Lichfield.

Binometrical Verse (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 375.).—In answer to these inquiries, the copyright of this united hexameter and pentameter belongs to Mr. De la Pryme, of Trin. Coll., Cambridge, who is also the author of another line which is both an alcaic and sapphic:

"Quando nigrescit sacra latro patrat."

X.

Gale of Rent (Vol. viii., p. 563.).—Gale [Gavel, Sax., a rent or duty,] a periodical payment of rent. The Latin form of the word is gabellum, and the French gabelle. (See Wharton's Law Lexicon.)

Ἁλιεύς.

Dublin.


Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.