MEYRICK, FREDERICK: Church of England; b.. at Ramsbury (27 m. w. of Reading), Wiltshire, Jan. 28, 1827; d. at Blickling (13 m. n.n.w. of Norwich), Norfolkshire, Jan. 3, 1906. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A., 1847), where he was fellow, 1847-60, and tutor, 1851-1859. He was tutor to the Marquis of Lothian, 1847-53; was ordered deacon in 1850 and ordained priest in 1852; was an inspector of schools 1859-1868; examining chaplain to the bishop of Lincoln 1868-85; principal of Codrington College, Barbados, 1886-87; rector of Blickling, Norfolk, from 1868 till his death, and also non-resident canon of Lincoln after 1869. He was Whitehall preacher in 1856-57 and select preacher at Oxford in 1856, 1866, and 1876. He took an active part in the Old Catholic movement and attended the Bonn conference of 1875. Among his numerous writings mention may be made of his Practical Working of the Church of Spain (London, 1851); Clerical Tenure of Fellowships (Oxford, 1854); Moral and Devotional Theology of the Church of Rome (London, 1856); The Outcast and the Poor of London. (1858); The Wisdom of Piety (1859); Correspondence with Old Catholics and Orientals (4 series, 1877-78); Is Dogma a Necegsityf (1883); The Doctrine of the Church of England on the Holy Communion Restated (1885); The Church of England, A.D. 697-1887 (1887); The History of the Church in Spain (1892); Scriptural and Catholic Truth and Worship (1901); Old Anglicanism and Modern Ritualism (1901); SundayObservance(1902); Appeal to the Primitive Centuries (1904); Appeal to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1905); Memories of Life al Oxford and Elsewhere (1905). He contributed to the Speaker's Commentary the parts on Obadiah (London, 1876) and Ephesians (1880), and to the Pulpit Commentary the sections on Leviticus (1882) and Joshua and Judges (1895).

MEZUZAH: A rectangular piece of inscribed parchment enclosed in a wooden or metal case and attached by Jews to the upper part of the righthand door post of a dwelling. The inscription consists of Deut. vi. 4-9, xi. 13-21, and is written in twenty-two lines according to the rules made for copying the Torah. The parchment is rolled with the writing inside, on the outside at the upper end the divine name Shaddai is written, and a glass-covered aperture in the case leaves this visible. The Mezuzah is by the pious touched with the hand as they enter or leave the house, and a short prayer is recited at the same

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time. The practise is founded on the injunction in Deut. vi. 9.

Bibliography: Dassorius, De ritibw Mesusss, m B. Ugolinue, Thesaurus antiquitahsm sacrorurem~ vol. m., 34 vols., Venice, 1744-89; JE, viii. 531-832.