[If our correspondent refers to the glossary in the second vol.
of Mr. Thorpe's admirable edition of the _Anglo-Saxon Laws_,
which he edited for the Record Commission under the title of
_Ancient Laws and Institutes of England_, he will find s.v.
"_Ciric-Sceat--Primitiæ Seminum_ church-scot or shot, an
ecclesiastical due payable on the day of St. Martin, consisting
chiefly of corn;" a satisfactory answer to his Query, and a
reference to this very passage from Canute.]


_Welsh Language._--Perhaps some of your correspondents would favour me
with a list of the best books treating on the Welsh literature and
language; specifying the best grammar and dictionary.

JARLTZBERG.


_Armenian Language._--This copious and widely-circulated language is
known to but few in this country. If this meets the eye of one who is
acquainted with it, will he kindly direct me whither I may find notices
of it and its literature? Father Aucher's _Grammar, Armenian and
English_ (Venice, 1819), is rather meagre in its details. I have heard
it stated, I know not on what authority, that Lord Byron composed the
English part of this grammar. This grammar contains the two Apocryphal
Epistles found in the Armenian Bible, of the Corinthians to St. Paul,
and St. Paul to the Corinthians. Like the Greek and German, "the
different modes of producing compound epithets and words are the
treasure and ornament of the Armenian language; a thousand varieties of
compounded words may be made in this tongue," p. 10. I believe we have
no other grammar of this language in English.