Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
The present American Prayer Book is formed on the
Comprehension scheme. Last year Pickering published a _Book of Common
Prayer of the Church of England, adapted for General Use in other
Protestant Churches_, which is well worth referring to.
Those who wished to "comprehend" at the Roman side of the _via media_ were
very few. Elizabeth and Laud are the most prominent instances. Charles I.,
and afterwards the Nonjurors, had schemes of communion with the Greek
Church. A _History of Comprehension_ would involve a historical notice of
the Thirty-nine Articles, and the plan of Comprehension maintained by some
to be the intention of their framers. It should include also distinctive
sketches of the classes formerly denominated _Church Papists_ and _Church
Puritans_.]
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TESTIMONIALS TO DONKEYS.
The following extract from an article on "Angling in North Wales," which
appeared in _The Field_ newspaper of October 22nd, contains a specimen of
an entirely original kind of testimonial, which seems to me worthy of
preservation in "N. & Q.'s" museum of curiosities:
"Beguiled by the treacherous representations of a certain Mr. Williams,
and the high character of his donkeys, I undertook the ascent of Dunas
Bran, and poked about among the ruins of Crow Castle on its summit,
where I found nothing of any consequence, except an appetite for my
dinner. The printed paper which Mr. Williams hands about, deploring the
loss of his 'character,' and testifying to the wonderful superiority of
all his animals, is rather amusing. Mr. Williams evidently never had a
donkey 'what wouldn't go.' This paper commences with an affidavit from
certain of the householders and _literati_ of Llangollen, that he 'had
received numerous testimonials, all of which we are sorry to say _has_
been lost.' Those preserved, however, and immortalised in print,
suffice to establish Mr. Williams' reputation:
"Mr. W. and his son and daughter bear testimony to the civility and
attention of Mr. Williams _and_ his donkeys.
"S. P., Esquire, attended at the Haud Hotel, 24th June, 1851, and
engaged four of Mr. Williams' donkeys for the use of a party of ladies,
who expressed themselves highly gratified. The animals were remarkably
tractable, and void of stupidity.
"Mrs. D. A. B. visited Valle Crucis Abbey on the back of Mr. Williams'
ass, and is well satisfied.
"Sept. 4. 1852.
This is to certify that
LADY MARSHALL
Is to Donkeys very partial,
And no postilion in a car, shall
Ever more her drive
O'er all the stones;
On 'Jenny Jones'
She'll ride while she's alive!"
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