English Saxon War; and all the countries lying north or the
other side of the arme of the sea called Humber, began, by
a Saxon name, to be called [Old English: Northan-Humbra-ric]
that is, the Kingdome of Northumberland; which name,
notwithstanding being now cleane gone in the rest of
the shires, remayneth still, as it were, surviving in
Northumberland onely; which, when that state of kingdome
stood, was known to be a part of the _Kingdome of Bernicia_,
which had _peculiar petty kings_, and reached from the River
Tees to Edenborough Frith."

At p. 817. Camden traces the etymology of _Berwick_ from _Bernicia_.

P.C.S.S.


_Cæsar's Wife_.--If the object of "NASO'S" Query (No. 18. p. 277.) be
merely to ascertain the origin of the proverb, "Cæsar's wife must be
above suspicion," he will find in Suetonius (Jul. Cæs. 74.) to the
following effect:--

"The name of Pompeia, the wife of Julius Cæsar,
having been mixed up with an accusation against
P. Clodius, her husband divorced her; not, as he said,
because he believed the charge against her, but because
he would have those belonging to him as free from
suspicion as from crime."

J.E.