S.W. SINGER.

Mickleham, July 29. 1850.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_Papers of Perjury._--In Leicester's _Commonwealth_ occurs the following
passage:--

"The gentlemen were all taken and cast into prison, and
afterwards were sent down to Ludlow, there to wear _papers of
perjury_."

Can any of your readers refer me to a _graphic_ account of the custom of
perjurers wearing papers denoting their crime, to which I suppose this
passage alludes?

S.R.


_Church Rates._--CH. would be obliged to any of your readers who could
refer him to the volume of either the _Gentleman's_ or the _British
Magazine_ which contains some remarks on the article on Church Rates in
Knight's _Political Dictionary_, and on Cyric-sceat.


_St. Thomas of Lancaster's Accomplices._--In No. 15. I find an extract
from Rymer, by MR. MONCKTON MILNES, relative to some accomplices of St.