enburg, but only by private persons, and by these even seldom,
because, as Speiss says, people were fonder of Spanish wax. The first
wafers with which the chancery of Bayreuth began to make seals were,
according to an expense account of the year 1705, sent from Nuremberg.
The use of wax, however, was still continued, and among the Plassenburg
archives there is a rescript of 1722, sealed with proper wax. The use
of wax must have been continued longer in the Duchy of Weimar; for in
the _Electa Juris Publici_ there is an order of the year 1716, by which
the introduction of wafers in law matters is forbidden, and the use of
wax commanded. This order, however, was abolished by Duke Ernest
Augustus in 1742, and wafers again introduced."]

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_Asgill on Translation to Heaven._--The Irish House of Commons, in 1703,
expelled a Mr. Asgill from his seat for his book asserting the possibility
of translation to the other world without death. What is the title of his
book? and where may I find a copy?

ABHBA.

[This work, published anonymously, is entitled, "An Argument proving
that, according to the Covenant of Eternal Life revealed in the
Scriptures, Man may be translated from hence into that Eternal Life
without passing through Death, although the Humane Nature of Christ
Himself could not be thus translated till He had passed through Death,"
A.D. 1700. No name of bookseller or printer. It may be seen at the
British Museum or Bodleian. This work raised a considerable clamour,
and Dr. Sacheverell mentioned it among other blasphemous writings which
induced him to think the Church was in danger.]

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_Ancient Custom at Coleshill._--I have somewhere seen it stated, that there
is an ancient custom at Coleshill, in Warwickshire, that if the young men
of the town can catch a hare, and bring it to the parson of the parish
before ten o'clock on Easter Monday, he is bound to give them a calf's head
and a hundred eggs for their breakfast, and a groat in money. Can you
inform me whether this be the fact? And if so, what is the origin of the
custom?

ABHBA.

[The custom is noticed in Blount's _Ancient Tenures_, by Beckwith,
edit. 1684, p. 286. The origin of it seems to be unknown.]

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