There is a very gross anachronism in making Sion, _lege_ Shôn Kent, to be the contemporary of Senena. T. STEPHENS. Merthyr Tydfil, Aug. 7. 1851. PETTY CURY. (Vol. iv., p. 24.) I believe that Petty Cury signifies the Little Cookery. See a note in my _Annals of Cambridge_, vol. i. p. 273. C. H. COOPER. Cambridge, July 12. 1851. To those who are familiar with the _Form of Cury_, edited by Dr. Pegge, no explanation can be necessary for the name of this street, or rather lane. It seems, indeed, strange that any one who calls himself a Cambridge man should have failed to discover that it was the peculiar quarter of the _cooks_ of the town; as we in London have our Poultry named from the _Poulters_ (not _Poulterers_, as now corruptly designated) who there had their shops. F. S. Q. The Cambridge senate-house is called "Curia," and therefore it may be supposed that "Petty Cury" means "_parva curia_," from some court-leet or court-baron formerly held there; the town-hall is at the end of it to this day. The only objection to the above is, that in the Caius map of Cambridge, A.D. 1574, now in the British Museum, Petty Curie is a large street even then, whilst neither town-hall nor senate-house exist. J. EASTWOOD. Surely there can be little doubt that the name of this street at Cambridge is a corruption from the French "petite écurie." We knew little enough about such matters when I was an undergraduate there; but still, I think, we could have solved this mystery. Might I be permitted to suggest that as the court stables at Versailles were called "les petites écuries," to distinguish them from the king's, which were styled "les grandes écuries," although they exactly resembled them, and contained accommodation for five hundred horses; so the street in question may have contained some of the fellows' stables, which were called "les petites écuries," to distinguish them from the masters'. Should this supposition be correct, it would seem to imply that at one time the French language was not altogether _ignored_ at Cambridge. H. C. Workington. THE WORD "RACK" IN THE "TEMPEST."--THE NEBULAR THEORY. (Vol. iii., p. 218.; Vol. iv., p. 37.) MR. HICKSON seems to court opinion as to the justness of his interpretation of _rack_. I therefore express my total and almost indignant dissent from it.