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1508-1652' (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), p. 83, that it was the home of a family of Hawkins at any rate from the middle of the sixteenth century, if not earlier. Sir Richard Haw- kins, a scrivener in the Old Bailey, who was knighted in 1687, was born there (see 9 S. vii. 154). I do not know whether Foster's ' Alumni Oxon.' is correct in identify- ing him with the Richard Hawkins of Mort- lake, Surrey, whose son Richard matricu- lated from St. Edmund Hall in 1681/2 ; but this scrivener who became a knight was certainly one of the trustees of the will of William Hawkins of Mortlake, who died in 1677/8, and who, there is some reason to think, was a great-uncle of William Haw- kins, the serjeant-at-law (see 9 S. xi. 10).

William Hawkins, the Prebendary of Winchester who married Izaak Walton's daughter, is said to have been born in 1633 (Anderdon's ' Life of Ken by a Layman,' ii. 829). He would seem to be identical with the " William Hawkins, gent." (neither age nor parentage mentioned), whom Foster gives as matriculating from Christ Church in 1650, and as receiving the degree of M.A. at Oxford in 1655 and of D.D. at Lambeth in 1664. This member of Christ Church stood unsuccessfully for the office of junior proctor at Oxford in 1660 (see ' Wood's Life and Times,' Oxf. Hist. Soc., i. 307 et seq.). As to the partial confusion that Foster made of the Prebendary of Win- chester with his contemporary and name- sake, Dr. William Hawkins of Magdalen College, who became Prebendary of Nor- wich, see 9 S. vi. 371 ; vii. 477. The Pre- bendary of Winchester had a whole brother John Hawkins, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who took the degree of S.T.B. in 1661 (see 9 S. vi. 371). This John Haw- kins is entered in the Trinity register as having been admitted a pensioner of the College on 7 March, 1645 ; but unfortunately the entry does not record his parentage. There was a sister (or possibly half-sister) Temperance Hawkins who married Bra- bazon Aylmer, citizen and stationer, of St. Michael's, Cornhill (see 9 S. vi. 371). The marriage licence, dated 30 Sept., 1678, describes her as of St. Faith's, London, a spinster aged about twenty, whose parents were dead (Harl. Soc., xxiii. 285). She seems to have been buried at St. Michael's, Cornhill, on 16 May, 1697 (see the Register, Harl. Soc., p. 275).

At 10 S. vi. 31 mention is made of some descendants of Dr. Hawkins, the Prebendary of Winchester, and his wife Anne Walton. Their great-granddaughter, Frances Haw-

kins, who, as there stated, became Mrs. Blagden, went abroad after her husband's death. From letters of hers that I have seen, it appears that from 1803 to 1807 she was living at " No. 66, Rue Paris, Rennes," and that in June, 1832, her address was at "La Lambetty, St. Servan." When the Rev. Herbert Hawes, D.D., of Salis- bury, died in January, 1837, The Gentle- man's Magazine (N.S. vii. 549) stated [that " with the exception of a female cousin," he had been " the last surviving descendant" of Izaak Walton the angler. I do not know the date of Mrs. Blagden's death ; but, so far as I can ascertain, she must have been the female cousin to whom the writer of that obituary notice intended to refer. She is said to have been thirty years of age at the time of her marriage in 1790 (Harl. Soc., xxxv. 74). H. C.

EDINBURGH : DERIVATION or ITS NAME (10 S. x. 410). The oldest form of the name of Edinburgh is Edwinesburg. In the foundation charter of Holyrood by David I.,. Holyrood is called " Ecclesia Sancti Crucis Edwinesburgensis." Simeon of Durham calls the town Edwinesburch. See Skene's ' Celtic Scotland,' i. 240.

Edinburgh received its name from Edwin the Northumbrian king (the friend of Paulinas), who added to his kingdom the district from the Esk to the Avon, and made " Edwinesburg " its chief stronghold.

A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

For the etymology of the Gaelic Dunedin from eudain, Old Irish earfcm = "fort on the hill brow," see Johnston's ' Place - Names of Scotland,' s.v. ' Edinburgh. '

C. S. JERRAM.

BRUGES : ITS PRONUNCIATION (10 S. x. 408). As an old and frequent visitor to- Bruges, I should say the right pronunciation is the French one. MR. FOSTER PALMER asks, Why not the Flemish ? and asserts that the Flemish pronunciation of Bruges is " Bru-ya." There is seme confusion of mind 'here. One might as well say that Londres is pronounced London. No- Fleming ever pronounces Bruges other than in the French way, but, as in the case of most Belgian towns, there is a Flemish name for it as well as a F rench one. It is written " Brugge," and it is this, and not the French name, which s ounds like " Bru- ya " to your correspondent. I should prefer to express the sound by " Bru-ba." T he- Flemish and Dutch g ha s a mcst peculiar