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 i2S.x.to.i4.io22.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 35 the spy spent some years of her life in Java or Sumatra. Can the nom de guerre there- fore be Javanese ? H. WILBERFORCE-BELL. Is PROFESSOR PITOLLET s informant correct in stating that Mata Hari is Hindustani and means morning bird ? I am aware of ten woras m that language signifying " morn, morning, dawn, and nearly double the number used for ' bird," but neither mata DOT han appears in the list, One newspaper pronounced the sobriquet to be Japanese. The real source must be looked for in Malay. That lingua franca of the East is sometimes delightfully poetic. Witness the use of the words in question "" " " never come across a member of it whose name is spelled without a " g." In the ' Calendar of Canterbury Wills,' 1396-1558, issued in 1920 by the British Record Society, are some nine wills of a < family name d Menys, Mens, Mense, Menesse, MennVsse, Menewes, or Mynvs, principally of Deal and Sandwich. These wills range in date from 1416 to 1558) and it is probab l e the origin of the name Minnes mav be found i from this sourc e, especially as' Sir John was of a Sandwich familv. ' h *, th ' P OUS > as Mr. Hulburd efence sunrse and literallv "the eve of the rlav up " ^nd " the Tye of t*e da ! eoins down " D As 8 stated'emte, there has been a mass of contradictions published in the Paris , journals about Truda Zelle, but if it be ! true that she was once the wife of a Dutch officer and afterwards the mistress of other Dutchmen she may have lived for a time in one or more of the eastern pos- sessions of Holland, which would explain her choice of a Malay nom de guerre. Cora Laparcerie has, I read, produced at the Renaissance Theatre a play called 'La Danseuse Rouge,' which is written round the spy's life Interest in this amazing woman, who is said to have been of Jewish origin, seems to have revived lately, and many would join Professor Pitollet in welcoming au- thentic details of her youth. These, how- ever, are at present not forthcoming, though Colonel Boucabeille, an ex-militar| attache at The Hague, is stated to have had a complete dossier of - Mata Hari." CHARLES GILLMAN. Church Fields, SaJfcburv. VICE-ADMIRAL SIR CHRISTOPHER MINGS (12 S. ix. 461, 513; x. 13). The note on this subject by MR. PERCY HULBURD opens up an interesting topic as to a possible family connexion between Vice-Admirals Sir John Minnes and Sir Christopher Mings, having regard to the somewhat similarity in the names. There may be such a connexion at present undiscovered, but 1 am disposed to think the names are distinct and not variants. At any rate, among my many notes of the Minge family I have, ' T '' Duke), mentions lands in Loughton, jh% Woodnesborough ms ne P hew > Francis Hammon, and ! *.' Elizabeth Hammon, son and daughter er Mary ' hls meces Jane r rt Heath 5 Lady Heath s daughter, Margaret ^ d , his ' c ousm f Ca P tam . Jo ^ Ca ^ on of ^^f bo f l p ugh ' .There is also a bequest of 50 for the repairs of Sandwich church. ^ to the Mynge and Hamon connexion, a len f e ^ as issuec * at Canterbury Feb. 6 r the Carriage of John Mynge of .? m ? ey -' ?" ** ^^ Hamon ' of Awkndge (Acrise), v. Daniel Mynge of New R ? mne ^. y eoma ^' b f n g a bond. Ad- nimistration of the estate of John Minge of ew Komney was granted at the V*' Canterbury, on Jan 23 Judith rehct. The will of Judith Mynge of Canterbury, widow already alluded Ra j P ^ r f amOI iv Sir Th m ?f Hamon, Knt. r a ^ Wl " ia ^ Hamon of Canterbury^ ; my ^ters Martha Brewer, Jane Gibbons, and Bennett Hamon, this latter being really s her s f ^-in-law. These brothers and sisters
 * ? ma ^ es ^ferences to "my brothers,
 * are a " mentioned m the isitation of Kent

[ Or 1619 m S^ 2 ^ 00 P^ 1 ^ 66 ' m however, Judith Mynge does not ap doubtless because she was then dead. I have ^ ot so far v** 1 able to trace any connexion between the Hamon family of Acrise and the T. Hammond who,. according to the Minnes pedigree in Boys' 'History of Sandwich,' married Maria,. sister of sir f ohn - Minnes, about 1631. There is no pedigree of the Acrise family in the 1663-1668 Visitation, so no help can be derived from that source. The real point I wish to clear up is whether John Myngs, in 1623 of the parish of St.