dshire Giant--Unicorn
in the Royal Arms--The Frog and the Crow of
Ennow--"She ne'er with treacherous Kiss," &c. 133

REPLIES:--
A treatise on Equivocation. 136
Further Notes on the Derivation of the Word "News." 137
"News," "Noise," and "Parliament." 138
Shakpeare's Use of the Word "Delighted" by Rev. Dr.
Kennedy and J.O. Halliwell. 139
Replies to Minor Queries:--Execution of Charles I.--Sir
T. Herbert's Memoir of Charles I.--Simon of
Ghent--Chevalier de Cailly--Collar of Esses--Hell
paved with good Intentions--The Plant "Haemony"--Practice
of Scalping among the Scythians--Scandinavian
Mythology--Cromwell's Estates--Magor--"Incidis
in Scyllam"--Dies Irae--Fabulous Account
of the Lion--Caxton's Printing-Office. 140

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 142
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 143
Answers to Correspondents. 143

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NOTES.

ETYMOLOGY OF "WHITSUNTIDE" AND "MASS".

Perhaps the following Note and Query on the much-disputed origin of the
word _Whitsunday_, as used in our Liturgy, may find a place in your
Journal. None of the etymologies of this word at present in vogue is at
all satisfactory. They are--

I. _White Sunday_: and this, either--

1. From the garments of _white linen_, in which those who were at that
season admitted to the rite of holy baptism were clothed; (as typical of
the spiritual purity therein obtained:) or,--

2. From the glorious light of heaven, sent down from the father of
Lights on the day of Pentecost: and "those vast diffusions of light and
knowledge, which were then shed upon the Apostles, in order to the
enlightening of the world." (Wheatley.) Or,--

3. From the custom of the rich bestowing on this day all the milk of
their kine, then called _white meat_, on the poor. (Wheatley, from
Gerard Langbain.)

II. _Huict Sunday_: from the French, _huit_, eight; i.e. the eighth
Sunday from Easter. (L'Estrange, _Alliance Div. Off._)

III. There are others who see that neither of these explanations can
stand; because the ancient mode of spelling the word was not
_Whit_-sunday, but _Wit_-sonday (as in Wickliff), or _Wite_-sonday
(which is as old as _Robert of Gloucester_, c. A.D. 1270). Hence,--

1. Versteran's explanation:--That it is _Wied_ Sunday, _i.e. Sacred_
Sunday (from Saxon, _wied_, or _wihed_, a word I do not find in
Bosworth's _A.-S. Dict._; but s