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Domesday Book and their respective valu tioris. One curious rating is Mellinge 4Z. 10s. and 2.000 eels. If your correspond ent is unable to find a copy in a local library I shall be happy to send further informatio direct on application. WM. JAGGARD.

Liverpool.

The windmills in Sussex in 1905 wer 30 wind, 20 wind and steam, and 4 win and water. I take these figures from th return published in the last edition o Kelly's ' Sussex Directory,' 1905.

ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS. Library, Constitutional Club.

THE LEI^ARRAGAN VERB (10 S. iii. 267 It has not, I think, been pointed out tha there are variants in certain copies o Leicarraga's Baskish New Testament o 1571, at least in the earlier chapters of th Gospel of St. Matthew. When the autho and his assistants, mentioned in one of th prefaces, were discussing the merits of the newly printed pages, they found time to change in the copy at Hamburg, and (as I am informed by M. le Prof esseur Henri Gavel du Lycee de Bayonne, who studies Baskish also in that at Bayonne, diotso into diotsa iv. 6, 9, 10 ; diroano into decaqueano, v. 26 and drauanari into draudnari, v, 40.

It is evident that these copies can be con- sidered correcter than those which differ (those of the Bodleian Library, the British Museum, and the British and Foreign Bible Society, for instance), because after chap. xx. one never finds diotso in the whole of the translation, but only diotsa. It is a pity that the all but quite correct reprint produced at Strassburg in Elsass in 1900 should have been taken from the copy at Leipzig, in which the stop-press improvements were not made. It may be that, while my Analytical Concordance to the 920 Verbal

Forms used in St. Matthew's Gospel ' i being composed at the Oxford University Press this year, I shall light upon other words which were altered by the pioneers at La Rochelle, who worked for the Queen of Navarre, grandmother of the consort of King Charles I. of England. E. S. DODGSON.

" MONY A PICKLE MAKS A MICKLE " (10 S.

vi. 388, 456; vii. 11, 112). In connexion with what has been said on this subject, it may not be amiss to mention the occurrence of a very curious and diverting variant, [n a clever and well-written novel by a lady, published about the middle of February, the author has occasion to state the diffi- culties of a detective over a very intricate

and puzzling case. The suspicions of the expert have fallen upon a young lady, and at a critical stage of his investigations he pauses to consider the position in all its bearings. He is represented as running over in his mind all that can possibly be advanced against the suspect ; and finding that in the aggregate it does not amount to much, he is fain to solace himself with a philosophical summary. " Even if she did all these things," he sententiously reflects, " it might not amount to much, but it is the mickle that makes the little, and the little the lot." It would be curious to know what meaning is attached to the term " mickle " by the writer of this cryptic intimation. Apparently, the belief is that bhe signification is akin to that of the Latin hilum, out of which came nihilum and nihil, and which one school of etymologists used to define as " the black spot on a bean." The statement as it stands affords a striking llustration of how a faintly remembered proverb may be completely misrepresented. THOMAS BAYNE.

" ADESPOTA " (10 S. vii. 105). In Liddell and Scott the second meaning of aSeo-TTOTos appears thus : "of reports or writings, without owner, anonymous, Dion. H. 11, 50, Plut. Cic. 15, &c."

Schrevelius gives " sine domino, sine

17, Cicero

erto auctore."

In ' Epist. ad Fam.,' xv. peaks of "rumores tristiores, Webbe's translation is : There are certain reports, rather bad than other- wise, but they are not credited, by reason that they ome from no certain places."

Melmoth's is :

" Some flying reports indeed have been spread hat things do not go well there : but they are ports without authority."

n the latter translation the reference is 20.

Bergk, in his ' Poetse Lyrici Grseci,' ^ipsise, 1853, p. 1044, calls the ownerless fragments " Fragmenta adespota " : Nauck, in his ' Tragicorum Grsecorum Fragmenta,' Lipsiae, 1856, p. 648, calls them " Adespota." In ' Lexicon Ciceronianum Marii Nizolii,' 1820, appears " Adespotos, auctore carens

et principe.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

FRENCH QUOTATION (10 S. vi. 88). The passage quoted by J. B., beginning with the words " Je ne voudrai8 pas reprendre mon coeur de cette sorte," is from the ' Vie Devote ' of St. Francis of Sales, third part chap, ix., the title of the chapter being ' De la Douceur envers nous-memes.' J. B.