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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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tetrarch into a forty-fourth year, so that Sul- picius's twenty-four must be a slip xxiv. for xliv. We also know that Antipas was removed and banished by order of Caligula in A.D. 40, which shows that his father's death took place in B.C. 4 ; and this is confirmed by the ten years' ethnarchy of Archelaus, which ter- minated in A.D. 6. But what does Sulpicms mean by saying that the crucifixion of our Lord took place in the eighteenth year hoc regnante," which should signify of the rule of Antipas? Probably the reading is corrupt, and that of the principate of Tiberius is meant. If so, Sulpicius, like Eusebius, reckons the years of Tiberius not from the death of Augustus, which took place in A.D. 14, but from the previous time when Tiberius was admitted to a share in the empire, and took the command of the army. As our Lord was thirty when He commenced His ministry in A.D. 26, and it seems to have lasted over three years, this brings the date of the Crucifixion to A.D. 30. W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

THE 'VOCABOLAEIO DELLA CRUSCA.' On

12 December the " solenne adunanza " of the Accademia della Crusca was held in Florence, when it was reported that the last fasciculus issued ends with the word intendere, and that the compilation has reached the word intra. At this rate, it ought not to take Dr. Murray very long to overtake the venerable Florentine institution.

"THE EARL OF HEATH'S LIBERTY." Portion of the south-west district of the city of Dub- lin is so called. It was formerly the seat of the silk and poplin industry. It was largely peopled by the descendants of a Huguenot colony that settled there during the reign of William III., and it is said that late into the last century a French patois was spoken there Unlike their co-religionists in London, how- ever, they seem to have left little mark on the language of the present-day inhabitants. That distress often prevailed amongst them is shown by an order of the Irish Government in 1720, ordering sermons to be preached in all the parish churches "in aid of the dis- tressed weavers." A similar order was made in 1729 to compel linen scarves and hatband to be worn at funerals, to assist the linen industry. The "Liberty," though now decayed portion of the city, was formerly a most thriving centre, embracing many streets, the Coombe, I think, one of them the latter a broad and long thoroughfare running east and west. Much rioting often took place here between the weavers and other bodies

of the citizens, notably the butchers' boys of Ormpnd Market. A portion of a song still survives composed by a member of the latter fraternity, as follows : We won't leave a weaver alive in the Coombe, We '11 rip up his tripe-bag and burn his loom.

have also heard the district called "St. Patrick's Liberties." St. Patrick's Cathedral is close at hand. J. H. MURRAY.

Edinburgh.

"WINGED SKYE." In 'The Lord of the Isles,' III. xi., Scott says of the two boats just starting from the Sound of Mull,

On different voyage forth they ply, This for the coast of winged Skye, And that for Erin's shore. The editor of the ' Oxford Scott ' pulls up at "winged Skye" boggles at it, as horsemen say of nervous animals and ventures to suggest that Scott may have written This winged for the coast of Skye. This is very funny. One wonders what Scott himself would have thought had he known that it was considered possible for him to indulge in such a wild metaphorical flight. Editors should learn that Scott invariably knew what he was writing about. In this case he was aware that the natives of Skye, looking to its conformation, called it, with the Celtic love of brightness and colour, " the island of wings." The annotator in the Clarendon Press edition of the poem writes a modest note on the subject, which is correct so far as it goes. The boldness of the Oxford editor is astonishing. A SCOT.

THE FIRE IN CRIPPLEG ATE. Very nearly the whole of the property destroyed by the recent fire in Cripplegate belonged to the Goldsmiths' Company. Jewin Street, which was in the centre of the fire, was laid out by this Company in 1652. There is the following entry in the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Court of Assistants of the Company, dated 14 May, 1652 :

" It is ordered that Mr. Jarman, the carpenter, and Mr. Burridge, the bricklayer, shall proceed to make the common streets or passages out of Shoe Lane towards Fetter Lane, and out of Red Cross Street into Aldersgate Street, and pull down such houses and lay open such gardens as they shall think fit, according to the designs formerly ap- proved, and if obstructed by any tenant or other- wise they are to acquaint the Committee forthwith."

The street referred to " out of Ked Cross Street into Aldersgate Street " is now known as Jewin Street, and was originally about 24ft. wide for the greater part of its length, about 15 ft. wide at its eastern end, and about 11 ft. wide at its western end, H<?weH