"In 1559, orders were sent to Thomas Lockwood, Dean of Christ Church, Dublin, to remove out of this church all relics and images, and to paint and whiten it anew; putting sentences of Scripture on the walls instead of pictures, which orders were observed, and men set to work accordingly on the 25th May of the same year, which was the second of Queen Elizabeth's reign."--Lynch's _Life of St. Patrick_, p. 208., edit. 1828. J. Y. Hoxton. _Macaulay's Young Levite_ (Vol. i., pp. 26. 167. 222. 374., &c.).--I find another, and an apt illustration of more recent date, to be added to those already given from Burnet, Bishop Earle, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Betty Hint, the "waiting wench" in Macklin's _Man of the World_, entertains matrimonial designs on Sidney, the chaplain: "I wish she was out of the family once; if she was, I might then stand a chance of being my lady's favourite myself; ay, and perhaps of getting one of my young masters for a sweetheart, _or at least the chaplain: but as for him, there would be no such great catch, if I should get him_. I will try for him, however," &c. W. T. M. Hong Kong. _Passage in Wordsworth_ (Vol. vii., p. 85.).--I can refer your Edinburgh correspondent, who asks for "an _older_ original for Wordsworth's graceful conceit," to the following lines by Henry Constable, an Elizabethan poet, who published, in 1594, a volume of sonnets entitled _Diana_; and whose "ambrosiac muse" is lauded by Ben Jonson in his _Underwoods_ (Gifford, vol. viii. p. 390.): "The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly singe, Made of a quill pluckt from an Angell's winge." These lines, which I find in the notes to Todd's _Milton_ (vol. v. p. 454., edit. 1826), being addressed "To the King of Scots whom as yet he had not seen," must have been written before 1603, and were first printed on a MS. volume by Todd in his first edition, 1801; where Wordsworth, who was no reader of scarce old tracts like "Diana Primrose's Chain of Pearl," may very probably have seen them. W. L. N. Bath. _Smock Marriages_ (Vol. vi., p. 561.).--In reference to your remark on this article, I remember that a Scotchman once told me that in the Scotch law of marriage there is a clause providing that "all under the apron string" at the time of marriage shall be considered legitimate; and that instances have been known where children born out {192} of wedlock have been legitimatised, on the marriage of their parents, by being placed beneath the mother's apron, and having the string tied over them, during the ceremony. Perhaps some of your correspondents can give information as to whether such a provision does, or did, exist in the Scotch marriage law. F. H. BRETT. Wirksworth.