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utilized as confessionals in later times. In the very earliest days of " Restoration," a small Norman west window was removed from its original situation in the church of St. Mary the Less in Durham to the south side of the chancel, low down, so as to intro- duce an " interesting feature " (unique, I believe), in the shape of a " Norman low side window}" most "correct," no doubt.it would be thought at the time. A small engraved plate has now been fixed up stating its history. J. T. F.

PERSISTENT ERROR (12 S. v. 315 ; vi. 21, 138). In the A.V. of 1 Sam. xxvii. 10, 1615, 1818, 1846, 1865, I find: "Whither have ye made or road to-day," marg. : " Or, Did you not make a road," &c. ("rode " 1615), R.V. "raid." The Hebrew, Vulgate, and context, all show that R.V. is right. As I no longer have access to A.V. of 1611 or to any of its English predecessors, I shall be glad to know where the mistake first appears, and whether it has been noticed by com- mentators. J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

CURIOUS SURNAMES (12 S. vi. 68). Th^ name Strongitharm, which has attracte MR. MC-GOVERN'S attention, is, of course, a variation of the name Armstrong ; but it is, I fancy, comparatively rare. The earliest case of its use that I have been able to discover occurs in 1792, when a certain Laurence Strongitharm was born "near London." He afterwards became a Catholic priest and died at Cossey Hall in Norfolk. No doubt the name Armstrong is so much commoner because it was given by an ancient king of the Scots to his armour- bearer, who, when the king's horse was killed, promptly mounted him upon another. Later on, the armour-bearer became the founder of the clan. But Earl Siward, who lived at the time of the Conquest, is termed Armus Strenus [sic] in a Latin chronicle, and this might have become Strongitharm or Armstrong. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG.

The Authors' Club, Whitehall Court, S.W.

Fifty years ago there were some curious names among the villagers in the Hampshire parish in which I was born. I can recall Wellbeloved, Lovejoy, Hornblower, Rum- raey, Bunch, Sessions, Spreadbury, Mattin, Varndell, Boyt, and Goshawk. The last name was borne by a gamekeeper. The parish owned Gould, Silver, and Copper, while Shillings were to be found in the adjoining village. Several of the names I have mentioned occur in the] London

Directory. Strongi'th'arm still appear.T above a shop in Pall Mall East.

J. R. H.

Your correspondent MR. McGovERN can- find the name Strong'ith'arm in Pall Mall, where the firm of Longman & Strong' ith'arnx have their office. I have come across the name Gotobed, but not FulJolove. In Cobham, Surrey, there is, or was, a miller named Sweetlove.

G. D. McGRiGOR.

Exmouth.

I have come across many such in my genealogical researches. Here are some specimens :

St. Geo., Hanover, Square.
 * Savage Bear, batchelor, d. Oct. 8, 1763..

The Quarrell family. Vide Transactions Bapt. Hist. Soc., vol. viii., no. 1, p. 7.

Thos. Gobbeheir, i.e., God-be-here, 1668. ? Begister.

Drayton, Bucks.
 * James Kirk m. Mary Makepeace, June 4, 1810,

" One Button " m. Catherine Hyx, Jan. 8, 1793, Northover, Somerset.

Winslade, Hants.
 * Job Beats and Mary Sparable, Oct. 13, 1806,.


 * Geo. Payne m. Jane Glasspool, Dec. 10, 1806.

" Headachs " m. " Fouracres," ? Milton Abbeyv Dorset, or Wonston, Hants.

1803, Milton Abbey.
 * Geo. Plowman m. Sarah Shepherd, Oct. 18>

stock.
 * Geo. Supper m. Diner (!) Stone, 1643, Cattir

Bradpole.
 * John Bagg m. Mary Legg, May 9, 1759*

Some of these names are common enough ; but mark the curious conjunctions of those with the *. J. W. B.

Gotobed occurs as a surname in King's Lynn, West Norfolk, and the Isle of Ely There are several farmers and a cattle medicine vendor of that name ; and, further, the name is of some long standing as I remember meeting with it in some seven- teenth- or eighteenth-century Fen Records.. H. L. BRADFER-LAWRENCE.

King's Lynn.

Is it a fact that there was once a shop- signboard in Gower Street, W., bearing the names " Gotobed, late Boyes " ? I have- noted several curious collocations of sur* names and names of occupations. Not very far from where I write occur : " Cuttill t Monumental Sculptor," and " Cutbush i Market Gardener." There used to be at Bootle a firm of Woodall & Allwood carrying on business as timber merchants. The- " strong i' th' arm, weak i' th' yed " couplet is sometimes transferred to Derbyshire.

C. C. B.