No doubt the name ναῦς is of the remotest heroic antiquity, and the first osier bark covered with hides, or even the first excavated alder trunk, may have been so termed; in connexion with the verbal form _nao_, contract. _no_, _nas_, pret. _navi_, to float or swim. But to "advance that opinion" as to Britain, because two revolted Roman subjects in this province used the word in the sixth and seventh centuries after Christ, would be late and tardy proof of the fact; even supposing that the two bards in question had made use of such a noun, which I dispute. A. N. [This communication should have preceded that in No. 99., p. 214.] _De Grammont_ (Vol. iv., p. 233.).--On the united authority of messieurs Auger and Renouard, editors of the works of le comte Antoine Hamilton, it may be affirmed that there is no edition of the _Mémoires du comte de Grammont_ anterior to that of 1713. M. Renouard thus expresses himself: "En 1713 parurent les _Mémoires_, sans nom d'auteur, en un vol. in-12, imprimé en Hollande sous la date de Cologne." BOLTON CORNEY. _The Termination "-ship"_ (Vol. iv., p. 153.).--The termination "-ship" is the Anglo-Saxon _scipe_, _scype_, from verb _scipan_, to create, form; and hence as a termination of nouns denotes _form_, _condition_, _office_, _dignity_. THOS. LAURENCE. Ashbey de la Zouch. _The Five Fingers_ (Vol. iv., pp. 150. 193.).--With something like compunction for lavishing on Macrobius and his prosy compeers so many precious hours of a life that is waning fast, permit me to refer you to his _Saturnalia_, vii. 13., ed. Gryph. 1560, p. 722., for the nursery names of the five fingers. They nearly coincide with those still denoting those useful implements in one of the Low-Norman isles, to wit, _Gros det_, _ari det (hari det?)_, _longuedon_ or _mousqueton_, _Jean des sceas_, _courtelas_. The said _Jean des sceas_ is, of course, "John of the Seals," the "annularis" or ring-finger of Macrobius and the Anglican Office-Book. Among the Hebrews אצבע אלהים, "the finger of God," denoted His power; and it was the forefinger, among the gods of Greece and Italy, which wore the ring, the emblem of divine supremacy. G. M. _Marriages within ruined Churches_ (Vol. iv., p. 231.).--The beautiful old church of St. John in the Wilderness, near Exmouth, is in ruins. Having in 1850 asked the old man who points out its battered beauties, why there were still books in the reading desks, he informed me that marriages and funeral services were still performed there. This, however, is my only authority on the subject. SELEUCUS.