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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. in. JUNE 17, IMS.

the account in the 'New English Dictionary,' which tells us that the E. arch was "adopted from the O.F. arche, from Lat. area, chest, coffer ; also, through some confusion, used in O F. for arc, from L. arcum, bow."

The confusion really arose, not in the Old French, but in Mediaeval Latin. Ducange -explains it thus : "Area, pro Arcus, mendose et ridicule apud scriptores semibarbaros, quoties de Ponte arcus, Gallice Pont de I' arche, scripserunt, ut monet Valesius in 'Notit. Gall./ p. 453, col. 1." The reference is to the ' Notitia Galliarura Ordine Alpha- betico Digesta,' published in 1675 by Adrien de Valois. WALTER W. SKEAT.

NAME COINCIDENCES. The following in- stance of name phenomena is said to be without a parallel in the experience of all who, thus far, have met with it. To a wider circle of observers it may, perchance, be also unique : scarcely can it be less interesting.

The writer's mother's maiden name was Watts ; his wife's maiden name also was Watts, the second Christian name of both being Emma. The mother's eldest brother is Thomas Watts ; the wife's eldest brother is Thomas Watts. The mother's second brother is James Watts ; the wife's second brother is James Watts. The mother's elder sister was Annie Watts ; the wife's elder sister is Annie Watts. The youngest daughter in the mother's family was Elizabeth Watts ; the wife, the youngest daughter in her family, was also Elizabeth Watts.

Up to the time of the marriage the two families were entire strangers to each other, and, so far as is known, in no way related, the first hailing from Gloucestershire, the latter from Cumberland.

W. BAILEY-KEMPLING.

YOUNG AND BURNS. In his sixth satire, specifically entitled 'On Women,' Young makes a "devil's fair apologist" exclaim,

Poor Satan ! doubtless, he '11 at length be sav'd. 'This is an interesting anticipation, although not necessarily one of the sources, of the great apostrophe with which Burns closes his inimitable ' Address to the Deil ' : But fare-you-weel, auld NicMe-ben!

wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might 1 dinna ken

Still hae a stake

1 'm wae to think upo' yon den,

Even for your sake !

THOMAS BAYNE.

CAPE HOORN. The name of the southern- most point of South America is often spelt incorrectly, and this has suggested erroneous notions as to its meaning, as if derived from

its shape. The origin of the name is, how- ever, stated incorrectly in another way in a little book called 'Glimpses of our Empire,' by Mr. Robinson Souttar (author of that excellent work 'A Short History of Ancient Peoples'), at p. 20 of which we read, "until at length Capt. Horn rounded the cape which bears his name." The first navigators who rounded the cape were two Dutch captains, Le Maire and Schouten, in the month of January, 1616, and they named it after Hoorn, on the east coast of North Hol- land, because that was Schouten's native town. The strait through which they passed between Staten Island and Tierra del Fuego was named after Le Maire. Admiral Fitzroy tried to distinguish the cape from the small island on which it is placed by calling the former Cape Hoorn and the latter Horn Island, but it is more usual in this country, though less correct, to spell both Horn.

W. T. LYNN. Blackheath.

BELLRINGING. I copy the following from The Daily Ncivs, and think it may be interest- ing to readers of ' N. & Q.' :

"A unique performance in church bellringing took place at St. Magnus the Martyr, Lower Thames Street, E.G., on Sunday, 14 May, when ten ringers, all of the same Christian name, 'Thomas,' rang a true and complete peal in the change-ringing method known as Stedman's Cater. The peal con- tained 5,086 changes, and was composed by Thomas J. Gofton, of Newcastle. It took three hours four- teen minutes to ring. The band rang as follows : Thomas L. Simmons (Bushey, Herts), treble ; Thomas H. Taffenden (Southwark), 2nd ; Thomas Faulkner (Barking, Essex), 3rd ; Thomas Newman (Caversham, Oxon), 4th ; Thomas H. Col born (Lough borough, Leicestershire), 5th ; Thomas Card (Tun bridge Wells), Gth ; Thomas Lincoln (Clielms- ford, Essex), 7th ; Thomas Langden (Wai worth), 8th ; Thomas Groombridge (Chislehurst, Kent), 9th ; Thomas Langden (P.) (St. Pancras, London), tenor. The peal was conducted by Thomas H. Taffenden, and is the first of its kind yet rung by a band all of the same name, and who are all mem- bers of the London County Association of Change Ringers."

W. B.

CROMWELL FLEETWOOD. (See 9 th S. ix. 285.) Cromwell Fleetwood's wife Elizabeth was the only child and heiress of George Nevill by his wife Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Sir Henry Trotter, of Sheltou Castle, co. York. George Nevill died in 1679, and was buried at Little Berkhampstead.

Cromwell Fleetwood died intestate, and administration was granted to his widow on 27 September, 1688. His widow died on 26 April, 1692. Her will (P.C.C. 105 Fane) was dated 23 May (3 William & Mary), 1691. She describes herself as of "Little Bark-