Lewes.
Longevity.Some few years since I had occasion to search the parish registers of Evercreech in Somersetshire, in one of which I met with the following astounding entry:
"1588. 20th Dec., Jane Britton of Evercriche, a Maidden, as she afirmed of the age of 200 years, was buried."
I can scarcely believe my own note, made however, with the register before me.
C. W. B.The Thirty-nine Articles.The following MS. note is in a copy which I have (4to. 1683):
"Sept. 13. 1702.
"Memor. That Mr. Thomas King did then Read publickly and distinctly, in a full Congregation during the Time of Divine Service, the nine and thirty Articles of Religion, and Declare his Assent and Consent, &c., according as is Required in the Act of Uniformity, In the Parish Church of Ellesmere, In the Presence of Us, who had the said Articles printed before Us.
E. Kynaston.
Tho. Eyton.
Ar. Langford.
Will. Swanwick."
J. O. M.Emendation of a Passage in Virgil.Allow me to send you an emendation of the usual readings of the 513th line of the first Georgic, which occurred to me many years ago, and which still appears to me more satisfactory than any which have hitherto been suggested.
"Ut, cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigæ,
Ac sunt in spatio,en frustra retinacula tendens,
Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas."
"When the chariots have passed the barriers,
And are now in the open course,
Lo, the charioteer vainly pulling the
Reins, is carried along by the steeds."
The usual readings are "addunt in spatio," or "addunt in spatia," which are difficult to be explained or understood. The emendation which I suggest is, I think, simple, easy, and intelligible; and I can imagine how the word "addunt" arose from the mistake of a transcriber, by supposing that the MS. was written thus:acvnt, with a long