bread_, xxxixs." In the language of the county from which I write, "a
dozen of bread" was (and I believe is yet) used to express either one
loaf, value twelvepence or two loaves, value sixpence each: and even
when the sizes and price of the loaves varied, it was used to express
the larger loaf, or the two smaller loaves. A dozen of bread was also
divided into six twopenny, or twelve penny loaves.

But in the quotation above, thirty-eight dozen of bread are charged
thirty-nine shillings; whereas the extra one shilling, cannot be divided
into aliquot parts, so as to express the value of each of the
thirty-eight dozen of bread.

What was a dozen of bread in 1553?

What is a _baker's dozen_, and why so called?

P.H.F.


_Kongs skuggsia._--Is anything, precise known of the date and origin of
the Icelandic Kongs skuggsia.

F.Q.


_Coins of Gandophares._--Coins of Gandophares, an Indian prince, are
described by Prinsep, _Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal_, and in Wilson's
_Asiana_. The name is met with in the legends of St. Thomas can it be
found elsewhere?