e days of the romances of _Roland_ and
_Olivier_. The other two were phrases put into the mouths of
two characters (Dr. Ollapod, in Colman's _Poor Gentleman_, and
Young Rapid, in Morton's _Cure for the Heart-ache_), which grew
into vogue only from the success of the actors Fawcett and Lewis,
and had no meaning or allusion beyond what the words obviously
meant.

C.

{235}_Full of Rain in England._--"ROYDON" (No. 11. p. 73) will
find the average quantity of rain fallen at Greenwich, for
twenty-five years, 1815 to 1839, in a very useful and clever
pamphlet, price 1s., by J.H. Belville, of the Royal Observatory,
published by Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, called _Manual
of the Mercurial and Aneroid Barometers._

HENRY WILKINSON

_Judas Bell_--(No. 13, p. 195). In the "Flyting of Dunbar and
Kennedie," a singular Scotch Poem, composed in the former half of
the 16th century, and printed in Ramsay's _Evergreen_, the
following passage occurs (_Everg._ vol. ii. p. 74.):--

"A Benefice quha wald give sic a Beist,
But gif it were to jingle _Judas bells_?
Tak thee a Fiddle or a Flute to jest,
Undocht thou art, ordained for naithing ells."

The Judas bells may probably have been used in the Easter-eve
ceremonies, in connexion with which we find _Judas candles_
mentioned. See Brand's _Popular Antiq._ by Sir H. Ellis, vol.
i. p. 29.

C.W.G.

_Boduc or Boduoc on British Coins_.--The real name of the
heroic queen of the Iceni is very uncertain. Walther (Tacitus, xiv.
Ann. c. 31.), adopts Boudicea. It is probable enough that the
syllables Boduo may have formed a part of it, as pronounced by the
Britons. We are reminded of Boduognatus, leader of the Nervii,
mentioned by Caesar. But to come nearer home, the name Boduogenus is
found upon a bronze vessel discovered in the Isle of Ely, described
by Mr. Goddard Johnson, _Archaeologia_, xxviii. p. 436.

C.W.G.

_Lord Bacon's Metrical Version of the Psalms._--Lord Bacon's
translation of seven psalms, the 1st, 12th, 90th, 104th, 126th,
127th, and 149th, with a Dedication to George Herbert, is found at
the end of the 2nd vol. of his works. (Lond. 1826.) They were
printed at London, 1625, in quarto.

C.W.G.

[To this we may add, on the information of X.X., that some account
of these Psalms, with specimens, may be seen in Holland's
_Psalmists of Britain_, 1824.]

_A "Gib" Cat._--What is the etymology of the term "Gibbe," as
applied to t