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 A412  NOTES AND QUERIES, [9°“S.VI.Nov.24,1Gl). monly used in Alchymie, and some use it in fomentations, and otherwise in Chirurgery and Ph.VS1Ck€'-” B. D. Mosausv. Burslem. Bsrnssnca Sonorrr (9°*' S. vi. 268).-A Free- thinker is compared with a ily upon a pillar in St. Paul’s Cathedral in the Guardian, No. 70; see ‘The British Essayists’ (45 vols., 1823), vol. xvu. p. 75. In the contents to this volume the essay is ascribed to Berkeley. In the general_index at the end of vol. xlv. the reference is given rightly under ‘Flies and Freeth1nkers,’ but incorrectly under ‘Freeth1nkers,’ where Spectator, No. 70, is referred to. H, C, _ The reference sought by Ms. J. M. Srona. ln which Addison compares a Freethinker and 2. fly, _will be found in the chapter entitled Against the Modern Freethin ers,” which forms Section IX. in Addison’s ‘Christian Ev1dences.’ The “contemplation” in St. Paul’s where the simile appears is on p. 251 of my copy, of which the following is the fu l tlt e :- ¢¢The1i_Evidences I of the I Christian Religion, l By t.hc_ ight Honorable I Joseph Addison, Lsq. ; To which are added _I severa Discourses inst Atheism and I Iniidehty, and in Defence biiathe (/hri I stxan Revelation, occasionally published I by Him and Others: I And now collected into one Bodi, and digested I under their proper Hesfs. I Wit a Preface, containing the Sentiments I o Mr. Boyle, M‘r. Lock, and Snr saac I Newton concern- mg the Gospel-R.evelat1on.,]I The Second Edition. I London: I rmted for J. .onson in the Strandl mjnccxxxnx. ’ G. Ysnsow BALDOCK. South Hackney. Assurnnor (9“‘ S. vi. 249).- Mn. C. L. KAYE probably refers to James Carnegy Arbuthnot, about whose case there exists a mass of documents amon the State Pa rs of the reign of George II. in the Public Record Oiiice. D, M, R, BALLYWHAINE (9"' S. vi. 209). - Moore’s ‘Surnames and Place-Names of the Isle of Man’ gives “Ballaw/zanc, Quane’s Farm.” “Quane, contracted from MacShane, ‘John- son.’ Compare (Irish) Quain, (Gaelici) Mac- Queen." _ (}_ Bally, from the Gadhelic baile, originally a place, an abode, then a town. W/mme from the_ Erse clnam (cloon), Gaelic cluan, British wam or gzqam, a meadow, or, more correctly, a fertlledplece of land or a green arable s ot surroun cd or nearly surrounded by a liog or marsh, or by a bog or marsh on one side and water on the other; the abode or home by the meadow. J onN R.mcLrrra. TALBOT (9"‘ S. vi. 242).-The name _of Tal- bot, before it was adopted by a_fam1ly, was that of a lace on the river which gave its name to tlie Talon, the Tale, cr Te c. The termination bot or bod signifies a: domain. Talbot may be interpreted “a habitation in the valley,” and wou d then  synonymous with Daubeuf. For the foregoing particulars I am indebted to the ‘ Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy] by Orderlcus Vitalis. J UBAL Srsrrosn. Edgeley, Stockport. At Folkestone there is a family named Tolputt; is this a variant of Talbot? The ledger kept of the building of _ Sandgate Castl% near Folkestone (see arleian Co ec- tion, ritish Museum, 1647-51), 1539-40, con- tains the names of John and James Talbot as workmen employed. R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate, Kent. Dxrs or 'rss Cnucrrrxlon (9“‘ S. vi. 305).- In the issue of ‘N. & Q.’ of 20 October last appears a note on the above subject, in which certain statements are made to support the view that the Crucifixion took place on 7 April, A.D. 30. These statements seem to be suggested as possibilities, and are not based on positive evidence; they are there- fore fair subjects for examination. The position of the embolismic month Veadar 1n the Jewish calendar at the end of the sacred year precludes the supposition that 1 N isan was determined by merely reckoning a iven number of days-177 or any other-Irom 1 Tisri. The intercala- tion was so placed that the commencement of the sacral year might be regulated in accordance with certain aggicultural condi- tions which need not here particularized; consequently 1 N isan was fixed altogether independently of 1 Tisri. Again, on 26 Sept., s.D. 29, the moon was in conjunction with the sun, not at eight minutes past five in the afternoon as stated, but at ten minutes to one, so that by the evening of the 27th at 6 P.M. the moon would have been twenty-nine hours old, when there would have been no didicultg' in seeing it; and even supposing the weat er was cloudy and unfavourable, there is no reason for assumin that Jewish practice in such a case materialiiy differed from that of other peoples who observe a lunar calendar, as, for instance, Mohammedan nations of the present day, who, when there canbe no doubt that the new moon is in a position to be visible, though obscured by elouds,_take it for granted that it has been seen. To suppose therefore, that the com- / ¢ 4
 * mencement or »} Tisri was postponed until