R.G.


_Ordination Pledges._--Your correspondent, "CLERICUS" (no. 10.
p. 156.), will find by far the most elaborate and judicious
examination of the import, design, and obligation of the various
oaths and subscriptions required of the clergy, in the successive
numbers of _The Christian Observer_ for 1849.

E.V.


_Feast of St, Michael and All-Angels._--The difficulty started
by "K.M.P." (No. 13, p. 203.), with regard to the double second
lessons for the Feast of St. Michael and All-Angels, is easily
resolved by comparing the Table of Proper Lessons before and after
the last review of the _Prayer Book_ in 1662; from which it
will be seen, that the proper _second_ lessons were then
appointed for the first time, while the old second lessons for Sept.
29. were retained, either from inadvertence, or to avoid the
necessity of disarranging all the subsequent part of the calendar.
The present first lessons, Gen. xxxii., and Dan. x. v. 5., at the
same time took the place of the inappropriate chapters, Eccles.
xxxix. and xliv., which had been appointed for this day in Queen
Elizabeth's Prayer Book, 1559.

E. V.


_Beaver Hat._--Mr. T. Hudson Turner (No. 7. p. 100.) asks,