"To conclude my discourse, if these things be duely examined when man taketh a woman to wife, _reparat latus suum_, what doth he else but remember the maime that was sometimes made in his side, and desireth to repaire it? _Repetit costam suam_, he requireth and fetcheth back the rib that was taken from him," &c. &c.--From pp. 28, 30, of "_Vitis Palatina_, A sermon appointed to be preached at Whitehall, upon Tuesday after the marriage of the Ladie Elizabeth, her Grace, by the B. of London. London: printed for John Bill, 1614." The marriage actually took place on the 14th of February, 1612. In the dedication to the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles I., the Bishop (Dr. John King) hints that he had delayed the publication till the full meaning of his text, which is Psalm xxviii. ver. 3, should have been accomplished by the birth of a son, an event which had been recently announced, and that, too, on the very day when this Psalm occurred in the course of the Church service. The sermon is curious, and I may hereafter trouble you with some notices of these "Wedding Sermons," which are evidently contemplated by the framers of our Liturgy, as the concluding homily of the office for matrimony is by the Rubric to be read "if there be no sermon." It is observable that the first Rubric especially directs that the woman shall stand on the man's left hand. Any notices on the subject from your correspondents would be acceptable. In the first series of Southey's _Common Place Book_, at page 226., a passage is quoted from Henry Smith's _Sermons_, which dwells much upon the formation of the woman from _the rib_ of man, but not in such detail as Bishop King has done. Notices of the Bishop may be found in Keble's edition of _Hooker_, vol. ii. pp. 24, 100, 103. It appears that after his death it was alleged that he maintained Popish doctrines. This his son, Henry King, canon of St. Paul's, and Archdeacon of Colchester, satisfactorily disproved in a sermon at Paul's Cross, and again in the dedication prefixed to his "_Exposition upon the Lord's Prayer_," 4to., London, 1634. See Wood's _Athenæ Oxon._, fol. edit. vol. ii. p. 294. As for the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth, afterwards celebrated for her misfortunes as Queen of Bohemia, it was celebrated in an epithalamium by Dr. Donne, _Works_, 8vo. edit. vol. vi. p. 550. And in the Somer's _Tracts_, vol. iii., pp. 35, 43., may be found descriptions of the "_shewes_," and a poem of Taylor the Water Poet, entitled "Heaven's Blessing and Earth's Joy," all tending to show the great contemporary interest which the event occasioned. Balliolensis. * * * * * MINOR NOTES