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 10th S. I. MARCH 19,1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Elizabeth. A Partesa Buckland figures in an Elizabethan deposition relative to Ottery St. Mary. In fact, I am not sure all three of the above may not have obtained their name from some early Ottregian, as both the Bodleys and Midwinters came of Ottery stock. It should be noticed that the inver- sion of the ro or re follows the common West- Country fashion, Richard being changed to Urchard in local parlance; so there can be little doubt that the names are the same.

F. R T.

In a Buckinghamshire village, a few miles from Aylesbury, there were living in the year 1850 three sisters named Faith, Hope, and Charity Montague, Kerenhappuch Wilson (called Kay run for short), Seth Plater, Tray- ton Weston, Israel Clarke, Patience Winter, Tracey Betts, Meshach Johnson, Prudence Spiers, Eldred Rose, Avice Hutt, Zilpah Chapman, Agrippa Small, and Comfort Dormer. Trayton Weston had a brother three miles distant named Purton Weston In the same year Hephzibah Makepeace, a year earlier Love Briant Pitwell, and in 1873 Miraeuny Fletcher, were married there Among the burials in 1844 was that o: Brillianna Arietta Rose, and in 1847 that o: Naomi Shepherd. The clergyman of the parish (afterwards a Suffolk vicar, murderec by his curate on Sunday morning, 2 October 1887), not to be outdone by his parishioners named one of his children Henricus Astyanax Tertius, as may be seen on the tombstone in the churchyard, for the boy lived but eigh' months afterwards. RICHARD WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

In the East Sussex Neios of 26 February amongst the deaths is recorded that of Ab Kenward, a name I have never before me with. There is a brother Amram, who i well known to me.

In Bishopstone Church, not far from Lewes is a stained-glass window, not more tha fifty years old, to the memory of Phila delphia Farncombe. CAROLINE STEGGALL.

The following list of women's names in us in a little community of no more tha twenty-five families may interest the curious: Alethea,Alida,Alvira,Aralena,Arvilla,Electa, Huldah, Keturah, Leucretia, Myra, Ophelia, Pamela, Philena, Submit, Theodosia, Valeria, Visa, Wealthy, Zillah. M. C. B.

New York State.

In carrying out the self-imposed task of indexing the old registers of this parish prior to 1812, I have come across, amongst others, the following curious Christian names : .Avantio, Bartin, Albina, Lucia, Ursula,

Vightman, Obedience, Emmett, Allethea, 'ubal-Cain, Oswall (1 Oswald), Jiflbrd, Good- iff, South, Cressense, Goodith, Beata, Avice,

nn (a boy), Ursley, Nun, Kerenhapuch, lUssel-Shakspear, Jeremiah-Wardell,Ginney, ~ne, Catherinah, Elson, Tilley, Easter, Sill a woman), Damask (surname Rose).

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

FRENCH MINIATURE PAINTER (10 th S. i. 80, 37, 171, 211). No. 917 in the Exhibition of 'ortrait Miniatures, South Kensington, 1865, was lent by Miss Talbot, and is thus described n the official Catalogue, doubtless on the owner's authority : " Madame le Brun. By icrself. Madame le Brun" Probably this .s the work referred to by D. at the last reference. O.

BROWNING'S TEXT (10 th S. i. 208). The first edition (1850) of ' Christmas Eve ' gives :

He Himself with His human air. MR. C. M. HUDSON might satisfy himself were he to examine the original manuscript, which is preserved in the Forster Library at South Kensington. R. A. POTTS.

"MORALE" (10 th S. i. 204). I quite under- stand that morale exists in French, and means what we term "morality" as well as "moral philosophy "; but, moral, which means "the mental faculties," and is also used for the spirits or disposition of troops, is supplanted in Anglo-French by the word morale (sic), generally italicized as if it were a French word. My point is that we have a perfect right to adopt any words at our will and to affix any meaning to them it may be unwise to adopt new words when old ones hold the field ; but we have no right to write as French a word which is not French in the sense in which we mean to use it.

HERBERT A. STRONG.

The University, Liverpool.

" AUNCELL" (10 th S. i. 187). My old Bailey has :

" Auncel Weight (q.d. Handsale Weight), a kind of ancient Instrument with Hooks fastened to each End of a Beam, which being raised upon the Fore- finger, shewed the Difference between the Weight and the Thing weighed."

I dare say it was susceptible of a little fraudulent manipulation, hence its excom- munication. G. C. W.

[The ' N.E.D.' says the derivation from hand- sale is absurd, and suggests that auncel is from "launcelle (I- having been mistaken for the article), ad. It. lancella, a little balance," in contrast to the "Balancia domini regis," or Great Beam of the king.]