"Augustus Cæsar on a time, as he was passing through Rome, and saw certain strange women lulling apes and whelps in their arms: 'What!' said he; 'have the women of these countries none other children?' So may I say unto you [Dr. Cole], that make so much of Gerson, Driedo, Royard, and Tapper: Have the learned men of your side none other doctors? For, alas! these that ye allege are scarcely worthy to be allowed amongst the _black guard_."--Bp. Jewel's _Works_ (P. S. ed.), vol. i. p. 72. This is, I think, an earlier example than any that has yet been given in "N. & Q." W. P. STORER. Olney, Bucks. "_Atonement_" (Vol. ix., p. 271.).--The word [Greek: katallagê], used by Æschylus and Demosthenes, occurs 2 Cor. v. 19., Rom. xi. 15. v. 11. The word _atonement_ bears two senses: the first, _reconciliation_, as used by Sir Thomas More, Shakspeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Bishops Hall and Taylor; the second, _expiation_, as employed by Milton, Swift, and Cowper. In the latter meaning, we find it in Numbers, and other books of the Old Testament, as the translation of [Greek: hilasma]. Waterland speaks of "the doctrine of expiation, atonement, or satisfaction, made by Christ in His blood" (_Disc. of Fundamentals_, vol. v. p. 82.). Barrow, Secker, and Beveridge use the word _atone_ or _atonement_ in this combined sense of the term. R. Gloucester, Chaucer, and Dryden expressly speak "at one," in a similar way; and, {504} not to multiply passages, we may merely cite Tyndal: "There is but one mediator, Christ, as saith St. Paul, 1 Tim. ii., and by that word understand an _atone-maker_, a peace-maker, and bringer into grace and favour, having full power so to do."--_Expos. of Tracy's Testament_, p. 275., Camb. 1850. MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. As a contribution towards the solution of J. H. B.'s Query, I send you the following extracts from Richardson's _Dictionary_: "And like as he made the Jewes and the Gentiles _at one_ between themselves, even so he made them both _at one_ with God, that there should be nothing to break the _atonement_; but that the thynges in heaven and the thynges in earth shoulde be ioyned together as it were into _one_ body."--_Udal_, _Ephesians_, c. ii. "Paul sayth, 1 Tim. ij., 'One God, one Mediatour (that is to say, aduocate, intercessor, or an _atonemaker_) betwene God and man: the man Christ Jesus, which gaue himself a raunsom for all men."--Tyndal, _Workes_, p. 158. I am unacquainted with the work referred to in the first extract. The second is from _The Whole Works of W. Tindal, John Frith, and Dr. Barnes_ [edited by Foxe], Lond. 1573. The title of the work which contains the passage is, _The Obedience of a Christian Man, set forth by William Tindal_, 1528, Oct. 2. [Greek: Halieus]. Dublin.