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 NOTES AND QUEEIES. [io* 8. v. JAN. 13, im

Elizabeth Fleetwood (10 th S. i. 422), the I " PROPITIOUS." In a kindly notice of ray Regicide's daughter, and half-sister to Anne latest book (10 th S. iv. 539), I observe that Fleetwood, died intestate and unmarried, the word propitious is explained as "coming- Administration was granted to her brother near- to," from ituni, supine of ~ire, to go. In Robert, 10 April, 1677, her mother having Lewis and Short's dictionary, which is very first renounced ; she is described as of the much behind the age as regards etymologies, parish of St. Michael, Cornhill (P.C.C. Hale).

David Fleetwood (10 th S. i. 422), who in- herited Milton's Cottage, had a son Valentine, buried at Amersham, Bucks, 3 June, 1681. His baptismal name was doubtless derived irom the Rev. Thomas Valentine, rector of Ohalfont St. Giles, deprived for noncon- formity in 1661.

Mrs. Honoria Cradock (10 th S. i. 422), sister to the Regicide, must have been a post- humous child. Of her husband, the Rev.

we are referred to prope, near, as explaining gropititu.

But this result is by no means certain ; and it is worth saying that the idea of con- necting prapitiu* with petere, orig. " to fly," is much favoured by the form of the adj. prcppes. And it must be remembered that Latin expresses the very notion of u coming near to" by propinqum and propinquare^ which makes it unlikely that a second form would co-exist. Late Latin had propi&re.

Samuel Cradock, rector of North Cadbury, I ^he derivation of propitiut from pelere is

thmg very new. 1 quoted it

co. Somerset, ejected for nonconformity in 1662, an interesting account will be found in the 'D.N.B.,' based chiefly on Calamy. He inherited unexpectedly a family estate called , -Gesyngs, at Wickhambrook, co. Suffolk ; he ' mafcfcer - died at Bishop's Stortford, Herts, 7 Oct., 1706, in his eighty-sixth year. His widow died 25 Feb., 1708/9, at the age of eighty-one, -and she lies with her husband at Wickham- brook, where tablets were erected to their memories. They had several children, but the family appears to have died out in the next generation, the last survivor being ^Elizabeth Cradock, their granddaughter, who married the Rev. Thomas Priest, pastor to a Dissenting congregation at Wickhambrook. Mrs. Priest died 27 Jan., 1763. George Fleetwood (10 th S. i. 424), eldest son

very new. i quoted it in my dictionary in 1881 from Vanicek, who in 1887 quoted it from Ascoli (in Kuhn's Zeitschrift, xvi. 211). Latin etymology is a very difficult I know of no safer and saner guide

than Breal, whose words are always worth weighing. At p. 262 of his ' Dictionnaire Etymologique Latin ' (1885) he says, in speak- ing of the verb pet ere :

Le sens le plus ancien, qui est voter, ne s'est conserve que dans dci-piter et dans les deux adjec- tifs prcepw et propitins, qui faisaient partie de la langue des augures : les oiseaux volant en avant etaient regardes comme favorables, les oiseaux qui se dirigeaient vers 1'observateur (adcersa volucres) passaient pour contraires."

I doubt the parallelism noted between Hebrew and Latin. That the Hebrew God would approach His worshipper is intelligible

of Robert and grandson of the Regicide, but in Rome we should rather expect to find

.married 1 Aug., 1731, at St. James's, Duke's Place, Aldgate, Hannah, widow of Hop- 1 god.

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the worshipper had to approach the At any rate, it is obvious that the

son, of StT Botolph, Bishopsgate. He died I supposed Gothic analogy is due to a mistake ; intestate, and administration was granted to f 1 ' the Teutonic giniasra is explained by his widow, 13 Jan., 1732/3 (Commissary Court I Stephens as "save," cognate with A. S.

nerian, Icel. ncera, G. ndhren. The r in near is comparative ; the positive form is nigh, and no Germanic form signifying *' to come near " could contain an r. The A.-S. verb is neahloecan, to draw nigh.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

of London).

Family of Brand or Brend (10 th S. i. 423-4).

In the pedigree of Smith of Hill Hall,

Essex, given at the end of ' Theydon Mount :

its Lords and Rectors,' it is stated that Sir

William Smith (died December, 1626) married

Bridget, daughter of Thomas Fleetwood, of

the Vache ; their fourth daughter, Frances
 * Smith, married Sir Matthew Brende, of West

Moulsey, Surrey, Knt., son of Nicholas Brende I Betham - Edwards on the old - fashioned

by Margaret, daughter of Sir William Plumer, sanitary or rather insanitary arrange-

Knt. This is interesting as showing an earlier ments of certain French hotels. "French -connexion with the Brend family than that travellers," she assures us, " resent these occasioned by the Regicide's marriage with antequations no less than ourselves, but Hester Smith, sister of Judith Smith, who shrug their shoulders with the remark, 'We married Thomas Brend, of Moulsey. shall not come here again ; why put our

R. W. B. I selves out 1 "' (' Home Life in France,' p. 41.)

" ANTEQUATIONS." This startling word, unregistered in the 'N.E.D./ appears in the course of some observations made by Miss on