Greek Inscription upon a Font, mentioned by Jeremy Taylor.—
"This was ingeniously signified by that Greek inscription upon a font, which is so prettily contrived, that the words may be read after the Greek or after the Hebrew manner, and be exactly the same:
'Νίψον ἀνόμημα, μὴ μόναν ὄψιν,'
'Lord, wash my sin, and not my face only.'"—Life of Christ, part i. sect. 9. disc. 6., "On Baptism," vol. ii. p. 235., Eden's edition.
Can any reader of "N. & Q." state the bishop's authority for this ingenious device?
A. Taylor.
Acharis.—The following is extracted from Dugdale's Monasticon:
"Radulphus Wicliff armiger tenet in Wicliff duas partes decimarum de dominicis quondam Acharis, quondam ad 5. s. modò nihil quia ut dicit sunt inclusæ in parco suo, ideo ad consilium."
What is the meaning of the term Acharis, and of the passage? It is an extract from the Rentale spiritualium Possessionum atque temporalium Prioratus Sancti Martini juxta Richmund in agro Eboracensi.
A. W. H.
Attainment of Majority.—Professor De Morgan will, I am sure, permit me to put this question to him:
In a short treatise "On Ancient and Modern Usage in Reckoning," written by him for the Companion to the Almanac of 1850, he explains, at page 9., the usage of attainment of majority in these words: