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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 8. v. SEPT., 1919.

part having reference to the Archdeaconry of Welle, compiled and recently given to your Society by the Rev. Prebendary Daniel. Your Council has been informed by Sir H. Maxwell Lyte, K.C.B., that in the Literary Search Room of the Public Record Office there is a series of Institution Books from 1720 to 1838, which give the name of the incumbent, the date of institution, and the name of the patron. The diocese of Bath and Wells is in Series C., Vol. I., which is arranged under parishes alphabetically."

H. ST. GEORGE GRAY. Taunton Castle.

EXCHANGE OF SOULS IN FICTION (12 S. <-. 124, 191). Something of the kind occurs in Mrs. Margaret L. Woods' s novel ' The Invader.' C. L. S.

An early 'Tale from Blackwood' ('The Metempsychosis ' ) is an interesting example.

J. K. South Africa.

EAST ANGLIAN CHARACTERS AND CHARAC- TERISTICS (12 S. v. 178). It would appear that the persons named were contemporaries of the writer B. S., and were of or connected with Norwich. The Parr must have been the well-known headmaster of Norwich Grammar School, Rev. Samuel Parr, D.D., and the references to " birch " and " Greek . discourse " make that clear.

The following names are suggested :

.Bacon. Edward Bacon of Earlham, Norwich,

Recorder and M.P. for many years. Dewing. Edward Dewing of Guist, after 1785, was

Master of the Norwich staghounds. Addey. John Addey, Mayor of Norwich, 1773. GuttinQ. William Cutting, Sheriff of Norwich,

1790. Parson Brand. Rev. John Brand, or Rev. Fitz-

john Brand. Burcham. Rev. John Burchanu Rector of St.

Simon and St. Jude, Norwich, 17:36-91.

C. G.

HERVEY OR HERVET (12 S. v. 95, 167, 189). Prof. Weekley in his ' Surnames ' makes the observation that the suffixes -itt
 * and -ett, as in the personal names Hewitt
 * and Willett, are not always diminutives,

but are occasionally only altered forms, here of Heward and Wlllard, the termination being the same as in " dullard," " coward,' &c. ; but these cases are exceptions. In the case of Hervey, the Latin form, Herveus, occurs twice in Domesday, so that I suspect Hervet resulted from a contracted Latinised variant Hervetus, which proved to be more durable than the other ; compare Lat privus, single, whence privatus, and ulti
 * mately Eng. privet ; especially as S. H. A. H

informs us that both Hervey and Hervet were applied concurrently to the same family. Solecisms arose in Norman and Plan- tagenet times, as I pointed out (10 S. xii. 515; 11 S. i. 58), through the difficulty Norman functionaries experienced in adapt- ing their tongue to an Anglo-Saxon voca- bulary ; PO that A.S. hedh tyd, high festival, ecame haul tyd by the substitution of the Yench adjective ; and this through the Church's influence soon got popularized as Hocktide : a word which had for long mffled the skill of that ardent philologist the ate Prof. Skeat. Thus it often happens that rregularities occur in the development of surnames and place-names, such as those to which S. H. A. H. alludes, by means of phonetic decay and popular assimilation ;
 * hus Culmundelei in D.B., literally Ceol-

iiund's pasture, became Cholmondeley which Bardsley took to be of Norman origin the modern Chumleigh.

N. W. HILL.

BIRD -SCARING SONGS (12 S. v. 98, 132, 160). Here is another sample which will, [ hope, be acceptable to MR. SAMPSON. I take it from Halliwell's ' Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales,' p. 179, where it is said
 * o be " the universal bird-shooers song in the

Midland counties " :

Awa' birds, awa,'

Take a peck

And leave a seek,

And come no more to-day.

' The Nursery Rhymes of England ' at p. 264 supplies another bird-boy's song :

Eat birds eat, and make no waste, I lie here and make no haste ; If my master chance to come, You must fly and I must run.

ST. SWITHIN.

PHILIP WESTCOTT, PORTRAIT PAINTER (12 S. iii. 385 ; iv. 55, 314). The Committee of Royal Museum and Art Galleries, Peel Park, Salford, own oil portraits of Stephen Heelis, whom your querist refers to in hia note, William Lockett (full length), E. R. Langworthy, M.P., 1853 (full length), John Kay, 1858 (half length), all presented by subscribers. Joseph Brotherton, M.P. ; donor, County Borough Council. All of these pictures are painted by Philip West- cott, who was born in 1815. His practice was principally in the North of England, notably in Liverpool and Manchester. He expired January, 1878.

FRED L. TAVARE.

22 Trentham Street, Pendleton, Manchester.