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small volume, by R. Y. for Ph. Nevil, 1641 ; the 

 second edition was in 1643, and the third in 1646. 

 There are considerable alterations between the 

 first and third editions, of which specimens will be 

 found in Dr. Cotton's very valuable appendix. 

 To all collectors of editions of the Old and New 

 Testament in English, and of the several versions 

 of the Psalms, Dr. Cotton's book will prove a most 

 important coadjutor. P- B. 



Quaint Lines by Alain Chartier (Vol. vi., 

 pp. 122. 230.). — Allow me to place in juxta- 

 position with the communication of G. Masson 

 the following extract from an Essay towards a 

 j)7-actical English Grammar, tVc, by James Green 

 wood, Sur-Master of St. Paul's School, London : 

 Printed for Arthur Buttersworth at the lied Lion 

 in Paternoster How, 1729. It is an alliterative 

 curiosity : 



" A cert:iin French gentleman praising his native 

 langiiapce, which had words that implied a likeness to 

 the thing signified, at the same time finding fault with 

 the English tongue, as not being able to do the like, 

 he proposed the following verses to Dr. Wallis : 



' Quand un cordier eordant, veut corder sa corde. 

 Pour sa corde de corder, trois cordons il accorde, 

 Mais si un des cordons de la corde descorde, 

 Le cordon descordant fait descorder la corde.' 



Which Dr. W. thus rendered into English verse, 

 making use of the pure English twist (contrary to the 

 expectation of the Frfench gentleman) instead of the 

 French word cord : 



* When a twiner a twisting will twist him a twist, 

 For the twining of his twist he three twines doth in- 



twist ; 

 But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist, 

 The twine that untwistetli, untwisteth the twist,' 



" Afterwards Dr. W. added four lines more : 



* Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between, 

 He twists with his twister the two in a twine ;• 

 Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine. 

 He twicheth the twines he had twisted in vain.' 



" Afterwards he added four lines more : 



* The twain that, in twisting before in the twine, 

 As twines were intwisted, he now doth untwine, 

 Twixt the twain intertwisting a twine more between. 

 He, twisting his twister, makes a twist of the twine.'" 



Clerictjs (D). 



Flemish Words in Wales (Vol. vi., pp. 151. 

 208.). — N. B. is right, and I carelessly did wrong 

 ■when I included pihn amongst words which T be- 

 lieved to be peculiar to the Flemings in Wales, 

 for I had before vaguely heard that it was used in 

 the south-western counties ; while I know that in 

 some parts of Lancashire the word pellum, evi- 

 dently the same thing, is similarly used. I have 

 heard botli traced to pulvere ; but this is indeed a 

 question of Dkt-as-dustism ! Seleucus. 



The Crystal Palace : Who designed it? (Vol. vi., 

 p. 196.). — Your correspondent Suum cuique has 

 traced the idea of this edifice to Loudon ; but I 

 would ask, had we not a practical example of the 

 actual thing in what I believe is called the Palm 

 House in Kew Gardens ? The size, no doubt, of 

 the Hyde Park building was gigantically greater ; 

 but, according to my recollection, the Palm House 

 at Kew exhibits exactly the same principle of 

 construction, and on no inconsiderable scale. My 

 recollection might have deceived me : but when I 

 first saw the Crystal Palace, the idea it gave me 

 was that of the Palm House magnified. f 



Venice Glasses (Vol. vi., p. 233.). — Your cor- 

 respondent Metoauo quotes An English Dic- 

 tionary, by E. Coles, 1717, to the effect that two 

 Egyptian weeds, Gazul and Sid)it, were employed 

 by the Venetians in making their finest crystal 

 glasses. Whether the Egyptian Gazul was supe- 

 rior to that grown at Alicant in Spain, I am not 

 prepared to say ; but in the early part of the 

 seventeenth century the Alicant weed was con- 

 sidered " a spurious flower," and the glass made 

 from it not nearly so resplendent and clear as that 

 made from the Barillia or Barilla, another vege- 

 table growing there in great abundance, and in 

 greater perfection than anywhere else. 



The people of Alicant at that time subsisted in 

 a great measiu-e by its exportation. The Vene- 

 tians had large quantities ft-om thence. It sold for 

 one hundred crowns the ton ; and at one time 

 alone. Sir Robert Mansel imported for the English 

 manufacture no less than 2000Z. worth. Mab. 



Fell Family (Vol. vi., p. 233.).— I believe that 

 the male line of this family of Fell terminated with 

 Lieut.-Col. Robert Edward Fell, who was the 

 great-grandson of the judge's only son George; 

 but there are probably still in existence some 

 descendants from the female branches of this male 

 line, and the existing descendants from the judge's 

 daughters are very numerous. 



Judge Fell left one son and seven daughters, all 

 of whom married : five of the daughters, had issue, 

 and many of the descendants are now living of 

 Margaret who married John Rous, of Mary who 

 married William Mead, and of Rachel who mar- 

 ried Daniel Abraham. 



Mr. Abraham of Montreal, Lower Canada, and 

 his brother, Mr. John Abraham of Liverpool, who 

 have I believe one sister, are the representatives 

 of the male line of the family of Abraham, who 

 continued to reside at Swarthmore Hall for a 

 hundred years after the death of the judge. 



Gerard Croese, in his History of the Quakers 

 printed in 1692, represents that Leonard and 

 Henry Fell were sons of the judge; he however 

 had only one son, George. Mr. Josiah Marsh, in 

 his Popidar Life of George Fox, represents that 



