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390 expression is a mere coincidence, or was derived from Severus from some written source. If the latter is the case, it would probably come from Menander, whose gnomic sayings were well known to the ecclesiastical writers of this time; but, if I knew where the Latin phrase is first found, I should have a better chance of tracing it to its source. I have tried several Latin lexicons and dictionaries of quotations without result.

were a long-suffering people. For a decade before the Revolution they had been tarred and feathered and otherwise ill-treated; after the outbreak of the war they were banished, their estates were confiscated, and they were thrown overboard in the treaty of peace. Yet two such ardent patriots as John Adams and Thomas McKean, both of whom signed the Declaration of independence, agreed in 1813-15, at which time the passions engendered by the war had somewhat subsided, that "full one third [of the American people] were averse to the Revolution" ('Works of J. Adams,' x. 63, 87, 110).

Much has been written about the Loyalists, though no exhaustive work on the subject has yet appeared. The following list comprises the chief books and articles of value:—

The followin extract, which is based on Wilmot's 'Historical View,' is taken from Prof. Van Tyne's book (pp. 301-3):—

In 1783 Parliament appointed a Commission to investigate the claims of the Loyalists. The Commissioners made twelve reports, which will be found among the proceedings of Parliament during the years 1783-1890, in which latter year the proceedings were wound up. The reports will doubtless be found in any of the large libraries which were in existence at the time. One of the Commissioners, John Eardley Wilmot, published a work, "Historical View of the Commission for Inquiry into the Losses, Services, and Claims of the American Loyalists, &c., with an Account of the Compensation granted to them by Parliament in 1785 and 1788. London, 1815."

(10ᵗʰ S. i. 324, 352).—If C. S. H. will kindly consult a Julian calendar for this year, he will see that by that reckoning D, C are the Dominical Letters. By the Gregorian reckoning, 1 January was a Friday and the first Sunday in the year was 3 January, so that C was the Sunday Letter until the end of