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when he supposes that there were no Hebrew and 

 English grammars in Purver's time : they were 

 common from the reign of Elizabeth. Dr. Fother- 

 gill gave Purver lOOOZ. for the copyright, and was 

 answerable for the cost of printing, which must 

 have greatly exceeded 200^., mentioned by Mr. 

 Rust. It is an attempt to improve our national 

 version, rather than a new translation, and is 

 highly creditable to a self-educated poor shoe- 

 maker, who to improve himself turned school- 

 master. The notes are numerous, pertinent, and 

 limited to the sense of the text. George Offor. 



St. PauVs Journey to Damascus (2""^ S. iii. 89.) 

 — The general practice of artists has been to re- 

 present Saul as falling from a horse ; but it was 

 natural for them to prefer the grandest and most 

 picturesque mode of representation. Painters 

 and sculptors in such matters are of small au- 

 thority. St. Augustin insinuates that Saul tra- 

 velled on foot, as best became a rigid Pharisee. 

 Moreover, he was led by the hand into Damascus ; 

 whereas it would have been quite easy for him to 

 sit on his horse, though blind, the horse in that 

 case being led carefully. F. C. H. 



Northaw (2"'^ S. iii. 11.) — This place I find 

 mentioned in Speed's England Described, 1627, 

 and in the folio edition of Camden's Britannia, 

 »nder the name of " North-hall, Casho. Herts." 

 The Villare Anglicum of that " painfull and 

 learned antiquarie Sir Henry Spelman, 1656," has 

 it " Northaw, Cast. Herts." Itl;/?. 



Birmingham. 



Boohs Burnt (2°'' S. iii. 79.) — Mr. Simpson, 

 in sending an extract from the Cambridge Chro- 

 nicle, which gives an account of Mr. J. Comley, of 

 Norwich, publicly burning a large bale of his 

 works, says he knows nothing of the circumstance 

 beyond the simple fact of seeing the paragraph in 

 the paper. In The Reasoner of February 1, 1857, 

 it is stated on the authority of a correspondent in 

 Norwich, that the books burnt were not, as might 

 be supposed from the newspaper paragraph, pub- 

 lications expressing heterodox or infidel opinions, 

 but only " bills containing enormous puffs about 

 tea, importing, in various ways, that his establish- 

 ment was a branch of the Great European Tea 

 Company, possessing enormous advantages, &c. ; " 

 also window blinds painted to the same effect. 



James J. Lamb. 



Underwood Cottage, Paisley. 



Canonicals worn in Public (2""^ S. ii. 479.) — 

 The Rev. Daniel Moore, Golden Lecturer, and 

 incumbent of Camden district, Camberwell, al- 

 ways proceeds robed to the place whence he 

 intends to preach in the open air. I have some- 

 times had the pleasure of walking with him on 

 such occasions.':' Thkelkeld. 



William the Conqueror's Jocvlator (2"^ S. ii. 

 111.) — I beg to inform A. that the name of AVil- 

 liam the Conqueror's joculator has descended to 

 posterity. It was Berdic. He not only had 

 three towns, but also Jive carucates of land, and all 

 rent-free. These particulars will be found in the 

 first volume of Domesday Book, p. 162,, being the 

 first page relative to the county of Gloucester, 

 where the entry stands thus : 



" Berdic joculator regis h't. iii. uillas, et ibi. v. car', nil 

 redd'." 



It does not appear what were the names of Ber- 

 dic's towns. W. H. W. T. 



Somerset House. 



James Baynes, Painter in Water- Colours (2"^ S. 

 iii. 117.) — James Baynes may have been one of 

 the many exhibitors at the only show of the 

 period, the Royal Academy, and his works may 

 have been, like those of many others, as Dayes, 

 and Groombridge, and Storer, and Hakewill, 

 " gentle and pleasing transcripts of home scenery," 

 and may have attracted attention at the Exhibi- 

 tion; but we cannot name him with Sandby, who, 

 at his birth, was already a leading landskip painter, 

 and at the head of the School of Exhibitors at 

 the Society of the Artists of Great Britain at the 

 " great room at Spring Gardens," and indeed at 

 the Society of Arts, which was opened with the 

 first gathering of the day in 1760. Now as the 

 said Baynes came into the dark world of British 

 art in 1766, how can he be placed on the same 

 horizon with Sandby, even though he may have 

 been the master of Sass or Harding ? Will Lukk 

 Limner be so good as to give us the year of Mr. 

 Baynes's exhibitions, either in water or oil, that 

 we may know more of his early "gentle master." 



Mawlstick. 



Spinettes (2°'* S. iii. 111.)— The last spinette I 

 ever saw existed at Rumsey Place, Crickhowel ; 

 I think as late as the year 1820. I know not 

 what became of it after that date, nor have I now 

 the means of tracing it. The last allusion to such 

 an instrument that I now recollect was in Miss 

 Ferrier's Marriage, published about 1818 or 1819. 



Vryan Rheged. 



Trafalgar Veterans (2"'^ S. iii. 18. 76. 118.) — 

 It may save some trouble to those who are in- 

 terested in ascertaining the number of survivors 

 in England, and spare your columns the loads of 

 letter-press that may be consumed in giving in- 

 dividually the name and address of each gallant 

 officer as it is handed to you by his friends and 

 neighbours, if you will state generally in your 

 next Number, that a reference to The New 

 Navy List, published by Parker, Furnival, & 

 Parker, Whitehall, will disclose the name of every 

 commissioned officer at present on the Active or 

 the Retired List who served under Lord Nelson 



