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would prefer to syllabize thus : " pence at wood," and I would assume that c was or is a mistake for g. Hence the 1067 charter should read *penge cet wude, i.e., Penga cet wuda, or Penge by the wood.

Before abandoning the O.E. standpoint Mr. McClure might have investigated, say, half-a-dozen forms of place-names in -enge : -cenge ; e.g., Benge and Genge, Fenge and Senges, Tenge and Wenge. These places severally occur in the counties of Berks, Essex, Devon and Bucks. For their docu- mentation reference might be made to the Edward I. et II.,' pp. 255, 151, 256, 217, 110, 54.
 * Calendarium Inquisitionum post Mortem,

The tenth -century form should be *Paenga (gen. pi.). The etymon of that is *Paeg- ing-a, i.e., belonging to the Paegingas or sons of Pago. For the name cp. Forstemann, p. 200. The palatalization of g in Psenga took place before 1086.

The remarks on the allied form " Ginge " made by Prof. Skeat in his ' Place-Names of Berkshire,' 1911, p. 67, are illuminating:

"The oldest recorded form of Ginge is Gseging (better Gseginge), Birch, C. S. iii. 257 ; whence the later forms Gainge, id. iii. 173, Gaincg, iii. 67, and Geinge, i. 506. The second g in Gasginge was a mere glide, like y in paying, and so was easily lost. The original form must have been Gseginga, gen. pi., from Gsegingas, nom. pi., referring to the 'sons (or family) of Gaega.' ALFRED ANSCOMBE.

NEWCOME' s SCHOOL, HACKNEY, AND LORD CHANCELLORS HARDWICKE (12 S. i. 148, 217). Some information as to the education of certain eminent men at Hackney School is, I think, contained in the following adver- tisement in my possession :

"Hackney School, Furniture and Effects. By Mr. Hoggart, on the Premises, at Clapton, near Hackney, on Monday, the 23rd August, 1819, and following days, at Twelve.

" The Whole of the Household Furniture, Linen, Books, and Effects of Hackney School House ; including portraits of the following distinguished characters educated at this establishment, viz., the Dukes of Devonshire and Grafton ; Lords Robert Cavendish, George Cavendish, Southamp- ton, Stamford, Dover, and Hardwick ; Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Mr. Pelham, &c."

The building materials were sold on Oct. 1 1 and following days of this same year.

MR. ALDRED is no doubt familiar with the fine aquatint view of Hackney School by Reeve. E. E. NEWTON.

Hampstead, Upminster, Essex.

Mr. Morland, who sent a scholar from his school at Hackney up to Caius in 1721, is

of St. Paul's School on June 23, 1721, and

who remained in that position until his- death on Oct. 9, 1733, aged 80 (R. B.. Gardiner, 'Registers of St. Paul's School'). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March, 1707. I have failed to discover any record of the school or university at which he was educated. I am not clear, either, as to his parentage, but from his wilB and codicil at Somerset House I have obtained some information as to his des- cendants. The will was executed in 1729 r the codicil in 1730. The testator appointed his friend Henry Dry of Lincoln's Inn and Seth Partridge, citizen and goldsmith, his- son-in-law, as his executors and trustees.

Mention is made in the documents of Mary Morland (a widow) and of Margaret- Roddall, and also of his daughters, Sarah Partridge, Lydia Newcome (who is seen from the codicil to have died in or before 1730), Elizabeth Morland, and Hester Morland. Reference is also made to his grandchildren, Peter, Benjamin, and Lydia Newcome.

The father of these three children is identified from the following details of an. extract from ' Familiae Minorum Gentium/ vol. iii. p. 1044 : Lydia, daughter of Benjamin Morland, schoolmaster at Hackney, married in March, 1714, Henry Newcome, LL.D^ of Hackney, schoolmaster, who died Oct. 23, 1756. Mrs. Lydia Newcome died in 1730, aged 44.

I believe I am correct in thinking that Benjamin Morland was a brother of Samuel Morland, F.R.S., of Bethnal Green, at whose- school Lord Hardwicke was educated (v. Harris's ' Life,' pp. 14-22). If so, who were their parents ? Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give me any more information concerning the early career of Benjamin Morland ?

MICHAEL F. G. MCDONNELL.

JOHNNIE FOSTER : ST. ANDREW'S : LATT VICARS (12 S. i. 214). Your correspondent MR. W. A. FROST has added valuable information concerning the actual title and status of this popular musician. His rebuke of my statement with reference to the ritual at St. Andrew's, Wells Street, is not merited. At the time to which I was alluding (1 856-7 > All Saints', Margaret Street, was still in course of building, and was not completed before 1859 or later. L. G. R.

Bournemouth.

Is not MR. FROST in error in stating that

there was an Abbot of Canterbury"

Benjamin Morland, who became High Master [Cathedral]? Was not the head of Christ

Church Priory the Prior ?

H. S.