REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Burke's Marriage--The House of Falahill--Descendants of Judas Iscariot--Milton's Widow--Whitaker's Ingenious Earl--Are White Cats deaf?--Consecrated Roses--The Reformed Faith--House-marks--Trash--Adamsoniana--Portrait of Cromwell--Burke's "Mighty Boar of the Forest"--"Amentium haud Amantium"--Talleyrand's Maxim--English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth--Gloves at Fairs--St. Dominic--Names of Plants--Specimens of Foreign English, &c. 134 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 138 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 138 Notices to Correspondents 138 Advertisements 139 * * * * * Notes. HIGH CHURCH AND LOW CHURCH. _A Universal History of Party; with the Origin of Party Names_[1] would form an acceptable addition to literary history: "N. & Q." has contributed towards such a work some disquisitions on our party names _Whig_ and _Tory_, and _The Good Old Cause_. Such names as _Puritan_, _Malignant_, _Evangelical_[2], can be traced up to their first commencement, but some obscurity hangs on the mintage-date of the names we are about to consider. As a matter of fact, the distinction of _High Church_ and _Low Church_ always existed in the Reformed English Church, and the history of these parties would be her history. But the _names_ were not coined till the close of the seventeenth century, and were not stamped in full relief as party-names till the first year of Queen Anne's reign. In October, 1702, Anne's first Parliament and Convocation assembled: "From the deputies in Convocation at this period, the appellations _High Church_ and _Low Church_ originated, and they were afterwards used to distinguish the clergy. It is singular that the bishops[3] were ranked among {118} the Low Churchmen (see Burnet, v. 138.; Calamy, i. 643.; Tindal's _Cont._, iv. 591.)"--Lathbury's _Hist. of the Convocation_, Lond. 1842, p. 319. Mr. Lathbury is a very respectable authority in matters of this kind, but if he use "originated" in its strict sense, I am inclined to think he is mistaken; as I am tolerably certain that I have met with the words several years before 1702. At the moment, however, I cannot lay my hands on a passage to support this assertion. The disputes in Convocation gave rise to a number of pamphlets, such as _A Caveat against High Church_, Lond. 1702, and _The Low Churchmen vindicated from the unjust Imputation of being No Churchmen, in Answer to a Pamphlet called "The Distinction of High and Low Church considered:_" Lond. 1706, 8vo. Dr. Sacheverell's trial gave additional zest to the _dudgeon ecclesiastick_, and produced a shower of pamphlets. I give the title of one of them: _Pulpit War, or Dr. S----l, the High Church Trumpet, and Mr. H----ly, the Low Church Drum, engaged by way of Dialogue_, Lond. 1710, 8vo.