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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. xn. JULY 21, 1915.

pp. 129-30. It is there stated that ' The Revelations of Peter Brown ' was pub- lished in 1872. I have a strong impression on my mind that the book has been reprinted within the last ten years. L. A. W.

Dublin.

The full title of Ihis is ' The Eevelations of Peter Brown, Poet and Peripatetic,' by John Francis Waller, LL.D., Dublin, 1872. Copy in the British Museum Library.

JOHN F. WELDRICK.

12, Booterstown Avenue, co. Dublin.

ANSTRUTHER, FIFE (11 S. xi. 188, 288, 368, 479). The literary interest of this place, whose name, I believe, is pronounced locally as Enster, centres in the grand burlesque ' Anster Fair,' by Prof. Tennant. One edition has a remarkable blunder in a foot- note. The editor (no St. Andrews man, let us hope) wonders that a certain striking simile had not previously been used in poetry. The striking simile (sun reflected on a ceiling from water) is, of course, used by Virgil.

The quotation from ' Maggie Lauder ' at the second reference ought to read "gaun" or rather " ga'in " " to Fife," not "in Fife " ; hence the comic debate as to whether Maggie or the piper was proceed- ing to the Kingdom when they met so merrily. J. K.

South Africa.

PEGLER AND HETTY PEGLER'S TUMP (11 S. xii. 9). Dr. Thurnam states, in No. 44 of The Archaeological Journal, that there is a tablet in the church of Uley, in which parish this fine three-chambered tumulus is situate, to Henry Peglar of that place, gent., and also to Hester his wife, 1695.

The idea that the tump took its name from this lady did not recommend itself to the Rev. Samuel Lysons. In ' Our British Ancestors : Who and What were They ? ' he writes :

" We do not find that the property where this tumulus exists had ever been the property of the Peglars ; but had it been so, might not the Peglars, which is a very common Gloucestershire name, have derived their name from the tump, and not the tump from them ?"

In defence of his favourite theory that nearly every Gloucestersnire place-name can be traced to Hebrew etymons he suggests nnn, " heat," " fire," for Hetty, and continues : " Hetty Peglar's Tump is in the parish of Uley, a name entirely suggestive of sacrificial observances npV, to raise up on high."

These derivations would, I fear, have- brought down the sledge-hammer of the late Prof. Skeat, but it is almost cruel to shatter the illusion, for it would be difficult to find any spot more fitted for religious observances than the old tump with its magnificent view of Gloucestershire hills and vales, the Severn sea, and the mountains of Wales in the distance. Robert Hall, the eminent Dis- senter, is said to have fallen on his knees^ there and thanked God for the sight.

Pegler is doubtless still a common name in the county. Several families who bore it lived, I remember, at Dursley, Cam, and near Bristol. CHARLES^ GILLMAN.

Church Fields, Salisbury.

WILLIAM BORROWS, M.A. (11 S. xi. 471 r. xii. 35). There is recorded, at p. 135, in the- ' Chronicles of All Saints' Church, Derby/ by J. C. Cox and W. H. St. John Hope, that a monument in black-and-white marble i& erected in that church to the memory of the- Rev. William Borrows,. M.A., who died 3 April, 1852, aged 70 years. Possibly some Derby reader may be able to say more definitely if the drawing relates to this-, particular monument.

RICHARD LAWS ON.

Urmston.

MRS. JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE, NEE HOPKINS (11 S. xii. 30). She must have married William Brereton, apparently at Bath, on some date between 1 May and 8 Oct., 1778 according to the playbills. In that year he- would have been 37 years of age and she 22..

A. R. BAYLEY.

ORIGIN OF ' OMNE BENE ' (11 S. xi. 280,. 389, 477 ; xii. 38)." Domum rediendi " is sung instead of " Libros deponendi." The wording of my first query,, unfortunately,, gives the impression that " domum re- diendi " belongs to a different stanza.

MR. WAINE WRIGHT suggests " redeundi,"' but in all ages schoolboys have preferred' canine Latin. I should further like to agree with his interesting theory that ' Dulce Domum ' was an offshoot from ' Omne Bene,' but more references are surely necessary.

The chorus to the song here I thought too foolish to mention; but perhaps it ought to go with the rest :

Where was Moses when the light went out ? Where was he, and what was he -about? Tell me, little man, Tell me if you can,

Where was Moses when the light went out ? H. E. CRANE.. Kingswood School, Bath*