Cimmerii has certainly every appearance of being the same name as Cimbri. In like manner, Cymmry becomes Cumbria and (unaccountably) Cambria; Ambrosius becomes Emmrys, and Humber Hymmyr. What remains of the old word Cimbr, or Cimmr, as meaning Latro, is the verb _cymmeryd_ (and its cognate words), to take, or, more etymologically, to apportion: Dividers of booty. The change of the sharp iota into that short vowel of which we possess not the long, but of which the long is the French _eu_, forms the difficulty; but the savages of Asia, and those of Caius Marius, may be conceived to have used vowels of shriller pronunciation than the Gauls and Britons. The Brigantes of Yorkshire, &c., bore a synonymous appellation, still used in French and Armorican, and not wholly extinct in Welsh. Of a race named Cimbri, or Cumbri, in this island, nothing whatever is known from ancient geography or history. And probably no such name co-existed with that of the Brigantes. For, if the two synonymes were used together, neither would express a distinctive peculiarity. The fable of the Brut probably has a core of general truth, when it refers that name to the days of the Cambro-Scoto-Saxon tripartition, disguised as Cambro-Albano-Loegrian. A. N. _Rents of Assize_ (Vol. v., p. 127.).--Rents of Assize, _Redditus assisæ de assisa_ vel _redditus assisus_. The certain and determined rents of ancient tenants paid in a set quantity of money or provisions; so called, because it was assised or made certain, and so distinguished from _redditus mobilis_, variable rent, that did rise and fall, like the corn rent now reserved to colleges. (Cowel's _Interpreter_.) _Ob. q._ mean respectively _obolus_ and _quadrans_. The _great pipe_ is a roll in the Exchequer wherein all accounts and debts due to the king delivered and drawn out of the remembrancer's offices, are entered and charged. I presume the Bishop of Winchester's great pipe was a roll of all accounts and debts due to him in right of his bishopric. "Ad regis exemplar, totus componitur orbis." J. G. Exeter. Lord Coke (_2nd Institute_, 19.) gives this definition: "_Redditus assisus_, or _redditus assisæ_: vulgarly, rents of assise, are the certain rents of the freeholders and ancient copiholders, because they be assised, and certain, and doth distinguish the same from _redditus mobiles_, farm rents for life, years, or at will, which are variable and incertain." _Ob. q._ means three farthings, "ob." being an abbreviation of _obolus_, a halfpenny, and "q." of _quadrans_, a farthing. The _great pipe_ in the document referred to apparently means the pipe roll of the Bishops of Winchester, of which some account may be seen in the report of the case of Doe dem. Kinglake _v._ Beviss, in 7 _Common Bench Reports_, 456. C. H. COOPER. Cambridge.