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found in places, though of course it is rare. In the reign of Queen Anne a William Charnelhouse was a silversmith in Gutter Lane, London, and he entered his trade- mark at Goldsmiths' Hall on June 10, 1703. (2) Ion is. I think, a contraction of the Welsh surname John. In sixteenth-century records I have found the name of Jones

'contracted into Ions. (3) The origin of Ormandy appears to be uncertain. I do not think it is connected with Ormonde, and am Inclined to regard it as a phonetic variation of Ommaney (French Aumonier), the d

'being intrusive. (4) Twisaday (twice-a-day is perhaps a burlesque rendering of Bisdee (Latin Bis die}. Several well-known names have their burlesque satellites : thus Shakespea-re has Wagstaff, Turnbull has Metcalf, Rushout has Inskip, Bacon has Hogsflesh, &c. H. D. ELLIS.

7 Roland Gardens, S.W.

Ormondy is the only one of the abov surnames which is at all common in the records of the Furness district, and, although 'not common at the present day, is still to be met with, especially in the Barrow district. .An excellent series of historical articles dealing with the villages of the Furness district and their inhabitants is contained in the Transactions of the Barrow Naturalists' Field Club, vols. xii., xiii., and xvii.

PAUL V. KELLY. Barrow-in-Furness.

[MB. N. W. HILL thanked for reply.]

VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117, 193). There is a pound in very good preservation -within half-a-dozen miles of Charing Cross -at the south-east corner of Wimbledon ^Common. HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (v. sub 'Con- tributions to European Travel': 'Kheven- liuller,' 12 S. i. 182). The relics are not those of St. James, the brother of our Lord, but of St. James the Greater. Mr. John W. Taylor in ' The Coming of the Saints,' at p. 62, says :

" The active belief in the legend or tradition of the Spanish mission of St. James appears to date irom about 829 A.D., when the body of the saint

was 'discovered 'by Theodosius, Bishop of Tira

<But long before the supposed discovery or re- discoveryof the body of St. James, we have evidence that the essentials of the tradition were held by Spanish inhabitants and Spanish writers.

The summing-up of the Bollandists in the

favour of the thesis that the reputed Spanish emission of St. James is reliable and historical. 1 ' JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
 * Aeta Sanctorum' appears to be decidedly in

HANDLE Y CROSS (12 S. i. 228). It is certainly a fictitious name. For many years the belief was entertained that Cheltenham was the town which Mr. Robert Smith Surtees had in mind when he wrote ' Handley Cross. ' A lengthy disquisition on the sub j ect , signed by a writer who subscribed himself " The Mouse in the Corner," appeared in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of Nov. 20, 1886, in which it was not only asserted that Surtees was staying in the vicinity of Cheltenham when he conceived the idea of his book, but further that he took for his prototype of Mr. John Jorrocks one Paul Crump, a welter-weight yeoman who hunted a pack of harriers, and resided in the " fifties " at Coomb Hill, near Tewkes- bury. But quite recently, in a work entitled ' Northern Sport and Sportsmen,' by J. Fairfax Blakeborough, it is contended that Croft Spa, near Darlington, in the Hurworth country, is the original of Handley Cross ; and as Mr. Surtees was himself a Durham man, it is more than probable that this hypothesis is well founded. On the other hand, however, Mr. Charles Fox, ex- huntsman of the Blackmoor Vale Hounds, and at one time whipper-in to the Hurworth pack, while admitting that Mr. Surtees was familiar with Croft Spa, and, indeed, owned a fishing lodge nea,r Neasham, a mile distant from that watering-place, recently expressed the opinion, in a sporting contemporary, that Handley Cross could not have been intended for Croft Spa, since the pump room of the latter does not boast of a " spacious vestibule " such as that described in ' Handley Cross.' Another correspondent though on what grounds he based his belief I have no knowledge insisted that Leam- ington was Handley Cross. Personally, nevertheless, I lean to Croft Spa ; but there is much force in an observation made by Mr. Charles Fox that

Mr. Surtees used a bit of this place, a bit of another ; a bit of one country and a bit of another, to help him tell his story in his own inimitable way."

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

" PAT (MARTHA) ALEXANDER, TAVERN KEEPER" (12 S. i. 248). I find I was in error in saying that Sarah Malcolm was executed at Tyburn. It is so stated in the ate Major Arthur Griffiths' s ' Chronicles of Newgate,' but he was wrong, and misled me. As a matter of fact, the woman was executed n Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, where many persons in those days suffered the extreme )enalty of the law.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.