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tead) for Dr. Anthony Rudd, Bishop of St. David's, and Anne Dalton, his wife, 1616, with their recumbent effigies, and those of four sons kneeling at their head and feet. From all these figures the iconoclasts had smitten the hands upraised in prayer, and they have been replaced by plaister hands folded on the bosom. The effect is singular. Is there any other instance of such restoration? E. D. * * * * * Minor Queries with Answers. _Passage in Bishop Horsley._--In the Introduction to _Utrum Horum_, a rather curious work by Henry Care, being a comparison of the Thirty-nine Articles with the doctrines of Presbyterians on the one hand, and the tenets of the Church of Rome on the other, is an extract from Dr. Hakewill's _Answer_ (1616) _to Dr. Carier_, "an apostate to Popery." In it occurs the following passage: "And so, through Calvin's sides, you strike at the throat and heart of our religion." Will you allow me to ask if a similar expression is not used by Bishop Horsley in some one of his Charges? S. S. S. [The following passage occurs in the bishop's Charge to the clergy of St. Asaph in 1806, p. 26. "Take especial care, before you aim your shafts at Calvinism, that you know what is Calvinism, and what is not: that in that mass of doctrine, which it is of late become the fashion to abuse under the name of Calvinism, you can distinguish with certainty that part of it which is nothing better than Calvinism, and that which belongs to our common Christianity, and the general faith of the Reformed Churches; _lest, when you mean only to fall foul of Calvinism, you should unwarily attack something more sacred and of higher origin_."] "_Marry come up!_"--What is the origin of this expression, found in the old novelists? It perhaps originates in an adjuration of the Virgin Mary. If so, how did it gain its present form? H. T. RILEY. [Halliwell explains it as an interjection equivalent to indeed! _Marry on us, marry come up, Marry come out_, interjections given by Brockett. _Marry and shall_, that I will! _Marry come up, my dirty cousin_, a saying addressed to any one who affects excessive delicacy.] _Dover Court._--What is the origin of the expression of a "_Dover Court_, where all are talkers and none are hearers?" There is a place called by this name in the vicinity of Harwich? H. T. RILEY. [There is a legend
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