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Dr. Nott's English is not so clear as it might be, but doubtless the printer under- stood him. After some further animad- versions, in which " inattention to my last correction " or similar words frequently occur, we come to a debatable point. The prin er at the end of a line separated the word "painted" thus " paint-ed." Dr. Nott remarks]: " It certain [sic] should be a rule never to disjoin the middle of a syllable write thus ' pain-ted.' ? Here I think I hold with the printer. On p. 64 the good^doctor gets quite angry. "What the devil," he asks, " could possess you to insert the direction for marking HENRY in capitals, which you have done ? " -On p. 67 an omission on the part of the printer excites his wrath : " Do you not under- stand that a quotation made within a quota- tion, as in the present instance, is designated by single inverted commas ? It occurs commonly enough."

It would be tedious to go through the whole book, but there is not a page that does not charge the printer with carelessness or inattention. In one case, where Dr. Nott is uncertain whether a Dutch name should be " von der " or " von den," he asks the printer to find a Dutchman who could put him right on this point. The last remark, on the penultimate page, is characteristic of all : " The above corrections were all made in the first proof. Such negligence is therefore shameful to a degree." Printers stood this sort of thing in 1812, when Dr. Nott's book was published. What would they say to it in 1912 ? W. F. PKIDEAUX.

HALLEY SURNAME.

A LOXDON correspondent wrote to me some years ago thus :

"....incline to think that Halley, Whalley, and Hawley are variants of one name, and that ....a place-name .... Wh and h are sometimes equivalent ; living examples being found in tc/jo and whole, &c., and obsolete ones in tchot for ' hot,' ichome for ' home,' &c. See Aldis Wright's ' Bible Word-book.' Also the surname ' Hippie ' became TFhipple, and ' whist ' and ' hist ' are equivalent. I used to pronounce Halley with a short a, having probably picked up that use when a child ; but I suppose it should be like Hcrzcley."

Another English scholar says :

' I think that in the seventeenth century, in Derbyshire, ' Halley ' was pronounced ' Hawley.' . . . .There were Walleys or Whalleys in Derby- shire, but I am not confident that the two families are connected."

There seems, indeed, to be a marked difference between all coats armorial of

WTialley and Halley or Hawley, but the two latter families certainly appear to have been related to each other, at least in Derby- shire, where there is evidence of those two spellings having been used interchangeably. The second of the two correspondents mentioned above also writes :

" The ' Feudal History of Derbyshire,' by Pym Yeatman, contains several references to persons of the name of Halley and variants of that name, but I have not discovered in it any record which has an obvious bearing on the astronomer's family. Mr. Pym Yeatman seems to treat Hall, Halle, Halley, and de Aula as synonymous. I am not sure that he is right in so doing."

Lower, in ' Patronymica Britannica,' says of the origin of the surname Halley that it is local, but he cannot name the place.

Various examples of the names " de Aula," " de Haule," " delaHale," " Hayle," "Hayles," "Hales," " Hawlegh," "Hall," " Halle," " Hauley," &c., appear in the pages of the ' Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem ' and in ' A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds.' Some of these last- mentioned spellings remind one of the fact that Papworth ascribed the coat Sable, a fret and a canton argent, to the families of " Hales, Hauley, co. Devon ; Hawleys." This is the same coat which, according to John Aubrey, belonged to the family of the astronomer Halley (cf. 10 S. v. 406 ; vi. 368). One is frequently cautioned, however, not to place too much reliance upon similarity or identity of arms.

As to the pronunciation of the astro- nomer's surname by his contemporaries, we may have a little direct evidence in this entry :

" Mr. Hawly to be p d IOC" to buy instruments

" [Paid 13 Oct., 1698.] Extract from

' Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1697-1701/2,' Redington ; London, 1871, p. 210, Vol. LVL, No. 31.

But what shall we say of the spelling " Haiky " in the entry of his marriage, in 1682, at St. James's, Duke's Place (cf. 11 S. iv. 85, 198) ?

As stated at 9 S. xi. 205, the surname " Haley " has been preserved as a Christian name in my family. There is also a record in the handwriting of my paternal grand- mother, in a small Bible, containing, among other entries, this, which shows the birth of her eldest son at Cincinnati, Ohio :

" Their son Edmund Hailey was born Dec. 18th, 1821."

Documentary evidence of the relation- ship existing between the Halley and Pyke families has been presented in these columns, EUGENE F, McPiKE.

135, Park Row, Chicago.