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BIBLE : CURIOUS STATISTICS. The recent discussion as to the number of acres in Yorkshire and letters in the Bible (10 S. xii. 509 ; 11 S. i. 52) may render the following particulars worthy of a place in ' N. & Q.' They are from a printed card giving some interesting statistics of the Bible, which was

fiven to me many years ago, and which pasted into the centre of my own Bible :

The Bible.

The following is a calculation of the number of books, verses, and letters contained in the Old and New Testaments. They are worth reading and preserving.

Old Testament. Number of books, 39 : chapters, 929 ; verses, 33, 214 ; words, 592,439 ; letters, 2,728,100.

The middle book is Proverbs.

The middle chapter is Job xxix.

The middle verse would be 2 Chronicles xx. 17, if there were a verse more, ancfc verse 18 if there were a verse less.

The word " and " occurs 35, 543 times.

The word " Jehovah " occxirs 6,855 times.

The shortest verse is 1 Chronicles i. 25.

The 21st verse of 7th chapter of Ezra contains all the letters of the alphabet.

The 19th chapter of 2 Kings and the 37th chapter of Isaiah are alike.

Neiv Testament. Number of books, 27 ; chapters, 260 ; verses, 7,050 ; words, 181,258 ; letters, 828,580.

The middle book is 2 Thessalonians.

The middle chapter would be Romans xiii. if there were a chapter less, and xiv. if there were n chapter more.

The middle and least verse is John xi. 35.

Old and New Testaments. Number of books 66 ; chapters, 1,189 ; verses, 40,264 ; words, 773,697 ; letters, 3,556,680.

The middle chapter and least in the Bible is the 11 7th Psalm.

The middle verse is Psalm cxviii. 8.

D. K. T.

CHARLES BLACKER VIGNOLES. There is a remarkable blunder about this man in the Charles Hutton of Woolwich, who was his grandfather. We are told that Button's captain of the 43rd regiment, and with her husband and child died of yellow fever in June, 1794, at Guadeloupe, where all were prisoners of war." This is correctly quoted from The Gentleman's Magazine for 1794, part ii., but is erroneous in one important respect. The child did not die, but became famous as an engineer, and lived to eighty- two years of age. I have repeatedly seen him at meetings of the Royal Astronomical Society, of which he was a Fellow, and have j also on several occasions met his son, the late Rev. Olinthus Vignoles. An account of
 * Dictionary of National Biography,' under
 * ' sec6nd daughter married Henry Vignoles,

j the father is given in the ' D.X.B.,' but the error under Hutton is not corrected in the original edition. This, however, is done in the reprint by the omission of the words "and child." W T. T. Li

LYNN.

Blackheath.

GLOUCESTER ELECTION, 1761. There were many complaints lodged in the King's Bench in 1761 against the Mayor and Corporation of Gloucester. Among the complainants was Richard Hathaway, inn- holder, who kept a public inn called ' ' The Bull," son of a freeman. But the aldermen had made a rule that persons were not to be allowed to take up their freedom unless they promised to vote one way. Charles Hooper, William Culburne, and John Webbe, near neighbours of Richard Hathaway, witnessed that "he is a person of good character and sobriety, and hath kept, and now keeps, a regular and orderly house " ; and that all the sons of freemen have hitherto taken up their freedom. I do not know how these complaints came into the Lord Chamberlain's office, but about thirty of them are preserved there.

C. C. STOPES.

fljttmts.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct

FOURTEENTH-CENTURY CALENDAR. In a fourteenth -century calendar which I am editing for publication, at the foot of the page is indicated (1) which of the festivals are " omnino tenenda," and (2) which are " ab operibus feminarum ferianda." The first class of notes I have found in several Sarum calendars, and also in the calendar prefixed to the York missal as edited by Dr. Henderson. The second class of notes I have not found anywhere else. Dr. Frere, however, informs me that he has found such notes elsewhere, and recently, he thinks, in a calendar at Cambridge. I shall be greatly obliged to any reader of ' N. & Q. 1 who can direct me to any instance of their occurrence. JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

HENRY VII.'s CHAPEL : ITS ARCHITECT. Do any of your readers know who was the architect of Henry VII.'s Chapel, West- minster ? Cottingham in his ' Plans of the Magnificent Chapel of King Henry VII.,' 1822-9, i. 3, says that the King in his