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Stevenhythe ; but it got corrupted into Stepney or Stephen's isle. Chesney is from Fr. chenaie, an oak grove, and Furney or Furness may be either from Fr. fournaise a furnace, or from A.S. feor, far, and naess, a ness or headland. Alderney, if not Celtic, may signify " the isle of alders." For the genesis of Macartney see the 'Patronymica Britannica.'

I would strongly advise those desiring in- formation as to the composition of sur- names in the first instance to consult, at least, the intoductory chapters on prefixes and suffixes in Bardsley's 'Dictionary' and Johnston's 'English and Welsh Place-names,' as much unneccessary trouble may thereby be avoided. N. W. HILL.

Your correspondent assumes a meaning for this syllable which is not borne out in one of the examples he gives, viz., Stepney, the old form of which name was Stebon- heath vide Statutes relating to this parish.

W. S. B. H.

The terminal ney in surnames. usually means " native of." Under " Macartney," Lower's 'Patronymica Britannica' says:

" The ancestor was a younger son of the M'Garthy More, of County Cork, who went to Scotland to assist King Robert Bruce, and obtained Lands in co. Argyle, and afterwards at Macartney, in Scotland. Hence the Macartneys of Scotland, and of Ireland, whither a branch returned in 1630."'

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

I should say that the suffix is ey, not ney, and that n belongs to the foregoing syllable. In English names ey and ay often mean island. In some, which come to us from France, ay stands for a Roman place-name ending originally in acum.

ST. SWITHIN.

AUTHOR OF ANTHEM WANTED (12 S. v. 291). The history of this anthem is involved in some obscurity. It may be found with some variations in Lydley's Prayers, reprinted by the Parker Society in Ball's ' Christian Prayers and Meditations.' It is doubtful whether Farrant is its author. Perhaps it is by John Hilton.

ARTHUR F. G. LEVESON-GOWER.

Hadleigh House, Windsor.

In ' Groves' s Dictionary of Music,' vol. ii. p. 13, it is asserted :

" The beautiful anthem ' Lord, for Thy Tender Mercies' Sake ' (the words from Lydley's Prayers), was long assigned to Farrant, although it is attributed by earlier writers to John Hilton."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

' TOM JONES ' (12 S. v. 268, 303, 327). In the ' Student's Manual of English Litera- ture,' edited by Sir Wm. Smith (published by John Murray), 22nd edit., 1897, p. 340, the following reference^ will be found :

" Henry Fielding. He was descended from the illustrious house of Denbigh, itself an offshoot from the Counts of Hapsburg, and his father was General Fielding, a man of fashion, ruined by hi extravagance."

The transposition of ' e ' and ' i ' in the surname is certainly not accounted for ; but it is evident that it was not through lack of education that his family could not spell correctly. Is it not possible that Henry regarded the unusual ' ei ' as a form of illiteracy ? C. J. TOTTENHAM.

Diocesan Church House, Liverpool.

' ADESTE FIDELES' (12 S. v. 292, 329). In- The Evangelical Magazine for December, 1802, is printed an English version of ' Adeste Fideles,' which is not amongst the' twenty-seven translations noted by Julian. It is referred to as the favourite Portuguese- hymn ; this, together with Julian's reference to the hymn having been sung at the Portu- guese Embassy, in 1797, may perhaps- furnish a clue to its origin.

O. KING SMITH.

RIME ON DR. FELL (12 S. v. 315). Tom Brown's well-known lines, which turn up in various forms, are a translation of Martial, Epigr., i. 32 (33) :

Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare ; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.

There is no poem or passage in Catullus beginning " Non amo te Volusi," but some- people have stipposed that Martial in writing the above epigram may have been indebted- to Catullus, Ixxxv. : Odi et amo, quare id faciam fortasse requiris.

Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

Dr. Fell is, of course, John Fell (1625-1686) [ who was Dean of Christ Church when Tom Brown was an undergraduate. The English lines are mentioned in the 'D.N.B..' in the lives of John Fell and Thomas Brown (1663-1704), and quoted from the latter's Works, 1760, vol. iv., p. 100, in W. F. H. King's ' Classical and Foreign Quotations,' as follows :

I do not love you, Dr. Fell, '

But why I cannot tell,

But this I know full well,

I do not love you, Dr. Fell.

Andrew Amos, ' Martial and the Moderns,'. p. 118, gives a French translation of the Latin, and also an extract from a speech of * Sheridan's, in which a version of the English.