Church_ (Vol. iii., p. 168.).--Many thanks for your
reference to the _Almanach du Clerge de France_; but as I have failed to
obtain the requisite information through my booksellers, might I beg the
additional favour of knowing what is the cost of the book, and where it can
be procured?

E. H. A.

[The _Almanach_ to which our correspondent refers is or was published
by _Gaume freres a Paris_, and sold also by Grand, rue du
Petit-Bourbon, 6, in the same city. Its price, judging from the size of
the book, is about a couple of francs.]

_Tick_ (Vol. iii., p. 357.).--MR. DE LA PRYME'S suggestion as to the origin
of the expression "going tick" is ingenious; nevertheless I take it to be
clear that "tick" is merely an abbreviation of ticket. (See Nares's
_Glossary_, and Halliwell's _Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words_,
under "Ticket.") In addition to the passages cited by them from Decker,
Cotgrave, Stephens, and Shirley, I may refer to the Act 16 Car. II. c. 7.
s. 3., which relates to gambling and betting "upon ticket or credit."

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge, May 3. 1851.

[In the _Mirrour for Magistrates_, p 421., we read:--

"Of _tickle credit_ ne had bin the mischiefe."

"Tickle credit," says Pegge, "means easy credit, alluding to the
credulity of Theseus."--_Anonymiana_, cent. ii. 44. Mr. Jon Bee, in his
_Sportsman's Slang Dictionary_, gives the following definition:--

"_Tick_", credit in small quantities; usually _scored_ up with chalk
(called _ink_ ironically), which being done with a sound resembling
'tick, tick, tick,' gives the appellation 'going to _tick_,' '_tick_ it
up,' 'my _tick_ is out,' 'no more _tick_!'"]

_Hylles' Arithmetic_.--Having seen it mentioned in the public papers that a
copy of the first edition of Cocker's _Arithmetic_ (considered unique) was
lately sold at an exceedingly high price by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, I
am induced to send you a {410} copy of the title-page of an arithmetical
work in my possession which seems a curiosity in its way; but whether
unique or not, my slender bibliographical knowledge does not enable me to
determine. It is as follows:

"The Arte of Vulgar Arithmeticke, both in Integers and Fractions,
_devided into two Bookes, whereof the first is called Nomodidactus
Numerorum_, and the second _Portus Proportionum_, with certeine
Demonstrations, reduced into so plaine and perfect Method, _