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 9* s. iv. Nov. 25, '99.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 433 Perhaps the most striking feature of my table is the correspondence of the bay to the shilling. I have proved elsewhere that the bay was a unit of measurement. It was also a unit of value, for houses were sold, let, and apportioned by the bay. Is it not, there- fore, likely that a monetary unit may have been invented to represent the bay as a unit of value ? And may not tho word " shilling " itself mean " bay " f* According to Kluge, the word is derived from the Old Germanic skellan, to ring or resound. In England, however, the shilling does not appear to have been known as a piece of coined money till the reign of Henry VII., though it was known as a monetary unit in Anglo-Saxon times. Prof. Skeat connects it with Icel. skilja, to divide, and says: " The reason for the name is not certain. In Ice- landic the form of the word is skillingr, and the Icel. skilning, in modern usage skilningr, means separation, division. Now a bay is a division or partition of a building ; it is the space extended between any two pairs of pillars, " forks," or " crutches " which nor- mally stand 16 ft. apart. In Yorkshire the partition which divides the bays of oxhouses into two equal parts is known as the " skell- boost." Six acres to a bay may have been the rule in France, for I have a reference to Guerard's 1 Polyptique de l'Abbe" Irminon,' i. 595, from which it appears that among the revenues of the abbey of St. Germain des Pre"s,in the reign of Charlemagne, there were sixteen hearths to six manses. Now, if we take the manmn as equivalent to the hide of 120 acres, this would give an average of 45 acres, or a virgate and a half, to each holding, and by my table seven and a half bays to each hearth or house, for the house would have only one fire. S. O. Addy. 'DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY': NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. (Continued from p. 164.) Vol. LX. P. 14 a. John Watson, Master of Christ's College, was one of Latimer's early op- ponents, Wordsworth, ' Eccl. Biog.,' 1818, lii. 14. P. 14 b. For " Meningsby " read Miningtby. P. 17a. For "licentiate of theology" read in. P. 21 a. Alex. Ross dedicated his ' Arcana Microcosmi,' 1652, to " my much honored was the Anglo-Saxon word ? friend Edward Watson, Esquire, son and heir to the Rt. Hon. the Lord Rockinghame." P. 44 a. Watson's 'Quodlibets'; see Dr. H. Hammond's'Infallibility,' p. 137; Manning- ham's ' Diary,' p. 21. P. 59 b.^The promiscuous use of the word " layman," of a non-professional person of any sort, is due to the ignorance of some newspaper writers, and should be carefully avoided. See ' N. & Q.,' 7th S. xi. 106,192, 314 : xii. 36, 94. Pp. 67-70. Dr. Isaac Watts's ' Horn Lyncse| went through many editions, the tenth in 1764 ; his hymns were great favourites with Col. Gardiner, Doddridge's 'Gardiner,' 1778, pp. 62 87, 180; Doddridge dedicated to him his ' Rise and Progress,' and in the preface mentions his many sick- nesses. Coleridge's satirical remarks on his ' Improvement of the Mind' in the 'Friend ' (1883), p. 320, n. P. 114 b. Alex. Webster. See Doddridge's 'Gardiner,' 1778, pp. 46, 53, 64, 172. P. 128 a. A sermon preached by W. Webster, D.D., at Kingston-on-Thames, before the magistrates, 10 July, 1737, on St. Mark viii. 38, 8vo., Lond., 1737. For " Lainy " read Lamy. Pp. 132-4. Alex. Wedderburn. "Wedder- burne serene," Mathias. ' P. of L.,' 1801. P. 133 a. Why use " burgh " of an English borough ? Pp. 154-5. John Welch's prophetical gifts were described in 'The Fulfilling of the Scriptures' (Jos. Palmer, ' Latter Day Glory,' 1709, p. 21); there were many editions of his '48 Sermons,' one, Edinburgh, 1744. John Knox's descendants through his daughter's marriage with Welch have been traced in ' N. & Q.,' see 8th S. vii. 201, 470. P. 156. Edw. Welchman's sermon on baptism, against Anabaptists and Quakers, on St. Matt, xxviii. 19, 20, 4to., Lond., 1706, for Geo. Thorpe, bookseller, Banbury. P. 158 b. For "Marsh," "Garenden," read March, Garendon (xiv. 321). P. 161 a. "Magnalia America," read Americana (xxxvii. 28V P. 165. Charles Wellbeloved's two sermons preached at the Unitarian Chapel, Hull, 1818 and 1823, were printed. See rN. & Q.,5 8th S. vi. 385, 473, and under ' Kenrick' in ' D.N.B.' xxxi. 15. The Rev. John Oxlee re- plied to Wellbeloved in defence of Wrangham. P. 174. The treatment of Indian names throughout the ' D.N.B.' is very inconsistent and provoking. Thus in this volume we have Poonah, p. 174, Poona, p. 212, Puna, p. 238; Deccan, Dekhan ; Karnatak, Carnatic; Mahratta, Maratha, &c. (pp. 215-7),
 * "Bay" is a comparatively modern word. What