Contempt of the Clergy."_

C.


_Masters of St. Cross._--In reply to "H. EDWARDS" (No. 22. p. 352.), A
List of the Masters of St. Cross, I believe, is given in Browne Willis's
_Mitred Abbies_, vol. i.; but the most correct and perfect list is in
the _Sketches of Hampshire_, by the late John Duthy, Esq. Henry or
Humfrey de Milers is the first master whose name is recorded, and
nothing further is known of him: between Bishop Sherborne and Bishop
Compton there were thirteen masters.

F.J.B.


Has "H. EDWARDS" seen the _History of St. Cross Hospital_, by Mr. Moody,
published within the last six months? It may materially assist him.

JOHN R. FOX


_A living Dog better than a dead Lion._--Your correspondent "MR. JOHN
SANSOM" may, perhaps, accept the following as an answer to the first
part of his Query (No. 22. p. 352.). In an ancient MS. preserved in the
archives of the see of Ossory, at fol. 66., is entered, in a hand of the
latter part of the fourteenth century, a list of ancient proverbs under
the following heading:-- {405}

"Eux sount les proverbes en fraunceys conferme par auctorite del