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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. MAR. 5, 1910.

the reference. In changing these two read- ings the publisher would be supported by the example set in the Authorized Version when the archaic possessive "it" of Leviticus xxv. 5 made way for the modern " its, the only one in Scripture.

A curious illustration of the accidents incidental to reprints occurs in the copy of the novel (one of Messrs. Black's illustrated edition of 1879) which has been used in the preparation of this note. About the middle of chap. x. a paragraph begins with the sentence, " ' Good King Arthur,' said Rudolph, ' thou art a dutiful observer of the fourth commandment, and thy days .shall be long in the land.' '- In earlier editions the commandment is correctly specified. THOMAS BAYNE.

RAFF ABLE DE GRIMALDI. In the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, in Room No. 39, on the ground floor, No. 704 is an ancient brass gilt reliquary. It was bought from the Castellani Collection for 1,144Z. 10s. in 1884. It is 2 ft. 2 in. high, the width at the base being 12 in., and is of Italian workmanship. On it is an inscription saying that it contains the arm of St. Catherine, and interesting men- tion is made of Raphaelle Grimaldi, 1496. The inscription on the reliquary is as follows : " Divae Catherine vr' et mar os brachii ex oriente a fratre Simone Dozolo prd minor regium a latu tr' r mi p pd b on f r > Arloti epi regien' q. xxv Octub. MCCCCLXXXXVI indvlgetiam dier xi perpetvo dedit oscvlanti teca hac a Raphaelle Grimaldo caelatam et sacri cvstode adyti d. Jo. Andree Capriolo existente."

The genealogy of Raphaelle Grimaldi is found in the Grimaldi family history, entitled Arbor,' by C. Venasque, folio, 1647, dedicated to Cardinal Hieronymo Grimaldi.
 * Genealogica et Historica Grimaldae Gentis

Bancheno, in his ' Genova,' 1846, p. 392, mentions that Raffaele Grimaldi, Commis- sario Generali, 1487, was Governor of Corsica. The following is a translation of an inedited official dispatch by this Raffaele de Grimaldi to the Governors of the Bank of St. George, dated 10 March, 1489, from Bastia in Corsica, of which he was then Governor. The dispatch (which is in my possession) mentions the patriot Rinucio, who was then fighting to free his country from Genoese tyranny ; but he was captured in^!504. See Bent, ' Genoa,' 1881, p. 320.

MAGNIFICENT AND PRAGMATIC LORDS, I wrote before yesterday by a brigantine of the Levant, in which came Signore Petro Paulo de Gentile de Brando, to whom I committed the letters ; notwithstanding, contrary winds preventing,

he has not set out yet from Capo Corso, and having this morning received the enclosed letter from the Commissioner, I resolved on writing at once and sending it by the aforesaid Petro Paulo. Your Lordships will learn by the aforesaid enclosed letter of the arrival of the fleet in Adrio, of Sardinia, and its return towards the aforesaid isle, and thence the flight of San Paulo, who had gone to join the abovesaid fleet. By which we may be certain that, being joined to Signor Rinucio, who united himself to them so cleverly, the enemies will be forced to confine themselves to the woods, and so preserve their persons.

Alfonso de Ornano, according to the account of Judicelo, found himself in camp, and has brought to me the aforesaid letters of the com- missioner. He has not been hurt by the stoning given to him at Adrazo, and he worked valorously; he has burnt the houses of Peraldo da Sarola and of his brothers, and certainly merits every good. Yesterday I paid to the account of Massaroti MC. m.m., as your Lordships will see by this enclosed, to give the pay to the servants who are at Corte, for which place he will set out this day ; and I have commissioned him to go to the Castello di Corte, as well as to that of Petralata, and take to the Governor some \il. for each one.

Your Lordships will make me creditor of the above-named bargain, and as to Joane dal Frisco, as aforesaid, in my dispatch, I have told him not to stay in the house of the Bishop of Marrana except [cipher]. In which opinion I am not yet shaken, and we shall not be able with all this to finish quickly.

We have had at this day n. 300, in which is enough for the pay of the servants. I am in this and the other matters in debt, and the others have arrears. It will be necessary that your Lordships communicate [?] from some other side. To whom I recommend myself always.

From Bastia, 10 March/1489.

Of your Eminent Lords

Your Servant, RAFFAELE GRIMALDI, Governor of Corsica.

The enclosure referred to has been lost.

D. J.

MODERN NAMES DERIVED FROM LATINIZED FORMS. The suggestion that a Christian name Alvery might be connected with Alveredus, the Latin form of Alfred (10 S. xii. 397), is supported by the fact that several nodern names owe their origin to a wrong translation of the old charter Latin.

Reginald was thus formed from Reginaldus or Raginaldus, the Latinized forms of Reinald or Rainald. Reinald was after- wards modified into Reynold.

Another modern antique is Nigel, from Nigellus (= Nele or Neel). As Mr. Barren las pointed out (Ancestor, iii. 181-2), this has ed Sir A. Conan Doyle in his ' White Com- Dany * into splitting that gallant soldier Sir Sele Loring, K.G., into two persons Sir ' Nigel " Loring and his cousin Sir ' ' Nele n