F. J.
Bradford.
For the purpose of expounding the law in the Jewish assemblies, the Pentateuch was divided into fifty-four sections (on account of the intercalary year), that the whole might be read over once annually. The sections were distinguished, as they still continue to be, in the Hebrew copies, by the letter Pe, or Phe, the initial of Pharasha, which signifies separation or division. This probably was the original reason for adopting the inverted black P [¶] which is retained in our translation of the Bible to mark paragraphs or transitions. The division of the Old and New Testament into chapters is a modern practice, and the subdivision of chapters into verses still more modern. See Shepherd on the Morning and Evening Prayer.
J. Y.
King Charles II. and Written Sermons (Vol. iv., p. 9.).
—The document inserted at this place is quoted with some variations, and the omission of the part referring to periwigs by the late Mr. Grimshawe, in his Life of the Rev. Leigh Richmond, p. 157. 4th edit. There is added the date, "Oct. 8, 1674;" and the following foot-note is appended, "See Statute Book of the University of Cambridge, p. 301." Car. II., Rex. Mr. Grimshawe's version is printed without any break or asterisks, as if entire.
W. S. T.
Walpole and Junius (Vol. iv., p. 161.).
—CLERICUS quotes some paragraphs from the letters of Horace Walpole, dated 1764, wherein Walpole threatens vengeance for the dismissal of Conway; and CLERICUS concludes by asking, "If these extracts do not prove Horace Walpole to be Junius, &c., &c., what can he allude to?" Why, to the pamphlet which he was then writing, and which he immediately published, entitled A Counter Address to the Public, on the late Dismission of a General Officer.
W. J.