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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. in. FEB. 4, 1905.

sometime Mayor of Oxford, by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Bos worth, of St. Giles's, Oxford. She was baptized at St. Aldate's, 5 January, 1C41/2, and buried there on 10 September, 1672, having died on 7 Sep- tember (Clark's 'Wood's City of Oxford,' Oxf. Hist. Soc., iii. 133, 199, 450). For the baptisms of their children, see the same volume, p. 200. 1 suggest that, for conveni- ence of future reference, the name of each of the two judges mentioned in MR. GOOD- WIN'S note should appear in the index to the current volume of 'N. & Q.' separately.

H. C. [H. C.'s suggestion had been anticipated.]

ARITHMETIC (10 th S. iii. 50). Has your correspondent consulted a well-known work entitled ' List of Arithmetic Books from the Time of Printing to the Present Time,' drawn up from actual inspection by Prof. Augustus De Morgan, London, 1847 1 A copy can be seen at the Corporation Library, Guildhall, E.C.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

PENNY WARES WANTED (10 th S. ii. 369, 415, 456; iii. 16). In a very entertaining children's story, ' Lady Anne, the Little Pedlar,' 1823, I find the phrase " market-penny." It was the term for the sixpences which market- garden employes filched for themselves out of the proceeds of the morning's sale at Covent Garden, on their way back to the gardens, in this case near Turnham Green. PERCEVAL D. LUCAS.

"!LAND" (10 th S. ii. 348, 493). I do not think the writers who have replied to my query about " iland " have quite understood the sentence in which it occurs. I am aware that the words "iland" and "island" occur as place-names far inland, but if your readers will look at the sentence again they will see it refers, not to the place or position of grow- ing crops, but to the place, apparently, in the "new barne" where the barley had been stored. The sentence which follows in the MS. states that "the 3rd, 4th, ^ 6th, 8th, 10th, and part of the llth dressings came out of the middlestead [i.e, the threshing floor] and first mow on the left hand in the old barne."

This shows conclusively, to my mind, that the word "iland" refers to some portion of the "new barne" already mentioned ; but why is it so called ? A. H. ARKLE.

At the present time there is a small, well- defined area, covered by cottages with their gardens, situated at Ringmer, Sussex, and known as "the Iland." I have not seen it spelt. None of the villagers whom I have

asked are aware why it is so called. Those who live there are referred to as " up at the Hand." This village of Ringmer, I may mention, is very interesting, both to the antiquary and the topographer. Further, it was from Ringmer, at " The Delves," that Gilbert White wrote some of his letters on ' The Natural History of Selborne,' or Ring- mer, for the names qua natural history were almost interchangeable.

WILLIAM MARTIN. Temple, E.C.

FELIX BRYAN MACDONOUGH (10 th S. ii. 527). CELT will find in The Gentleman's Maga- zine for June, 1836, p. 672, one or two additional particulars concerning Capt. Felix M'Donough. In the notices of deaths it is there stated that he died, steeped in poverty, in that year, and had dragged on existence as a bookseller's hack. EDWARD J. PARKER.

CELT has referred to 9 th S. x. 136, Has he overlooked the communications given in 4 th S. iii. 300, 419 1

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

BENJAMIN BLAKE : NORMAN : OLDMIXON (10 th S. ii. 447 ; iii. 15). DR. GUSTAV KRUEUER will find that Oldmixon is the name of a small hamlet near Weston - super - Mare. John Oldmixon, the Whig historian, was the owner of that part of it in the parish of Bleadon which his ancestors had held for a good many generations. If existing, this must be one of the rarest surnames in Eng- land, as the family never seems to have spread. In Collinson's ' History of Somerset ' (iii. 591) it is stated the place was formerly called Oldmixton, but I find it Oldemixon in an Inq. p.m. of 49 Edw. III.

It is not, however, very unlikely to have been called so from having been the site of an old mixen, a kitchen midden, or prehistoric shell-mound.

Who that mysterious Sir John Oldmixon was who died in America in 1818 is still an enigma (3 nl S. xi. 399 ; xii. 76).

A. S. ELLIS.

Westminster.

SIR T. W. STUBBS (10 th S. ii. 189). I am glad to say that since sending this query I have obtained the information required from Mr. Honorius Grant, of the British Con- sulate, Oporto.

Sir Thomas married in 1799 Joanna Candida de Seixos Barbosa, and died 27 April, 1844. For his services he was created, 18 December, 1833, Baron Villa Nova de Gaia, and on 20 May, 1835, Visconde Villa Nova de