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 28 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vii. JULT 10* 1020. believer in the wholesomeness of dates, and was particularly fond of them, and on Council [sic] mentioning the word dates, the Judge awoke with a start, saying, ' What did you say the ship con- tained ? " " Dates " was the reply. ' Most important,' said the Judge grasping his pen to make notes, and slumbered no more." No. 1 has long been a " stock " anecdote, related sometimes with a little more flavour than is above given ; the work, ' A Genera- tion ' being usually credited to an able veteran frequenter of the Courts at West- minster and in the Strand : but No. 2 almost suggests that some element of hoax has entered into the process of its evolution. W. B. H WIDEAWAKE HATS. Many years ago I was told by my father (the late Rev. Dr. Emerton), who could remember the first introduction of the above-mentioned head- gear ; that they owed their name to the fact that they had no " nap " upon them, whilst the beaver hat was rough WOLSELEY P. EMERTON, D.C.L. " BUG " IN PLACE-NAMES. Under the heading ' Places and their Names,' Mr. Charles G. Harper writes in The Autocar of June 5, 1920 : "A good deal of amusement has recently been caused by the sudden upheaval of local public opinion at the village of Bugswoj;th, in that part of the Peak District nearest Manchester. Bugsworth it seems, after having that name for considerably over a thousand years, has now come to the conclu- sion that it can endure the affliction no longer and has decided to style itself in future ' Lymedale.' Probably the village would have still been content with its olden name but for the fact that its rustic conditions have been greatly altered by the spread of Manchester's suburban areas into these parts and Suburbia is apt to be very choice in its expressions. Yet the place-name means nothing ill, and only enshrines that of a Saxon landowner, whose ' weorth,' or manorial settlement this was. This Saxon ' Bug' was probably not ashamed of his name, although it certainly conveys no sense of high romance. There was, however, about midway in the nineteenth century one Joshua Bug of Wake- field, landlord of tlie 'Swan' inn there, who decided to abandon that surname and to call him- self for ever after 'Norfolk Howard.' This is the locus cla#icU8 of the subject, and will be found by those interested in the matter duly advertised in The Times of June 26th, 1862." Norfolk Howard, I should like to say has already had the attention of ' N. & Q.' A few years since a young girl who came from Bugthorpe, Yorkshire, was in my household. She spoke of the village as JBwc/Jthorpe, and when I remarked on this to her seemed too shy to offer any clear explanation. I came to the conclusion that entomolological misapprehension, plus a senje of decency, had led to the disguise of etymology of the place-name. ST. WITHIN. WARREN HASTINGS. (See 12 S. i. 148, 211, 318 ; iii. 315). Readers of 'N. & Q.' will be glad to learn that it is proposed to replace the medallion removed from No. 40 Park Lane, with a further inscription. This is- the information courteously sent to me from the Grosvenor Office and refers to the fine block of flats which has been erected upon' the site of the residence razed, before the war, at the north-east corner of the Lane. No doubt we may look for the re -instatementL of the tablet ere long. CECIL CLARKE. Juuior Athenaeum Club. We must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses t6 their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. THOMAS LARKHAM : PORTRAIT WANTED. The Boston Athenseum Library is very anxious to obtain a photograph of the frontispiece portrait which appeared in two works by Thomas Larkham. One bears the title 'The Wedding Supper,' published in London in 1652, the portrait being engraved by T. Cross. The other volume has the title 'The Attributes of God,' and was printed in London in 1656. These works are mentioned in Lowndes and in the ' D. N. B. ' Mr. Sharp of the British Museum writes me that there is no portrait in the Library copy. I shall be very grateful for reference to a copy of either of these works containing the portrait, from which the owner might allow a photograph to be taken. Larkham lived for a time in New England and is, therefore^ of interest to historical students. C. K. BOLTON, Librarian. Boston Athenseum, U.S.A. MANDERSTOUN. I find this name under ' Scotch surnames derived from lands in> Scotland,' by Cosmo Innis ; but not in- ' Scottish Land names, their Origin and Meaning,' by Sir Herbert Maxwell Bart. I know of Manderston in Berwickshire. Where could I find the meaning of the name ? I find Maniston 1410 ; Mandredis- ton ; Manderstoun, 1480 ; Mandyrstoun 1475 ; Manderston, 1602, and Manderson.. S. R. MANDERSON*