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reigned only 5 or 6 years ; Clement III., quite young, reigned only 3 years, 3 months, and 8 days ; Innocent III,, elected when thirty- eight, reigned 18 years, 6 months, and 9 days ; Gregory XL, elected when thirty-nine, reigned 7 years, 2 months, and 28 days ; Boniface IX., elected at forty-eight, reigned about 16 years ; Nicholas V., elected at forty-eight, reignea only 8 years, 19 days ; Paul II., elected when forty-six, reigned only 6 years, 10 months, and 26 days ; Leo X., elected when thirty- seven, reignea 8 years, 8 months, and 20 days; Clement VII., elected at forty-five, reigned 10 years, 10 months, and 5 days. The present Pope, quern Deus conservet, will have exceeded the years of Peter in less than another five years.

HARTWELL D. GRISSELL, F.S.A.

Brasenose College, Oxford.

CURIOUS MISQUOTATION (9 th S. ii. 205, 312). In response to MR. W. T. LYNN, I was not unaware of the rare verb p3^, as he seems to imply, but I feared to add to my original note matter involving considerable discussion and opening out a vista of psychological pro- blems not exactly germane to the point. Moreover, the spelling in the A.V., " saoach- thani," is calculated to lead a born Jew off the trail. If "OnpSfc^ should ultimately turn out to be the accepted reading of this obscure passage in St. Matthew it ought to be spelt in any revised edition of the N.T. thus, " shebaktani," reproducing for the student the accurate phonetic picture of this Aramaic word.

I wish to thank the REV. ED. MARSHALL for his learned paper on St. Matthew xxvii. 46. It would seem that in textual criticism, as

in other domains of polite learning, n?np spoke le dernier mot. EWH Jinn KHn ^D pK. I am by no means convinced by the citations from Maldonatus and Cornelius a Lapide. Why should Jesus have broken out into Ara- maic at all 1 Had the passage been quoted in Chaldaic thus, 'jnpntJ> no ^ItSD 6* ^>K, I should unhesitatingly bow before the learned authorities. Possibly some of your contributors will furnish other examples from the N.T. in support of Maldonatus ; failing which 1 beg leave to say that the matter is far from being finally settled.

M. L. BRESLAR. Percy House, South Hackney.

ALGERNON (9 th S. ii. 248, 293, 389). MR. ADAMS says that " there may be exaggeration in this picture of moustaches trained over the ear. The next time he is at Amiens, if he goes to the Hotel de la Croix Blanche, he

will not only be well entertained, but it will be by a host who, when he eats or stoops over his desk, must loop his moustaches over his ears to get them out of the way. M. Guede is of the old Norman type that may well represent the original Algernon.

H. H. S. Sausset (Bouches-du-Rhone).

PATCHES (9 th S. i. 347 ; ii. 73, 158, 273). The earliest use' of mouche discovered by Litcre dates from 1655. Patches as cosmetic foils on ladies' faces must have been contemporary in England. They are alluded to by Butler in 'Hudibras ' as well known in 1663, thus : The sun and moon by her bright eyes Eclipsed, and darkened in the skies, Are put black patches which she wears Cut into suns, and moons, and stars.

The word mouche is French for fly, and is more significant than our English "patch" or its alternative " court plaster."

JAMES D. BUTLER.

My grandmother, Honor Matthews (nee Williams), wore a patch till late in life. She was born 1796, at St. Ives, Cornwall, and died 1870. JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

ROBERT BURTON ON TOBACCO (9 th S. ii. 221). Tobacconist certainly meant, when first used, the user, not the vendor of tobacco. Sylvester in his ' Tobacco Battered ' invari- ably uses the word in this sense. Tobacco sellers he calls " tobacco-mungers "; the prac- tice of smoking he quaintly terms " tobacco- ning." C. C. B.

PHILIP THICKNESSE (9 th S. ii. 341). This worthy, nicknamed Lieut.- Governor Gall- stone, had three wives, named respectively Maria Lanove (or Lanoue), Lady Mary Touchet, and Ann Ford, who survived him. He was always in trouble, initiated by his expulsion from Westminster School. His uncle, Dr. Thicknesse, was master of St. Paul's School, and this led to an intimacy with Sir Philip Francis. Philip wrote a great deal for the press, and in separate books, not all of which are to be found at the British Museum. He always had a finger in the Junian story, for at one time he declared for Burke, but veered round to Home Tooke. The most marvellous inconsistency is that he declared himself to be Junius. The details will be found in a short-lived publication, the Crisis, 1775-6, while Francis was settled in India. In the Crisis he commences with a detail of his own affairs ; addresses letters to the king, like Wilkes and Junius ; adopts his signature and style " My lord, I was a