"Ded. Pavli Antiquarius, Theologia, et contra Perciocas Thologo Rvmaetatis nostrae scholas Philippi Melanchthonis declamativncvla. Et quaedam alia lectv dignissima." F. COLEMAN. 16. Great St. Helens. _Mantelpiece: Mantelshelf: Mantelboard: Mantell and Brace._--What is the origin of this word, and whence came the thing? It must originally have had a use and a meaning, before it became a haven of rest for hyacinth-glasses, china monsters, Bohemian glass vases, and a thousand nick-nacks and odds and ends of drawing-room {303} furniture, as it _now_ is with us. It had, no doubt, some real work to do before it became what we are pleased to term _ornamental_. C. D. LAMONT. Greenock. _Passage in Job._--The REV. MOSES MARGOLIOUTH will much oblige the writer, and some of his friends, by giving in "N. & Q." a literal translation of Job xix. 26. The authorised version is: "And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God." The marginal reference gives: "After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God." C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. Birmingham. _Provincial Glossaries._--In an article in the 79th volume of the _Edinburgh Review_, on the provincialisms of the European languages, the writer says: "There are some very copious early English vocabularies lying in manuscript in the Cathedral libraries of Durham, Winchester, and Canterbury; in the British Museum, King's College, and other depositories, deserving collection." Will any of your learned readers inform me of the dates of the MSS. referred to, and by whom the collections were made? I would recommend them to the notice of the Camden Society. FRA. MEWBURN. _Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancaster._--What crest did this family bear, and when did the family become extinct? J. B. _A marvellous Combat of Birds._--In the _Phoenix Britannicus_, by J. Morgan, London, 4to., p. 250.[2], there is an account of-- "The wonderful battle of stares (or starlings), fought at Cork on Saturday 12th, and Monday 14th, October, 1621." And this narration relates, that on the Sunday, October 13, the intervening day, the starlings absented themselves to fight at Woolwich, in Kent!! Without vouching for the fact, or calling in question the prowess of this "Irish Brigade," I leave it to be confirmed or refuted by any reader of the "N. & Q."--_comme bon lui semblera_. [Greek: S]. P. S.--I would, _a propos_ to the above subject, thank any reader of your miscellany to point out to me a work by a M. Hanhart (I believe is the name), which I think is upon _Les Moeurs des Fourmis indigenes_, in which are given some particulars of regular conflicts between ants. I am not aware of the exact title of the book, but I have seen an account of it in some Edinburgh periodical, if I am not mistaken.