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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. JUNE 4, '98.

that the other copies viz., those in the King's Library and the Greville, and the in- complete copy vols. i.-iii. are free from this defect. On examination, however, all the copies are the same, and a closer inspection reveals the fact (worth noting) that all are complete ; there is simply a misprint in the pagination. P. 248 is followed by 247, which should be 249 ; p. 248 should be p. 250, p. 249 should be 251, p. 250 should be 252, and then p. 253 follows on correctly. Mr. Streatfield, in his grangerized copy, has made the correction in ink. AYEAHR.

WATER IN BLOSSOM. This is a very curious expression. I find it in Forster's translation of Osbeck's ' Voyage to China and the East Indies' (i. 162), 1771, to which the editor adds this note :

"In the Northern countries of Europe it is said that the water is in blossom when it is tinged with a green or yellow hue, by a kind of bysaus, or hair- weed, with which it is then filled : and from thence even the sea is said to be in blossom, when its surface is tinged with a preternatural colour."

W. ROBERTS.

WATCH-BOXES. A correspondent of the City Press, 23 April, writes :

" Perhaps few have noticed the removal within the last few days of the last of the ' Old Charley ' watch-boxes. I refer to the one outside Gosling's Bank in Fleet Street, which is about to be pulled down. The last ' Charley ' who occupied this box was, I believe, murdered in it. This box was made to open out at night, and close up in the daytime, and from the fact that iron railings have existed in front of it for very many years, it could only have been left in its position out of respec for its anti- quity."

THOS. BIRD. Romford.

" AN AWL "= " AND ALL." Anawl is the pro- nunciation here and in Derbyshire of " and all." It is used in a most curious fashion con- stantly by very many people more parti- cularly, however, by children. One tells another that he will not do a certain thing, and the refusal produces " Yo will anawl ! " Another says to a friend, " You won't or can't do " so-and-so, and gets in reply, " But ah shall anawl ! " or " Ah will anawl ! " An ex- pression of doubt concerning some one having accomplished something difficult or supposed to be impossible meets with "Hey did anawl !" THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

ECCLES. Thirteen years ago there was a prolonged discussion in * N. & Q.' as to the meaning of Eccles in place-names, such as Ecclesfield, Eccleshall, Ecclescraig, Eccles- machan, Ecclefechan, Terregles, Gleneagles,

Eccles in Berwickshire, and Eccles in Lan- cashire, the dispute turning on whether Eccles was the genitive of the personal name ^Ecel, or derived from a Celtic corruption of the Latin word ecclesia (6 th S. xii. 8, 113, 174, 209, 233). In Mr. Bund's ' Celtic Church of Wales,' recently published, the question has been set at rest. He shows that the term llan, coupled with the name of a native saint, as in Llandeilo or Llanilltyd, represents one of the primary monastic colonies which were the earliest Christian settlements ; while churches called ecclesia, which became eglwys in Wales and eccles in Strathclyde, dedicated as a rule not to Celtic but to Latin saints, mark the intrusive Latin churches, the rivals of the Celtic Hans. Mr. Bund also deals with a third class of churches, called capel or bettws, which were chapels served from a mother church. ISAAC TAYLOR.

CURIOUS CHRISTIAN NAME. The Guardian of 4 May notes the election to a Cloth workers' Scholarship at Somerville Hall, Oxford, of a lady bearing the name of Erica V. Storr. The name erica is the Latin for the heath, of which many species are found in Great Britain. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

BROTHERS BEARING THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME.

" 18 May, 1564. John Woddrop senior, son of q. Thomas Woddrop junior in Dalmarnok, renounced all right of possession and rental which he had to the 17s. land, old extent in Dalbeth, in the barony of Glasgow, in favour of John Woddrop junior, his brother german." Renwick's ' Protocols of the Town Clerks of Glasgow,' 1897, vol. v. p. 68. The editor observes in a foot-note :

"Here is an instance of the somewhat rare occur- rence of two brothers bearing the same Christian name while both were alive."

A second instance occurs in his own pages :

" 13 April, 1567. Thomas Huchinsoun in Lamhill

and Thomas Hutchinson his brother german

acknowledged that they had received from John

Mayne," &c. Ib,, p. 91.

No wonder mediaeval pedigrees are puzzling if this practice was common. Was it ?

WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK. 12, Sardinia Terrace, Glasgow.

MARGINAL REFERENCES IN THE BIBLE. It has often been noticed that a great number of the marginal references which overburden the modern Bible are trivial and useless. But it may not have been observed that the dis- criminating person who was responsible for these encumbrances actually omitted some of the few references in the book of 1611, viz., those to the Apocrypha. This is especially