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fro TIM EDITOR Or THE "Spzeraros.")

Sia,—Here is an example of the phrase earlier than any yet given in your columns. It is from the will of Dr. Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln, who died January, 1662, and is quoted in Isaac Walton's Life (1678) :—" And here I do profess

to die in the communion of the Catholic Church of Christ, and a true son of the Church of England, which, as it stands by law established," &c.—I am, Sir, &c.,