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 9 th S. I. JUNE 25, '98.]

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numbered. By whom was it issued ; and wha number of plates should it contain ?

11. F. G.

RECORDS OF THE INQUISITION AND DUBLI> UNIVERSITY. More than forty years ag some MSS. of great interest were presentee by the Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin to the library of that institution. Thej were the originals of the records of the In quisition at Rome. It can scarcely be sup posed that the Dublin authorities are ignorant of the great value and importance of these documents ; but one would like to know whether any steps have been ever taken towards their publication. RUDOLPH.

MILES STANDISH'S WIFE. Can any corre spondent help to trace the real maiden name of the wife of Miles Standish, of the Dux- bury branch? He bequeathed to his son Alexander certain estates in the Isle of Man, which he describes as "surreptitiously detained from him." That the Standish family had an interest in the Isle of Man is proved by the fact that John Standish is mentioned in 1601 as a member of the House of Keys ; also William Standish, variously so from 1637 to 1648, and Joseph Standish, in the same capacity, in 1662 - 5. Miles Stan- dish's first wife was Rose ; his second wife, who went put to America, was by tradition a younger sister of Rose. It is supposed that his wife was a Manxwoman, and it would be of more than common interest to ascertain her surname. C. ROEDER.

BOGIE, as applied to the carriage or plat- form on which engines or carriages of considerable length are placed, connected therewith by a pivot, with a view of distri- buting weight and facilitating passing round curves. Unde derivatur ? Hie ET UBIQUE. [The ' H. E. D.' says the etymology is unknown.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

" Has matter motion ? Then each atom, asserting its perpetual right to dance, would form a universe of dust." A. G. BECKER.

A fairer Athens and a nobler Rome.

" A Naiad was murmuring in every brook, and a Dryad was whispering in every tree.'* PIERRE.

Hush ! Hush ! I am listening for the voices That I heard in days of old. W. B. K.

Rest is not quitting the busy career ; Rest is the fitting of self to one's sphere, Loving and serving the noblest and best, Onward, unswerving, that is true rest.

W. D. HOYLE. The fair Lavinia once had friends.

E. T. M.

[Should it not be "The lovely young Lavinia," &c. ? Query Rowe, ' Fair Penitent, 11 or Thomson.]

CHELTENHAM. (9 th S. i. 200, 245, 396.) MR. SEARLE'S letter affords a new illustra- tion there are many more to be found in his ' Onomasticon ' of the danger of trusting to indexes. It is quite true tnat the name Kelto occurs in the index to Piper's volume, with the references II. 413' and II. 473< 7 . Both references are incorrect : they should be II. 416' and II. 473 28 . And in both places the name in the text is Ketto. As the " addenda et corrigenda " contain no notes on these entries, it appears that MR. SEARLE'S whole argument is based on an index-maker's blunder.

But even if we admit the unlikely supposi- tion that Piper's text is wrong and his index right, MR. SEARLE'S reasoning is still faulty. The identification of Kelto with the hypo- thetical Celta involves the assumption tnat the former is Low German, because the High German equivalent of an Old English Celta would have z instead of t. The general cha- racter of the list in which the name occurs renders this assumption very improbable. The Old English name to which Kelto, if it existed, would correspond is that which appears in MR. SEARLE'S ' Onomasticon ' as Gelda. The " prototheme " Kelt in Keltmunt and Keltulf is correctly treated by Forste- ruann as a variant of Geld.

The existence of an Old English personal name Celta is thus not only un attested by English documents, but unsupported even }y such questionable evidence as would be afforded by the discovery of its formal equi- valent in German. There is therefore no ground for supposing that Cheltenham (cet

eltanhomme in a document of A.D. 803) con- ains a personal name, or for discrediting the )robability that the Chert of our ordinary naps is a genuine river-name, descending rom an Old English form Celta or Celte genitive Celtan). As MR. SEARLE perhaps may know, genitives of river-names do occur n names of places, e. g., in Lygeanburh, Axan- nynster, and Exanceaster.

I do not see that MR. S. ARNOTT'S long stter contains anything to the purpose, he mention of " holm " is irrelevant, because

e know from documentary evidence that he last syllable of Cheltenham is not holm, iut ham (also spelt horn). MR. ARNOTT'S coun- B! to etymologists to beware of dogmatism i excellent, even if somewhat trite. But is e not just a little dogmatic himself in positively stating " the derivation of Chis-