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 12 S. VII. JULY 24, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 77 -visited Milton's political opinions with a 'bibliocaust. " The University ot Oxford [writes Macaulay 1, .on the very day [July 21, 1683 j on which Russell was put to death .... ordered the political works of Buchanan, Milton, and Baxter to be publicly burned ia the court of the Schools " (' Hist, of Eng.' ch. ii.) The decision is more precisely described in Brodrick's ' Hist, of the Univ. of Oxford,' with a special circumstance which Macaulay . characteristically omitted : " On July 21, 1683, Convocation passed a decree again condemning the doctrine that resis- tance to a king is lawful, which doctrine it for- mulated in six propositions expressly stated to (have been culled from the works of Milton, Baxter, and Goodwin. By the same decree, however, the University recorded an equally solemn anathema against other heresies mostly founded on the despotic principles of Hobbes' ' Leviathan,' thereby anticipating the verdict of the country in 1688." 5. Unless Emerson uses " graduate " in some extraordinary sense, Tennyson cannot 'be meant, as he left Cambridge without a degree. 6. The passage in Fuller's ' Worthies ' is in the account of Archbishop Mountaine under " Yorkshire " : " He was Chaplain to the Earl of Essex, whom lie attended in his Voyage to Cales, being indeed gown, he would turn his back to no man." 13. See Byron's letter from Venice to T. Moore, in the instalment dated Dec. 5, 1818: " By way of divertisement, I am studying daily, at an Armenian monastery, the Armenian language. I found that my mind wanted some- thing craggy to break upon ; and this as the most difficult thing I could discover here for an amusement I have chosen, to torture me into .attention." Sir R. E. Prothero suggests in his edition that Byron had in his rnind certain advice - of Frederick the Great to d'Alembert. EDWARD BENSLY. "Bua" IN PLACE-NAMES (12 S. vii. 28). Members of the Bugge family were early settled in Nottingham, and readers who have the opportunity of referring to the Record of that Borough printed between 1883 and 1889 will see how place-names sprang up round about their property. In vol. i. there is reference to a tenement called the Bug-hall Aid. 1294, 1395. Bugyerdes was the yard of Bugge Hall. In 1294 there is land called the Buggehalleyerd. A note iys that Ralph Bugge was the founder of bho Bingham family. He is a frequent wit ie-33 to Grants dr. 1240. William Bugge is a v/itaoss temp. Edw. I. On p. 112 of vol. i. in an agreement made in 1330 for landing goods in time of drought there is in a part of the water of Trent a place mentioned called " le arrivall Rauf Bugge." ' The Oxford Dictionary ' quotes " arrival " in the sense of a landing-place, but only in a single instance of 1495. In vol. ii. of the ' Borough Records,' pp. 357, 359 occurs Bugehilles, Bughilles : there was garden- ground in this part as early a3 1435. These hills are mentioned frequently in vol. iii. in the fifteenth century. Here also we have Bugholis, but, as a variant form of this name is Boge Holys, or Boke^ Holies, ifc probably means " bog holes!" Tho " Bugholl ditch " comes in vol. iv. in 1575, probably " Bog-hole." I have a charter, undated, but probably not later than 1250, in which William Bugge, son of Robert Bugge of Nottingham, grants to Walter de Morley and Joan his wife two bovates in the territory of Kyr- chalum, and other property. The first witness is H. Abbot of the Premoiistraten- sian house of Dale. CECIL DEEDES. The stem " bug " comes to us from threo sources : (1) from Danish boeggeluus ; (2) from Welsh bwg (w = u in "put"); and (3) from old English. The first indicates the buglouse ; the second is the bugbear or hobgoblin, also called pwca in Welsh (our "Puck"); the third is an ancient and honourable Anglo-Saxon personal name, the feminine form of which is Bugge, and the masculine Bugga. No Englishman should ridicule such proper names as Bugthorpe, Bugsworth, Buggy, or the like. Bugge, in old times, was a name of highborn ladies, e.g., Bugge, the third abbess of Minster in Thanet (c. 760) ; Bugge, dau. of the Abbess Dunne (c. 680) ; Bugge, dau. of Centwine, King of Wessex (c. 700). W. G. Searle in his ' Onomasticon ' also gives " Buggan broc " as a place-name. In old high German we find Buggo, Bucco and Pucco. ALFRED ANSCOMBE. KASPAR HATJSER LEGEND (12 S. vii. 47). During the years 1871-72 there was living in St. John's Road. Battersea, an old Alsa- tian violinist, Frangais (or Franz) Vogel, who played in the Adelphi Theatre orchestra. He claimed to be the nephew of Kaspar Hauser's keeper, and had written a pam- phlet in order to prove that the unfortunate young man was the natural son of Napoleon
 * one of such personall valour, that, out of his