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portion of silver in the alloy. It is a vulgar error, 

 long ago exploded, that silver forms any portion 

 of pure bell-metal. Hand-bells are sometimes 

 made -wholly of silver : there is a small one for 

 the use of the President of the College of Physi- 

 cians, the gift of their munificent benefactor Dr. 

 Baldwin Hamey, who died 1 676 ; it is Inscribed 

 " Mortuus est tamen hie audltur Hamseus." 



Seven of tin to twenty-two of copper was the 

 composition of Old Big Ben, according to the 

 published accounts. H. T. Ellacombe. 



At the casting of the tenor bell of Lavenham 

 various gentlemen of the neighbourhood being 

 present threw their silver tankards into the melt- 

 ing-pot, having first drank the loyal toast of 

 " Church and King." (See Saturday Mag. vol. i.) 

 F. R. S., Bibl. Aul. Regis. 



Dublin. 



EtoccBtum (2''* S. vil. 256.; viii. 179.) — Con- 

 sidering the extent to which the Romans Latin- 

 ised Celtic local names. It is quite as probable that 

 EtoccBtum Is from the Celtic as from the Greek. 

 It may come from Brit. " at a colt," which Baxter 

 translates "apud sylvas," whence the Attacotti 

 (the Silures) derived their name. These Attacotti 

 are in ancient British authors called Argoet and 

 Argoetdys. R. S. Charnock. 



Battens (2"^ S. viii. 249.) — This word Is ap- 

 parently connected with the A.-S. hat, meaning 

 staff, club, stick, but none of the Dictionaries at- 

 tempt a derivation. 5«/ing-=cable, anything that 

 holds or restrains, which may possibly explain the 

 sea-term " battening down the hatches." A hatten 

 in building is a piece of deal about seven Inches 

 deep by two Inches thick, such as are used for 

 supporting the boards of the floor of an upper 

 room. J. Eastwood. 



Rustic Superstition (2"* S. viii. 242.) — It is a 

 usual saying in Norfolk, and probably In many 

 other parts, that good luck is portended by rain 

 at a funeral, and by sunshine at a wedding. The 

 moon does sometimes appear In its wane to lie 

 almost horizontally In the sky, looking certainly 

 like a boat; and this appearance in Norfolk is 

 considered a sign of fine weather. F. C. H. 



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