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ANNA, A PLACE-NAME (10 S. x. 268, 312) With regard to the Anna of the latte reference, the Hampshire Domesday Book 'shows six manors named Anna or Anne in the neighbourhood of Andover. Th< editor thereof notes that Anne was at th< time of the Heptarchy an extensive trac' of country, and that the name was tradition ally derived from Annas, King of the Easi Angles, driven from his country and settlec there. At the present day the name sur vives in the neighbouring Abbot's Ann Little Ann, and Amport (sc. Anne de Port) The last named is the seat of the Marquis <of Winchester, said to be a direct descendant of Sir Hugh de Port, to whom this manor with many others in Hants, was allotted by William the Conqueror. The same name is probably contained in the river Anton on which Andover (Anton-shore) lies.

H. P. L.

The States of Illinois, Ohio, Texas, anc Georgia have each a small town named Anna, the largest in Illinois, having rather under 2,500 inhabitants at the last census.

M. C. L. New York.

SHAKESPEARE'S EPITAPH (10 S. x. 346, 396). DR. KRUEGER'S inquiry as to the meaning of Ben Jonson's line

Thou art a monument without a tomb might be answered satisfactorily in a para- phrase of the first line of Matthew Arnold's sonnet on Shakespeare ; e.g.,

Others abide our burial. Thou art free.

T. F. DWIGHT. La Tour de Peilz, Vaud, Suisse.

HIGH TREASON AND ITS PUNISHMENT <10 S. x. 229, 314, 354). I beg to thank MR. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK for correcting the foolish mistake I made in saying that the last trial for high treason was in 1848. I should like now to say that, in addition to the two cases in 1867 and 1903 mentioned by him, there was the case of Maclean, who was tried for high treason on 19 April, 1882, on the Oxford Circuit, for shooting at the Queen at Windsor, and who was found to <be insane. HARRY B. POLAND.

Inner Temple.

MR. PIERPOINT'S conjecture that " it was Mr. [J. F. X.] O'Brien who brought in a Bill to allow any Irishman, who desired to do so, to put an ' O ' or a ' Mac ' at the beginning of his surname." is incorrect. That Bill was introduced in the session of 1898, and was in charge of Mr. MacAleese ;

there were five other names on the back of the Bill, but that of Mr. J. F. X. O'Brien was not among them. As has been already pointed out (see 10 S. iii. 15), the Attorney- General for Ireland denied that there was any law to prevent the use of " O " or " Mac " ; but the statute of 1465 quoted on the same page shows that there was some basis for the belief of the promoters.

F. W. READ.

SIR ALEXANDER BRETT (10 S. x. 289, 352). The Somersetshire wills collected by the Rev. Frederick Brown of Beckenham have been printed and privately issued in six volumes by Mr. F. Crisp. I possess a com- plete index to the work ; and if SENEX will refer to Brown (F.), ' Somersetshire Wills,' Series L, 1887, pp. 66-7, he will find a number of Brett wills quoted in abstract, and these formed the basis of much of the information contained in the pamphlet on the Brett family, by the Rev. F. Brown, to which MR. FRY alludes, and which, I may add, was first printed, and is now more easily found, in the Somersetshire Archaeological Society's Proceedings for 1882 (vol. xxviii.).

I append a number of references to fugitive material respecting the Bretts which may be found in ' Somersetshire Parishes,' a work which is placed on the Topo-Biblio- graphical stand in the B.M. Reading-Room. The references found on the pages given are in the work named to wills of Somersetshire Bretts, and may therefore be of value to SENEX.

Alexander, 784, 785. Anne, 785. Arthur, 785. Eleanor, 178, 784. Elizabeth, 429. Gabriel Robert, 785. George, 238. Hierom, 725. Jerome, 143, 472, 509, 726. John, 135, 258, 327, 472, 474, 545, 638, 784, 785. Mary, 145, 687, 785. Richard, 785. Robert,

784. Simon, 378, 615, 785. Lady Ursula,

785. William, 233, 312, 429, 543, 580, 584, 633, 785. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

R. BELGRAVE HOPPNER (10 S. x. 349). Richard Belgrave Hoppner was gazetted Consul-General at Venice 15 Nov., 1814, and leld that post till 5 April, 1825. He died 3 Aug., 1872.

ALFRED B. BEAVEN, M.A.

Leamington.

PAUL BRADDON : WATER-COLOUR ART 10 S. viii. 489). I have searched every Available source I know for information, but lave not found the name of this painter. There are hundreds of artists about whom lothing seems to be known. Notwith-