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It may be noted that some other of the Trades Incorporations of Glasgow, besides those mentioned by MR. RHODES, have published their histories, which include the Burgh Records bearing on the growth and development of their crafts for instance, the Barbers, Cordiners, Masons, Maltmen, Wrights, &c. G.

Cathcart.

LONGINUS AND ST. PAUL (11 S. IV. 64). :

The fragment referred to by Zachary Pearce, about which MR. R. J. WALKER asks for information, was printed in Hudson's edition of the ' De Sublimitate ' (Oxford, 1710 and 1718). A list is given in the "Prefatio" of recorded works of Longinus. Under 1$, KpiriKa, Hudson writes :

" Ex hoc tractatu forsan desumptum est illud Longini de Rhetoribus testimonium, quod exstat in praestantissimo cpdice Evangeliorum Biblio- thecse Vatican Urbinatis, signato num. 2, quod nobiscum communicavit Vir summse doctrinse pariter ac humanitatis, Laur. Alex. Zacagnius :

Aoyyivos 6 KOLL pr/TUp rrjv rCiv /m,eyd\<*}v prjTopwv c.Tra.pidfj.-riffi.v vvvtra^cv otfrws. Ko/jwvis 3' &rrw \6yov Travros Kdi <pp6vr)/u,a.TOS 'EXXT/pi/coO Arj/^otrO^vt]^, Ai'crtas [here follow seven other names], TT/OOS rot/rots IlaOXos 6 Ta/xrei)?, ovriva Kal irp&rdv <p-rjfjt.i irpOLffrd^evov ddy- (J.O.TOS avcnrodeiKTov."

In Benjamin Weiske's edition, which embodies Toup and Ruhnken's notes, the words from Trpos robots to the end of the fragment are enclosed in brackets, being evidently regarded as an addition to Longi- nus' s words. Weiske's comment is : " Cen- suisse ergo videtur quisquis hoc adscripsit Paulum primum omnium scripto mandasse dogmata Christianorum." Egger in his edition (Paris, 1837, p. 65) brackets the same words.

What is apparently the manuscript in question, the cursive MS. of the Evangelists, " Rom. Urbino-Vat. 2 " (twelfth century), is briefly described in Scrivener's ' Plain Introduction,' ed. 4, vol. i. p. 214 ; but no mention is made of the Longinus fragment. EDWARD BENSLY.

Roberts in his edition of ' Longinus on the Sublime ' (2nd ed., p. 234) refers to the fragment of Longinus the philosopher on " Paul of Tarsus " as given in Vaucher, ' Etudes Critiques sur le Traite du Sublime et sur les Merits de Longin,' Geneve, 1854, p. 309. But Roberts intimates doubt as to the genuineness of the fragment.

It ought to be unnecessary to add that most critics now hold that the philosopher,

the teacher of Zenobia, is not the author of the treatise ' On the Sublime.' The best opinion is that the name of the author is unknown. BIBONG.

" GOTHAMITES "= LONDONERS (11 S. iv. 25). MR. A. F. ROBBINS is not, I think,, quite justified in assuming from but a single- instance that, a couple of centuries ago,. Londoners were apt to be dubbed Gotham- ites or at least more so than the inhabit- ants of any other place. The section dealing with- ' Offshoots of Gotham ' in my book,. 'All about the Merry Tales of Gotham,' 2nd ed., 1910, contains numerous instances, from different parts of the country, of the adoption of the same practice :

" It would seem that, whenever old writers desired to satirise any particular place, or any particular proceedings, it Was the usual practise to borrow the names ' Gotham ' and " Gotham- ites,' as proxies, against which to launch oppro- brium and invective, while leaving it for their readers to mentally supply correct names." In the case of three places, however Glasgow, Newcastle, and Stroud I found' some evidence of the nickname " Gotham " becoming fixed for a more or less consider- able period of years.

Of the application of the term to New- York I found no evidence earlier than the- nineteenth century. There, moreover, the original significance of the nickname would appear to have been forgotten, to judge from the manner in which Americans use it at the present day.

However, I thank MR. ROBBINS for an- addition to my collection of literary refer- ences, and shall be glad to learn of others, which, if not of sufficient interest for ' N. & Q.,' may be sent to me direct.

A. STAPLETON.

39, Burford Eoad, Nottingham.

"GIFLA" (11 S. iv. 43). As a sort of counter-proposal to MR. ANSCOMBE'S " Isle- worth " may I offer a speculation as to the position of this tribe ? Perhaps some Hampshire reader may criticize it. It is that the Esselei Hundred of Domesday Book should be read Effelei a possible relative of Gifla. This hundred corresponds somewhat to the present Bishop's Sutton, to the east of Winchester. In that case Gifla =Meonwara. The place-name Effelle- actually occurs in Domesday Book ; it i& an unidentified manor of 2 hides near Havant.

As to Faerpinga, the oldest copy of the in Middle England," so that Hampshire
 * Tribal Hidage ' has a side-note that it "la-