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According to ' Mus. Obit.' Samuel Rey- nardson, F.R.S., died 1741 ; but this Samuel had issue after that date, and lived, according to my pedigree of the family, until 1797. To whom can the above entry therefore refer ? Please reply direct.

FRANCIS H. RELTON.

9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath.

HYNMERS OF NEW INN AND LATIMERS, BUCKS. I shall feel greatly obliged to any of your readers for information relative to the family of Benjamin Hynmers of Latimers, Bucks, who, according to Th$ London Magazine, died in October, 1743. He is evidently the gentleman referred to in Guillim's ' Display of Heraldry,' 6th ed. vol. i. p. 331 :

" Argent, a Cross-bow Sable, between three Cocks Gules, is born by Benjamin Hynmers of New-Inn, Gent., as his Paternal Coat."

East Boldon, Durham.

H. R. LEIGHTON.

ABBE DE LUBERSAC. The ecclesiastic who published in 1802 in London ' Journal his- torique et religieux de 1' Emigration du Clerge de France en Angleterre ' and ' Apo- logie de la Religion et de la Monarchic reunies ' had been, as he himself tells us, Abbot of Novilac, Prior of Brives, and Vicar- General of Narbonne. He is said in the ' Biographie Universelle ' to have died in London in 1804. What were his Christian names ? The British Museum Reading- Room Catalogue, misled by the ' Nouvelle Biographie Generale,' gives these two works to J. B. J. de Lubersac, successively Bishop of Treguier and of Chartres, who was never in England. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

JOHN LAWRENCE, CLERK, OF STAMFORD.

John Lawrence, admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 19 Oct., 1652, then described as " of Middlesex," B.A. 1656, M.A. 1660, was Vicar of Nassington from the Restoration to 1666. During his in- cumbency Dr. Samuel Brunsell, Prebendary of Nassington, made a surrender of income to the parochial cure (Gordon, ' Parish of Nassington - cum - Yarwell,' p. 36). Law- rence was Vicar of St. Martin's, Stamford Baron, 1666-1700; Prebendary of Sutton- m-the-Marsh, Lincoln Cathedral, 1668-1700 ; Warden of Browne's Bead House (Hospital of All Saints), Stamford, 1677-1700 and in 1700, also Rector of St. Michael's, 'stam ford.

Whiston, who was chamber-fellow of one of his sons at Clare Hall, relates (' Memoirs ' p. 250) that the latter brought him ac-

quainted with his " good father," with ^hom he " lived very^ agreeably " for a nonth " at Mr. Brown's Beadhouse," at
 * he end of 1687 and beginning of 1688, and

}hen met " that great mathematician, Mr. Gilbert, clerk," and " that truly great and good man, Dr. Cumberland, afterward Bishop of Peterborough." In 1698 charges of maladministration were brought in the name of the bedesmen (Wright, ' The Story of the " Domus Dei " of Stamford,' p. 120), in a petition drawn by some educated hand. The Bishop of Lincoln, as Visitor, does not appear to have taken any action upon the petition ; it is impossible to form any judgment upon it without knowing the Warden's answer. Irregularities were also alleged against his predecessor and his two successors.

Lawrence was buried at St. Michael's, Stamford, 12 May, 1700. Can any one say to what family he belonged ?

G. O. BELLEWES.

3, Carlyle Gardens, Cheyne Row, S.W.

EDINBURGH : DERIVATION OF ITS NAME. According to Isaac Taylor's ' Names and their Histories ' (revised edition of 1898), the Gaelic name of Edinburgh, " Dune- din," is a translation of " Oppidum Eden," as Edinburgh is called in the 'Pictish Chronicle ' (edited ?). Eden, which occurs in more than a hundred names in Ireland, and many in Scotland, is derived by the same authority (I.e.) from a Gaelic word eadann, denoting the forehead, or the brow of a hill. But neither Al. Macbain's ' Ety- molog. Gaelic Diet.' (Inverness, 1896), nor R. A. Armstrong's ' Gaelic Diet.' (Lond., 1825), nor the ' Gaelic Diet.' of the Highland Society of Scotland (Lond. 1828) contains this word. I find, however, both in Arm- strong's and the Highland Society diet. eudann, as identified with Old Irish cadan, and signifying the forehead, face, brow of mountain (cf. P. S. Dinneen's ' Irish-Engl. Diet.,' Dublin, 1904). Hence Dunedin would originally mean the town or stronghold built upon the brow of the hill. Is this derivation acceptable ? H. KREBS.

ELLEN AS A SURNAME. Can any reader give origin or particulars of this Kentish family name ? F.

99, Lewin Road, Streatham.

MITRED ABBOTS. Which were the " mitred abbots " ? A list will greatly oblige. Please reply direct.

(Mrs.) HAUTENVJLLE COPE.

18, Harrington Court, Glendower Place, S.W.