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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vi. MAY is, 1920.

HYPHENATED SURNAMES. Can any reader inform me when the practice of using hyphenated surnames began ? And what has been the greatest multiplication of the hyphen? H. G. B.

BIBLIOGRAPHY : FOREIGN REPRINTS AND TRANSLATIONS. What publishers' lists are available of works of English writers (especially novelists) issued in the Dominions or in foreign countries, either in English or in any other language ? The lists of B. Tauchnitz of Leipzig are known so far as reprints are concerned. M.

REFERENCE WANTED. In which of Robert Buchanan's poetic compositions can one come across following lines concerning personal descent ?

By father's side I heirship trace To many a seer of Celtic race, Whose blood transmitted down to me, Puts glamour into all I see.

ANEUBIN WILLIAMS.

AUTHOB OF QUOTATION WANTED.

Incepto finem det gratia trina labori. I shall be glad to know if the above is a quotation. It appears at the head of a roll of Cheshire records begun about the end of the twelfth century.

R. S. B.

fteplfcs.

AARON BAKER OF BOWHAY.

(12 S. vi. 75, 139, 153.)

FIRST President and Governor of Fort St. George, Madras (son of Anthony Baker of Alphington, Devon), Aaron Baker of Bowhay, on his departure for England, Jan. 20, 1654/55, in ship Katherine, left the following brief remembrance with the Agent, Henry Greenhill, and Council on Coromandel Coast :

Wor u and honoured friends

I knowe yo r long experience of y* Comp" 8 affaires on y e Coast needeth noe directions from mee, how yo u shall Governe their busines in theis partes after my departure nor doe I leave theis lynes w th yo u purposely to direct yo u in y' point I rather commend this to yo u to putt yo u in minde of some pettie pticulers w** w th out theis may pchance in y most of yo r other thoughts, bee forgotten pmiscuoufly. I shall not bee tedious in a preamble, but rather desire to discend to y e pticulers themselves.

S'y a little before my coming from Bantam y c King of Macasser wrote mee a letter, requesting mee if any Portugall to whom he had consigned some moneys to provide him necessaries from this Coast, should bring mee anything for his vfse or Acc : I would receive it of him and remitt it to him vpon our next shippes to Macasser after my coming hither S r Joan Perdrade Faria an Inhabitant of Nagapatam sent me 7 Bales of

oods leathered over for y 6 afforsaid Kings Ace" Desiring passage for them vpon our first shippe
 * o Macasser, theis came accompanied alsso w th

an Incense boxe of Copper and a packett of letters Directed to that King, w ch (being Desirous to pleasure him) I promised him to doe, but since y' tyme y s d Faria hath fetched away 4 of y 6 affords 11 Bales againe, by order (as hee writes mee) from y* King Y e other 3 Bales are in y e Comp* 8 wearhouse, w h are well known to y e Bramanee (Mr. Johnson) these and y e incense Boxe please to consigne to y e Ag in Bantam and inorder him to send them to y e King of Macasser by y* first safe conveyance from thence. There is alsso w th these a small bundle of Reed Betteeles belonging to Jn Pinerho De Gamboa, w th a letter w ch hee sends to his Brother in Macasser, theis I also desire may accompany the King Macassers goods thither, and y' yo u will Advise y e Ag' Ay' 1 in Bantam about it, y' soe when they arrive in Bantam hee may dispose of them accordingly.

Herew th all I deliver yo u severall erers from y e Cap' Generall in S* Thomey, to his Serv' Thomas De Cruse Etr in Pegu, if w th out feare of trouble from y e Dutch our people from thence could bring y 6 s d De Cruse, and another black youth of his Ant Fonsera, y Generall saith hee shall bee much bounden to yo u for y* favour, pray when yo u write to Pegu next, remember this busines, and whether yo u gitfe leave for his people to retourne vpon o r ship, or not, yett forgett not to send away his erers.

When I came from Bantam I was importuned by one Kay Mass Arrea De Lewingratt to bring one hundred Rialls of his with mee, to provide him some Caingaloones, y e money presently vpon my coming hither I putt into the Comp as Cash, and y 6 s d Kay hath Creditt 60 p for it in Generall Bookes, when yo" send to Bantam pray appoint him Caingaloones for y* value as affores d

In y 6 Comp a Wearhouse are 4 Chests Drinking

Glasses belonging to M r W m Cokayne O r Governo 1 " in England they are numbered No. 3, 23, 24, 26

and containe viz u

N 3 >' 13 J Doz Globe beere Glasses

23 y 21 Doz Longe Bole beere Glasses

24 y 21 Doz D 26 y 23i Doz Ditt

Hi. 8

79J Doz: in all & cost 3 s 4' 1 p. Doz 13. 05 for Chest and packing 6 s 6 d per chest 1. 06

Totall 14 : 11 :

The Comp M order is that theis Glasses may be solde (M r Cokaynes Acc to have Creditt for their produce in Generall Bookes) to bee transported for England soe soon as yo u can rueete w th a merchant that will buy them

I doe here Deliver yo u Sossadra y Braminees ( . . . .Branco's) Bills for y e Respondentia money wch they were to make good in Maccasser, as also y e Acc that was made amongst them since my arrivall on this Coast, how much everyone was interested therein. I conceive y c busines cannot well be pfectede till yo u have y e Bantam Generall Bookes & y e Macasser Acc ts sent yo u for w ch by y e next conveance to Bantam yo u may doe well to y* Agent, to send them yo u.

I doe now leave in yo r jointt Custodie as y e Comp as Prisoners, till they have satisfied their Debts w ch they owe to y Comp a and W m Gurniea Acc Deceased, y e two Braminees Luicater &