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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
Dr. Johnson thought that a pax was a pyx, and amended Shakespeare accordingly. Since the issue of the Dictionary, however, the pax has more than once been thesubject of communications by Fellows of our Society, and the ‘Ignorance, madame, sheer ignorance’ to which the Doctor might have pleaded would now be more difficult to excuse. Nevertheless, the salient features in the usage and history of the pax may perhaps be restated very briefly.
page 356 note 1 , Milner, Archaeologia, xx, 534Google Scholar (the Wolverhampton pax); Watson, C. K., Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd Ser., viii, 504Google Scholar (the New College pax); J. T. Fowler, ibid., xx, 174 (pax now at Soc.of Antiquaries); P. Nelson, ibid., xxv, 26 (pax now at British Museum); W. Page, ibid., xxvi, 153 (bone pax from Lancashire); Way, A., Arch. Journ., ii, 144Google Scholar (the New College pax, etc.); and, above all, Layard, Nina, Arch. Journ., lxi, 120.Google Scholar For a photographic illustration of the New College pax, see Catalogue of Exhibition of College plate at Oxford, 1929.
page 357 note 1 As witnessed by church inventories in Suffolk (see Miss Layard's paper as cited), Northants (communicated to me by Miss Rose Graham), and doubtless in other counties.
page 357 note 2 Proc. Soc. Ant., viii, 504, and xxvi,153.
page 357 note 3 See D'Elboux, R. H., Arch. Journ., lxxxi.Google Scholar