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WASHINGTON IRVING' s ' SKETCH-BOOK ' (11 S. iv. 109, 129, 148, 156, 196). 17. These lines are the burden of the carol ' The Sunnv Bank ' (' Songs of the Nativity,' pp. 24 to 26, published by J. C. Hotten, no date, but presumably about 1870). The carol consists of nine verses, and is also given condensed as follows : As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas Day in the morning, I spied three ships come sailing by, And who should be with those three ships But Joseph and his fair lady ? Oh, he did whistle and she did sing, And all the bells on earth did ring For joy that our Saviour He was born On Christmas Day in the morning.

MATILDA POLLARD. Belle Vue, Bengeo.

SIR JOHN ARUNDEL OF CLERKENWELL (11 S. iii. 367, 415, 491 ; iv. 32, 97). The printed register of marriages at St. Bene't Paul's Wharf, London (Harl. Soc., 1911), contains (p. 253) this entry :

"1801, Apl. 18. Sir John ARUNDEL, Kuight, of Huntingdon, co. Huntingdon, W., and Sarah Anne Sharpe, of St. Benedict, Paul's Wharf, S. ; by Richard Edwards, Lecturer. Licence. Wit. : Sarah Freeman, William Sharpe, Mary Freeman."

Were the Freemans related to either the Arundel or the Sharpe family ?

EUGENE F. McPiKE. 135, Park Row, Chicago.

BIBLES WITH CURIOUS READINGS (US. i'ii. 284, 433 ; iv. 158). I shall be glad if one of the contributors on this subject can tell me in what translation of the Bible appears the reading " Paul the knave of Jesus Christ," and in what place. I asked the question at 10 S. xii. 128, but without obtaining the desired information.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

In Brewer's 'Historic Note-Book' (1891) there is a list of English printed Bibles, including those with eccentric names. A special account of each of these Bibles will also be found under its own heading, giving the origin and meaning of the different titles. Among these I notice the " Devil's Bible," the " Silver Bible," and so on.

HERBERT B. CLAYTON.

39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kemrington Lane.

[Reply from W. B. anticipated at earlier references.]

GRINLING GIBBONS (11 S. iv. 89, 137, 154). In the twelfth volume of the Trans- actions of the British Archaeological Associa- tion there is a statement with respect to the restoration of the carvings of this sculptor

by a Mr. Rogers, who was an expert. The editor states that a Life of Grinling Gibbons was an artistic desideratum, and suggests that Mr. Rogers should undertake it. Was this ever done ?

Other instances of Gibbons' s work occur in the reredos of the Hamburgh Lutheran Church, Little Trinity Lane, Dalston ; the monuments of Rebecca, Henry, and Anna- bella, children of Sir Richard Atkins, in Clapham parish church ; Belton House, Grantham ; and many other places.

The earlier volumes of * N. & Q.' contain many notes on Gibbons and his works, especially vols. iii. and iv. of the Fourth Series.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.

BRISBANE FAMILY (11 S. iv. 49). In Arthur's ' Family and Christian Names ' (New York, 1857) this personal name is derived from the Cornish brez or brys, judg- ment, and ban, a hill, hence " mount of judgment." In Gaelic, it appears, breasban means " royal mount," and brisbeinn, " the broken hill." N. W. HILL.

New York.

" APSSEN COUNTER" (10 S. xii. 349; 11 S. i. 116). MR. P. LUCAS inquired as to the meaning of " apssen counter " in a bequest in an early Sussex will. I suggest that it was a sandboard used for teaching A B C schoolmasters taught the young " apeseyes " (or their abc's) on some such board. H. A. HARRIS.

Thorndon Rectory, Eye, Suffolk.

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, THE SHERIFF, AND VENTILATION (11 S. iv. 169). The paragraph referred to by E. R. seems to have been somewhat confused, for the case had nothing to do with a window and ventilation.

At the Assizes held at Guildford in August, 1860, the High Sheriff was William John Evelyn, Esq., of Wotton House, the then representative of the family of the diarist. The judges were the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Justice Blackburn, the latter presiding in the Crown Court, from which he ordered the public to be cleared, on the ground that the noise was so great that he could not hear the evidence. After the public had been excluded a week, Mr. Evelyn as Sheriff, thinking this contrary to law, issued a placard and ordered the whole court to be opened. For this Mr. Justice Blackburn fined him 5007., and the Lord Chief Justice, as senior judge, inflicted the fine and gave the Sheriff a lecture.