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o her. The Greek word occurs nowhere else ii the New Testament nor in the Septuagint. T ic Rheims version translates " Do we excel tl em ? " and it would certainly seem that the K evisers were ill advised in not leaving the t( xt of the Authorized Version as it stood, \\ hich is the same as that of Tyndale. There is no question here of Greek reading.

W. T. LYNN. Blackheath. _

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WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. _

A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Can any one men- tion analogous poems to the following 1 ? It occurs in a fifteenth-century hand in the margin of a Royal MS. (7 A. VIII.), and so far as I know is un printed :

/"barn )>at is kyng born | to saue vs with Juwes }>at where forlorn ?

Where ys J,at

I god and man | )>at al hys reward wel V. can | in hys heuenly kyngdan ? Gret hope with pitee mornyng : ubi est and J>is was

for nede. Certayn fayth hot and cler shynyng : qui natus est

and >is was to spede.

WorJ>y reuerence seruyce and worshypyng : Hex and J>is was for mede.

The last half is similar in form to some Latin verses appended to the sermons contained in the (fourteenth-century) body of the MS., the texts of the sermons being similarly amplified or moralized on. J. P. GILSON.

British Museum.

ATKINSON = D'ARBON. I am anxious to find out the register of the marriage of Samuel Atkinson, gent., and Mary D'Arbon. She came from Richmond, Surrey. Can any one help me 1 E. A. S.

Windermere Bank, Bowness.

JOHN CALCOT was elected from Westminster School to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1592. I should be greatly obliged by any particulars concerning him. G. F. R. B.

CHARLES YOUNG AND MRS. YOUNG, from Norwich, England, and from the Boston Theatre, appeared at New York early in 1806 as Octavian and Agnes in ' The Moun- taineers,' and played a few parts. Could these have been Charles Mayne Young and his wife 1 Mrs. Young Miss Grimani of the Haymarket who died at Manchester in July, 1806, most probably played Agnes

during her engagements at Bath, the Hay- market, and Liverpool. Charles Mayne Young was certainly seen in London as Octavian. The Charles Young in America was also seen as Romeo, Charles Surface, &c. Known dates would just permit of C. M. Young and his wife being in America at the time stated. His visit is unmentioned by his son and biographer, who, however, knows little of Young's theatrical career. No reference to it is found in any theatrical work to which I have access. Could there have been in 1805-6 two Charles Youngs, actors in England, playing the same line of parts, both married to young and pretty actresses 1 URBAN.

ROGER WILLIAMS. Can any of your readers give me the name and publisher of the best and latest account of the life of Mr. Roger Williams, of Providence in New England ? JOHN WILLCOCK.

Lerwick.

SIR ALEXANDER IRUIN, OF DRUM. In an old controversial pamphlet I have come across the folio wing : "The irrational proo-ceedings of the Presbytery of Aberdeen, against Sir Alex- ander Iruin (Irvine 1) of Drum, together with his just appeal from their tyrannical juris- diction to Col. Overton, the then only com- petent judge that was there." The date of the pamphlet is 1652. Can any of your readers furnish me with information that explains the above allusion ? JOHN WILLCOCK.

Lerwick.

"FURLYBIRS." On Don-side in Aberdeen- shire " Furlybirs " is a well-known name for the knave of trumps. A player will often be heard to say, " Furlybirs is latchin," when the knave of trumps is slow in coming out. Is the word used elsewhere than on Don-side 1 A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

" JUNAMES." In Coles's ' Latin Dictionary ' (1679) I find the following : " Junames, solum epdem semine hoc anno quo proximo con- situm." Cp. Kersey (1715): "Junames, land sown with the same Grain it was sown with the foregoing year." Where did Coles find the word junames ? Query, etymology ? A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

WALTON. Can any one tell me the mean ing of this place-name 1 ? There are over fifty Waltons in England. Domesday records twenty-three Waletones, fourteen Waltones, nine Waltunes or Waltuns, thirteen Wale- cotes, three Wales, seven Walesbi, and one Walestun. The Anglo-Saxon forms of the