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 ii B. iv. NOV. 11, mi.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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JOHN LORD : OWEN (11 S. iv. 310). I think J. H. Y. will find all that is known concerning the pedigree of the late Sir John Owen in a book written by me and called ' The Church Book of St. Mary the Virgin, Tenby.' It can be procured from John Leach, publisher, Tenby. I may say I have no pecuniary interest in its sale. EDWARD LAWS.

LUNATICS AND PRIVATE LUNATIC ASYLUMS (11 S. iv. 209, 251). A scene in 'Notes and Gold,' a four-act drama by myself, produced by Mr. W. H. Brougham at Bradford on 31 August, 1885, was devoted to an escape from a private lunatic asylum.

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.


 * NlBELUNGENLIED ' : ITS LOCALITIES

(11 S. iv. 309). Troneje or Tronege, Hagen's home=Tronia or Kirchberg in Alsace ; Metz, Ortwin's home, the well-known fortress on the Moselle or Mosel ; Alzeije=Alzei, a small town, not in Alsace, but near Worms on the Rhine ; Santen=Xanten on the Lower Rhine, opposite Wesel (cf. Aug. Liibben's ' Worterbuch ' to the ' Nibelungen- lied,' Oldenburg, 1865, p. 210).

H. KREBS.

FRIDAY AS CHRISTIAN NAME (11 S. iv. 310). This is certainly rare, though, as pointed out by the Editor, it is more common amongst foreigners (see 8 S. viii. 388). Crabbe, in one of his poems describing the christening of a foundling, winds up with And Anthony Monday to the workhouse went.

A Monday Haward, a widow, was buried at Seaham in October, 1667 (' Chronicon Mirabile,' p. 76). Anthony Monday occurs as the name of a sixteenth-century author and translator.

" Festival names " were common, Easter probably being the most popular, and being confused with Esther. A foundling dis- covered in Sunderland on Easter Day was baptized by the name of Easter at Bishops- wearmouth on 28 August, 1705 (ibid., p. 74). Epiphany was another such name common to both sexes. The will of Epiphany Holland of Kent was proved January, 1731 (10 Isham). Mr. Michaelmas Whatton and Michaelmas Danbie were buried at North- allerton. the first in 1637, the second in 1639. It was possibly a foundling named Darke Satterday who was [? buried] at St. Nicholas's, Newcastle, on 25 February, 1597 (' Chronicon Mirabile,' p. 97). Probably the girl christened Friday was born on that day in the week. A. RHODES.


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HAMLET AS BAPTISMAL NAME IN 1590 (US. iv. 305). Hamlet and Hamnet were once common, surviving till nearly the close of the eighteenth century. The two forms were sometimes applied to the same indi- vidual, as 13 June and 13 November, 1502, Hamlet Clegg and Hampnet Clegg appear in the ' Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York,' pp. 21 and 62. The son of Shake- speare was christened Hamnet after his god- father, Hamnet Sadler. It is really the pet form of the Norman name Hamon, through various forms Hamonet, Hamelot, &c. There is a deal of information on the name in Bardsley's' Curiosities of Puritan Nomen- clature,' where there are seven references in the index. * N. & Q.' is quoted for one of the instances at 10 S. viii., while another in the same volume is given independently.

A. RHODES.

STONEHENGE : ' THE BIRTH OP MERLIN ' (11 S.iv. 128, 178, 235, 295). In 1881 Prof. Flinders Petrie made observations with the object of ascertaining the date of the erec- tion of this temple. On the assumption that Stonehenge was built for sun-worship, and correctly orientated at a time when the sun rose immediately behind the Friar's Heel on 21 June, he came to the conclusion that Stonehenge was built about 730 A.D., and his ruling was accepted until Sir Norman Lockyer and Mr. Penrose made similar observations in June, 1901. They came to the conclusion that, assuming Stonehenge to have been built as a Temple of the Sun, with the Friar's Heel as a pointer indicating the spot on the horizon at which the sun rose on 21 June, the date of its erection must be 1680 B.C. +200 years, a date which approxi- mately coincides with that arrived at by Mr. Gowland on other considerations. Hence it seems this calculation may be accepted as giving the correct date, always provided that Stonehenge was originally a Temple of the Sun (see Mr. Arthur J. Ire- .and's ' Stonehenge ').

WILLIAM MACARTHUR. Dublin.

DIATORIC TEETH (11 S. iv. 290). -The New English Dictionary ' has " Diatory, obs. form of ' dietary.' ' This is probably he solution. E. G. VARNISH.

Constitutional Club.

I would suggest that " diatoric " is formed iom the Greek word Siaropos ( = piercing), and that the epithet is intended to be de- scriptive of the business capacity of the
 * eeth in question. DUNHEVED [2].