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page and New Testament, and must thank the 
editor for having cleared up to me through his 
able Note, that mine is the 8vo. edition of 1534. 
On part of a leaf immediately preceding “ Liber 
Genesis,” there is recorded the following incident 
in a fine handwriting of the time: 
“On the fourth day of Februarye, in the twentieth 
yere of the raigne of our Soveraign Lady Queen Elyza- 
beth there fell such a snowe in England, and speciallie 
in Kent, for endless dryfte that men cold not travaill 
between Rie and London the right foot waye for the 
space of one whole month, and some yet of the said snows 
might be found the space of sevene weeks, — M.” 
I may be permitted to add for curiosity’s sake, 
that I have, in the best condition, a copy of La 
Bible (the version of the Genevan church) De 
UImprimerie de Francois Estienne, 1567, with the 
name upon it of Rowland Lee, who had been its 
early owner, and of whom Myles Davis in his 
History of Pamphlets, London, 1716. p. 304. thus 
speaks : 
“Tis a mistake to say Cranmer marry’d Queen Anne 
Bolen to King Henry VIilI., though he was present at 
the ceremony performed by Rowland Lee, afterwards 
Bishop of Lichtield and Coventry aud Lord President of 
Wales.” 
Eanvlf 
Odros (2™ §. i. 73.) — Not having seen (as yet) 
a reply to J. P., I beg to refer him to Scapula’s 
Lexicon, where he will see copious extracts from 
Greek writers, sufficient perhaps to determine 
the meaning and scope of the word. 
; Gerorce Luoyp. 
* You've all heard of Paul Jones, have you not ? 
have you not?” (28, i. 55.) — Serviens will 
find the words of this song, and also an account of 
the author of it (a native of the parish of Borgue, 
Kirkeudbright), in Mactaggart’s Gallovidian En- 
cyclopedia. A. B. Apamson. 
Liverpool. 
* Sleave-silk” (1% §. xii. 58. 335.) —In the 
Rates of Merchandises, that is to say, the Subsidy 
of Tonnage, the Subsidy of Poundage, &c., 1642, 
I find the following entries : 
« Sleave silk, coarse, the pound cont. 16 oz., 001. 13s, 04d. 
“ Sleave silk, fine, or Naples sleaye, the pound cont. 
16 0z., 021. 18s, 04d.” 
This comes under the head of “ unwrought,” 
although N. Bailey says it is silk wrought fit for 
use. B. H, C. 
Altar Rails (2° 8. i..95.) —I believe the ab- 
sence of altar-rails is not very unusual. The 
church of rosea" the neighbouring parish, shows 
no traces of ever having possessed any. They are 
all of Jacobean, or later date; and owe their in- 
troduction to Archbishop Laud, who ordered them 
in such churches as had had the chancel screen 
destroyed by the Puritan Iconoclasts. This order, 
it is said, was occasioned by a dog having seized 
the eucharistic bread in one of the chancels thus 
robbed of its protecting enclosure. I can see 
little in their favour where a screen exists, a plain 
removable bar in any case answering all the pur- 
pose; and all architectural anachronisms are sim- 
ply an eye-sore, in a church otherwise in good 
keeping. KE. S. Tayxror. 
Ormesby, St. Margaret. 
White Paper injurious to the Sight (2°4S. i. 126.) 
—In that part of Sir J, M‘Neill’s Tables for Cal- 
culating the Contents of Cuttings, §c., on Canals 
and Railways, where the glare occasioned by 
printing great numbers of figures (to which con- 
stant reference must be made) on white paper, 
would not only have been an injurious, but most 
unpleasant proceeding, so far as the sight was 
concerned, the plan has been adopted of using 
tinted paper of various colours, in order to relieve 
the eye; and, if I mistake not, in practice, the 
paper having a yellowish brown tint is found to 
do so the most effectually. R. W. Hacxwoop. 
Etymology of Winchelsea (2"4 S. i. 190.) — The 
etymologies cited by W.S. are all more or less 
absurd; neither can I vote for his amendment of 
 Win-chysel-ea, white shingle island.” W. S. 
derives win from a British root, but in Anglo- 
Saxon, from which language he fetched the other 
two syllables, win has a totally different meaning. 
Besides, such compounds of Celtic and Saxon 
terms are rarely to be found, except in the fancies 
of etymologists of a certain class. Again, the 
shingle at Winchelsea neither is, nor can ever 
have been, white. The true origin of the word I 
take to be Winceol, the name of an early proprietor 
of the place in Saxon times, and ea, river, or 
water — Winceoles-ea, Winchel-sea — “ the river 
or water of Winceol.” I may remark that this 
personal name was perhaps originally related to 
Winceslaus. Marx Antony Lower. 
Lewes. 
Tumulus at Langbury Hill (1* S. xii. 364. 432.) 
—It seems due to your correspondent Durarrix, 
who was kind enough to give his opinion respect- 
ing the tumulus at Langbury Hill, near this place, 
to set before him the entire evidence on the sub- 
ject. I therefore transcribe the following note 
from the last edition of Hutchins : 
“ Near this gate [Slaughter Gate], in a field belonging 
to John Kneller, Esq., is a long barrow, called Longbury. 
In the year 1802, permission being obtained from Mr. 
Kneller, the barrow was opened, and the remains of many 
human bodies discovered there. These remains were 
found on a light loam, on the natural bed of the soil; 
with them were deposited round balls, apparently of clay, 
but for what purpose these balls were placed there must 
be left to conjecture. Over the bodies the natural soil 
was thrown, then a layer of flat stones, and lastly again 
the natural soil. The form of the barrow, and its situa- 
