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 12 8. 1. MAY 27, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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your space is valuable. I inquired in what I thought was the proper quarter whether the Rev. John Jones was rector of Limpsfield, but I received no reply. Perhaps one of your readers who possesses local knowledge may be able to supply the required information.

E. B. P.

THE "JENNINGS PROPERTY" (12 S. i. 329). The nearest approach to such a book as that which your correspondent requires is as follows :

" The Jennens Case. Statement of Facts in connexion with the Pedigree of William Jennens, Esquire (deceased), with notes relating to the Pedigree of the Persons in Possession of the Estate of the Deceased. 1874." Printed for J. C. Jennens, 25 Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, London, by Huxtable & Co., 34 St. John's Road, London, B.C. This book contains an ' Account of the Death of William Jennens ' from The Gentleman's Magazine, July 19, 1798.

An important book in connexion with the matter is :

" The Great Jennens Case, being an Epitome of the History of the Jennens Family, compiled on behalf of the Jennens Family by Messrs. Harrison and Willis." Sheffield, 1879.

On p. 2 of this book it states that "at least seventeen cases [relating to the Jennens family] have come before the Courts : three dis- tinct claims by the Martin family, four distinct claims by Joseph Jennings' family, five distinct claims by Elizabeth Jennings' family, two distinct claims by Henry Jennens' family, and three distinct claims by Edward Jennings' family."

In ' Curiosities of the Search - Room,' 1880, pp. 249-51, there is given a precis of the case of Jennens v. Bowater and others, which was heard in 1878.

Lot 436 of Sir Thomas Phillipps's sale, which took place at Sotheby's on June 17, 1908, consisted of

"Extracts from the Wills of the Jennens or Jennings families from 1588, with the names of all relatives mentioned in each will."

Many readers will remember the valuable catalogues issued by the late James Coleman of 9 Tottenham Terrace, White Hart Lane, Tottenham. Mr. Coleman made a special corner in Jennens items (deeds, wills, &c.), and there frequently appeared in his catalogues the following notice :

"To all Jennens, Jennings. Jenyns, and Jenins families. Mr. Coleman has published two Pedigrees with notes and references, with the sincere object of showing to the various claimants the exact position all the (yet) claimants bear towards each other, and also the positions the usurpers of the Jennens Properties bear towards all the (yet) claimants. He has reduced the price to 2s. Id. for the two together, and will send them direct to any person (post free) on receiving full address, &c. &c.

N.B. All persons writing to him in relation-

to the Great Jennens cause are desired to send' addressed and stamped envelopes for reply. Tottenham, Jan., 1893.

Numerous Jennings wills are printed in. Brown's ' Somerset Wills,' vol. iii.

A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187 Piccadilly, W.

The late James Coleman, formerly of" High Street, Bloomsbury, and afterwards of ' White Hart Lane, Tottenham, was much interested in the Jennings case, and had a large collection of deeds, documents, and pedigrees connected therewith. Among some of the pamphlets he issued were two pedigrees of the families of Jen -ings, Howe,. Lygon, Hamer, Beauchamp, &c., issued in 1869 at 2s. Qd. ; and another containing wills and long lists of baptisms, marriages, and burials of the Jennings family from many registers, ranging from 1560 to 1800, issued in, 1871 at 15s. Qd.

Mr. Coleman died in 1910, after which the business was carried on by his daughter. It is just possible that Mr. Marcham of" 129 High Road, New Southgate, London, N. r . may have the above-named pamphlets relating to the Jennings case, or know where they are to be found. Has B. searched the British Museum ? E. A. FRY.

PENGE AS A PLACE-NAME (12 S. i. 228,. 312). Though agreeing with MR. ANSCOMBE in rejecting the form Penceat as negligible ine the derivation of "Penge," I do not think he has found the true etymon in the unrecorded personal name Pcenga (originally Pceging-a)~. Most writers on Anglo-Saxon nomenclature - consider there are already far too many place-names explained as due to the patronymic ing, the following being in- stances in which that suffix has been intro- duced by assimilation, so as to obliterate the- origin of the designation : Abingdon, Ailing- ton, Billingsley, Edington, Itchington, which derive respectively from Aebbandun, Ellen- dun, Bilgesley, Ethandun, Icenantun ; while- in Ingham the prefix is nothing more or less than the old Norse eng, a meadow. Hence it would be most unwise to quote Penge as- an example of patronymic origin. I gave at 11 S. v. 97 the probable etymon of this word as A.-S. pynca, a point, which would be a very appropriate name for an outlying portion of Battersea, to which parish Penge is even at the present day territorially attached ; and the late PROF. SKEAT, who- took part in this discussion, did not, as a matter of fact, offer any opposition to the- above view. Moreover- the Scotch place-