Beccles.
145.Κολοβοδάκτυλος.
—In the seventh book of Origen's Philosophumena, chap. xxx., speaking of Marcion, the writer says:
"When therefore Marcion, or any of his currish followers, barks at the Demiurgus, bringing forward these arguments about the opposition of good and evil, they must be told that neither the Apostle Paul, nor Mark ὁ κολοβοδάκτυλος (i.e. the stump-fingered), promulgated any such doctrines; for nothing of the kind is found written in the Gospel according to Mark."
Is this epithet of Mark the Evangelist mentioned by any other of the fathers, or is it known how it originated? It is also to be remarked that Luke, not Mark, according to the received opinion, was the evangelist whose authority Marcion admitted, and whose text he tampered with to suit his own views. Is Origen supported in his account of the matter by any other writer?
C. W. G.
146. Essex's Expedition to Ireland.
—It is a matter of history that the celebrated Earl of Essex in Queen Elizabeth's time left London in March 1599, in command of a great expedition against Ireland, accompanied by a numerous train of nobility and gentry and other retainers.
At what office and to what quarter is one to apply for the purpose of discovering the Muster Roll made upon that occasion? There must be some documents, bills, letters, &c., relating to that expedition, the object of the querist being to ascertain whether his own name, "Jackson," can be found in any of these documents, as he has reason to think that any ancestor of his was one of the battle-axe guards in Dublin at that period.
J.