_Ampers and, [&] or [&]_ (Vol. viii., p. 173.).--_Ampers [&]_, or _Empessy [&]_, as it is sometimes called in this country, means _et per se [&]_; that is to say, [&] is a character by itself, or _sui generis_, representing not a letter but a word. It was formerly {44} annexed to the alphabet in primers and spelling-books. The figure [&] appears to be the two Greek letters [epsilon] and [tau] connected, and spelling the Latin word _et_, meaning _and_. UNEDA. Philadelphia. _Misapplication of Terms_ (Vol. viii., p. 537.).--The apparent _lapsus_ noticed by your correspondent J. W. THOMAS, while it reminds one that-- "Learned men, Now and then," &c., is not so indefensible as many instances that are to be met with. I have been accustomed to teach my boys that _legend_ (à _lego_, to read) is not strictly to be confined to the ordinary translation of its derivative, since the Latin admits of several readings, and among them, by the usage of Plautus, _to hearken_; whence our English substantive takes equal license to admit of _a relation_ = _a narrative_, viz. "a thing to be heard;" and in this sense by custom has referred to many a gossip's tale. Having thus ventured to defend the use of _legend_ by your correspondent (Vol. v., p. 196.), I submit to the illuminating power of your pages the following novel use of a word I have met with in the course of reading this morning, and shall be gratified if some of your correspondents (better Grecians than myself) can turn their critical bull's-eye on it with equal advantage to its employer. In the poems of Bishop Corbet, edited by Octavius Gilchrist, F.S.A., 4th edition, 1807, an editorial note at p. 195. informs us that John Bust, living in 1611, "seems to have been a worthy _prototype_ of the Nattus of Antiquity." (_Persius_, iii. 31.) Our humorous friend in the farce, who was "'prentice and predecessor" to his coadjutor the 'pothecary whom he succeeded, is the only solecism at all parallel, that immediately occurs to SQUEERS. Dotheboys. P.S.--It would not be any ill-service to our language to pull up the stockings of the tight-laced occasionally, though I have here rushed in to the rescue. _Belle Sauvage_ (Vol. viii., pp. 388. 523.).--Mr. Burn, in his _Catalogue of the Beaufoy Cabinet of Tokens_ presented to the Corporation of London, just published, after giving the various derivations proposed, says that a deed, enrolled on the Claus Roll of 1453, puts the matter beyond doubt: