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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL MAY i, im

"EARIFE," co. KENT (10 S. xi. 290). I think there can be little doubt that this place is Erith. A similar transformation of the hithe termination is found in Rother- hithe, which was commonly called Redriff. " Earise " seems to me unlikely, although there is a place with the same termination near Folkestone, called Acrise.

W. F. PEIDEAUX.

If the reading Earise be admissible, the village of Acrise, near Elham, is very possibly meant. H. P. L.

THOMAS WEATHERALL (10 S. xi. 288). I possess a proof-sheet of the pedigree of Wetherell of Pashley on which " Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' 1879," is written. In it Thomas Wetherell, uncle of the Dean born in 1668 is mentioned as leaving issue ; but no Thomas Wetherell, brother of the Dean, is given. P. W. G. M.

BEACHEY HEAD (10 S. xi. 186, 294). On the south side of Bath is a wooded escarp- ment known as Beechen 'Cliff. In ancient times it was called " Beau Chine Clyff," the change being like that in the case of Beachey Head. The not uncommon name of Beecham or Bechamp is a corruption of the Norman "Beauchamp." W. TYTE.

Bath.

SEMAPHORE SIGNALLING (10 S. xi. 168, 211, 271, 336). As this subject has been started, it may be desirable to see if a list can be furnished of these stations throughout England. Permit me to mention that there was originally a semaphore on Telegraph Hill, Chessington, Surrey.

JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

"^SINEWS OF WAR " (10 S. ix. 470 ; x. 137, 218, 253, 297). In giving my reference to Thomas Fuller's ' Holy State,' 1642, I did not notice that the page numbers 119-122 are repeated. The reference is the second p. 121, which ought to be p. 125.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

DRAYTON ON VALENTINE'S DAY (10 S. xi. 170, 218, 257). I hope I wrote "Make," as I meant to do, having Arber before me.

C. C. B.

[C. C. B. did write " Make " : the word was altered inadvertently.]

COFFEE-DRINKING IN PALESTINE (10 S. xi. 90, 236). I am much obliged to L. L. K. for his courteous answer to my query. This arose from hearing a Christmas sermon in which the preacher pictured the shepherds

eating their biscuits and drinking their coffee immediately before the announcement by the Angel of the Saviour's birth.

A. R. BAYLEY.

CROSS AT HlGHAM-ON-THE-HlLL (10 S. xi.

29). If this district was one into which the Romans penetrated, the mound containing the cross timbers was probably a botontinus,. or survey mark-mound, denoting the bounds of a pagus or a villa estate, erected by the agrimensores, or State surveyors.

MONTAGU SHARPE.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o.

The Authorised Version of the English Bible, 1611.

Edited by William Aldis Wright. 5 vols. (Cam- bridge, University Press.)

IN his Prefatory Note the editor explains the source- of the volumes before us :

"There were two issues of the Authorised Version of 1611. The first of these is here reprinted, it is hoped with literal accuracy, from a copy in my possession, and as it is well known that in oooks of this period differences occur, and corrections were made while the type was still standing, two copies in the University Library have been consulted in such cases, and the corrected reading has been adopted in the reprint."

The present reprint is in octavo form, and two- opposite pages of the octavo represent one of the two columns which make up a page of the original folio ; the black-letter becomes roman, and the roman italic type. A list follows of the variations between the two issues of 1611. Some of these are- obvious misprints, such as "ten bulles, twenty shee ashes, and ten foales," in Gen. xxxii. 15.

There are a good many small variations between the text offered here and that of the modern " Autho- rized Version." Spelling is quainter, and we find such abbreviations as ' ' cof ound " and ' ' cogregation"; whi le "damosel" figures instead of the later "damsel/' "threed" for "thread," "deaw" for "dew," and " banketting" for " banqueting." The uncertainties- of spelling are exhibited by the two forms " briers " and " briars " in consecutive verses of Isaiah vii.. In this case modern usage is still unsettled.

At the top of each page are headings such as ' How Riches are miserable,' ' Man and beast,' and ' Repent betime ' in Ecclesiastes. A volume is- devoted to the Apocrypha, which is perversely omitted by many modern printers of Bibles.

The type and its arrangement are, thanks to the number of volumes employed, in no way crowded, and the whole forms an admirable presentation of the greatest of English classics.

Tyburn Tree : iff! History and Annals. By Alfred!

Marks. (Brown, Langham & Co.) MB. MABKS has followed out the history of the- famous place of execution near the Marble Arch with admirable research and zeal, both from the anti- quarian and from what may be called the social side. People have been busy with topographical study of Tyburn in our own columns as well as elsewhere, and Mr. Marks is able to reproduce, by means of