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RAGNOB LODBBOK'S SONS : HULDA (US. iv. 249). At 8 S. viii. 33 it is stated that there are two Huldas in Northern story : Hulda the propitious, the Queen of the Flax Maidens ; and Hulda, the Queen of the Kobolds. BENJ. WALKEB.

Gravelly Hill, Erdington.

The name Hulda occurs in the Leeds Parish Church Registers for July, 1724, as follows : " Richard Pickering's Ch. Millhill. Born June 26. Baptised 23. Huldah."

G. D. LTJMB.

Leeds.

DATES IN ROMAN NUMEBALS (11 S. iv 250). The following dates, as written, were inscribed in the old register of Wotton Church by John Evelyn the diarist :

CIOIOXCVI.

cioiocxcvn.

The third instance which I cited I recently copied, but have not made a note where it came from.

The representations of the M and the D were the puzzle. F. R. F.

F. R. F.'s query as to the dates indicated


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1. CIOIOXCVI.

2. cioiocxcvn.

3. CIODLXXIX.

is, I think, correctly answered thus :

1. A.D. 1196.

2. A.D. 1297.

3. A.D. 1179.

The i before one reverse c signifies 500 ; i before two reverse c's signifies 1000 ; each c indicates 100; xc = 90 ; vi = 6 ; and D = 500. PATBICK GBAY.

Dundee.

Why were the letters 10 adopted to repre- sent D or 500, and cio to represent M or 1000 ? F. A. EDWABDS.

[F. R. F. has cleared up our difficulty with respect to his first date, which in his query he wrote as

CIOICXCVI.

Now that he has reversed the third c, the date reads easily as =1596.

We think MR. GRAY is mistaken in his inter- pretation of the dates intended.

With regard to MR. EDWARDS'S question, the similarity in shape between 10 and D, and between cio and M, may have led to the use sometimes of one form, sometimes of the other.]

BIBLES WITH CTJBIOUS READINGS (11 S. iii. 284, 433 ; iv. 158, 217, 259). It is so rarely we find a printer's error in a modern Bible that I trust I may be pardoned for mentioning one which I have noticed in

my reference Bible (Oxford : Printed at the University Press, M.DCCC.LV.). It occurs in Jeremiah xxxi. 15 : " Rahel weeping for her children." In Matt. ii. 18 the name is spelt correctly " Rachel."

HEBBEBT B. CLAYTON.

[" Rahel " is not a misprint. It is the spelling in Jeremiah in the pearl edition of the A.V. printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1867. The Revised Version adopts " Rachel" in this passage.]

THE LOBD CHIEF JUSTICE, THE SHEBIFF, AND VENTILATION (US. iv. 169, 217, 257). The original query was about ventilation and a fine inflicted by Lord Chief Justice Cockburn on a Sheriff, no date or place being given. The fining of a Sheriff by a Judge is not a common occurrence, and I happened to know a good deal about the only instance that seemed to fit the query, and confined my answer as much as possible to the incident, which had nothing whatever to do with ventilation. MB. E. H. FAIB- BBOTHEB goes more into details. There were two occasions when a fine was imposed, each for a different offence : the first was remitted almost as soon as inflicted; tie second was paid, and never remitted.

I may take this opportunity of adding another little item, not, perhaps, generally- known. Serjeant Ballantine in his ' Remi- niscences,' as I mentioned in my reply, alludes to the incident, saying that he and Serjeant Shee visited Mr. Evelyn at Wotton. The Sheriff' s action was attributed to legal advice given on that occasion. The Serjeant rightly denies that. Mr. Evelyn's legal adviser on the matter was Mr. Toulmin Smith, as may be seen in The Abinger Monthly Record, January, 1893, where the Guildford incident is alluded to in one of a series of articles on 'Knights of the Shire for the County of Surrey,' in the portion dealing with Mr. W. J. Evelyn as member of Parliament for the Western Division of that county. A. RHODES.

' ESSAY ON THE THEATBE,' c. 1775 : R. CUMBEBLAND (11 S. iv. 247). In the twelfth volume of ' The Harleian Miscellany,' published in 1811, there is a long poem which is probably the one your Strassburg correspondent has in mind. On p. 146 the title is thus given :

" An Essay on the Theatres : or, The Art of Acting. In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. MS. Never before Fruited. Ex Noto Fictum Carmen. Hor." ^j **

It is anonymous, and contains four lines more than the 476 of the ' Epistola ad Pisones.'