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According to Du Cange, this is the year of the crucifixion--'Annus Trabeationis Christi (annus quo Christus _trabi_ affixus est);' but according to _L'Art de vérifier les Dates_, it is the same as the year of the Incarnation. Mr. Hampson adds,
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But, upon referring to Du Cange, s. v. _Trabeatio_, our correspondent will find that Du Cange regards it as the year of the Incarnation--
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--quoting, as his authority for this interpretation, a sermon of St. Fulgentius on St. Stephen, in which he says,
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Heri enim Rex noster _Trabea carnis_ indutus.
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The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the late eminent Tragedian, wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are distinctly considered; with the judgment of the late ingenious Monsieur de St. Evremond, upon the Italian and French Music and Operas, in a Letter to the Duke of Buckingham. To which is added, The Amorous Widow, or the Wanton Wife, a Comedy, written by Mr. Betterton, now first printed from the Original Copy. _London, Printed for Robert Gosling, at the Miter, near the Inner Temple Gate in Fleet Street_, 1710. 8vo. Gildon was intimately acquainted with Betterton, and he gives an interesting account of a visit paid to that great actor, the year before his death, at his country house at Reading. It was on this occasion that Gildon came into the possession of Betterton's manuscripts. Thirty-one years after the publication of Betterton's Life, Curll, the notorious bookseller, put forth a mutilated copy of the _Instructions on Playing_, in a work bearing the following title:--
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The History of the English Stage, from the Restauration to the Present Time, Including the Lives, Character, and Amours, of the most Eminent Actors and Actresses; with Instructions for Public Speaking, wherein the Action and Utterance of the Bar, Stage, and Pulpit, are distinctly considered. By Thomas Betterton. _London, Printed for E. Curll, at Pope's Head in Rose-Street, Covent Garden_, 1741. 8vo.