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reported to have written some of his most valuable mathematical and theological works. His residence, Gartness House, and most of the estate he owned, lay within the domain of Drymen parish. The charac- ter of the library indicated seems to bear out the theory of Napier's ownership. It is the collection of a scholar and scientist rather than that of a man of merely literary leanings. For the seventeenth century it is unusually large, and such as few in that age save Napier would have cared to accumu- late. In addition to this, the publication of ' Musse Gratulatoriae Regi Jacobo ' corre- sponds approximately to the date of Napier's death. I conjecture that the Bibliotheca Drummeniana was the inventory taken of Napier's books in his Drymen residence, drawn up, possibly, by some legal scribe after his decease. W. SCOTT. Stirling.

PLACE-NAMES (11 S. i. 206). Perhaps the following examples may answer MB. VIN- .CENT'S purpose :

Hilprebi, Helprebi, Domesday Book, 303, col. 2 ; 303b, col. 1 ; 381. Helprebi, Pipe Roll, 12 Hen. II., p. 41. Helprebi, A.D. 1202, ' Yorks. Feet of Fines ' (Surtees Soc. vol. xciv.), p. 29. Helperby, Assize Roll, A.D., 1231, No. 1042, m. 10.

Elpetorp, Domesday Book, 303 ; 382, col. 2. Helpertorp, A.D. 1202, 'Yorks. Feet of Fines,* p. 43 ; Helperthorpe, A.D. -1240, Feet of Fines, P.R.O., Yorks., File 35, No. 29. W. FABBEB.

Both Helperby and Helperthorp, and possibly Helpringham, would- seem to indicate the name of Helper as that of the founder of these places. At Helperthorp have been found a flint celt and a bronze dagger, the latter with contracted burial in a barrow (see Evans, ' Stone Implements,' pp. 89, 177, 239, 262, and 302 ; ' Bronze Imple- ments,' p. 227; and the 'Bronze Age Guide,' p. 59). There is a notice of a barrow at Helperthorpe in The Reliquary, July, 1867, pp. 77, 184. Helpo is said to have been a leader of the Saxons in the tenth century. The name thus possibly became Anglo- Saxon. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

' DEIL STICK THE MINISTEB ' (11 S. i. 149, 275). See ' A Book of British Song,' by C. J. Sharp (published by John Murray, 1902), p. 90. It is reprinted there from 'Songs of Northern 'England,' by permission of Samuel Reay, Mus.Bac., and Walter Scott.

GALFBID K. CONGBEVE. Vermilion, Alberta, Canada.

BECKET'S PEBSONAL HABITS (11 S. i. 147, 292). In the reference at the end of my reply, for " B. Gouk." read Baring-Gould ('Lives of Saints'). J. T. F.

INDEX TO THE CHBISTIAN FATHEBS (11 S. i. 248). The last four volumes of Migne's ' Patrologia Latina ' are taken up with a long array of general indexes to the works of the Latin Fathers.

With respect to Greek waiters, Prof. Swete in his * Patristic Study,' 1902 (" Hand- books for the Clergy," ed. by A. W. Robin- son), mentions a Ta/zietoi/ rrj<s HaTpoAoy/as begun by an Athens publisher in 1883 ; but apparently only one volume (A Bw/xos) had appeared. EDWABD BENSLY.

In " The Ante-Nicene Christian Library," containing translations of the Fathers down to A.D. 325, edited by Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James [now Sir James] Donaldson, LL.D., in 24 (or, with the additional volume published later, 25) vols., readers are pro- vided with an index, or rather a series of indices. For example, v<3l. i., ' The Aposto- lic Fathers,' contains an index of subjects and another of texts. I assume that the other volumes are similarly provided.

W. SCOTT.

INDEX TO FOXE'S ' ACTS AND MONU- MENTS ' : LISTS OF MABTYBS (11 S. i. 248). As I gather that what MB. GEBISH is in search of is general information on the subject of lists of martyrs, I have put together the following notes, which I trust he will find acceptable.

In the Congregational Historical Society's Transactions, vol. ii. pp. 353-61, appeared a ' List of Persons burned for Heresy in England,' compiled by the Rev. W. H. Summers. Of this list, which displays con- siderable research and which may not be very readily accessible, I hope to make fuller mention in a later issue of ' N. & Q. J

Particulars as to Catholic sufferers under the penal laws, &c., of Elizabeth and the Stuarts will be found in a small book en- titled ' Martyrs omitted by Foxe, a by the Rev. F. G. Lee. The work has a chrono- logical list of the sufferers at the end.

For notices of members of the Society of Friends who were subjected to ill-usage in various parts of the country in the second half of the seventeenth century see Joseph Besse's ' Sufferings of the Quakers.' This massive work is divided into topographical sections, and has good indexes of names appended. WILLIAM McMuBBAY.