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 * Sept. 5, 1776) ; captain in the army ( ? in

same regiment), May 6, 1776 ; captain 8th Foot Nov. 5, 1776 ; senior captain thereof, when he left, Aug. 8, 1788 ; stationed in Canada in 1784. A - - Hamilton died at Antigua 1761 (London Mag.}. One Henry Hamilton was serving in America in 1763 ;

appointed lieutenant 15th Foot Sept. 2, 1756 ; captain thereof Oct. 30, 1762, till he

.left the army about 1775. A younger Henry Hamilton became ensign 17th Foot Sept. 9, .1777 ; lieutenant Sept. 18, 1780 ; captain

July 27, 1785 ; senior captain in 1795, till succeeded June 23, 1796 ; brevet-major

-May 6, 1795. W. R. WILLIAMS.

MAKY CLARKE OF NEW YORK : VASSALL '(12 S. v. 236, 278). Sir Gilbert Affleck, 2nd bart., of Dalham Hall, Suffolk, married at St. George's, Hanover Square, July 18, 1796, Mary, relict of Richard Vassal, Esq., of Jamaica (who died in 1795), and daughter of Thomas Clarke of New York. He died without issue in 1803, and she died in 1835. J. W. FAWCETT.

JAMES WHEATLEY, COBBLER (12 S. v. 267). There is a biography of him in Charles Atmore's ' Methodist Memorial,' 1801, (pp. 488-491. J. W. FAWCETT.

Consett, co. Durham.

CURIOUS SURNAMES (12 S. vi. 68). Prof. Ernest Weekley, in ' The Romance of Names,' at p. 206 says :

" Golightly means much the same as Lightfoot, nor need we hesitate to regard the John Gotobed who lived in Cambridgeshire in 1273 as a notorious sluggard compared with whom his neighbour Serl
 * gO-to-kirke was a shining example."

In a note he adds :

" The name is still found in the same county. Undergraduates contemporary with the author occasionally slaked their thirst at a riverside inn kept by Bathsheba Gotobed."

In has ' Surnames,' at. pp 138-9, the Professor writes :

" In. nay' Romance of Xames ' (p. 12(5) I have suggested that Handyside, Hendyside, may possibly represent M.E. heiide side, gracious custom, but the variant Haudasyde suggests a possible nickname of attitude, ' hand at side,' for

a man fond of standing with arms akimbo ; cf. Guillelmas Escu-a-Col (Pachnio). The formation of Strongitharm is somewhat similar."

.At p. 260 he writes :

' Fullalove, Fullilove, is, of course, ' full of love,' commoner in the Rolls in the form Plein-

damour, which still exists in Dorset as Bland - ainore."

"There are or were recently Fulleyloves in .London. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

When I was house-surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1856-57 the names of the dressers for the week posted in the out-patients' room one week were Wrench, Grabham, and Slaughter ; the two former were a little ominous for patients who came for tooth extraction gratis. About the same time there were three undergraduates of Christ's College, Cambridge, named Fisher, Flesher, and Fowler. In the Selby Coucher-book, vol. i., p. 207, is : " Carta Willelmi filii Ranulfi Spurneturtoys." J. T. F.

All three of these names are nicknames and are prevalent elsewhere than Manchester. Fullolove (full of love) is known in Norfolk, and has variants in spelling ; Gotobed is to be found in Nottingham and Cambridge ; whilst Strongitharm is essentially Cheshire: Cheshire born, Cheshire bred, Strong i' th' arm, weak i' th' yed. " This couplet," says Harrison, " may really owe its origin to the fact that the name is (or was) mostly a Cheshire surname." All three surnames appear in the current London Directory. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

The name Gotobecl occurs at the small town of Somersham, Hunts, and in the same place many other rare and curious names are met vnfh, e.g.\ Allebone, Bodger, Butteriss, Cawcutt, Ciuelow, Criswell, Goodchild, Good- year, Goodenough, Gowler, Orbell, Patmer, Scales, See, Seekins, Setchfielcl, Skeels, Touch, Tweed, Wesson, and Wheaton.

In the register of baptisms at Bicester, Oxon, on Sept. 2, 1677, Edward, son of Thomas Rhubarb, a stranger, was baptized. This name I have never previously heard. Does it occur elsewhere ?

L. H. CHAMBERS.

Bedford.

MELKART'S STATUE (12 S. v. 292). The Larousse Dictionary is most unhappy in its statement. Pliny 'expressly says that the (statue of) Hercules before which the Carthaginians had yearly offered a human victim was held in no honour at Rome and was placed in no temple, but stood on the ground before the entrance to the " porticus ad nationes " :-

" Inhonorus est nee in templo ullo Hercules ad quern 1'oeni omnibus annis humana sacrifica- verant victima, humi stans ante aditum porticus ad nationes." ' Nat. Hist.,' xxxvi. 5, [12], 39.

The Servian commentary on ' ^Eneid, ' viii. 721, says that this colonade was. built by Augustus and bore the name " ad nationes " because he had placed in it figures of all nations. In some editions of the