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come down to us of the elaborate ceremony of the Fetial darigatio can leave no doubt in the mind of an unbiassed reader that Festus was right, while a plausible inference may also be drawn from the same descrip- tion that the Jupiter of the ceremony must at one time have been known .as "Sancus," and that the " Dius Fidius" JSancus, sancio, and sagmen are all inti- mately connected with sanguis, word and deed alike. A similar inference may be drawn from the " hyssop " of Exodus xii. 22 : " And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason." It is worthy of notice that the hyssop (Hebrew and Arabic ezob) which "springeth out of the wall" (1 Kings iv. 33) might very well derive its name from a labialized form of sagmen, which in that case would be rather of a Medi- terranean than of an Indo-European origin. I have examined the latest authorities (e.g.-, the * Encyclopaedia Biblica') on this question, and I can find nothing to militate against this suggestion.

Just as I write this I find in the Daily Tele- graph of 26 July, in an article on ' A Japanese Memorial Service,' by Mr. R. J. McHugh, the correspondent of that paper with the Japanese army, the following interesting statement :

"Then one of the assistant priests [of the Shinto religion] went to the table, on which lay the single pine branch, and, raising it in his hands, he waved it three times over the altar, murmuring prayers as the did it, thus consecrating it for the service. Then lie performed a similar office to the other tables, and the basket of offerings, his fellow-priests, the general and his staff, the foreign officers, and, lastly, the long lines of khaki-clad soldiers on the plain below, sanctifying the whole assembly. The cere- mony of sanctification is termed ' sakaki,' and should be performed with the branch of a special shrub, resembling the tea-plant, which grows in -Japan ; but in its absence any evergreen branch is equally efficacious."

Saki and ki are words familiar to all who take an interest in res Japonicce. ; but what exactly does sakaki denote and connote 1

J. P. OWEN.

CAMBRIDGE FAMILY. Michael de North- "burgh, Bishop of London, who died in 1361, by his will appointed John de Cauntebrigg one of his executors. The will was proved on 13 December, 1361, when power was re- served for him to come in and prove later (R, R. Sharpe, ' Calendar of Wills proved in the Court of Rusting/ vol. ii. p. 61). Pro- bate apears, however, to have been granted to him before 1374, as we find that on 10 March of that year (47 Edw. III.) a demise was

executed by him (John de Cantebrugge) and one of the other executors to William Stowe and Alice his wife, of lands and tenements at Ty bourne, late the property of Michael de Northburgh, formerly Bishop of London, in exchange for a windmill in a place called " Vernecroft," near Clerkenwell (P. R. O., ' Calendar of Ancient Deeds,' vol. ii. B. 2299). Is anything further known of this John of Cambridge ?

Many references are to be found to members of this family in the Calendars of Letter- Books of the Corporation of London and else- where. Reginald Kantebregge, of whom, how- ever, little appears to be known, except that he was one of the sureties for Henry de Frowyck, who was sheriff in 1274 ('Calendar of Letter- Book A,' p. 194), and that he appears to have died before 1284 (J. J. Baddeley, ' Aldermen of Cripplegate Ward,' 1900, p. 10, quoting Husting Roll 14, 210), is one of the earliest.

In 1284 Robert de Cantebrugge was Sheriff of the City of London (J. J. Baddeley, * Alder- men of Cripplegate Ward,' 1900, p. 12).

In 1307, 16 September, Thomas de Cante- brig was appointed a Baron of the Exchequer, in which position he remained until 13 July, 1310. From that date until 1317 he appears to have been frequently employed in foreign negotiations (Foss, ' The Judges of England,' quoting Rymer's ' Fredera,' i. 934, ii. 15, 175, 273, 333 ; k Madox,' ii. 58 ; and ' Parl. Writs,' ii. pp. ii, 4, 630, 1408).

As early, however, as the time of Edward I. there appears to have been a Sir John Cam- bridge who was chosen one of the Members of Parliament for the town of Cambridge, in the Great Parliament called in 1295. He is described as a man of note in the town, and subsequently became a Justice in the King's Bench. He was evidently a man of means, for in 1344 he presented the Gild at the College of Corpus Christi in Cambridge with a pix of silver gilt, weighing 78^ oz. (Atkinson and Clark, 'Cambridge Described and Illustrated,' pp. 25 and 50). This Sir John Cambridge appears to have died in 1335 (' D.N.B.').

Then there was a Sir John Cambridge who is said to have been a son of Thomas Cam- bridge, Judge of the Exchequer ('D.N.B.,' and Atkinson and Clark, ' Cambridge De- scribed and Illustrated,' p. 235). But he can scarcely be the same as the person last de- scribed, although he may possibly be the executor of Michael Northburgh, and he may also be the same person as John de Caunte- brugg, who in 1378 came into the Exchequer with other burgesses of Cambridge, and for them and the men of the town made fine to the king in 40s. to have the liberties of the