my leave of the matter, only requesting Mr. Bolton Corney, if he still
doubts, to follow his own good precept, and look at _the original
edition_.

C.


_Josias Ibach Stada_ (Vol. i., p. 452.).--In reply to G.E.N., I would
ask, is Mr. Hewitt correct in calling him Stada, an Italian artist?
I have no hesitation in saying that Stada here is no personal
appellation at all, but the name of a town. The inscription "_Fudit
Josias Ibach Stada Bremensis_" is to be read, Cast by Josias Ibach,
_of the town of Stada, in the duchy of Bremen_. All your readers,
particularly mercantile, will know the place well enough from the
discussions raised by Mr. Hutt, member for Gateshead, in the House
of Commons, on the oppressive duties levied there on all vessels and
their cargoes sailing past it up the Elbe; and to the year 1150 it was
the capital of an independent graffschaft, when it lapsed to Henry the
Lion.

WILLIAM BELL.


_The Temple, or A Temple._--I have had an opportunity of seeing the
edition of Chaucer referred to by your correspondent P.H.F. (Vol.
i., p. 420.), and likewise several other black-letter editions (1523,
1561, 1587, 1598, 1602), and find that they all agree in reading "the
temple," which Caxton's edition also adopts. The general reading of
"temple" in the _modern_ editions, naturally induced me to suspect
that Tyrwhitt had made the alteration on the authority of the