I have seen the Rubric carried out in this particular, in St. Mary's Church, Kidderminster.
_Hoby, Family of_ (Vol. viii., p. 243.).--In answer to MR. J. B. WHITBORNE, I beg to state that the Rev. Sir Philip Hoby, Baronet, was in the early part of the last century chancellor of the archdiocese of Dublin. He was an intimate friend of Archbishop Cobbe, and there is a picture of him in canonicals at Newbridge, co. Dublin.
_Cambridge Graduates_ (Vol. viii., p. 365.).--Your correspondent will find a list of B.A.'s of Cambridge University from the years 1500 to 1717 in Add. MS. 5885., British Museum.
_"I own I like not," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 366.).--The lines--
"I own like not Johnson's turgid style," &c.
are by Peter Pindar, whose works I have not, and so cannot give an exact reference. The extract containing them will be found in Chambers' _Cyclopædia of English Literature_, vol. ii. p. 298.
_"Topsy Turvy"_ (Vol. viii., p. 385.).--This is ludicrously derived, in _Roland Cashel_, p. 104., from _top side t'other way_.
_"When the Maggot bites"_ (Vol. viii., pp. 244. 304. 353.).--Another illustration of this phrase may be found in Swift (Introduction to _Tale of a Tub_):
"The two principal qualifications (says he) of a fanatic preacher are, his inward light, and his head full of _maggots_; and the two different fates of his writings are to be burnt or worm-eaten."
The word _maggot_ is sometimes used for the whim or crotchet itself; thus Butler:
"To reconcile our late dissenters, Our brethren though by different venters; Unite them and their different _maggots_, As long and short sticks are in faggots."--_Hudibras_, part III. canto 2.
So also it is used by Samuel Wesley (father of the founder of the Methodists) in his rare and facetious volume entitled _Maggots, or Poems on several Subjects never before handled_, 12mo., 1685.
_"Salus populi," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 410.).--The saying "Salus populi supreme lex" is borrowed from the model law of Cicero, in his treatise _de Legibus_, III. 3. It is made one of the duties of the consuls, the supreme magistrates, to regard the safety of the state as their highest rule of conduct:
"Regio imperio duo sunto; iique præeundo, judicando, consulendo Prætores, Judices, Consules appellantor. Militiæ summum jus habento, nemini parento: _ollis salus populi suprema lex esto_."
