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Counties Magazine, dealing with Suthrige or Surrey. I cannot give the exact reference, as I am abroad, but it deals in a new and interesting way with the place-termination -rige, and might throw some light on the analogous name Eastry. W. F. PRIDE ATJX. Grand Hotel, Locarno.

In an article on the derivation of Surrey in The Home Counties Magazine for July, 1901 (vol. iii. pp. 198-205),' Mr. T. le Mar- chant Douse, following Prof. Kluge, pointed out similarities in the early forms of Eastry and Surrey, and inferred that they are de- rived from the same tribal name, being the East and South Riges respectively. He further identified the Riges with the Rugi of Germany, A. MORLEY DA VIES.

Winchmore Hill, Amersham.

Lambarde in his ' Perambulation of Kent,' written in 1576, says :

" Eastrie is the name of a Towne and hundredth within the Lath of St. Augustine, and hath the addition of East for difference sake, from Westrie (commonly called Bye), neere to Winchelsey in Sussex."

R. VAUGHAN GOWEB.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE DEFINITION OP A GENTLEMAN (10 S. xi. 109). This definition of a gentieman has nothing to do with the county mentioned, but is merely an extract from a littla volume entitled ' The Gentile Sinner, or England's Brave Gentleman : Characterized In a Letter to a Friend, Both as he is, and as he should be,' first published at Oxford, in 1660, according to Anthony a Wood. The second edition, a copy of which lies before me, is dated 1661. The author was Clement Ellis, Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, who was born at Penrith, Cumberland, and was in 1694 Rector of Kirkby in Nottinghamshire, where he en- joyed " great repute for his Religion and Learning " (' Atheme Oxonienses,' 2nd ed., 1721, pp. 969-70). Wood gives the title of the book as ' The Genteel Sinner,' and adds : " Afterwards came out several edi- tions of it with corrections and additions," so it must have obtained considerable popularity.

As the passage in the query has been modernized in spelling, and contain? not a few differences from the original text, an exact copy of what appears on pp. 178-9 of the second edition will no doubt be of interest :

" The true gentleman ia one that ia Gods Bervant, the worlds master, and his own man. Hia vertue is his business, his study his recreation, contentednesse his rest, and happinesse his

reward. God is his father, the Church is his mother, the Saints his brethren, all that need him his friends, and Heaven his inheritance. Religion is his mistresse, loyalty and justice her ladies of honour ; devotion is his chaplain, chastity his chamberlain, sobriety his butler, temperance his cook, hospitality his housekeeper, Providence his steward, charity his treasurer : Piety is mistresse of the house, and discretion the porter, to let in and out as ia most fit. Thus is his whole family made up of vertues, and he the true master of his family. He ia necessitated to take the world in his way to Heaven, but he walks through it as fast as he can ; and all his businesse by the way is to make himself and others happy. Take him all in two words, he is a man and a Christian."

JOHN T. CUBBY.

BILLY BUTLER THE HUNTING PARSON (10 S. x. 310, 395, 453 ; xi. 15). The Butler arms, w-hich I copied from Hutchins's 4 Dorset,' iv. 333, are incorrectly blazoned by that historian. On p. 182 he apparently gives them correctly, as Or, on a chief indented azure, three covered cups of the first. V. L. OLIVER.

MILL AT GOSPOBT, HANTS (10 S. x. 68, 118). I thank W. C. J. for his reply. From information lately received T find that the locality of the mill was rightly stated by me. However, I regret having made a slip with respect to the Civil War incident. The mill mentioned by W. C. J., and graphic- ally described by Sir Walter Besant in ' By Celia's Arbour,' was the " Old King's Mill," Portsmouth, which was burnt down in 1868, and was also the mill connected with the above incident. The sito is occupied by the present Gun Wharf. F. K. 1'.

" BROKENSELDE " (10 S. xi. 10, 58, 110). It is now clear that selde does not, in this particular case, mean " shield," but repre- sents the A.-S. seld or selde (it scarcely matters which), a building, abode, shop, shed, or whatever else of the kind seems most suitable.

The A.-S. seld, an abode, selde, a porch, are closely related, and appear to be inter- changeable, at a later date. Two references for the M.E. seld are given in Stratmann. As to the etymology, there is no doubt that seld is a mere variant of setl, a settle, abode, residence, dwelling, stall (for beasts), se-e (for a bishop). Sievers has shown that the suffix -Id is merely a later form of -dl or -tl ; the stock examples are neeld, a mere variant of needle ; and spdld, spittle, for spdtl. The root-verb is sittan, to sit.

We must not take Mr. Riley's etymologies seriously, as not much was known about