Edward I. succeeded his son Edward II., who growing an intolerable
tyrant, was in a parliament summoned by himself formally accused of
misgovernment, and on his own acknowledging the truth of this charge,
solemnly deposed. When his son, Edward III., was elected with universal
consent, Walter, the Archbishop of Canterbury, preached the coronation
sermon, and took these words for his text, "_Vox populi Vox Dei_, the
voice of the people is the voice of God,"--so little did they dream in
those days of the divine right of monarchy, or that all power did not
originally derive from the people, for whom and by whom all governments
are erected and maintained."

Sir Harris Nicolas in his _Synopsis of the Peerage,_ and Dugdale in his
_Monasticon_, give the name of this Archbishop as Walter Reynolds. Sir
Richard Baker, in his _Chronicle_, describes him as Walter Reginald; and in
Hume's _England_ he is called Walter de Reynel.

ST. JOHNS.

_Mazer Wood_ (Vol. iii., p. 239.).--The Querist asks, "Has the word Mazer
any signification in itself?"

It is used to signify a cup. Vide Walter Scott's _Lord of the Isles_, where
Robert Bruce is speaking:

"Bring here, he said, the Mazers four,
My noble fathers loved of yore."

And it is probably derived from the Irish "Maeddher," a standing cup,
generally of _wood_, of a quadrangular form, with a handle on each of the
sides. The puzzle was how to drink out of it, which was done from the
angles. A silver "Maeddher" was presented to Lord Townshend when leaving
Ireland, who puzzled many of his English friends by placing it before them
filled with claret. Uninitiated persons usually attempted to drink from the
flat side, and poured the wine over their clothes. I think another was
presented to Lord Normanby when in Ireland. We see _gutta percha_ {289}
cups and buckets everywhere now-a-days. Perhaps such an utensil might have
been among the dishes, &c. mentioned in the Catalogue of the Tradescant
Museum.

KERRIENSIS.

[See a curious note on Mazers, used as large drinking-cups, or goblets,
in Walter Scott's _Poetical Works_, p. 488., edit. 1848.]

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