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 n s. xii. NOV. 27, 1915.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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" TINKLE " FOB " TICKLE." In the ' Ox- ford English Dictionary ' we find under " tinkle " a note saying that its use in the sense of " tickle " is rare, with but one quotation as an example of this, and that of 1883. It seems, therefore, worth while to record the phrase, " if he be a little tinckled with pride," which occurs on p. 196 of ' A Commentary upon the Epistles of St. Paul to Philemon and to the Hebrews,' by William Jones, published in London in 1635, which exists in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. This Dr. William Jones is recorded in the ' D.N.B.' as living in the years 1561-1636. E. S. DODGSON.

PUBITAN NAMES IN NEW ENGLAND, 1794- 1830. (See ante, p. 399.)

Avildia Bartlett. 17 April, 1822.

Avis G. Williams. 29 Sept., 1824.

Axah Drury. 8 Sept., 1813.

Azeriah Fuller. 20 July, 1796.

Azor Phelps. 18 May, 1803.

Azubah Newell (woman). 13 Sept., 1809.

Azubath Thayer (woman). 25 Nov., 1829.

Azulah Trask. 19 Oct., 1803.

Bani Philips. 11 May, 1814.

Baruck B. Fairbanks. 29 Oct., 1806.

j3arzil]a Miles. 23 April, 1806.

Bathany Gatchell (woman). 31 Oct., 1827.

Bathsheba Bartlet. 20 Aug., 1806.

Bazalele Jones. 4 April, 1827.

Bela Stoddard. 18 April, 1798.

Benaiah Door. 7 Dec., 1799.

Benajah Morse. 22 Sept., 1830.

Benanuel Bucklin. 25 Oct., 1809.

Benoni Grover. 20 Feb., 1805.

Beriah Clark. 14 July, 1830.

Bethiah Curtis. 28 Feb., 1821.

Bethuel Ellis. 14 Sept., 1814.

Beulah Walker (woman). 17 May, 1809.

Boaz M. Mirick. 17 May, 1809.

Bulah Miller (woman). 10 Nov., 1824.

Calista Allen. 8 June, 1814.

Candace Allen. 22 Jan., 1806.

Caniel Parkhurst (man). 26 May, 1824.

Capernaum Knowlton (woman). 13 Aug., 1814.

Casendiana Shumway. 9 June, 1824.

Celinda Billings. 20 Oct., 1824.

Cephas Thayer. 25 Aug., 1813.

Chileab Smith. 31 Oct., 1793.

China Gleason (woman). 17 Dec., 1806.

Chiron Wheelock. 30 April, 1823.

Chloa Lane. 7 July, 1824.

Ohloe Gates. 7 April, 1802.

Comfort Johnson (man). 27 Sept., 1809.

Consider Barrows. 16 Dec., 1801.

Consider Howland Hammett had his first name

changed to Charles by Act of 24 Feb., 1821. Cyphus Prentiss. 7 Nov., 1796. Damaris Upham. 9 April, 1800. Cameras Holmes. 1 Sept., 1813. Darius Putnam. 17 Oct., 1821. Deidamia Adams. 8 June, 1814. Delight Cudworth (woman). 24 April, 1822. Delphia Baker. 30 Oct., 1822. Delphos Gates. 3 July, 1816. Desire Lumbard (woman). 5 Nov., 1817.

Desire Tolman (a man and a deacon). 18 Sept.

1822.

Diadama Prouty. 18 Nov., 1829. Dianthia Merriam. 22 July, 1829. Diodate Brockway. 15 Aug., 1804. Diodorus Underwood. 16 May, 1827. Doris Dorcis Tabitha Mann. 14 April, 1819. Dutee J. Pearce (man). 21 Nov., 1827.

RICHARD H. THORNTON. 8, Mornington Crescent, N.W.

(To be continued.)

Two HISTORIC PRINTING HOUSES. Note should be made in ' N. & Q.' of an important event in the printing world : the union of the firms of Messrs. Spottiswoode & Co. and Messrs. Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Two hundred years ago (March, 1715; William Strahan, the founder of the Spottiswoode firm, was born in Edinburgh, and, after learning the trade of printing, came to London, and, like the proverbial Scotsman, did not return. In 1739 he started business. It was a day of small beginnings, and he employed only a couple of journeymen and one apprentice. His prudence brought about steady progress, and his daughter's marriage to John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode led eventually to the establishment of the firm now known as Messrs. Spottiswoode & Co.

Strahan's imprint, as our readers know, appears on Johnson's ' Dictionary,' and among others he printed for George White- field, the Wesleys, Hume, and Gibbon. The first edition of the ' Decline and Fall ' was limited to five hundred copies till the number was doubled at the suggestion of Strahan. Subsequently, in addition to his own business, Strahan became a partner with Eyre in His Majesty's Printing Office.

Strahan was succeeded by his son Andrew, who' handed over the reins to his nephew Andrew Spottiswoode, who left his share in His Majesty's Printing Office to his elder son William. The last-named became President of the Royal Society, and was accorded burial in Westminster Abbey. Andrew Spottiswoode left his other printing business to his son George, and it is this branch which has developed into the firm known as Messrs. Spottiswoode & Co., who have now acquired the goodwill of Messrs. Ballantyne & Hanson.

The history of the house of Ballantyne is well known. It was founded at Kelso in 1796 by James Ballantyne, who had been a schoolfellow of Walter Scott, and it was at Scott's suggestion that the business was movea to Edinburgh.

Friends of ' N. & Q.' regard the Spottis- woode firm with special interest, as our old