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ever. The same prefix occurs in Wadding- ham, also in Lincolnshire.

Those who quote " Anglo-Saxon " forms should quote accurately. The names Wada and Wadda are distinct, though probably from the same root. WALTER W. SKEAT.

To assert that Waddington is analogous in its formation with such place-names as Islington and Kensington is hardly felicitous, as neither of those names contains the patronymic ing. Islington, moreover, was not a tun, but a dun. The termination -ington is deceptive, and the modern form is often no indication of the origin of the name. Paddington, for instance, is Padan- tun, the tun of Pada. Waddington, there- fore, may be the tun of Wada or Wadda, or of the Wadding family. It is impossible to say without seeing the earliest forms of the word. The first thing to do, in cases of this sort, is to consult Kemble and Birch. I may add that while the readers of ' N. & Q.' were greatly indebted to the late Canon Taylor for many valuable and suggestive articles, his ' Words and Places ' is virtually obsolete. Within recent years, authoritative works on the place-names of several English counties have been written by the Rev. Prof. Skeat and Mr. W. H. Duignan. These works might advan- tageously be consulted before inquiry is made in ' N. & Q.' I have no hesitation in saying that any one interested in the derivation of place-names would obtain a better grounding in the principles on which such names are founded from the study say, of Prof. Skeat's ' Place-Names of Cam bridgeshire,' than from any of Canon Taylor's books. W. F. PBIDEAUX.

THOMAS DOVER, M.B. (10 S. xi. 149). The inventor of Dover's powders and th discoverer of Alexander Selkirk was the younger son of Capt. John Dover (1614-95 of Barton - on - the - Heath by Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Vade, and was bap- tized 6 May, 1662, his elder brother being John (1644-1725), Rector of Drayton, for some account of whom see 10 S. ix. 232.

Capt. John Dover was the only surviving son of Robert (d. 1652), the founder of the Cotswold Games, by Sibilla, widow of John Sanford, and daughter of Dr. William Cole, Dean of Lincoln and President of C.C.C. Oxford. The ' D.N.B.' errs in the date of death and place of burial of Robert Dover : he was buried 24 July, 1652, at Barton-on- the-Heath, and his wife Sibilla 5 Nov., 1653. Dr. Dover had twin daughters, baptized at Barton in April, 1688, but his marriage

las not been verified ; it may have been at Bristol, where he was then living. His wife- r oanna was buried at Barton, 27 April,

727, but the place of burial of the doctor las not been discovered. The twin daiigh- ers died young, but Dover left two daugh- ers : Elizabeth, wife of John Opie, who d.s.p., ind Sibilla, wife of John Hunt, who has left many descendants.

There is a pamphlet printed in Baltimore in

896 by Prof. Osier in which he dwells on Dover's dual nature the buccaneer and the ohysician. THOMAS COLYER FERGUSSON.

Ightham Mote, near Sevenoaks.

FIELD MEMORIALS TO SPORTSMEN (10 S. x. 509 ; xi. 116). There are three memorials n the hunting-field through barbed wire,, and died on 21 Nov., 1906. They are as 'ollows : brass altar cross mounted on ebony, brass eagle lectern, Bible, and altar service, and a pair of brass altar candlesticks in Trefonen Church, Oswesty ; and a brass mural tablet, surmounted by a perforated brass cross, in Treflach Social Room. There is also a memorial window in Devonshire,, but of this I have no account.
 * o Mr. G. J. Dumville Lees, who was injured

H. T. BEDDOWS.

Public Library, Shrewsbury.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S.. i. 148). MR. MORGAN will find the original text,

He is not worthy of the honeycomb That shuns the hives because the bees have stings,.

in ' The Tragedy of Locrine,' 1595, III. ii. 39- 40. See 'Shakespeare Apocrypha' (1908), Clarendon Press. TOM JONES.

It is not apparent on what grounds the editorial note speaks of

Our Master hath a garden

as a Christmas carol. It has no direct reference to the Nativity. It forms No. 546 of the ' People's Hymnal ' (Masters, 1868) among the General Hymns, and is there stated to be a translation by S. S. Greatheed of " Heer Jesus heeft een Hofken."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

[The writer of the editorial note made the acquaintance of the poem in a little collection: of Christmas carols used in a South London parish.]

"MAN IN THE STREET" (10 S. v. 167). This characterization, though attributed by the late MR. EDWARD H. MARSHALL at 9 S. ii. 131 to Emerson, has been shown by Mr. C. L. SAYER in the present Series to- occur in the ' Greville Memoirs,' First Series,-