an origin of the SS.; but
I am at loss to think of any grounds upon which such a guess could rest.
From the searches I have made upon this question, it seems to me that
these SS. are taken as a short way of expressing the "SANCTUS, SANCTUS,
SANCTUS" of the Salisbury liturgy and ritual. I hope soon to be able to
lay before the public the documents out of which I draw this opinion, in
a note to the third and forthcoming volume of _The Church of our
Fathers_.

D. ROCK.

_Collar of SS._--To your list of persons _now_ privileged to wear these
collars, I beg to add her Majesty's serjeant trumpeter, Thomas Lister
Parker, Esq., to whom a silver collar of SS. has been granted. It is
always worn by him or his deputy on state occasions.

THOMAS LEWIS,

Acting Serjeant Trumpeter.
34. Mount Street.

* * * * *

JOACHIN, THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.
(Vol. ii., p. 229.)

Your correspondent AMICUS will I fear find very little information about
this mysterious person in the writers of French history of the time.
{281} He is thus mentioned in Cavendish's _Life of Wolsey_ (ed. 1825,
vol. i. p. 73.):--

"The French king lying in his camp, sent secretly into England a
privy person, a very witty man, to entreat of a peace between
him and the king our sovereign lord, whose name was John
Joachin; he was kept as secret as might be, that no man had
intelligence of his repair; for he was no Frenchman, but an
Italian born, a man before of no estimation in France, or known
to be in favour with his master, but to be a merchant; and for
his subtle wit, elected to entreat of such affairs as the king
had commanded him by embassy. This Joachin, after his arrival
here in England, was secretly conveyed unto the king's manor of
Richmond, and there remained until Whitsuntide; at which time
the cardinal resorted thither, and kept there the said feast
very solemnly. In which season my lord caused this Joachin
divers times to dine with him, whose talk and behaviour seemed
to be witty, sober, and wondrous discreet."

My note on this passage says:--

"The name of this person was Giovanni Joacchino Passano, a
Genoese; he was afterwards called Seigneur de Vaux. The emperor,
it appears, was informed of his being in England, and for what
purpose. The cardinal stated that Joacchino came over as a
merchant; and that as soon as he discovered himself