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fancy of the printer. In those days it was quite common to put / for J in fact, it is only recently that a distinction has been made in the British Museum Library Cata- logue.

3. John Hill, engraver, worked 1800-22 (see 'The Catalogue of the Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum ').

4. J. Hill, by whom there are some aquatints in the Print Room, is said to have worked " about 1805-14." Possibly this is the same as No. 3. The Print 'Room Catalogue is sadly deficient in accurate in- formation, and requires thoroughly over- hauling and re-editing an onerous task not likely to be undertaken at present.

5. James Hill is better known as J. J. Hill, 1811-82 (see Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters'). Christie's sold his pictures for what T think were good prices, as I see by the " Catalogue of the whole of the remaining works of that talented artist J. J. Hill, deceased, late of West Hill, Highgate," sold 3 April, 1882.

6. John Hill, engraver, emigrated to America, where he was living in 1822. See Redgrave's ' Dictionary of Artists,' copied by Bryan. Probably the same as No. 3.

RALPH THOMAS.

AUTHORS WANTED (US. xi. 379). 1. The quotation is from Chatterton's ' Bristow Trajedie; or, The Death of Sir Charles Bawdin.'

The stanza is as follows :

And who can say but all my life

I have his wordes kept, And summed the actions of the day Each night before I slept.

T. F. D.

MUNDAY SURNAME: DERIVATION (US. xi. 402, 482). Mundy became an. hereditary surname at Barnwell by Cambridge in or about the year 1274, when Ralph the father of Simon Mundi of Barnwell, and Henry Mundi of Barnwell, the son of Simon Mundi of Barnwell, were in evidence as tenants of the Priory of Barnwell (Hundred Roll of Cambridgeshire temp. Edward I.). And in the year 1307 a William Mundy and Amicia his wife sold three and a half acres of land in Cambridge to John of Cambridge for 10 marks of silver (Feet of Fines, 35 Edward I.). In the early part of the reign of Edward I. there was a Symon Moneday, a cotarius at Fairshead in Huntingdonshire, belonging to Thorney Abbey. On the Ochil Hills, in the parish of Dron, Perthshire, there are two farms named Mundy. But

this estate in the year 1547 was, it seems, the property and abode of a Hughe Mun- creife. There is also Mondee or Monday e, a place and abbey juxta Bayeux (see ' Essai Historique sur 1'Abbaye de Mondaye, de 1'Ordre de Premontre,' par le P. Godefroid Madelaine, Religieux de cette Abbaye, &c., Caen, imprimerie de F. Le Blanc Hardel, Rue Froide 2 et 4, 1874).

A. J. MONDAY.

In support of the suggestion of your cor- respondent L. V. that this surname is derived from the Old English name Mund, I would draw attention to the fact that a Roger Mundy is in the list of those who paid the Lay Subsidy in the year 1300-1 in Yorkshire (see York Record Society's volume xxi. p. 5). The name appears in the wills proved at York as follows : in 1597, Mundaie ; 1606, Mundye and Mundaie ; in 1626, Munday ; and in 1648-9, Monday. W. H. CHIPPINDALL, Col. Kirkby Lonsdale.

JOHN UDALL (11 S. x. 89, 333; xi. 251, 303). enpn pt5^ nnSE: "That Is The Key Of The Holy Tongve By lohn. Udall ____ Imprinted -at Leyden By Francis Raphelen- givs," cio.io.xcni., shares with Whitney's ' Choise of Emblems ' the distinction of being one of the two English books issued from the presses of the famous Plant in, who estab- lished a branch of his business at Leyden in 1583, afterwards transferring it to his son-in-law Raphelengius. A colophon in Hebrew at the end of the ' Hebrve Diction- aire ' reads :

JV33 invna nis pnv

(" By the work and by the hand of Johanan Udal while he was in the prison house").

It is the first Hebrew grammar in the English language. I have a very fine copy of it, also of the two issues of the " Second Edition " : (a) " Amsterdam. Printed for C. P. Anno Dom. cio.io CXLV." ; (6) " The second Edition. Amsterdam, Printed for C. P. and are to be sold by Daniel Frere, at the Sign of the red Bull in little Britain, London. 1648." In the British Museum there is a third issue of

" The Second Edition, with the Annotations of Chri-tian Ravis Berlinas. Imprinted at Am- sterdam ; and are to be sold by Laurence Sadler at the Golden Lyon in Little-Brittaine, and by Gabriell Bedell at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet-street. 1650."

The three issues vary only in the title- pages, and are in sm. 8vo, 208 pp. (incorrectly numbered 192). ISRAEL SOLOMONS.