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prisonment at Chepstow, his wife relieved him out of her jointure," but none of his biographers make any mention of his children.]'

Gullet. Why is broken glass termed in com- merce, when put up for sale, Gullet ?

CENTURION.

[ Gullet does not occur in any dictionary we have con- sulted ; but it is probably derived from the French Cueil- lette, a gathering or collection. ]

" Ounsel." What is the meaning of this word ? It occurs in the report of the proceedings of the Clonmel Union for February 14th ult. :

" Mr. Shee. I often said that an ounsel would be a most essential requisite to this house."

" Mr. Riatf. We could get one that would weigh two tons for ten or twelve jpounds."

BAR-POINT.

Philadelphia.

[This is a provincialism for the weighing balance called the steel-yard, and is derived from ounce, weight ; or undo, an inch in length. Cleland, in his Vocabulary, is of opinion that " uncia denotes only a notch, or a nick, in the steel-yard, dividing the pound into lesser weights." Machines of the steel-yard kind are made of all sizes, to weigh either tons or ounces. They are sometimes called weigh-bridges. See engravings of various kinds in He- bert's Engineers' and Mechanics' Encyclopedia, art. " Ba- lance."]

Bonaventttre's " Legend of St. Francis." Can any of your readers help me to an English, French, or Latin version of Die Legend des He.yligen vatters Francisci. Nach der beschreybwig des En- gelischen Lerers Bonaventure, dated 1511.

CIIABLES DAMPIER,

Newport, Salop.

[The first edition of this work was in Latin, entitled Aurea Leqenda maior bead Francisci, 12mo., Flor. Ph. Junta, 1509. The Bodleian contains two English editions, 8vo., Douay, 1610, 1635. It is also prefixed to the Works of St. Francis, by J. de la Have, fol., Paris, 1641. Dibdin (Typog. Antiq. ii. 538.) thus notices an edition printed by Pynson : " The Life of St. Francis, written by frere Bona- venture, translated into English, 4to., no date. Herbert (he adds) inserted this superficial notice from Mr. Thomas Baker's interleaved copy of MaunselPs catalogue."]

THE BIBLE. (2 nd S. i. 314.)

The usual expression of the Apostolic Fathers, in ^ quoting the Scriptures, is yeypairrat, " it is written," as Ignatius ad Eph. 5. ; and the collected writings of the Old and New Testament are de- signated by them, as the Old Testament is in the New Testament, by a* ypatpai (Acts xvii. 2. 11., Clemens Horn, ad Cor. 45.) ; or by r\ -ypacp^ (2 Tim. iii. 16., Clemeng Rom. ad Cor, 23. 34, 35. 42.;

Barnabas, pp. 136. 174., Reithmayr).* They are also termed ajios \6jos (Clemens Rom. ad Cor., 13. 56.), and rb ypa^lov (Clemens Rom. ad Cor., 28.).

Clemens Alexandrinus uses the words " Scrip- ture," TJ 7pa}> (Strom., lib. i. p. 281.), and " Scriptures," at ypatyai (Strom., lib. viii. p. 728.), in speaking of the whole collection of Sacred Scripture (the Bible) ; and he separates them into TraA-cua and vea Siafof/oj (Pasd., lib. i. p. 111.), " the Old and New Testaments, or covenants," also in strict conformity with the New Testament.

Chrysostom calls them " the divine books," TO. d-e? &t\ia (Horn., Gen. i.) : go does Athannsius (p. 962.) ; Isidore of Pelusium, of betai ypa<pal (Ep., 114. 1. 4.). Tertullian terms the entire collection instrumentum (adv. Marcion, lib. v. c. xiii. p. 601.) and digesta {Id., lib. iv. c. iii. p. 504.).

The settlement of the canon of the New Testa- ment is historical, or founded on universal tradi- tion, and has never required the decision of a council : for the same books have been admitted into such list (canon) by Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, the council of Laodicea, Epiphanius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, Amphilochius, Gre- gory Nyssen, Jerome, Rufinus, the third council of Carthage, Augustine,Jnnocent, I., Bishop of Rome, Isidore of Pelusium, Cyril of Alexandria, Cassian, Prosper of Aquitain, Eucherius, Bishop of Lyons, Sedulius, Leo, Bishop of Rome, Salvian, Diony- sius the Areopagite, Gelasius, Bishop of Rome, Andrew, Facundus, Aretha*, C;issiodorus, Pho- tius, (Ecumenitis, Nicephorus, Callisti, and Theo- phylact; the last, and Cyril of Jerusalem, only excluding the Revelations. (Lardner, Cred., xi. 446,). What authority can be opposed to these?

T. J. BUCK/TON.

Lichfield.

If ypaty}) be the word your correspondent is in search after, the following extracts may possibly be of some use to him :

" Oi>x awaa-a /3i|3Aos do-^aAr)?, TJ ris KtKTrnJ.evrf eicrii/ yap, K. T. A." S. Amphiloch., Epist. ad

Seleucum. Op., Zechner., p. 130.

" "Iva e/crbs Tv /nrjSei' ec rij eKKArjcria a.va.yi.viaTjS iJ.dv9a.ve vvv ra j3i/3Aia." Niceph. C.'llixt.,

" rpa<^jjs Troa-rjs <rucoi/<." ; ap. Cyri Theodori Prodromi Epigramm.

3J"D, as now, meaning "Scripture;" but'lhe Jews also name them "pj"), " consummation ; " and N"lpE, " read- ing," from the same Shemitic root as designates the law and prophecies of Mahomet, "Koran," also meaning " reading," or " lecture."
 * The Hebrew Scriptures were anciently denominated