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NOTES AND QUEKIES.

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Grobber, from the German gruler, applied as a term of reproach to a rude clownish fellow.

Skudamore, probably from the Danish skude, applied to one who runs away.

Bowerman, probably a name given to a person appointed to attend to the apartments belonging to a lady.

Wallinger, probably from the German watten, meaning a rambler or tramper.

Towlier, probably a corruption of the Scottish word tocher, or the Cumbrian word towgJier.

Lyte ; this word is derived from the Anglo- Saxon, and means a list of names of persons to elect from ; it also means a short while.

Gamull, derived from the Scotch word gammul, to gobble up.

Shaa, probably from the term sha ; a term used to incite animals to the chase ; or it may probably come from the word schaw, a wood.

Murchison, from the English word murche, a dwarf, the son of a dwarf.

Rand, probably a contraction of the word Handolf.

Rosser, from rosizere ; perhaps meaning a cul- tivator of the rosary.

Grindler, a name perhaps given to one who attended the "gryndyng" stones of a mill.

Lister from Lystyr ; a person employed in weaving the "lyste" to cloth.

J. R. J.

Having given some attention to the derivation of surnames, I would suggest the following pro- bable etymologies to MR. LOWEB :

" BINKS (Welsh, Pine), smart, gay; p and b mutable."

" BOWERMAN (Sax., Burke), town's man."

" LYELL (L'ile), or of, Lille."

" PRYNNE (Welsh., Pryn), redeemed, purchased out of slavery.

" TOWKER (Tucker?), of (tuck) tent-cloth, a fuller of cloth." N. Bailey's Diet.

" LISTER (Flemish, Litester}, a dyer." Roll of Cits of York, temp. Edward I., published by York Arch. Assoc.

W. J. PINKS.

Doubtless, MR. LOWER has "mastered" the fol- lowing, as I do not find them in his list :

Peakome, Gammie, Laprimandaye, Yaldwin, Cay, Quidgley, Umphleby, Twaddell, Schnell, Gunnis, AVhichcord, Farmiloe, Inverarity, Fetch, Boobyer, Glanvid, Uniacke, Prag, Taddy, Fuggle, Shugar.

These I saw in the columns of The Times a few months back, and happened to make a note of.

R. W. HA.CKWOOD.

BOOKS BURNT.

r (l" S. xi. 77. &c.)

By an oversight I omitted to send you all my Notes on this subject a year or more ago, and I

am reminded of it by an article in your last Number. Nothing has been lost, however, by delay, as I have obtained some additional items, which are at your service, if at all likely to prove acceptable to your readers. I observe that a copy of the Dictionnaire critique, litteraire et bibliogra- phique des principaux Livres condamnes au feu, Sfc*, of PQignot, is advertised for sale in the Catalogue of the library of the late M. F. Busch, of Stras- burg, lot No. 4263.* I know not if the book is scarce, but thought it might be referred to.

My first Note is a Query. Was not Froude's Nemesis of Faith burned at Oxford ?

On May 20, 1661, and following days, the par- liament ordered to be burned by the common hangman diverse acts passed during the troubles ; viz. the Solemn League and Covenant, the acts for the erection of a court of justice charged with the conduct of the trial of Charles Stuart, for subscribing the engagement against a king and house of peers, for declaring the people of Eng- land a republic, for renouncing the title of Charles Stuart, and for the safety of the Lord Protector.

Sir Walter Raleigh is said to have burned the second volume of his History. The story, how- ever, is doubtful.

" Sat. Jan. 14, 1738. This morning, between one and two o'clock, a most dreadful fire broke out in the kitchen of Mr. Basket's dwelling-house in Blackfriars, printer to His Majesty, which in a short time consumed the same, and the king's printing-house adjoining. The fire was so sudden and violent that the family saved themselves with the utmost difficulty. The printing-house was very grand, and the finest of the kind in the world. The printing materials alone amounted to several thousand pounds, besides a vast number of Bibles, Common Prayer Books, Acts of Parliament, &c., which were entirely con- sumed. 'Tis said the loss in the whole amounts to near 20.000/." London Mag., 1738, p. 45.

1553. Michael Servetus escaped from Vienna, where he was confined. So on June 17, he was condemned to be burnt alive with a slow fire if he could be apprehended : and in the meantime to be burned in effigy with his books. Accordingly on the same day his effigy, being laid on a cart, was carried to the place of execution fastened to a gibbet, and burned with five bales of his books. {Old Whig, No. 152.) Servetus was retaken, and at Geneva, Oct. 26, the judges condemned the unhappy man to be burnt alive the next day, to- gether with all his books, both printed and in MS.

" We condemn thee, Michael Servetus, to be bound and carried to the place called Champel, and there to be fastened to a stake and burnt alive, with thy books, both written with thine own hand and printed."

The book of Eutychius of Constantinople, on

gate, Covent Garden, undertake to execute commissions.
 * The sale to commence May 19. Williams and Nor-