There can be no doubt that Shiells misled Johnson, and that Johnson misled Stevens, into the statement which P. T. has copied at some third or fourth hand, after it had been twice or thrice refuted.
It is a little hard that your valuable space should be taken up by gentlemen who will not even take the trouble of referring to the authorities where you tell them that they will find an answer, and then begin questioning again, as if you had not already settled the matter.
C.
Theoloneum (Vol. v., p. 105.).
—Theoloneum is the Latin law term for toll, corrupted from the Greek Telonium. I am surprised that I cannot find it either in Du Cange or Spelman.
C. B.
John of Padua (Vol. v., p. 78.).—I have often endeavoured without success to obtain some correct particulars about John of Padua, and also to ascertain whether he was the same person as "John Thorpe." I hope, therefore, that the inquiry in your last number may lead to a satisfactory result; for we ought to know more of these worthies.
BRAYBROOKE.
Audley End.