_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 Cæsar. 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, _Archæologia_, 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 the male cat? I may observe that the _g_ is pronounced _hard_ in this locality, and not _jibbe_, as most dictionaries have it. Burnley, Lancashire. T.T.W. [NARES has shown, very satisfactorily, that _Gib_, the contraction of _Gilbert_, was the name formerly applied to a cat, as _Tom_ is now. He states that _Tibert_ (the name given to the Cat in the old Reynard the Fox) was the old French for _Gilbert_; and at all events, be that as it may, Chaucer, in his _Romance of the Rose_, verse 6204., translates "Thibert le Cas" by "Gibbe our Cat."] _Lay of the Phoenix._--"SELEUCUS" is informed that the Anglo-Saxon Lay of the Phoenix is contained in the _Codex Exoniensis_, edited by Mr. B. Thorpe. The Latin poem, in hexameters and pentameters, attributed to Lactantius, is given at the foot of the page. It will be found at the end of the works of Lactantius, in the small edition by Fritzsche (Lipsiæ, 1842). Fritzsche mentions two separate editions of the poem; 1. by Martini, Lunæburgi, 1825; 2. by Leyser, Quedlinburgi, 1839. C.W.G.