passing through Condeixa-the Barnwell of Coimbra-it becomes bleak and barren; but improves again when you leave the province of Beira and enter Estremadura. As we rode along by the damp hedges, the fire-flies flitting across the meadows, and skipping through, the branches, were magnificent. Late at night we reached Pombal, where we found a tolerable inn.

Next morning, we were awakened by the bells for early Mass; it was the Coracão de JESUS. Going out into the square of the little town, on one side of which is the house in which the Marquis de Pombal finished his life, we found the church, large though it is, crowded to overflowing, and fifty or sixty of the worshippers kneeling outside. The service was performed with a good deal of solemnity. The church itself is modern. The castle, which crowns a hill rising to the east, is a fine ruin. Hence the road is dull, but improves a little before approaching the Lis. Across a valley to the right we caught our first distant view of Leiria, and its castle, rising nobly from a steep sharp hill in the very centre of the city. As we crossed the Lis by a noble bridge, saw towers in all directions and heard innumerable bells, that were celebrating the festival, we began to think that we must have discovered an ecclesiological treasure. Never was there a greater disappointment. The towers belong to desecrated monasteries, never good, but now used as barracks. The cathedral is scarcely finished, and is in somewhat better taste than might be expected. In the church of the Espirito Santo, we heard a military Mass; four hundred soldiers were marched into the nave, and the aisles were crowded with spectators. Leiria is a district of the first military division. In the street leading from the cathedral to the castle, is a Romanesque door of singular beauty; the beak-head mouldings are very well preserved. Uninteresting as this place is, I must not forget that it was the first city in the Spains, and the fourth in Europe, which possessed a printing press, from which the Coplas of the Infante Don Pedro issued in 1466. We were, as you may imagine, eager to press on now that we found ourselves so near the architectural gem of Portugal. Accordingly, mounting again soon after noon, though the day was intensely hot, we turned to the west. For a league the road is uninteresting, but continually rising from the valley of the Lis; then we came out into a wood of cork and olive, and kept along a steepish ridge, having on our left a valley filled with the thickest foliage. For half-an-hour every eye was endeavouring to pierce these leaves and branches, for we knew well what was hidden among them. At length in two hours from Leiria, a pleasant English lane went abruptly down the hill, and over the top of the wood we caught, in, a long horizontal line, the pinnacles and pierced battlements of BATALHA.

Here I will close this letter. It is possible that, at the time when I ought to supply another to the Ecclesiologist, I may be again visiting the churches of the Minho. If so, I hope that, going now with more knowledge, I shall be able to light at once on those which may be most instructive to us, and most interesting to your readers. I remain, &c.

O. A. E.

SEQUENTIÆ INEDITEÆ.-VII.

We shall now turn to the Sequences of the Upsala Missal, one of the two Primatial uses of Scandinavia.

XLI-DE SPINEA CORONA.

XLII.-DE VISITATIONE.
Sequentia canenda in feriis.

1 Liber, in quod.

Constat ergo quod Maria
Nobis exstat illa via

Per quam salus venerat.
Hinc exsurgit salutata;
Montes scandens inflammata
Ad cognatam properat.
Pignus secum ferens datum
In salutem destinatum
De supernis sedibus
His quos Eva propagârat
Et in mortem destinârat

Vanitatis actibus.

Jam se matres amplectuntur,

Et salutes proloquuntur

Dato pacis osculo.

Præco Regis majestatem
Noscens, plaudit, libertatem
Petit dari populo.

Stupent matres intendentes
Visitatas esse gentes
Salvatoris gratiâ :
Totus orbis collætetur
Et devote contempletur
Gestorum insignia.

Laus sit Regum Regi Deo;
Redonanti pacem reo

Sit honor perenniter:

Sit et digna genetrici

Tanti doni gestatrici

Decus eternaliter. Amen.

XLIII.-DE PATRONIS REGNI SUECIA.

Exultant Angelorum chori, hierarchiâ triplici, ordine, numero, officio multiplici conditi, cogniti Dei virtute simplici:

Ruit pars ad ima de primâ spirituum origine :
Gratia divinâ ruina restauratur ex homine.

Quam flebilis Angelis perditis hæc est permutatio!

Amabilis filiis hominis1 in Regnum successio.

Jam illic ascendit victrix tribus inclyta; jam jus apprehendit triumphans ecclesia; militat in terris filia.

Quam dulci amore vernans suscipitur

Quæ tanto fervore ruinæ restaurandæ ad ventura concupiscitur.

Te, cœli Hierarchia, omnis natio orbis replet missis nuntiis:

Te, mundi monarchia, sacro munere recognoscit datis filiis.

Jam tandem tibi devota gens Suevorum primitias dat patronorum confessores Christique Martyres, viduas :

Quos plebis sexus sequitur utriusque, dona præsentat cor cujusque, instructurum cœlestis muros Hierusalem

Purpuratas rosas vernantes Martyrum offert patientiâ.

Confessores sacratos flores, et præsentant Virgines lilia.

Illustris justus devotus Rex Ericus, insignis præsul, ac Henricus triumphali decorati sunt martyrio.

Eskillus martyr triumphat, et Botvidus David concertat, et Sigfridus Apostolis doctorali privilegio.

Sublimata cœlesti duce mater scandit Helena solium :

Illustrata divinâ luce mentis effert Brigitta radium.

Ecclesia nunc Suecorum te exorat, te collaudat, cœli curia ;

Interventu patronorum, O piissima, precatio te supplici implorat, Maria.
Ut sibi auxilium circa Christum Dominum esse digneris per ævum.

Amen.

Hanc commendat cordis, oris,

Morum, pudicitia :

Absoluta viri thoris

Sprevit, ut Judith, amoris

Carnalis connubia.

1 We read hominis for hominum, to preserve the rhythm.

2 i.e., to the consolations of the Beatific Vision. We read Qua for Quæ.

Martham præbet se diei;
Sed Mariam requiei
Contemplando tempore:
Dum non fovit hostes Dei
Jael uxor est Cenæi:
Prophetans, par Debbora.
Alabastrum' comminutum
Fragrans fudit vim virtutum
Ut probant miracula :

Cæcus videt, et os mutum
Loquitur ad ejus nutum;
Lepræ cedit macula.

O Suevorum advocata
Posce reis, ut sensata

Thecuitis, gratiam :
Fac, ut Hester, elevata
Ut gens tua Deo grata
Mereatur gloriam. Amen.

ECCLESIOLOGICAL LATE CAMBRIDGE CAMDEN SOCIETY.

A MEETING of the Committee was held on February 10th. Present: the Venerable Archdeacon Thorp, the President, in the chair, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Forbes, Mr. France, Mr. Gordon, Sir J. Harington, the Rev. T. Helmore, the Rev. W. Scott, and the Rev. B. Webb.

The following resolution was proposed by Mr. Dickinson, seconded by the Rev. W. Scott, and adopted :

"The committee, on this its first meeting after the decease of Dr. Mill, one of its Vice-presidents, desires to express its sense of the loss sustained by the Society, in the removal of one on whose patient assiduity and great theological learning the Society and its committee could always rely for most valuable assistance: a loss which they share in common with the whole Church, to whose service his labours were devoted, and whose principles his life so consistently illustrated." The following new members were elected :

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Rev. W. H. Lyall, Rector of S. Dionis Backchurch; 17, Park-crescent, London. John Norton, Esq., Architect, 24, Old Bond-street.

The committee considered the question of iron churches; and those constructed at Bristol by Mr. Hemming were described. Mr. Carpenter, who was present at the meeting, undertook to complete a design for an iron church for the Instrumenta Ecclesiastica. Designs by Mr. Butterfield, for the same series, including an alphabet, some cemetery crosses, and some low tombs, were adopted; and also a plate of coffin ornaments, designed by Mr. Street for Mr. Cooksey's manufactory at Birmingham.

The committee examined the plans for the reseating of Fairford church, Gloucestershire, by Mr. J. L. Pearson; those for a proposed church at Burntisland, by Mr. Carpenter; those for the rebuilding of Cockermouth church, by Mr. Clarke; and a drawing of the training institution at Fishponds, near Bristol, by Mr. Clarke and Mr. Norton. Mr. Norton attended the committee, and exhibited a model, and his

1 With this we may compare the beautiful epitaph of Gundreda de Warren in Southover Church, which (with the late Dr. Mill's fine emendation) runs, Sexta Calendarum Junii lux obvia carnis Integumenta pie solvit, fregitque alabastrum. 2 Cf. 2 Sam. xiv. 2.

amended designs of the church of S. Audrie's, Somersetshire; and also the drawings of the restoration of the church of Westbury, and of S. Woollos, Newport, Monmouthshire.

Letters were read from Mr. Woodyer, the Rev. S. Gilson, Mr. Blair, and others; and also letters and prospectuses announcing the formation of a Worcestershire Diocesan Architectural Society, under the presidency of the Bishop. Several other architectural drawings were exhibited.

OXFORD ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY.

A MEETING of this society was held on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1853. The President, Dr. Bloxam, Magdalene College, in the chair. Mr. Charles Hamilton, University College, was elected a member. "The Monastic Annals of Teviotdale" was presented by Lord Lothian, Christ Church.

The report referred with gratification to the formation of a Society for the Study and Practice of the Plain Song of the Church. The working drawings of the font at Heckington church, Lincolnshire, had been added to the list of the society's publications.

The new buildings at the Theological College, Cuddesden, designed by Mr. Street, were greatly commended, as combining rare beauty and convenience with a moderate outlay.

A design for a church at Singapore had been submitted to the committee, in which the old arrangement had been to place the altar at the west end, between the pulpit and reading-desk: as an improvement on this, an Oriental architect proposed (and the design had been agreed to at Singapore) to erect a transept, the southern part of which was to be used as a chancel. It had been agreed to recommend the erection of a chancel at the east end. A question was asked with reference to the orientation of Indian churches.

A discussion then ensued "on the style to be adopted in the restoration of old and the erection of new ecclesiastical buildings, with reference to the conservative, destructive, and eclectic theories." Mr. Lygon began the discussion, and remarked, that had it not been for the destructive theory, we should still have been tied down to Romanesque. It was the duty of each generation to do the best they could, and not to adhere with servile imitation or Chinese fidelity to the wisdom of their forefathers, especially as those forefathers had been actuated by no such feelings.

Mr. Wood, Trinity College, deprecated any such sweeping theory, and remarked on the painful results which we should now regret if such a rule had been carried out in the reign of George II.

Mr. Miller, New College, took the same view as Mr. Wood, but maintained that all antiquarianism should give way to the edification of the people, and the greater glory of God.

The late Principal of Brasenose College defended the mediæval architects for adding and repairing parts of churches in the prevalent style