A. E. B.

Leeds.

[Footnote 2: [Our correspondent of course alludes to King James's

translation. Upon reference to Sir Frederic Madden's admirable

edition of Wickliffe's Bible, we find A. E. B.'s position directly

corroborated: "The erthe that thou askist is worth foure hundryd

_sicles_ of silver."--Genesis, xxiii. 15. And in Exodus, xxx. 13.,

"A _sicle_ that is a nounce hath twenti half scripples;" or, as in

the second edition, "A _sicle_ hath twenti halpens."--ED.]]

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