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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.VIT. OCT. 16,1920.

Hli/8ar-pollr would mean "protected pool " an a strictly military sense.
 * ,case in many other places. In this light,

Until recently I was inclined to accept

MB. HARBISON'S well-known " Litherpool "

- etymology, though the weak point of it is

that it does not account for the spelling

"Liverpool." In the same way Prof.

Wyld's " Leofhere's Pool " ('Place Names of

Lancashire,' p. 174) does not account for

v.the spelling "Litherpool." My etymology

j(" Livtherpool ") accounts for both spellings,

which are practically of equal antiquity.

In my first communication (ante, p. 68), when pointing out the suitability of the name " Shelter Pool " for the Pool of Liverpool, I was careful to say that for many miles along the Liverpool shore it afforded the only shelter. Wallasey Pool (mentioned by MB. HABBISON) also afforded .excellent shelter, but is on the Cheshire side of the Mersey estuary, and would therefore be of no use to a navigator who wished to .land in Lancashire. Further, even if a navigator's sole object were safety, he would be unable to enter Wallasey Pool in the prevalent north-westerly gales. Otterspool (also mentioned by MB. HABBISON) is some miles away on the Liverpool shore, but was altogether too small and shallow to be of any use as a harbour. That the Pool of Liverpool was actually regarded by navigators as a valuable place of shelter in bad weather, is proved incontestably by the quotation given in my second communication (ante, p. 188).

I entirely agree with what your contribu- tor MB. WADE (ante, p. 254) says about the .absurdity of the "Liver bird " derivation of "Liverpool," and the likelihood of its 'being an invention of Herald's College. The "Liver bird " is undoubtedly derived from the badly executed eagle of St. John on the old corporation seal, which was formerly supposed to be a cormorant (see the paper on <r The Armorial Bearings of the City of Liverpool,' by J. Paul Rylands, F.S.A., in the 'Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire,' vol. xlii, pp. 1-14). There are other equally baseless derivations -of "Liverpool" which are now no longer taken seriously.

ROBEBT GLADSTONE. The Athenaeum, Liverpool.

JOSEPH POBTEB OF MOBTLAKE (12 S.

vii. 209). No Hogarth student having come to the assistance of A. J. W., I may remark that as Joseph Porter was the brother of .Dr. Johnson's Lucy Porter of Lichfield,

siographical information respecting the Porter family should probably be sought in the Midlands.

As your querist suggests that anything anent Hogarth is of general interest, may I give three excerpts from The General Adver- tiser of 1744 that tend to show that the ^reat painter, no less than his 'Enraged Nlusician,' was at the mercy of those dis- concerting street noises and annoyances so graphically described by Baretti.

" Mar. 20. Yesterday a great number of dissolute vagabonds being assembled together in Leicester Fields gaming, and others throwing dead cats and dogs at the passengers and making a prodigious disturbance there, four of these were taken up by some very diligent constables who brought them before Sir Thomas De Veil who committed them to Clerkenwell - Bridewell to hard-labour.

" Mar. 27. Yesterday S. Richardson and B. Fogerty making a great disturbance with a great number of idle disorderly persons by gaming in Leicester Fields were committed to Clerkenwell- Bridewell to hard labour by Sir Thomas De Veil.

" Apr. 5. On Tuesday last in the evening there was a smart battle in Leicester Fields between a large Press gang and the fellows who generally frequent that place, in which several were wounded on both sides ; but at length the sailors carried off about 20 of them."

It is interesting to note that in the advertisement columns cf the issue of Apr. 5 there is inserted a notice that those wishing to subscribe for the engravings of the Marriage A La Mode are to send their names " to the Author at the Golden Head, Leicester Fields."

How the solace of Hogarth's Chiswick villa must have been enhanced by contrast ! J. PAUL DE CASTBO.

1 Essex Court, Temple.

AN ENGLISH ABMY LIST OF 1740 (12 S. vii. 265). In the list of officers in Major-General Cope's Regiment of Dragoons, appears the name of Lieut. Francis Reynolds. He was the eldest son of William Reynolds of Donegal, and died May 31, 1760, was buried in St. Margaret's Churchyard, Westminster. HENBY FITZGEBALD REYNOLDS.

POMONKEY (12 S. vii. 211). Ann Pere- grina may be conjectured to have come from the state of Pamanukan (there are probably other ways of spelling it) in the north-west of Java. As Javanese in Oxford- shire are, as Gilbert has told us of Red Indians in Turkey, extremely rare, it would be interesting to learn whether there is any evidence that in 1682 there was a resident in or near Banbury connected with the East