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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. AUG. 24, 1907.

loose is a typical Dutch name, derived from a place so called in South Holland. De Lhuys, on the contrary, is purely French. It is derived from the name of a town in the department of the Ain, the final s being silent. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

COL. HOWE (10 S. viii. 90). This officer is frequently mentioned in Wright's ' Life of Wolfe ' ; see pp. 451, 468, 502, 580, 582. A copy of his ' Narrative in a Committee of the House of Commons, April 29, 1779, relative to his Conduct during his late Command of the King's Troops in North America,' second edition, 1780, is priced at 3Z. 3s. in a catalogue just issued by Mr. Russell Smith, Henrietta Street, W.C.

W. S.

BEDDOES SURNAME (10 S. viii. 64, 113). Barber in his ' British Family Names,' 1894, identifies this personal name with the German Beddau and the French Bidaut. Ferguson in his ' Teutonic Name System,' 1864, identifies it with the French Bidault. The latter furnishes very interesting groups of simple forms, diminutives, patronymics, and compounds derived principally from the Anglo-Saxon beado, beadu, genitive beadwes = battle, war, strength, slaughter. A schoolfellow of mine named Beddoes was possessed of singularly exceptional strength, which may or may not have been hereditary, and traceable to his original ancestors. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

"WY" IN HAMPSHIRE (10 S. vii. 508 ; viii. 54). Allow me to correct a slight topo- graphical error in PROF. SKEAT'S reply to this query. Weyhill is on the line, not " from Andover to Salisbury," but from Andover to Marlborough, Cirencester, and Cheltenham. Salisbury lies quite in another direction, to the south-west of Andover Junction, and is on the main line of the South-Western Railway, which runs from London to Exeter. C. S. JERRAM.

SIR THOMAS BLOODWORTH, LORD MAYOB 1665-6 (10 S. vii. 409, 454 ; viii. 13). Since contributing my query as to the burial place of the above I have discovered th< two following entries in the churchwardens accounts of SS. Anne and Agnes :

1682-3. " Received for the Buriall of S r Thomas Bludworth and his Lady in Lynnen, 5 H ."

1692-3. " Received of Esq r Bloodworth for groun in the Church for his Brother S r Thomas and bein buryed in Lynnen, 5 U ."

The first of these seems to imply loca interment, though I am not very sure abou

I know what a burial in linen was. 'he second entry, which relates to the eldest on of Sir Thomas, is, I take it, conclusive, lotwithstanding the absence of the register f St. John Zachary's and the non-occurrence f any entry in St. Anne's.

Are the funeral certificates of father and on on record ? If so, can extracts be given ? WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

HACKNEY CELEBRITIES (10 S. viii. 86). t is a good, but not novel suggestion that t the new Public Library in Mare Street he walls should be covered " with the ineaments, &c.," of famous local persons.

understand MR. BRESLAR wishes to form

list of engraved portraits and prints of ocal interest. Would this not be largely uperfluous, having regard to the Tyssen ollection now at the Town Hall ? Pre- umably the Public Library will receive his most valuable accumulation of books,, prints, &c., and exhibit those of the greatest nterest.

There have been many contributions to> he biographical history of Hackney ; and Ithough Miss Grace Aguilar and the ancestor of Sir Moses Montefiore are probably not mentioned, MR. BRESLAR will find the works of the Rev. W. Robinson and Mr..
 * l. Simpson interesting reading.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

The notion which runs in MR. BRESLAR'S mind is justified by a little memoir of Grace Aguilar prefixed to ' Home Influence ' (5th ed., 1854) :

"Grace Aguilar was born at Hackney, June 2nd,. 1816. She was the eldest child, and only daughter,, of Emanuel Aguilar, one of the merchants de- scended from the Jews of Spain who, almost within the memory of man, fled from persecution in that country, and sought and found an asylum in Eng- land." P. xi.

Miss Aguilar died and was buried at Frank- fort. Her gravestone bears upon it " a butterfly and five stars, emblematic of the soul in heaven." Why five stars ?

ST. SWITHIN.

CROMWELL AND MILTON : A FAMOUS PICTURE (10 S. viii. 22). The initials E. P. H. appended to the description of Newenham's painting of Cromwell dictating to Milton his letter to the Duke of Savoy most probably indicate the Rev. Edwin Paxton Hood, who in the fifties and later was one of the best known of the Dissenting, clergy. WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.