"Here it will perhaps be objected, that the power of ordination itself was not everywhere peculiar and proper unto bishops, as may be seen by a council of Carthage, which showeth their church's order to have been, that presbyters should, together with the bishop, lay hands upon the ordained. But doth it therefore follow that the power of ordination was not principally and originally in the bishop?... With us, even at this day, presbyters are licensed to do as much as that council speaketh of, _if any be present_."--_Eccl. Pol._ b. vii, c. vi. 5. vol. iii. pp. 207-8. ed. Keble, 1836. J. C. R. _Weever's Funeral Monument_ (Vol. iv., p. 474.).--Weever was buried in the old church of St. James, Clerkenwell, which was formerly part of the Priory called _Ecclesia Beatæ Mariæ de Fonte Clericorum_, for nuns of the order of St. Benedict. The inscription, on a plate shaped to a pillar near the chancel, has been preserved by Stow, in his _Survey of London_, p. 900., 1633; and by Strype, in his edition of the _Survey of London_, book iv. p. 65. Fuller, in his _Church History_, vol. ii p. 208., edit. 1840, informs us that-- "Weever died in London in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and was buried in St. James, Clerkenwell, where he appointed this epitaph for himself: "'Lancashire gave me breath And Cambridge education, Middlesex gave me death And this church my humation. And Christ to me hath given A place with him in heaven.' "The certain date of his death I cannot attain; but, by proportion, I collect it to be about the year of our Lord 1634." The date supplied by Storer, in his _History of Clerkenwell_, p. 186., is "Anno Domini 1632." The epitaph given by Fuller, Strype has appended to the original inscription. Mr. Storer adds: "When the church was taken down, the Society of Antiquaries gave orders for a diligent search to be made after this tablet, but without success; which is accounted for by a correspondent in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ [see vol. lviii. part 2. p. 600.], that it had been stolen a few years previously, but was perfectly remembered by an inhabitant to have occupied the situation which has been described." J. Y. Hoxton. _Dial Motto at Karlsbad_ (Vol. iv., p. 471.).--I doubt not the accuracy of Sir Nicholas Tindal's copy of the inscription, but I suspect that the painter of the red capitals made a mistake, and that the _d_ in the word _cedit_ should have been the red letter instead of the _e_; if so, the chronogram would be as follows M.DCCVVVVIIIIIIIII, _i.e._ 1729. H. F. The red letters undoubtedly compose a chronogram; E in such compositions represents 250. The date is therefore A.D. 1480. E. H. D. D.