The evidence of its antiquity is traced back to an earlier date than 1486; for, according to Dugdale (_Orig._, p. 187.), in a _Record of Michaelmas_, 19 _Edward IV_., 1479, it is spoken of as then, and _diu ante_, an Inn "hominum Curiae Legis temporalis, necnon hominum Consiliariorum ejusdem Legis." The early history of the Inns of Court and Chancery is involved in the greatest obscurity; and it is difficult to account for the original difference between the two denominations. Any facts which your correspondents may be able to communicate on this subject, or in reference to what were the _ten_ Inns of Chancery existing in Fortescue's time, but not named by him, or relating to the history of either of the Inns, whether of Court or Chancery, will be most gratefully received by me, and be of important service at the present time, when I am preparing {110} for the press my two next volumes of _The Judges of England_. EDWARD FOSS. Street-End House, near Canterbury. _Words are men's daughters_ (Vol. iii., p. 38.).--I take this to be a proverbial sentence. In the _Gnomologia_ of Fuller we have "Words are for women; actions for men"--but there is a nearer approach to it in a letter written by Sir Thomas Bodley to his librarian about the year 1604. He says, "Sir John Parker hath promised more than you have signified: but words are women, and deeds are men." It was no doubt an adoption of the worthy knight, and I shall leave it to others to trace out the true author--hoping it may never be ascribed to an ancestor of BOLTON CORNEY. _Passage in St. Mark_ (Vol. iii., p. 8.).--Irenaeus is considered the best (if not the only) commentator among the very early Fathers upon those words in Mark xiii. 32. "[Greek: oude ho huios?]" and though I cannot refer CALMET further than to the author's works, he can trust the general accuracy of the following translation:--