[The lawyers no doubt are lovers of hoar antiquity and primitive
customs. "Let the doorkeepers attend upon the entrance of the men; and
the deaconesses upon the entrance of the women." (_Apost. Const._, lib.
ii. can. lvii.; see also lib. vii. can. xxvi.) In the First Book of
King Edward, A.D. 1549, the following rubric occurs: "As many as shall
be partakers of the Holy Communion shall tarry still in the quire; the
men on the one side, and the women on the other side."--See Wheatly on
the _Common Prayer_, chap. vi. sect. 13.]
_Edmund Bohun._--In Bright's Catalogue appears, "No. 2939. _Historical
Collections_, 1675-1692. 8 vols. folio; formed by Edmund Bohun." Has this
collection been dispersed? or where is it now? Bohun refers to it
repeatedly in his private diary, which I am printing.