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NOTES AND QUERIES, uo s. vm. NOV. 23, 1907.

Mrs. Adams was a sister of Jeremiah Barnard, of the parish of Christ Church, and married Isaac Adams, " waterman," who was ad- mitted to the messuages in Gravel Lane 11 May, 1709, and admitted to a messuage and garden there 16 Aug., 1716. The will of Isaac Adams, dated 25 Nov., 1725, was proved (Surrey Archdeaconry Court) 17 Dec., 1733. G. B.

HAMLET AS A CHRISTIAN NAME (10 S. viii. 4, 155, 237). A remarkable instance of the attachment of a family to its use of this name appears in the parish registers of Warnham, Sussex. In 1585 Hamlet Boorer married Mary, daughter of Thomas Stanford of Horsham. To them were born two sons, probably more : the names are not given in the register, but presumably one was Hamlet, as in 1631 Hamlet Boorer married Mary Michell. They had a son, born 1638, named Hamlet, and a daughter Dorothir (so the vicar entered it, forgetful of his Greek). There were also baptized at Warn- ham : in 1629, Hamlet, son of Thomas Boorer ; in 1630, Hamlet, son of Henry Boorer ; in 1656, Hamlet, son of Henry Boorer ; and in 1661 Hamlet, son of Thomas Boorer. CHARLES THOMAS-STANFORD. Preston Manor, Brighton.

The subjoined extract from a recent issue of The Hendon and Finchley Times shows a father and son both possessing this Chris- tian name at the present day :

" LAVARACK TROTMAN. On the 14th inst., at the Hendon Parish Church, by the Rev. F. W. Pakenham Gilbert, Hamlet Unitt, second son of Hamlet Lavarack, Esq.. of Bryan House, Hamp- stead, to Madeline Alice, only daughter of the late Howard Trotman, Esq., J.P., Golders Lodge, Hendon."

JOHN S. CRONE.

Amongst the names of 73 loyal gentry in Lincolnshire who provided 168 horse for the King's service in 1642 appears Ham- let Marshal as furnishing three ('Annual Register,' 1794, p. 363).

ALFRED C. E. WELBY.

DOOR-SHUTTING PROVERB (10 S. viii. 127). Is it not probable that the Warsop people were " chaffed " in this proverbial way because many of them had no doors to shut ? "In this neighbourhood," ob- serves a modern writer quoted by James Dugdale in his ' British Traveller,'

"are many domestic excavations in the rocks, where the modern Troglodytes have their huts, and even their gardens, formed in the bosom of the sterile stone ; and in some parts the incautious

visitor may run the risk of stepping down a. chimney ! "

The writer is speaking of the neighbourhood of Mansfield, whence Warsop is distant about five miles.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

"SLINK": "SLINKING" (10 S. viii. 27,. 117). With respect to MR. T. RATCLIFFE'S communication at the latter reference, I should like to say that in the counties of Warwick and Northampton a butcher who sells inferior meat is known as a " crow- butcher." When I resided in London, my grandfather (a native of the latter county^ once paid me a visit, and laughed heartily when he learnt that the " purveyor of meat >r who supplied my table bore the name of Crow. Children, and grown-ups, too, here- abouts often refer to things as " clinkin' good uns " ; but I have not come across- the word " slinkin' " in this connexion, before. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchiugton, Warwickshire.

ADMIRAL NEALE AND THE ATKINSON FAMILY (10 S. viii. 309). The naval asso- ciation rather points to the " master " of Nelson's ship the Victory, Mr. Thomas Atkinson, at one time Master-Attendant of Halifax and Portsmouth Dockyards. A granddaughter is living, whose address I forward to the Editor.

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

LORD-LIEUTENANTS IN SCOTLAND (10 S.

viii. 330). In Haydn's ' Book of Dignities ' (3rd ed. p. 508) it is stated, at the head of the list of these dignitaries, that " Lord- Lieutenants of Counties were first ap- pointed in Scotland, May 6, 1794," and then follow the names of fourteen noble- men and others who were sworn to that office on the date named.

WM. NORMAN. Plumstead.

There is a list of eighteen Lord-Lieutenants; in North Britain, who filled that office in. 1715, in John Chamberlayne's * Magnae Britannise Notitia,' 1723, p. 41, No. xxxvii. of ' A List of all the Offices and Officers in North Britain or Scotland.'

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT (10 S. viii. 268). If I remember rightly, this term was given about fifty years ago to " Tell a lie and stick to it."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.