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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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to our great disappointment and surprise the company, 

 after one night's acting, was suddeuly interdicted, and 

 the house shut up." At the end of the Preface, Carey 

 bitterly complains of the Curlls of his day — those pira- 

 tical printers who 



" Rob me of my gain, 

 And reap the labour'd harvest of my brain."] 



Replies. 



DOM1XUS REGNAVIT A LIGXO. 

 PSALTER1UM GRiECUM VEROXEXSE. 



(2 od S. viii. 470.516.) 



B. H. C. asks, "Do any MSS. of the Latin Vul- 

 gate contain these words [a ligno] as part of the 

 text?" The reply must be to this inquiry that 

 the Psalter in the Vulgate is the Galilean, and as 

 that does not contain " a, ligno," it is vain for us 

 to seek it in the copies of the Vulgate. It is 

 found in the Psalterium Veins, the version m'ade 

 from the unrevised copies of the LXX. and in 

 the Eomanum, the same translation slightly cor- 

 rected by Jerome, and adopted at Rome and in 

 the cathedral at Canterbury ; while in the Galli- 

 eanum the version made by Jerome from the re- 

 vised LXX., and used by the Gallican Church, 

 the words did not appear any more than they did 

 in the Hebraicum, or Jerome's version from the 

 Hebrew. (The Psalms are the only part of the 

 Vulgate in which Jerome's version from the 

 LXX. is adopted instead of that taken from the 

 Hebrew, even though readings of the old version 

 from the Greek have occasionally found their way 

 into other parts of the Vulgate as now used by 

 the Church of Rome.) 



Mr. Bots inquires if anything is known of the 

 Psulterium Grcecum Veronense. The whole of this 

 very ancient copy of the Psalterium Grceco-La- 

 tinum was published by Bianchini in his Vindicice 

 Canonicurum Scripturarum (Rome, 1740). The 

 Greek text is written in Latin letters : its pro- 

 bable date is prior to the middle of the fifth cen- 

 tury. The Greek text of this clause runs thus: 

 "O Quirios cbasileusen apo xylu." The Latin 

 text is that of the Psalterium Vetus. This Verona 

 Codex has been strangely neglected by editors of 

 the LXX. ; its readings are not even given in the 

 great edition of Holmes and Parsons, though it 

 :■< as if this is perhaps the only copy now ac- 

 cessible which contains the Psalms in the un- 

 revised LXX., such as was current in the second 

 century, and which was used for the old Latin 

 translation. 



One MS. of those collated by Holmes and Par- 

 has the addition after a fashion, " on icvptos 

 tgaoiKtvoe una to £uA« (sic) 156." In the list of 

 MSS. prefixed to the Psalma the editors thus de- 

 scribe this codex : — 



" 156. Codex Biblioth. liasilicus. signat. A. vii. 3. mera- 



branaceus, forma? qsart*, admodum antiquus, accentibus 

 destitutus, et versions Latiua interlineari prsedituS." 



I know of no other Greek authorities for this 

 addition as part of the text, though it must have 

 been there when Justin and others made their 

 citations. It does not appear in the Syriac ver- 

 sion of the Hexaplar text (Milan, 1820). 



It is often impossible to say how readings in the 

 LXX. originated : some of those in the Psalms 

 arise from the Rubrics still found in the Jewish 

 service books. This, however, seems to be con- 

 nected with "■^"'VJH'S in ver. 12. May not part 

 of this have been accidentally misplaced ? and 

 may not the Greek translator have read \'V ^V'O, 

 or something of the kind ? 



As F. C. H. (p. 518.) speaks of the martyrdom 

 of Justin as having taken place a. d. 167, as 

 though this were undoubted, may I be allowed 

 to refer to a paper in No. VIII. of the Journal 

 of Classical and Sacred Philology (Cambridge, 

 June, 1856), pp. 155—193., "On the Date of 

 Justin Martyr," by the Rev. Fenton J. A. Hort, 

 who gives, I think, good reasons for supposing 

 that it occurred nearly tiventy years earlier (about 

 a.i>. 148). S. P. Tregelles. 



REV. ALEXAXDER KILHAM. 

 (2 nd S. viii. 514.) 



The Rev. Alexander Kilham, founder of the body 

 known as the Methodist Xew Connexion, was born 

 at Epworth, in the Isle of Axholme, on the 10th of 

 July, 1762. He died on the 20th of December, 

 1798. His parents were members of the Wesley an 

 Methodist Society, which he himself joined early in 

 life. His first attempt as a preacher was at Lud- 

 dington, a village but a few miles from the place 

 of his birth. He afterwards, in company with 

 Mr. Brackenbury, visited Jersey on a mission re- 

 lative to the affairs of the Wesleyan body. He 

 married, in 1788, a Miss Grey of Scarborough, 

 who died in 1796; iu April, 1798, he again mar- 

 ried. The maiden name of his second wife was 

 Spurr. The marriage took place at Sheffield. 

 His secession, expulsion perhaps I should say, 

 from the Methodist Connexion took place in 1792. 

 He was the author of many pamphlets relative to 

 the affairs of the Wesleyan s, and those with whom 

 they were from time to time in controversy. I 

 regret that I am unable to furnish a list of his 

 writings ; but as many were issued anonymously, 

 it is difficult to identify them. 



The above are all the facts I have been able to 

 gather relative to Alexander Kilham ; for any- 

 thing additional thereto, I shall be obliged to the 

 readers of " N. & Q." A Life of Kilham was 

 issued the year after his death (1799) by Mr. John 

 Grundell and Mr. Robert Hall, but it is very 

 scarce; so much so, that although I have fie- 



