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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. v. MAY 12, IGOG.

<( the cherubs filling the medallion were drawn from Magdalen choristers: one was my brother {Lewis S. Tuckwell), now rector of IStandlake ; another was Charles Corfe, son to the Ch. Ch. organist [Charles W., younger brother of the above] ; the Madonna was his mother, Mrs. Corfe." Rev. W. Tuckwell's ' Reminiscences of Oxford,' in Oxford Magazine, 21 June, 1905, p. 412.

Cox, George Valentine (1786-1875), author of * Recollections of Oxford,' 1868. ' D.N.B.,' while mentioning his education at M.C.S., omits to state that he was a chorister 1793- 1802, and Master of New College School from 1806 for sixty years ; an esquire bedell of the University for same length of time : his younger brothers Henry and Frederick also choristers ; George, chorister in 1775, a kinsman ; and probably Peter also, chorister in 1698.

Coxe, William (1840-69), scholar. Eldest son of Henry O. Coxe, Bodley's Librarian ('D.N.B.'); Boden Sanskrit Scholar ; assistant in Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at Brit. Mus.

Coxeter, Thomas (1689 - 1747), literary antiquary. Collected old English plays ; forged titles of plays ; edited Massinger.

Crowley, Crole, or Croleus, Robert, (1518 ?- 1588), author, printer, and divine. As he went up to Oxford about 1534, when sixteen or so, and became Demy in 1539, he may possibly have been for a time at M.C.S.; printed three impressions of the 'Vision of Pierce Plow- man ' ; Prebendary of St. Paul's ; passed his life in battling for the new doctrines.

Under James Carkesse, ante, p. 285, a line has dropped out which was present in the proof. After " for the signing " the last four lines of the paragraph should read : u of tickets ; was dismissed from the office for irregularities, principally through the action of Pepys, whom he reviles in his verses ; v. Pepys's * Diary,' 1666-7, and 1 st S. ii. 87."

A. R. BAYLEY.

St. Margaret's, Malvern.

(To be continued.)

The Rev. Cadwallader Adams, M.A., who was vicar of Old Shoreham, Sussex (1878-97), end who died at Guildford on 17 October, 1899, was educated at Westminster (1830-31) and Winchester (1831-5). In 1835 he went up to Balliol, but next year migrated, as a Demy, to Magdalen, where he was subsequently a Fellow. He was Master of M.C.S. for a very short time just before his return, in 1844, to Winchester as an assistant tutor (1844-51). See an obituary notice of him in The Oxford Magazine (I cannot give its precise date).

As ME. BAYLEY'S list of alumni at M.C.S. includes Sir Willoughby Aston, the fifth

baronet, and his brother Sir Richard Aston, the judge, it may perhaps be convenient to state that Sir Willoughby, who was at the Wykehamist dinner held in London in 1759, was a commoner at Winchester from 1728 until he left for Oxford, where he matricu- lated from Oriel in Jan. 1729/30 ; and that Sir Richard became a scholar at Winchester in September, 1728, and so remained until the election of 1735 (cf. 9 th S. vi. 504). From what MR. BAYLEY says I infer that these brothers were at M.C.S. before they went to Winchester. H. C.

"CYMRU": ITS DERIVATION.

IN a previous paper ('Simferopol,' 9 th S. xii. 181) I suggested that Kimmerioi is derived from a word, coextensive with the Celtic area, commonly translated "con- fluence," but really meaning " converging (water-bearing) glens." I also pointed out that that word cymmer, with its cognate aber, expressed an idea not, I believe, simi- larly embodied in the topographical nomen- clature of other European nations. In this article I propose to apply that argument to a reconsideration of the meaning and deriva- tion of the Welsh name for Wales (Cymru) and for Welshmen (Cymry) two forms really identical in origin as they are in sound. The London street in which I live owes its name to the Palliser property in the Commeragh Mountains, co. Water-ford. The proper pronunciation of this Irish word is Cumra, although Dr. Joyce says that the suffixed guttural is sometimes distinctly heard. As to the suffix -agh, he says that its " oblique" form -aigh is sounded like the Eng. final y. Thus Commeraigh would be pronounced exactly like the Welsh words for Wales and Welshmen.

The Welsh word corresponding to the Irish commur, of which Commeragh is a derivative, is cymmer. The plural cymmerau is accented, as usual in Welsh, on the penult, and not, like the Irish word, on the ante- penult. Cymmerig is the only other tri- syllabic variation that I can now remember, although, if I had to translate such a phrase as "full of confluences" into Welsh, I should have no hesitation in employing cymmerog.

Topographically, aber is much more fre- quently used than cymmer. In fact, cymmer is now so rarely found that every now and then disputes take place in the press as to its exact significance as a local name. In a figurative sense, however, cj/mmer is one of the commonest words in the Welsh language. There is a well-known doggerel which says that