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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vi. MARCH, 1920.

Woodhead, nor Henry Mure, nor Lady Pakington nor Archbishop .Sterne, but was, without doubt, Allestree. who in that case should be more cele- brated than he is, seeing that his book for some fifty or sixty years was the most popular volume in England."

BRYAN COOKSON.

In an inventory I jotted down the name S. Puffendorf as the reputed author of this better known and other possibly anony- mously published religious works. Though I have not the original memorandum extract by me nor gleam of particular, is it a correct guess at truth ? ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon.

WILLIAM HARPER, WINCHESTER SCHOLAR (12 S. iii. 334). Mrs. Frances Rose-Troup has devoted Appendix E of her most valuable book, ' The Western Rebellion of 1549,' to William Harper, chaplain to Queen Katharine Parr, and, from 1549 to his resignation in 1558, rector of Sampford Courtenay. She thinks it "quite possible " that he is to be identified with the Vicar of Writtle. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

J. J. KLEINSCHMIDT (12 S. v. 295). According to Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters and Engravers ' (edit, by Dr. G. C. William- son), the German engraver of the above name nourished at Augsburg about 1700, and engraved the frontispiece and several of the plates for a folio volume, ' Representatio Belli ob Successionem in Regno Hispanico,' and some plates of horsemen, after Georg Philipp Rugendas. EDWARD BENSLY.

[MB. ARCHIBALD SPABKE and H. K.also thanked for replies.]

MONKSHOOD (12 S. vi. 13). The inquiry concerning the Latin name of Monks- hood, is readily answered. Aconitum is used by Virgin and Pliny for a poisonous plant presumably that now in question. The name comes from the Greek, but is not the same plant as that so named by Theo- phrastus. Napellus is mediaeval Latin, meaning a little turnip, derived from Napus. We have therefore two nouns in apposition, not a noun and adjective. When, as in this case, a pre-Linnean generic name is attached as a specific name to a generic epithet, a capital initial is used by botanists to mark that usage.

B. DAYDON JACKSON.

Linnean Society, Burlington House, W.I.

According to Sowerby's ' English Botany,' vol. i., 1863, p. 65, " the specific name Napellus signifies a little turnip, in allusion to the shape of the roots." J. ARDAGH.

The name Aconitum Napellus might be- translated " the little-turnip aconite." Napellus is not an adjective : it is said to be- a diminutive of napus (a turnip). See- ' Flowers of the Field,' by the late Rev. C. A, Johns, rewritten by G. S. Boulger, Professor of Botany, City of London College, 1899.

C. A. COOK. Sullingstead, Hascombe, Godalming.

Napellus is a substantive, the diminutive of napus, a kind of turnip. In Parkinson's ' Paradisus ' (1629), Aconitum Napellus is styled Napellus verus flore cceruleo. The name is accounted for as follows :

" The rootes are brownish on the outside and white within, somewhat bigge and round above and small downwards, somewhat like unto a small short carrot roote, sometimes two being joyned at the head together. But the name Napellua anciently given unto it, doth show they referred the forme of the roote unto a small Turnep."

C. W. FIREBRACE, Capt.

[MB. CHAS. HAUL CBOCCH also thanked for reply.]

BRAMBLE (12 S. vi. 10.) -According to ' Family Names and their Story,' by S. Baring-Gould, 1910, p. 182, sub : " Place- Names," " Broomhall has become Brammel' and then has degenerated to Bramble." There are several Broomhalls, one is a hamlet of Sheffield, one a village in the- parish of Wrenbury, Cheshire and another a village in the parish of Longfogan, Scot- land, while there is an estate of the name in the parish of Dunfermline, also Scotland. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

204 Hennon Hill, South Woodford.

' PHILOCHRISTUS ' : ' ECCE HOMO ' (12 S,. vi. 14). The author of ' Philochristus ' is Dr. Edwin A. Abbott, formerly head master of the City of London School. The author of " Ecce Homo" was Sir John Seeley. formerly Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. AFRANIA.

CAPT. J. W. CARLETON (12 S. vi. 13). I am not aware that any life of this gentleman' has ever been written. He was at one time an officer in the 2nd Dragoon Guards, and under the sobriquets of "Craven"' and "Sylvanus" was a constant contributor to- sporting literature. Quite his best and most interesting book now out of print and scarce is ' The Bye-Lanes and Downs of England.' He also wrote ' Rambles in Sweden and Gottland, with Etchings by the Wayside,' as well as the book mentioned^ by MR. KENNY. Bell's Life of June 8, 1856