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Ohthere's voyage in his first book of Orosius. We there find mention of tyn ambra fethra, ten ambers (40 bushels) of feathers. The word is widely distributed ; it is the G. eimer, O.H.G. eimbar, ambar, Du. emmer, now merely a pail, bucket ; see Kluge. There is no doubt that it simply represents the Late Latin ampora, for amphora, borrowed from Gk. a/xc^opevs, a jar, a vase. The Gk. word is derived from d/j.(J>l and fapeiv, and means " a jar carried on both sides," i.e., having two handles. In O.H.G., popular etymology sometimes turned it into eim-bar, a bucket with only one handle ! And this remarkable ety- mology rendered it applicable to one- handled pails. WALTER W. SKEAT.

Possibly the scribe has misread or mis- heard the word ambra or ombra ; see the second substantive amber in the ' N.E.D.' The amber, in dry measure, consisted of four bushels. Q. V.

TOOKE AND HALLEY FAMILIES (10 S. viii. 221). Let me correct briefly my assertion that Dr. Halley's father-in-law was John Tooke, son of James Tooke. For making this statement as a fact, I alone am re- sponsible. The evidence seemed to justify it. Mr. Beevor's diligence, however, has brought to light the will of one Edward Tooke, of the Inner Temple, dated 17 May 1663, proved 16 June, 1668 (P.C.C., reg. Hene, fol. 80), which mentions " Margaret Tooke, Mary T., Dorothy T., and Elizabeth T., daughters of brother Christopher." The latter (Christopher Tooke) was, therefore, the astronomer's father-in-law.

I take this opportunity to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of interesting data on the Tookes from MB. W. B. GERISH, of Bishop's Stortford, and MR. H. R. WILTON HALL, of St. Albans.

EUGENE F. McPiKE.

1, Park Row, Chicago.

N\PO LEON'S CARRIAGE : JOSEPH BONA- PARTE'S CARRIAGE (10 S. vii. 170, 236 313, 357, 393, 434 ; viii. 135, 217). The following particulars about Napoleon's carriage are taken from ' History of the French Revolu- tion, and of the Wars produced by that Memorable Event,' by Christopher Kelly, London, 1818, vol. ii. p. 55 :

"This vehicle was built at Brussels to convey Buonaparte on his memorable expedition to Russia. It travelled as far as Moscow, and was almost the only equipage which escaped in his disastrous retreat. It afterwards carried the Corsican to Dresden, and brought him back a second time in

disgrace to France. After his abdication, it con^ veyed him to the shores of the Mediterranean, and was shipped with him for Elba, where it was there [sic] used in all his excursions round the island. When he planned his second usurpation, his troops were permitted to take neither equipage nor bag- gage, but his favourite travelling - carriage was carefully shipped and landed at Cannes. His journey to Paris was chiefly performed in it, nor would he quit it, although the state-carriages were despatched from Paris to convey him in triumph to the Thuilleries. When he departed to join his armies in the north of France, this carriage again accompanied him."

Then follows a description of the carriage, far shorter and less interesting than that to which I gave a reference at vii. 313.

As to Joseph Bonaparte's carriage, Kelly writes, vol. ii. p. 370 :

"He [Joseph] was seated in a close carriage, which M r as pointed out by some prisoners. A detachment of cavalry, led by the Marquis of Worcester, made for it at full gallop, .and actually cut down several of the escort, Captain Windham [? Wyndham : see ante, p. 135] fired two pistol- shots at the carriage. The escort made a stand at a mill-dam; the carriage got through ; and Joseph was seen to mount a horse on the opposite bank, with which he immediately galloped off."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

" MORELLIANISM " (10 S. viii. 268). The tenets of this doctrine were those held by Jean Baptiste Morelly, or Merely, a Pro- testant theologian of the sixteenth century, the dates of whose birth and death are alike unknown. Merely became active as one of the leading spirits of the Reformation until at Geneva he found himself in disagreement with Calvin's plan of Church government. His own views were embodied in the ' Traict e de la Discipline et Police chrestienne,' pub- lished at Lyons in 1561, wherein he advo- cated a return to the primitive democratic constitution of the Christian communities : a work that was summarily condemned by the Reformers. On his return to Geneva the following year he was summoned before an ecclesiastical court, and a retractation de- manded ; but he refused to appear, on the ground that he regarded Farel, Viret, and Calvin as the only men competent to try him ; he was accordingly excommunicated by default, and his book ordered to be burnt. Soon after this he became instructor to the son of Jeanne d'Albret, but lost his post later through the representations of Beza. He is supposed to have ended his days in England.

The Libertines were the moderate party of Genevans who stood opposed to the dog- matic and austere rule of Farel and Calvin, both of whom they compelled to flee the