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may stand for the familiar stem-form Wined-.

Wineda(land) signifies the land of the Winedas. This race is referred to, inter al., by the sea-captain Ohthere, whose narrative was included by King Alfred in his version of Orosius. Ohthere indicated the position of the Danish town Haithaby, which the Anglo-Saxons called " aet HaeSum," in the following way : " se stent betuh Winedum and Seaxum and Angle, and hyrS in on Dene " ; i.e., " it stands between the Wine- das and the Saxons and Angeln, and belongs to Denmark." The name of the Winedas also appears in the fifth-century poem of ' Widsift,' 11. 58-62, among the following names of Teutonic tribes : Sweos, Geats, South Danes, Wenlas (i.e., Longobardi), Wsernas, Wicingas, Gefthas, then come the Winedas, followed by Gefflegas, Englas, SwaBfas, Seaxas, Sycgas, and Sweord-Weras. That the Winedas, and the Venedi of Tacitus' s ' Germania ' ( xlvi.), and the Wends of a later time, were the same people, has never been proved, and the stems Wined- and Wenod-, Weonod-, are not neces- sarily identical. In xl. Tacitus enumerates Longobardi (cf. Wenlum of "WidsiS"), Reudingi (MS. -igni), Angli (cf. Englum), Varini (cf. Wsernum), Eudoses, Auiones, Suardones (cf. Sweord-Werum, and also Sweordona of our ' T. H.' [MS. -ora]), and Giuthones (MSS. and printed texts have nuithones, a hitherto unexplained form in which n : : g, and the three minims =iu).

I know of but one place-name in Anglian Britain which appears to present the stem Wined- : it is " Winnedona " (cf. Lindesfar- ona and Sweord-ona). This was near Ash- bourne in Derbyshire, and it occurs in a twelfth - century charter in the British Museum, sc. Wolley Charter, ix. 2. Its posi- tion is unsuitable, however, because wigesta comes in the list between Spaldaland and Herefarnaland. ALFRED ANSCOMBE.

TILLEMAN BOB ART. Forty-eight years HENRY T. BOBART stated in ' N. & (3 S. iii. 150) that he would be glad of infor- mation respecting Tilleman Bobart (son of Jacob Bobart, first Curator of the Physic Garden at Oxford), who resided at Wood- stock. I enjoyed reading ' N. & Q.' in 1863, and still enjoy reading it in 1911. I hope that MR. H. T. BOBART is alive to receive information I would gladly give him about Tilleman Bobart. GEORGE MACKEY.

Stratford House, Highgate, Birmingham.

JONATHAN WILD'S INFLUENCE. In The Daily Journal for 5 July, 1725, appeared the following paragraph which, in effect, is what would now be termed a " leader-note " :

" The Sessions ended last Friday [2 July] at the Old Bailey, when Elizabeth Roberts, alias Bostock, received Sentence of Death for the Murther of a Pastry Cook in Swithin's-Lane. 'Tis remarkable that since the Dissolution of Jonathan Wild, not one Felon has been convicted capitally, which by some is attributed to a Reform amongst the Rogues, and by others to the Want of a proper Person to detect them ; but be these- Matters as they may, most or all agree, that the giving of Mr. Wild his Quietus, was just and. absolutely necessary."

The extreme rarity of comment upon any subject whatever in"the London daily press of that period makes this outburst the more noteworthy, as showing the unique position Wild held* in the public mind. It remains only to be added that a fortnight later the woman in question " was repriev'd in Order to her Pardon." ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

HAMLET AS BAPTISMAL NAME IN 1590. The register of the Archdeaconry of Essex records that on " November 18, 1590, in ecclesia de West ham. . . .Hamlettus John- son de West ham " produced a certificate " that he hath reconciled himself e to the minister and churchwardens, and confessed his falte, and shewed him selfe sorye for his offence, and promised reformacion."

A. CLARK.

Great Leighs, Chelmsford.

[Many instances of the use of Hamlet as a Christian name will be found at 10 S. viii. 4, 155, 237, 329, 418, 436 ; xii. 98. This week's Athenceum contains an epitaph by Peacock on a schoolfellow- named Hamlet Wade.]

' ACCOUNT OF SOME REMARKABLE PAS- SAGES IN THE LIFE OF A PRIVATE GENTLE- MAN.' I have before me a copy of a curious theological work, which has been doubt- fully attributed to Daniel Defoe :

" An Account of some Remarkable Passages in the Life of a Private Gentleman : -with Reflec- tions thereon. In Three Parts. Relating to Trouble of Mind, some violent Temptations, and a Recovery ; in order to awaken the Pre- sumptuous, arid encourage the Despondent. Left under his own Hand, to be communicated

to the Public after his Decease Glasgow

Printed for and sold by Robert Banks, Book- seller in Stirling. MDCCLXV." I2mo, pp. 250[2],

At the end is " A List of the Subscribers' Names," as though the book was then- published for the first time. The first sdition appeared at London in 1708.

Mr. W. H. Allnutt had no note of this, Stirling bookseller.

WILLIAM E. A. AXON, Manchester.