_Gold Signet Ring._--I possess an ancient gold signet ring, which was dug up a few years since not far from an old entrenchment in the borough of Leominster, in the county of Hereford, the device thereon being a _cock_; it is of very pure metal, and weighs 155 grains. It is in fine preservation: and device is rudely cut, but I beg to inclose an impression from which you may judge. Can any of your antiquarian readers throw any light on the subject to whom this device originally belonged? In levelling the fortified entrenchment above referred to some half century ago, various utensils of pottery, burnt bones, spear and arrow heads, tesselated tiles, fragments of sculptured stones, and other relics of antiquity, were found. J. B. WHITBORNE. _Ecclesia Anglicana._--I observe, in an interesting letter published in the December Number of the _Ecclesiologist_, in an enumeration of Service Books belonging to the English Church before the Reformation, and now existing in the Pepysian Library, Cambridge, the following title: "No. 1198. Servicium de omni Officio Episcopali consernenta (_sic_) chorum ... secundum usum Ecclesie Anglicane." Now I am anxious to know from any of your readers, who are better informed on these subjects than I am, or who have access to old libraries, whether _Ecclesia Anglicana_ is a _usual_ designation of the Catholic Church in England before the Reformation. Service Books according to the use of some particular cathedral church are of course well known, as in this same list to which I have referred we find "secundum usum insignis ecclesie Eboracensis," "ad insignis ecclesiæ Sarisburiensis usum," &c.: but I should be glad to learn, in these days of _ultramontane_ pretensions, whether, even prior to the Reformation, the distinct nationality of the Anglican church was _commonly_ asserted by the use of such a title in her Service Books. I need scarcely observe how many interesting cognate questions might be asked on this subject. G. R. M. _Tangiers.--English Army in 1684._--A merchant in 1709 deposed that he knew not how long complainant had been a _soldier_, or beyond the seas before May, 1697, but that he has heretofore seen and knew him at Tomger, before and at the time of the demolishing thereof, being then a _soldier_; and no doubt could prove that he was in England a considerable time next before May, 1697. Could the place be other than Tangiers, destroyed in 1684? Was complainant (a younger son of a well-connected family of gentry, but himself probably in poverty), who in deeds, and on his mon. tablet, is described as gent., likely to have been in 1684 (aged twenty-seven) a private, a non-commissioned, or commissioned officer? If the latter, would he not have been so described? A. C. {13}