October, 1680. Collected towards the redemption of English Captives out of their slavery and bondage in Algiers 3 16 0 Which sum was sent to Mr. Nicholas Browne, Registrar under Dr. Connant, Archdeacon of Norwich, Octr. 2d. 1680." Probably similar entries will be found in other registers of the same date, as the collections appear to have been made by special mandate, and paid into the hands of the proper authorities. E.S.T. _Passage in Gibbon_ (Vol. i., p. 348.).--The passage in Gibbon I should have thought was well known to be taken from what Clarendon says of Hampden, and which Lord Nugent says in his preface to _Hampden's Life_ had before been said of Cinna. Gibbon must either have meant to put inverted commas, or at least to have intended to take nobody in. C.B. _Borrowed Thoughts_ (Vol. i., p. 482.)--_La fameuse_ La Galisse is an error. The French pleasantly records the exploits of the celebrated _Monsieur_ de la Galisse. Many of Goldsmith's lighter poems are borrowed from the French. C. _Sapcote Motto_ (Vol. i., pp. 366. and 476.).--Taking for granted that solutions of the "Sapcote Motto" are scarce, I send you what seems to me something nearer the truth than the arbitrary and unsatisfactory translation of T.C. (Vol. i, p. 476.). The motto stands thus:-- "sco toot × vinic [or umic] × poncs." Adopting T.C.'s suggestion that the initial and final _s_ are mere flourishes (though that makes little difference), and also his supposition that _c_ may have been used for _s_, and as I fancy, not unreasonably conjecturing that the × is intended for _dis_, which is something like the pronunciation of the numeral X, we may then take the _entire_ motto, without garbling it, and have sounds representing _que toute disunis dispenses_; which, grammatically and orthographically corrected, would read literally "all disunions cost," or "destroy," the equivalent of our "Union is strength." The motto, with the arms, three dove-cotes, is admirably suggestive of family union. W.C. _Lines attributed to Lord Palmerston_ (Vol. i., p. 382.).--These lines have also been attributed to Mason. S.S.S. _Shipster_ (Vol. i., p. 339.).--That "ster" is a feminine termination is the notion of Tyrwhitt in a note upon Hoppesteris in a passage of Chaucer (_Knight's Tale_, l. 2019.); but to ignorant persons it seems not very probable. "Maltster," surely, is not feminine, still less "whipster;" "dempster," Scotch, is a judge. Sempstress has another termination on purpose to make it feminine. I wish we had a dictionary, like that of Hoogeven for Greek, arranging words according to their terminations. C.B. * * * * * MISCELLANIES.