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any mention been found of his wife after 1681. See O.C. 3325, 3862, 3972, 4022, 4042, 4215, 4233 ; ' Court Minutes,' vol. xxxiii. pp. 3, 144, xxxiv. p. 77, xxxv. pp. 261, 270, xxxvi. pp. 4, 39, xxxvii. p. 59, xxxviia ; Letter Book, xi. ; Pringle, ' Diary and Consultation Book of Fort St. George' (1682), pp. 2, 14, 101; Yule, ' Diary of Wm. Hedges,' ii. pp. 23, 31 ; Ander- son, op. cit.]

[Karwar* 23d April 1670] Mr Richard Edwards

Esteemed Freind

When departed from Ballasore, left with Mr Vicars a Letter for you, wherein acknowledged the receipt of your silke stockings, parte whereof have allready disposd off, V[iz]. 6 pr largest at 10 Rups. Per pair, and 3 pr lesser at 8 Rups., the amount in all 84 Rups. Those sould to the Governour of Cochin f ; the rest are still by me. How you will esteeme of their produce I know not, but assure you my Endeavours were not wanting to have raisd it higher, and though must confess the price is but very ordinary, yet considering 2 pr of them were spotted, choose rather to sell them than hazard another markett, not beeing then certaine of setting up my habitation soe neare Goa,J as have since been forcd by the unfortunate loss of our voyadge to Persia, which is noe small detryment to me, beeing here confnd to a place from whence cannot proceed till the middle October, and in all the interim noething to d[oe] more than lament my misfortunes for the loss of a whole yeare, which by reason of this ob- struction shall waste to noe purpose.

My hopes are that better success has attended your Endeavours, which shall not only at all tymes be glad to heare, but un- feignedly will to my power Assist by all Opportunityes that offer to doe you any freindly services, Particularly, if in the tyme of my imprisonment here, any thing presents that will improve the produce of your stockings at Persia, will invest the amount for your account, and when God pleases to

(west coast of India), in the North Kanara District. In 1638 Sir Wm. Courten's Company settled a factory there, and the place became a centre whence muslins, pepper, &c., were exported.
 * Karwar, a port on the Malabar Coast

t Cochin, the capital of the native State of that name, and a port on the Malabar Coast, was one of the early settlements of the Portuguese, from whom it was taken by the Dutch in 1663.

J Goa, the capital of the Portuguese settlement, and a port on the west coast of India, captured by Albuquerque in 1510. It is not far from Karwar, and was at this period a great and rich city.

This apparently means that White started too late in the season, and had to wait for a change of Monsoon (trade wind).

returne me, the whole proceed shall be fait[hf]ully remitted you by

Your Reall Freind to serve you

GEOBGE WHITK Carwar

Aprill 23d 1670

P.S. If Mr John Marshall be settled at your Factory (which was in agitation, when I left your parts), let me advise you to entertaine an intimate corre- spondence with him, whome can assure you upon my owne tryall is a right honest and ingenuous Person, idem. G. W. [Endorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards Merchant

In Cassambuzsr

R. C. TEMPLE.

(To be continued.)

CERTAIN SUEBEY PLACE-NAMES. I was recently informed that a well-kuown archivist and student of history was collecting material with the object of elucidating the place-names of the county of Surrey, and in view of that I am desirous of pointing out a curious fact which the method no\r in vogue of dealing with place-names comty by county cannot avoid overloolang* The fact I refer to is this: the proto- themes in the names of some of the places on one side of the City of London are reflected in certain names of places situited on the opposite side of the City. Sometimes these pairs of names are found at simlar distances from Cornhill.

For instance : Clap-ton to the north-ast and Clap-ham to the south-west preserb a common prototheme. Newing-ton Greet in the north is balanced by Newing-ton Butts in the south ; and Brom-ley in the east has its reflex in Bromp-ton in the west. In Ike case are Hack-ney and Hack-bridge, Hac-tta and Ac-ton, Hill-ingdon and Il-ford, Tottqi- ham (anciently Tattenham) and Tatten-han Corner, Ep-som and Epp-ing, Hain-hailt and Han-well, and Hammer-smith aid Homer-ton (cp. Tatt- and Tott- aid Harnes-ey and Horns-ey). Ash-ford, Hays,. and Harrow (the " Gumeninga hergae ' i>f the seventh century) call across to Ashforl. Hayes, and Chevening (< *Cefeninsja < "Cyfeninga < *Cumininga). Barking, tie In Bercingum of Bede, finds a connexion h, Brondes-bury ; cp. ' Beorca weold Bronding- um " in ' Widsith,' where we get the erroneovfc scribal metathesis Breoca. Similarly Hors-