his custom obtains in any other country than our own.

WALTER LEWIS.

Edward Street, Portman Square.

_Archbishop Williams' Persecutor, R.K._--Any information will be
thankfully received of the ancestors, collaterals, or descendants, of
the notorious R.K.--the unprincipled persecutor of Archbp. Williams,
mentioned in Fuller's _Church Hist._, B. xi. cent. 17.; and in
Hacket's Life of the Archbishop (abridgment), p. 190.

F.K.

_The Sun feminine in English_.--It has been often remarked, that
the northern nations made the sun to be feminine.[3] Do any of your
readers know any instances of the _English_ using this gender of the
sun? I have found the following:--

"So it will be at that time with the sun; for though _she_ be the
brightest and clearest creature, above all others, yet, for all that
Christ with His glory and majesty will obscure _her."--Latimer's
Works_, Parker Soc. edit. vol. ii. p. 54.

"Not that the sun itself, of _her_ substance, shall be darkened; no,
not so; for _she_ shall give _her_ light, but it shall not be seen
for this great light and clearness wherein our Saviour shall
appear."--(Ib. p. 98.)

THOS. COX.

[Footnote 3: See Latham's _English Language_, 2nd edition, p. 211]

_Construe and translate_.--In my school-days, verbal rendering from
Latin or Greek into English was _construing_; the same on paper was
_translating_. Whence this difference of phrase?

M.

_Men but Children of a larger growth_.--Can you give one the author of
the following line?

"Men are but children of a larger growth."

R.G.

_Clerical Costume_.--In the Diary of the Rev. Giles Moore, rector of
Hosted Keynes, in Sussex, published in the first volume of the Sussex
Archaeological Collections, there is the following account of his
dress:--

"I went to Lewis and bought 4 yards of broad black cloth at
16s. the yard, and two yards and 1/2 of scarlet serge for a
waistcoat, 11s. 1d., and 1/4 of an ounce of scarlet silke,
1s."

and this appears to have been his regular dress. Will any of your
correspondents inform me whether this scarlet serge waistcoat was
commonly worn by the clergy in those times, namely, in 1671?

R.W.B.

_Ergh, Er, or Argh_.--In Dr. Whitaker's _History of Whalley_, p. 37.,
ed. 1818, are the following observations on the above word:--

"This is a singular word, which occurs, however both to the
north and south of the Ribble, though much more frequentl