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3. Names and addresses of Staffordshire- born persons.

4. Particulars of local newspapers, maga- zines, squibs, broadsides, or other transitory press issues, connected with the county and of the printings of the following or other local printers.

The year after each name is only approxi- mate ; some of these printers were probably at work earlier, as they certainly were later in most cases.

FIRST LIST.

Adams, E.,Burton-on-Trent, 1844. Allbut, John & Son, Hanley, 1796. Thomas 1806.

&Gibbs 1811-13.

& Son 1838.

Son&Hobson 1848. & Daniell 1853.

Allen, Thos., Burslem, 1803. He was of Bank Top,

Manchester, 1799. Amphlett, James, Hanley, 1817. Atkinson Bros. 1888.

Bacon & Wilder, Uttoxeter, 1818. Bagguley, G. T., Newcastle, 1889. Baker, Richard, Tamworth, 1818. Bakewell & Adams, Uttoxeter, 1834.

,, Burton-on-Trent, 1841. Bamforcl, Edward, Ashbourne. Anything on

Staffordshire by him. Barford & Nevitt, Wolverhampton, 1852. Barker, George. Silverdale, 1863.

John W., Wolverhampton, 1887. Alfred 1890.

Basst'ord, Stephen, Bilston, 1818. Timothy 1834. Bate (?), Fenton, 1836.

Hanley, 1841. Bayley, John, Newcastle, 1830. Thos. 1850.

Beard, Joseph, Tamworth, 1834. Bebbington, James, Hanley, 1860. Beddows, John, Wolverhampton, 1850. Bell, George, Sheltori, 1840. Bellamy, R. R., Burton-on-Trent, 1854. Bentley & Wear, Shelton, 1823. Booth, Joshua, Wednesbury, 1818. Bourne, James, Bemersley, 1820. Anything printed

at Bemersley, 1820-43. Bowering, Samuel, Burslem, 1850. Brassington, Thomas, Uttoxeter, 1&34. Bridgen, Joseph, Wolverhampton, 1833. Britten, C., Wednesbury, 1856. C. & W., Tipton, 1868. W. 1868.

Broclehurst, F. S., Uttoxeter, 1850. Brougham, Mary, Burslem, 1834. Stephen 1820. Bullock, Samuel, Hanley, 1818.

Please reply direct to R. SIMMS.

27, Ironmarket, Newcastle, Staffs.

" BLUE- WATER." This novel compound word, which is unknown to the ' N.E.D.,' has lately appeared in such phrases as " blue-water school," blue-water theories," posing invariably as an adjective in the odious modern . style which piles up

substantives in that position. The word is, I believe, the invention of the last five years or so, and is due to some naval expert perhaps Capt. Mahan. It embodies, I understand, a theory of naval defence. What, then, does it imply ? As used at present, without a word of explanation, it is wholly unintelligible to the ordinary man, and ' N. & Q.' might get the name of its inventor before it is too late to recover it.

A derivation from this technical use is a general reference like the following in the Introduction to Masefield's book ' A Sailor's Garland,' in which I notice : " One can find him [the poetic sailor] on blue- water ships at the present time." HIPPOCLIDES.

" ARMIGER " :T " GENEROSUS," &c. I shall be much obliged if any of your readers can inform me of the proper English equiva- lents for the following Latin descriptions, so often to be met with in old parish registers, &c., viz., armiger y eques auratus, miles, generosus, ingenuus. R. L.

[The use of the terms armiger and <yeweroms- is discussed at 7 S. x. 383, 445 ; xi. 97, 173, by MB. ALBERT HARTSHORXE and others, but not the English equivalents of the words. SIR HERBERT MAXWELL stated at 7 S. x. 93 that miles describes a knight, a baronet being designated miles baronettus.]

WARD SURNAME : ITS ORIGIN. What is the origin of the common surname Ward ? I have always understood it to be a pure English name with its usual meaning of " guard." But Mr. Moore, in his newly published book of ' Manx Names,' says that it comes from Mac-an-Bhaird, " son of the poet " (the mac and the article dropped, and bh pronounced as v or w). This may or may not be the case with the Manx name, but I can hardly suppose that the English surname has any such origin.

C. S. JERRAM.

" KINGSLEY'S STAND." Can any reader of * N. & Q.' give me information as to the expression " Kingsley's Stand," as applied to the 20th Regiment ? Col. Kingsley was colonel of the regiment when it distinguished itself at the battle of Minden, 1 Aug., 1759.

QUERIST.

JOHN AMCOTTS was admitted to West- minster School July, 1727, aged eleven. I should be glad to ascertain his parentage and any particulars of his career.

G. F. R. B.

GEORGE GEOFFRY WYATVILLE, son of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, the architect, exhibited an architectural picture at the Royal Academy in 1832. Was he an architect or