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d. 7 Nov., 1829, a. 57. Prances Mary Spivey, granddau. of the above, d. 18 Jan., 1832, a. 6 days.

77. Mrs. Rebecck (sic) Hedger, d. Dec.,

1803, a. 51. Also Mr. William son-in-law


 * [to the ab]ove, d. 12 Jan Also Mr(s.) El

fWo]odwa[rd], dau. of the above Mr. William
 * [Wood]ward.

78. Samuel Hemmings, of this p., d. 13 March, 1831, a. 50. Also Mrs. Susannah Hemmings, w. of the above, d. 10 June, 1840, a. 60. Also Charles John H., s. of the above ....

79. Leonard, s. of Leonard and Lucy Turney,

of Millbank St., d. 14 ary, 1821, a. . Also

Thorn. . . ., bro. of above, d ust, 1821. Also

Jo brother bov-, d. 182-. Also Mr.

Leonard

80. Mr. Philip Brassington, d. 13 Feb., 179(6), a. 66. Mary, w. of the above, d. 16 Feb., 1807, a. 67. Mr. William Brassington, s. of the above, d. 18(23). Also....

81 widow of d a. (70).

82. Mr. John Lloyd, d. Nov. 13, 1835, in his 70th year. An affectionate husband, tender .father, &c.

83. Sarah Rogers, d. 14 Feb., ...., a. 1 yr. 5 months. Thomas Rogers, d. 23 Dec., 1827, .a. 59.

84. John Fortey, late of Millbank, d. 27 Feb., 1793, in his (4)3rdyear. Mary, hiswid., d. 12 May, 1821, a. 76. Sarah, d. of the above, d 1821.

85. Maria, w. of Mr. William W T right, d. 8 May, 1836, a. 29. Also 2 chn., who died in their infancy. Also Mrs. Margaret Goldh(a)wk, d. 16 April, 18-3, a. 72, mother of the a

86. Mr. John Tomlin, d. 24 Oct., 1822, a. 24. Also Henry Tomlin, d. 9 April, 1823, a. 13 months. Mr. Alexander Ritchie, d. 20 June, 1845, a. (6)0.

87. William (G). . . .Also 3 chn. who died in

88. Mary Johnson, d. of Mr. John Johnson, of this p., Paviour, and Catherine, his w., who d. 23 Sept., 1795, a. 5 months. Also Mr. Woodu(s) Johnson, f. of the above Mr. John Johnson, d. Jan., 1797, a. . Also Ha. . . ., dau. of. ...

89. George Earnell, d. 24 June, 1808, a. 34. Georgiana Earnell, d. 25 May, 1813, in her tfth year. Also the chn. of Francis and Sarah Wheelhouse. Francis, d. 17 Jan., 18, a. 3 yrs. 1 month. Sarah, d. 20 July, 18-, a. 5 years 8

months. Elizabeth Ann, d. Aug.,, a. 15 yrs.

9 months. Also the above Francis Wheelhouse, a native of Thirsk in Yorkshire, d. May, 1830, an his 57th year.

G. S. PARRY, Lieut. -Col. 17, Ashley Mansions, S.W.

(To be continued.}

" WIGESTA."

THIS land-name appears in the * Tribal Hidage,' and the district referred to is the only one assessed therein at 900 hides. The gen. pi. ending in -a is normal, but no tribe or sib called the Wigestas is known, either in history or legend. Of course there are words like wigesta : Dr. Gale, for .instance, adduced Wigist(thorpe), near

Oundle ; and Mr. Brownbill has suggested Wichestan(stou), the name of a Bedfordshire hundred in Domesday Book. But the for- mer indicates Wit-gist ; cf. Witlaf, Witmund, Witwulf, and Eangist, Frithugist, Wulfgist ; the latter is the Norman representative of an O.E. Wlh-stan(-es stou), ch being the Norman way of indicating the guttural tenuis, and the e merely euphonic. There is also an O.E. name Wlg-stan, but there is no reason to suppose that the scribe who late in the tenth century copied out what we call the * Tribal Hidage ' would have intro- duced an e into " Wigstan," either orally or graphically.

The suggestion that g in wigesta may represent c is contrary to what we know of the palaeography of the document. It has been stated in previous articles that medial g in this MS. of c. 1000 sometimes misre- presents n ; for instance, noxgaga, ohtgaga, and widerigga have been shown to be mis- takes for Oxnaga, Ohtnaga, and SuSerigna. A fourth instance may be furnished by wigesta, and the hypothetical form *winesta points, albeit obscurely, to what may be the true word.

In the ninth and tenth centuries there was more than one abnormal way of forming the letter d, and among the errors of mediaeval scribes must be included the substitution of Is for initial d, and of sc and st for the same letter, both in initial and medial positions. An initial d composed of a reverted s followed by a stroke which was mistakable for c or t was partly responsible for the ghost- words " Scromail," " Scroc- mail," "Scrocmagil" ( Drocmagil for Broc- magil) in the A.-S. Chronicles A, E, and F (annal 607). Gaimar's " Scorham " for Deor- ham may also be cited. Instances of medial st : : c?are *1. cebustus : : gebudus (i.e., Gepi- dus) ; 2. rostri : : Rodri ; 3. dustnon (with d : : cl and on : : ou) : : Cludnou ; 4. cloust : : Cloud ; 5. sercedur (with er : : el) : : selcestur (i.e., Silchester) ; 6. pilestius : : piledius (i.e., Pledius, the Irish name of Palladius the Deacon). With these errors in view, I suggest that wigest- (with g : : n and st : : d)

eleventh cent., ed. Mommsen, p. 160, 1. 5 ; 2. 'Annales Cambrise,' annal ccclx,, Harley MS. 3859, scr. c. 1110; 3. ' Llyfr Achau,' scr, c'. 1590; cf. Archiv f. celtische Lexikographie, i. 520, 525; 4. Cotton MS. Domitian A. XVII., cited by Nicolas, ' Chronology of History.' p. 140, note ; 5. ' The Text of the Bruts from the Red Book of Hergest,' scr. fourteenth cent., ed. Rhys and Evans, p. 415; 6. see ' The Pedigree of Patrick,' ed. Stokes, ' The Tripartite Life of Patrick,' from twelfth-century MSS.
 * 1. 'Hist. Brittonum,' Chartres MS., scr.