_Position of Font._--The usual and very significant position of the font is near the church door. But there is one objection to this, viz. that the benches being best arranged facing the chancel, the people cannot without much confusion see the baptisms. This being so, perhaps a better place {150} for the font is at the entrance of the chancel. The holy rite, so edifying to the congregation, as well as profitable to the recipient, can then be duly seen; and the position is tolerably symbolical, expressing as it were "the way that is opened for us into the holiest of all." I am curious to know if there are any ancient examples of this position, and how far the canon sanctions it, which directs that the font be set up in "the ancient usual _places_" [plural]? While on the subject let me put another Query. The Rubric directs that the font be "then," _i. e._ just before the baptism, filled with pure water. In what vessel is the water brought, and who fills the font? What are the precedents in this matter? Rules, I think, there are none. A. A. D. _Aix Ruochim or Romans Ioner._--On the verge of the cliff at Kingsgate, near the North Foreland, is a small castle or fort of chalk and flint, known by the above name. Can any of your readers give any information regarding the date of the erection of this curious edifice? Some of the local guidebooks attribute it to the time of Vortigern, or about 448; but this seems an almost fabulous antiquity. A. O. H. Blackheath. _"Lessons for Lent," &c._--_Lessons for Lent, or Instructions on the Two Sacraments of Penance and the B. Eucharist_, printed in the year 1718. Who was the author? H. _"La Branche des réaus Lignages."_--Have any of your correspondents met with a romance, of which I have a MS. copy, entitled "La Branche des réaus Lignages?" The MS. I possess is evidently a modern copy, and begins thus: "Et tens de celi mandement Duquel j'ai fait ramembrement Et qu'aucun homme d'avis oit Jehan, qui Henaut justisoit Guerréoit et grevoit yglises En la garde le roi commises Ne ... li vouloit faire hommage." The poem is divided by numbers, probably referring to the pages of the original: beginning with 1292, and ending with 1307. It is also evident, from the first verses themselves, that I have only a fragment before me.--From the _Navorscher_. GANSKE. _Marriage Service._--Are there any parishes in which the custom of presenting the fee, together with the ring, in the marriage service, as ordered by the rubric, is observed? E. W.