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Two instances of this one in a case where the first and second children respec- tively were dead, and another in a case where the first child was still alive are these.

Three sons of Foulke Myddelton of Gwaynynog were named simply Richard : the first was baptized and buried at Wrex- ham in 1641, the second was baptized and buried at Wrexham in 1642, and the third was born after 1642.

The Sir Thomas Myddelton who was besieged by Lambert in his own castle of Chirk had two sons named simply Thomas : one, who succeeded to the baronetcy, by his first wife Mary (nee Cholmondeley of Vale Royal), and another (posthumous) by his second wife Jane (nee Trevor of Bryn- kinalt), the elder son being then alive.

THOS. . MYDDELTON.

Woodhall Spa.

This custom was not uncommon, to the bewilderment of genealogists. Sir Mores Barowe of Ivechurche, Wilts, in his will proved 1505 (9 Maynwaryng), makes bequests to his son " Richard Barowe the elder Ji and to his son " Richard Barowe the younger.' 1

A. RHODES.

The Rev. John Sylvester John Gardiner, Rector of Trinity Church, Boston, U.S., and one of the founders of the Boston Athenamm, died in 1830. His first and third Christian names were the same, and I believe that he was named after his father, grand- father, and great-grandfather, who had been distinguished men. Any dictionary of Ame- rican biography, a good history of Boston, or Sprague's ' History of the American Church ' will give an account of him.

It must be very rare for a child to have a duplicated Christian name. M. N. G.

[That an early practice existed of giving the same Christum name to a second child, while the first w.-is still alive, is shown by the elaborate indexes appended by Dr. B. B. Sharpe to his ' Calendar of Wills proved and enrolled in the ( ' >urt of Husting, London.' For instance, Walter de Bedefonte in 1329 left bequests to John his Hdrst son and John his younger son (vol. i. p. :i52). In 1341 Geoffrey de Bodelee left pro- perty to his children John and John junior (i. 148). Bobert de Asshe in 1348 left houses to \\ illiam his elder son, with remainder to William his younger son (i. 509). Other examples could l cited from the same volumes, and also from II if various Calendars of Letter-Books edited by Dr. Sharpe for the City Corporation.]

WIDOW TWANKAY (11 S. i. 68). H. J. Byron endowed Aladdin's mother with this patronymic in his famous burlesque 'Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Scamp,' produced at the

Strand Theatre on Easter Monday, 1861 ; and unless any of your theatrical readers can trace it further back, I am inclined to think this was the genesis of the name. The widow did not figure in the cast of Reece's burlesque of ' Aladdin,' in which Nelly Farren enacted the name-part so successfully at the Gaiety in 1881.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. xii. 509; 11 S. i. 38). Shakerley Marmion (1602-39) in his play of 'The Antiquary* has

Great joys, like griefs, are silent. As inquiry for the line

For sudden joys, like griefs, confound at first, failed when made in your columns many years since, the reference I give may possibly assist as supporting a conjecture that it has been adapted and amplified by some one hitherto undiscovered. W. B. H.

The following information may be of service to MB. DE VILLIEBS (ante, p. 50).

1. Felix quern faciunt aliena pericula cautum.

Binder, ' Novus Thesaurus Adagiorum Latinorum/ p. 122, suggests that this is a modern imitation of Plautus, ' Mercator,' IV. iv. (should be vii.), 40, " Vetus id dictum est, feliciter is sapit, qui alieno periculo sapit." The scene in question, however, is not by Plautus, but an interpolation. A. Otto, ' Sprichworter,' s.v. alienus, cites many examples of the same thought in Greek, Latin, and German, among them being

Felix quicuraque dolore Alterius disces posse cavere tuo.

Tibullus, III. vi. 43. He also quotes

Felix, alterius cui sunt documenta flagella, from Columbanus, 79. John Owen parodies our line in " Felix, quern faciunt aliorum cornua cautum, '* ' Epigr.' i. 147. 2. Felix et prudens qui tempore pacis de bello

cogitet.

See Burton, * Anatomy of Melancholy,* Partition 2, sect. 3, memb. 6, p. 284, 2nd ed. " The Commonwealth of Venice in their Armory haue this inscription, Happy is that Citty which in time of peace thinkes of warre.' 1 The margin gives the Latin, "Fcelix civitas quae tempore pacis de bello cogitat," from Nathan Chvtrseus, ' Delicise Europse.' In Chytrseus's book (ed. 3, s.L, 1606), p. 91, the inscription has cogitas, not cogitat.

4. Tela prsevisa minus nocent. Another form of this proverb is in Pseudo- Cato's ' Disticha,' II. xxiv. 2, " Nam levius laedit, quidquid praevidimus ante.'*