[There are several references to the Hotham family in Sims' _Index to all the Pedigrees and Arms in the Heralds' Visitations and other Genealogical MSS. in the British Museum_, under Yorkshire. Granger (_Biographical Hist._, vol. ii. p. 217.) has given a short account of Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull _temp._ Charles I. See also _Gentleman's Mag._, vol. lxiv. p. 182., for a notice of Sir Charles; and vol. lxviii. p. 633. for an account of the death of Lady Dorothy Hotham.] _Vogelweide._--What authority has Longfellow for his legend of _Walter of the Bird Meadow_? I find this epitaph given as his in Hone: "Pascua qui volucrum vivus, Walthere, fuisti, Qui flos eloquii, qui Palladis os, obiisti! Ergo quod aureolam probitas tua possit habere, Qui legit, hic dicat--'Deus istius miserere!'" Has Julius Mosen's _Legend of the Crossbill_, translated by Longfellow, any more ancient foundation? MORTIMER COLLINS. [The epitaph, and a very interesting sketch of the life of _Walter Vogelweide_, with some ably translated specimens of his poetical compositions, will be found in the late Edgar Taylor's _Lays of the Minnisingers_, 8vo. London, 1825.] _Meaning of Skeatta._--What is a silver Skeatta? See _Gent. Mag._, May, 1851, p. 537. J. R. RELTON. [Mr. Akerman, in his very useful _Numismatic Manual_, p. 227., says, "The word _sceatta_ is by some derived from _sceat_, a _part_ or _portion_. Professor White, in a paper read to the Ashmolean Society, remarks, that it is of Moeso-Gothic origin, _scatt_ signifying in the Gospels of Uphilas a _pound_, a _penny_, and, indeed, money in general." Ruding observes that, "Whatever might have been the precise value of the _sceatta_, it was undoubtedly the smallest coin known among the Saxons at the latter end of the seventh century, as appears from its forming part of a proverb: Ne sceat ne scilling, _From the least to the greatest_."] Replies. MARRIAGE OF ECCLESIASTICS. (Vol. iv. pp. 57. 125. 193. 196. 298.) Your general readers have reason to be as much obliged as myself to your correspondents CEPHAS and K. S. for the information contained in the former's criticisms, and the latter's addition to what you had inserted in my name on the subject of clerical marriages. CEPHAS is very fair, for he does not find fault with other persons' versions of the first part of Heb. xiii. 4. without giving his own version to be compared; and he states the ground of his criticisms on my reference to it. He has kindly told your readers, what they might have conjectured from the Italics in our authorized version, that in rendering Τίμιος ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσι, "Marriage _is_ honourable in all," they inserted _is_; and to show your readers an example of keeping closer to the original, he himself renders it as follows: "Let (the laws of) marriage be revered in all _things_, and the marriage bed be undefiled."