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the Kingdom of the Isle of Sicil on the other side of 

 the Phare or Streit of Messana. The reason of which 

 improper appellation proceeded from Eo^er the first king 

 hereof, who being also Earl of Sicil, and keeping there his 

 fixed and ordinary residence, when he obtained the 

 favour to be made king *, desired (in honour of the place 

 •where he most resided) to be created by the name of 

 King of both the Sicilies. And that indeed is the true 

 and ancient name of the Kingdom, the name or title of 

 King of Naples not coming into use till the French were 

 dispossessed of Sioil by the Aragonians "f, and nothing left 

 them but this part of the Kingdom, of which the City of 

 Naples was the Regal Seat, called therefore in the follow- 

 ing times the Kingdom of Naples, and by some Italian 

 Writers the Kingdom onely." 



A Constant Reader. 

 Ware Priory. 



The Judges' Black Cap (2'^'' S. Ix. 132. 405. 

 454. ; X. 37.) — Covering the head seems to be 

 emblematic of two things ; first, of authority, and, 

 as it would appear from 1 Cor. xi. 10., especially 

 of delegated authority (thus in the Universities on 

 public occasions theVice-Chancellor and Proctors 

 alone wear their caps) ; and, secondly, the veiled 

 head has always been a symbol of mourning for 

 the dead, of which the present hatband is a mo- 

 dern instance. This may perhaps explain why, 

 as your correspondent S. O. states, two caps are 

 used by the judges ; one, viz. with the first inten- 

 tion, the other with the second. The latter, the 

 black cap with which we are now concerned, is 

 therefore fittingly assumed as giving additional 

 solemnity to the awful sentence of death, and ex- 

 pressing the judge's sympathy for the unhappy 

 criminal upon whom it is pronounced. W. W. H. 



Legendary Painting (2°'^ S. x. 47.) — If 

 Senex will describe the dress of the saint, I think 

 it probable that I may be able to point out his 

 identity. But it is always important in these in- 

 quiries to know the exact costume of the person- 

 age who is the object of inquiry. F. C. H. 



End (2"^ S. viii. 432. 522. ; ix. 493. ; x. 57.) — 

 In many instances the word is probably derived 

 from the Anglo-Saxon eaw, the dat. pi. of ea, 

 water ; and i» appropriated to localities which are 

 or have been low, marshy, and liable to be flooded 

 after heavy rains. This is the character of several 

 Ends with which I am acquainted, and which 

 have no apparent connexion with termination or 

 boundary of any kind. In this district (and query 

 elsewhere ?) the word is commonly pronounced 

 een or eend. The Rev. W. Monkhouse derives 

 Cotton End in Bedfordshire from Cote-en-ean = a 

 dwelling in the wafers. (Cf. Etymologies of Bed^ 



* " A.T>. 1125. Roger Earl of Sicil created by Pope Ana- 

 cletus the 2nd King of both the Sicilies at the Town of 

 Benevent ; which city, in requital of so great a favour, 

 he restored again unto the Church from which it had 

 been taken (after the first Donation of it) by the Ger- 

 man Emperors." — Cosmographie, vol. i. p. 64. 



t At the time of the Sicilian Vespers, a.d, 1281. 



fordshire by the Rev. W. Monkhouse, p. 16., Bed- 

 ford, 1857, 8vo., printed for the Bedfordshire 

 Architectural and Archaeological Society.) 



Joseph Rix. 

 St. Neota. 



Burnet's Life of Bishop Bedell (2"* S. vii. 

 350.; viii. 301.; x. 61.) — The following few 

 Notes are from a copy of Burnet's Life of Bishop 

 Bedell, now in my possession, and are in the hand- 

 writing of its former owner, William Pallisef, 

 Archbishop of Cashel from 1695 to 1726. On the 

 fly-leaf: — 



" W. Palliser. A.C. This Life writ by D. Bnrnet not 

 without some gross mistakes." 



Preface: b. verso. [On Bishop Burnet's statement that 

 Journals of the Bishop's Life and his works were lost in 

 the time of the Irish Rebellion.] " I have seen a written 

 account of his life, and a large work of his ag. Papists, 

 so that what's here said is not true." 



Life, p. 10. [Where it is said that Ant. de Dominis 

 printed ten books De Rep. Eccl.'\ " He printed but six 

 at London, and two of the ten were never printed." 



P. 86. [Where it is said that Abp. Usher was not made 

 for the governing part of his function.] " An untrue 

 reflection. See pref. to Usher's Life, p. 3. ; Life, p. 27. 

 etc. Let. 153." 



P. 223. [Where it is said that Bedel's large treatise in 

 answer to the two questions Where was our religion before 

 Luther, and What became of our ancestors that died in 

 Popery, was swallowed up in the Rebellion.] " 'Tis un- 

 true; a copy of it is at present in my custody, and 

 another I sent to Archb. Sancroft, with a large written 

 account of B. Bedel's life." 



P. 446. In " Copies of certain letters, tacked on to the 

 Life," the text omits the words, " But yet for fear, &c." 

 which Baker gives. Archbishop Palliser inserts these 

 words in the margin, prefaced by this remark : " See H. 

 of Pass. Obed. p. 76. what you may think of D. Burnet 

 concerning this marginal note." 



John Jebb. 



Peterstow Rectory, Ross. 



Error in English Bible (2°'^ S. x. 66.) -— 

 W. L. A. will find that not only in the first edi- 

 tions of the present authorised version does the- 

 error " sometimes " for " sometime " (Eph. ii. 13.) 

 occur, but in all the following reprints and re- 

 visions to the beautiful edition in small 4to. at 

 Cambridge, by John Hayes, 1673, in which it is 

 correct. But in subsequent editions even' in the 

 Oxford Blayney, 1769, the error is continued. 

 It is singular that in the elegant royal folio at 

 Cambridge, by John Hayes, in 1674, the error is 

 not corrected. An account of the revisions of 

 our authorised version is much wanted. They 

 commenced early after its publication, were at- 

 tempted at Cambridge by Buck and Daniel, 1629, 

 and Scattergood by Hayes, 1683, Lloyd, Blay- 

 ney, &c. By whose authority or sanction they 

 were made is not known. George Offob. 



The Rolliad (2"^ S. ix. 342. 452.)— I am glad 

 that your correspondents are proposing to clear 

 up some of the obscurities of The Rolliad and the 

 Anti-Jacobin. I hope they will not stop there. 



