_Sangred--Judas Bell._--"BURIENSIS" inquires (p. 124.) what _sangred_ is. This term is noticed in Rock's _Church of Our Fathers_, t. ii. p. 372. In the very interesting, "Extracts from Church-warden's Accounts," p. 195., it is asked what "Judas' bell" was. I presume it to have been a bell named after, because blessed in honour of the apostle St. Jude, who, in the Greek Testament, in the Vulgate, and our own early English translations, as well as old calendars, is always called Judas, and not Jude, as a difference from Judas Iscariot. CEPHAS. _La Mer des Histoires._--"MR. SANSOM" (No. 18. p. 286.) has inquired, What is known of Columna's book, entitled _Mare Historiarum_? Trithemius has made mention of the work (_De Script. Eccles_. DL.), and two manuscript copies of it are preserved in the Royal Library at Paris. (B. de Montfaucon, _Biblioth. Bibliothecar. MSS._ tom ii. p. 751. Par. 1739.) Douce very properly distinguished it from _La Mer des Histoires_; but, if he wrote "Mochartus," he was in error; for _Brochart_ was the author of the Latin original, called _Rudimentum Novitiorum_, and published in 1475. As to the statement of Genebrard, that Joannes de Columna was the writer of the "_Mater_ Historiarum," I should say that the mistake was produced by confounding the words _Mer_ and _Mere_. Mr. Sansom may find all the information {326} that need be desired on this subject in Quetif et Echard, _Scriptores Ord. Praed._ tom. i. pp. 418-20. Lut. Paris, 1719. (Vid. etiam Amb. de Altamura, _Biblioth. Dominican_. p. 45. Romae, 1677; Fabricii, _Bibl. Med. et Inf. Latin._ i. 1133. Hamb. 1734.) R.G. "What are _depenings_?" (No. 18. p. 277.) The nets used by the Yarmouth herring busses were made in breadths of six feet. The necessary _depth_ was obtained by sewing together successive breadths, and each breadth was therefore called a _deepening_.[4] ED. [Footnote 4: From a pamphlet written about 1615, not now before us. ED.] * * * * * MISCELLANIES. _Tale of a Tub._--It is generally supposed that the title of Swift's _Tale of a Tub_ was a jest originally levelled at the Puritan pulpit. It probably had served a more ancient purpose. In Bale's _Comedye concerning Three Laws_, compiled in 1538, Infidelitas says: "Ye say they follow your law, And vary not a shaw, Which is a tale of a tub." J.O.W.H. * * * * * A GENIUS. (_From the German of Claudius_.) "Friend Ass," said the Fox, as he met him one day, "What can people mean?--Do you know what they say?" "No, I don't," said the Ass; "nor I don't care, not I." "Why, they say you're a GENIUS," was Reynard's reply. "My stars!" muttered Jack, quite appall'd by the word, "What can I have done that's so very absurd?" * * * * *