_A Juniper Letter._--Fuller, in describing a letter written by Bishop Grosthead to Pope Innocent IV., makes use of a curious epithet, of which I should be glad to meet with another instance, if it be not simply a "Fullerism": "Bishop Grouthead offended thereat, wrote Pope Innocent IV. such a _juniper letter_, taxing him with extortion and other vicious practices."--_Church History_, book III., A.D. 1254. J. M. B. ["A juniper lecture," meaning a round scolding bout, is still in use among the canting gentry.] * * * * * Replies. CLARENCE. (Vol. ix., p. 85.) Clarence is beyond all doubt the district comprehending and lying around the town and castle of Clare in Suffolk, and not, as some have fancifully supposed, the town of Chiarenza in the Morea. Some of the crusaders did, indeed, acquire titles of honour derived from places in eastern lands, but certainly no such place ever gave its name to an honorary feud held of the crown of England, nor, indeed, has _ever_ any English sovereign to this day bestowed a territorial title derived from a place beyond the limits of his own nominal dominions; the latest creations of the kind being the earldoms of Albemarle and Tankerville, respectively bestowed by William III. and George I., who were both nominally kings of Great Britain, _France_, and Ireland. In ancient times every English title (with the exception of Aumerle or Albemarle, which exception is only an apparent one) was either personal, or derived from some place in England. The ancient earls of Albemarle were not English peers by virtue of that earldom, but by virtue of the tenure of lands in England, though, being the holders of a Norman earldom, they were known in England by their higher designation, just as some of the {225} Barons De Umfravill were styled, even in writs of summons, by their superior Scottish title of Earl of Angos. If these earls had not held English fees, they would not have been peers of England any more than were the ancient Earls of Tankerville and Eu. In later times the strictness of the feudal law was so far relaxed, that in two or three instances English peers were created with territorial titles derived from places in the Duchy of Normandy. As to the locality of Clarence, see Sandford's _Genealogical History_, 1707, p. 222. There is a paper on the subject in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for November, 1850. The king of arms called Clarenceux, or in Latin _Clarentius_, was, as it has been very reasonably conjectured, originally a herald retained by a Duke of Clarence. (Noble's _History of the College of Arms_, p. 61.) Hoping ere long to send you some notes respecting certain real or seeming anomalies amongst our English dignities, I reserve some particulars which may, perhaps, farther elucidate the present question. GOLDENCROSS.