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of Mr Samuel Forster, at Will's Coffee-House, near Lincoln's Inn (ibid., 26 Feb., 1742).

Near the Scotland Yard " Will's " there was another coffee-house known as "Young Will's." This was in Buckingham Court, Spring Gar- dens, Charing Cross, a court where Mrs. Centlivre died in 1723 (see ibid., 5 March and 8 April, 1742). At the latter date it was called "Will's" only. It was near Walling- ford House, and Sir Christopher Wren re- ceived the following instructions from the Board of Green Cloth concerning the closing of a way leading from the court into the Spring Garden :

"Whereas information hath been given to this Board there is a great and numerous concourse of Papists and other persons disaffected to the Govern- ment that resort to the Coffee House of one Brome-

field, in Buckingham Court and to other houses

there : And whereas there is a Door lately opened out of that Court into the lower part of the Spring Garden that leads into St. James's Park," c. See further Cunningham's ' London.'

J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL.

161, Hammersmith Road.

PUNCTUATION IN MSS. AND PRINTED

BOOKS. (See ante, p. 301.)

SOME of the observations made in investi- gating the matters already mentioned are recorded in the following notes. The notes take the MSS. and print in chronological order. Here and there comments have been made in the nature of argument and illus- tration. The superior figures refer to the examples at the end of the article.

4 Fragmenta Herculanensia/ ed. W. Scott, 1885. Papyri fragments from Herculaneum. Before A.D. 79. Thompson (' Palaeography,' p. 187) remarks that long vowels are in these papyri in many instances marked with accent ; t when long is apparently doubled vertically. 1 Thus, throughout the whole of our era, i has been marked by strokes arid dots for various purposes somewhat more frequently than have other letters. No uni- form practice is traceable, nor any guiding principle.

B.M. Pap. ccxxx. Papyrus fragment of Psalter, circ. third century. Has (apparently, for the papyrus is much broken) some double- dotted iotas. 2

B.M. Royal MSS. 1 D. v.-viii. The Codex Alexandrinus. Probably early fifth century. It has (at least Mark ix. 2-29 examined) fre- quent double-dotted v and i' (no other vowel). These are always initial, and usually after a vowel in preceding word.' 5 "The punctua- tion is by the first hand " (Kenyon). This

consists of high point only for all purposes- No marks of interrogation or exclamation. o Se a7ro/* o 6V

Sta rt rjfjitis OVK* r)8vvriOir][JLev KJ3a.\Lv avro'

Kttt 17TV....

Note OVK always.

The Codex Sinaiticus (early fifth century} has also 4.

B.M. Cotton MS. Titus, C. xv. Gospels in Greek. Sixth C?) century. Punctuation single dot : (1) high, (2) middle, (3) low breathings. Two dots over initial i', one dot over initial i>, throughout. 5

Harl. MS. 5792. A Grseco-Lat. Glossary. Probably of the seventh century. The scribe ignorantly copies from his archetype the cursive or long f as a dotted i. Some- times he copies as i without dot.

Pal. Soc., ii. pi. 32. Homilies of St. Maxi- mus. In Ambrosian, Turin. (Papyrus ?) seventh century. The vowels a, u, e, seem to- be dotted, and i not. The longer i's are not capitals. 7

Wattenbach, 'Script. Gr. Spec.,' tab. 9. Venetian Codex, O.T. Greek, eighth or ninth century. 8

Punctuation 9 : the first two have modern values in special cases. The last marks the close of a paragraph.

Thompson, 'Greek and Latin Palaeography/ p. 235. A facsimile of a MS. of Sulpicius Severus. Early ninth century. ** Ex uteri- bus caprarum aut ovium pastorum manu

gressis. longa linea copiosi 10 ...... nos obstupe- icti tantae rei miraculo. id quod," &c.

These are apparent examples of modern, use of the note of exclamation, but I have- not seen more of the MS. At least the erroneous pointing in other places (e.g., "puer. surrexit ") makes against the probability of any such intent on the part of the scribe. The occurrence only adds to the instances which may be cited of a mark like the ecphoneme.

In the Bibliotheque Nationale. See 'Album, Paleogr.,' pi. 22. Gospels of Lothair. Written at Tours, Abbey of St. Martin, middle of the ninth century.

Note the punctuation: "Ait paraly- tico . tibi dico surge . et tolle lectum tuum .. et uade in domu(m) tuam ; Et confestim," &c.

In the Royal Library, Munich. Pal. Soc., i. pi. 123. St. Augustine, written Ratisbon, 823. This uses n as a slight mark, equal to-