—On the united authority of messieurs Auger and Renouard, editors of the works of le comte Antoine Hamilton, it may be affirmed that there is no edition of the Mémoires du comte de Grammont anterior to that of 1713. M. Renouard thus expresses himself: "En 1713 parurent les Mémoires, sans nom d'auteur, en un vol. in-12, imprimé en Hollande sous la date de Cologne."
BOLTON CORNEY.
The Termination "-ship" (Vol. iv., p. 153.).
—The termination "-ship" is the Anglo-Saxon scipe, scype, from verb scipan, to create, form; and hence as a termination of nouns denotes form, condition, office, dignity.
THOS. LAURENCE.
Ashbey de la Zouch.
The Five Fingers (Vol. iv., pp. 150. 193.).
—With something like compunction for lavishing on Macrobius and his prosy compeers so many precious hours of a life that is waning fast, permit me to refer you to his Saturnalia, vii. 13., ed. Gryph. 1560, p. 722., for the nursery names of the five fingers. They nearly coincide with those still denoting those useful implements in one of the Low-Norman isles, to wit, Gros det, ari det (hari det?), longuedon or mousqueton, Jean des sceas, courtelas. The said Jean des sceas is, of course, "John of the Seals," the "annularis" or ring-finger of Macrobius and the Anglican Office-Book. Among the Hebrews אצבע אלהים, "the finger of God," denoted His power; and it was the forefinger, among the gods of Greece and Italy, which wore the ring, the emblem of divine supremacy.
G. M.