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find an account of the bridge in ' Kamen- itzky's Eigentlicher Entwurff und Vor- bildung der .... Prager-Briicken. . . . ' pub- lished at Prague in 1716. I have not seen the book for many years, but, if I remember rightly, it is of a biographical and devo- tional character, containing prayers ad- dressed to the various saints whose statues .adorn the bridge. A copy may be found in the Patent Office Library.

I am told that an illustrated account of the bridge at Prague appeared in The Sketch about July or August last.

R. B. P.

WILBRAHAM AND TABRAHAM AS PROPER NAMES (10 S. x. 430). There is no difficulty about Wilbraham, as it was taken from the place-name. Wilbraham is explained at p. 24 of my ' Place-Names of Cambridge- shire.' The old spelling Wilburgeham occurs in Birch, ' Cartularium Anglo-Saxonicum,' vol. iii. p. 630. Wilburge is the genitive case of the female name Wilburh. It occurs again in Wilburton, also in Cambs.

I cannot find Tabraham, nor any old example of it ; and I do not know where it is. WALTER W. SKEAT.

Lower (' Patronymica Britannica ') de- duces Wilbraham from an estate in Cheshire. " The earliest recorded ancestor is Richard de Wilburgham of Wilburgham " in that county, who lived in the thirteenth century. Bardsley ( ' Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames ' ) gives examples of it through the stages Wilburgham, Wylberham, Wyl- bram, and Wilbraham.

Tabraham is quite new to me. If not derived from a locality, it may be Abraham in disguise, the patriarch being masked, instead of being brutally decapitated to serve as Braham. ST. SWITHIN.

Is not Wilbraham derived from the place- name Wilbraham in East Cambridgeshire ?

Would not Tabraham be D' Abraham, son of Abraham ? W. B. GERISH.

Bishop Stortford.

"MOLOKER," YIDDISH TERM (10 S. x. 385, 435). In the Vale of Aylesbury sixty years ago a " moloker " (accent on the first syllable) was a person who dawdled about, wasted time on trifles, a sort of sloven, of whom a neighbour would say, "He bean't up to much a reg'lar moloker I calls him." " Mollock " and " mullock " are good old English dialect words (about the general use of which much appears in the 'E.D.D.'), meaning dirt, refuse, confusion, mess,

muddle, slovenliness, &c. These are the uses to which MR. RATCLIFFE refers, but

moloker," with accent on the second syllable, appears to have no connexion therewith. RICHD. WELFORD.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

ELEANOR WOOD 10 S. x. 367). The following notes are from the Shropshire Parish Register Society's publications.

The Alberbury Register has, under date 1663, Dec. 10, " Elinor Wood bap." There are no other baptisms about this date of the same name.

The earliest extant Sheinton Register begins 1711. Extracts of older registers date from 1658. I do not think High Ercall registers are yet printed.

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

Innellan, Shrewsbury.

Having looked through the Alberbury Registers, I find the following entries. They do not correspond with the dates required by DOCTOR, but they may perhaps be of some use to him :

" 1630, Dec. 5. Elinora, f. Edwardi et Margarete Whood, bap."

" 1630, Jan. 30. Elinora, f. Edwardi et Margarete Whood de Bulchey, sep."

The first* Sheinton Register was lost, but how or when is not known ; ] it was missing in 1831. The earliest date of Sheinton Register is 1658. H. T. BEDDOWS.

Shrewsbury Free Library.

DICKENS'S SURNAMES: GUPPY (10 S. x. 327). Guppy has long been a well-known name in this city. According to Besley's to have then been the postman ; and in the same directory for the current year the names of eight different families of Guppy occur.
 * Exeter Directory ' for 1831, Guppy appears

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S DAY, 17 NOVEMBER (10 S. x. 381, 431). W. C. B. may like to know that there is a reference to Queen Elizabeth's birthday in Swift's journal to Stella. I cannot give the page, as I have no copy by me. SUSANNA CORNER.

Nottingham.

THE KENT, EAST INDIAMAN (10 S. x. 430). MR. H. R. LEIGHTON may find some par- ticulars respecting the officers and passengers in this unfortunate ship by referring to the works set out in the ' Bibliotheca Cornu- biensis,' of Mr. G. C. Boase and myself, iii. 1006, and in the ' Collectanea Cornu- biensia ' of Mr. Boase, p. 1466.

W. P. COURTNEY.