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9th S. x.. 6, 1902.] and this may be accomplished in some measure on a future occasion, especially when the ' H.E D.' has sufficiently advanced to give its invaluable aid. Meanwhile, it may be said that the Authorized Version of Scripture appears from the first (or, at any rate, from a very early stage in its existence) to have had "senses" in Hebrews v. 14, which is its one example of the term. At the moment the earliest edition available for reference is dated 1634, and there the word has its modern form. It may just be added that in an apparently good reprint of Cotton's ' Montaigne ' the translator remarks in his preface:

"In truth both Mr. Florio and I are to be excused, where we miss of the sence of the author." This would appear to bring the employment of the phonetic spelling to 1685. In this year died the Earl of Roscommon, in whose 'Essay of Translated Verse' occurs the remark that "want of decency is want of sense." THOMAS BAYNE

'N. & Q.' ANAGRAM.—Notes and Queries—a question -sender. The above anagram, from the St. Janies's Gazette of 6 August, should be recorded if it has not already been noted in ' N. <fe Q.' I gather that it appeared in the Liverpool Post. URLLAD

HAMPSTEAD PERIODICALS.—In reference to the following, which appears ante, p. 160, regarding the Transactions of the Hampstead Antiquarian and Historical Society, "Whether the work now issued is a continuation of the ' Hampstead Annual' we are unable to say," will you kindly allow me to inform you that the Transactions of our society have nothing whatever to do with the ' Hampstead Annual,' except that both publications are issued by the same publisher? C. J. MUNICH.

BUNGAY.—The late Canon Taylor, in his interesting book on 'Names and their Histories,' gives as the derivation of this placename bon gué = good ford. It is just on the Suffolk side of the river Waveney, the boundary throughout its course between the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. A loop in its descent forms a small peninsula below Bungay, where a ford, no doubt useful in primitive times, furnished a passage over the river. In Brabner's 'Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales,' however, we are told that "the name is said to be a corruption of le bon eye, the beautiful island," a most improbable mixture of languages. The expression used by Suckling in his 'History of Suffolk' is somewhat ambiguous. Here, he says, within ramparts constructed in Roman times, "the Saxon fixed his dwelling—called it his Burgh in the goodly island, and lived comparatively secure." Is he attempting to join the words "burgh" and "eye," or does he mean, like the writer in the 'Gazetteer,' that the place-name is formed from "goodly island"? There is a town called Burgh much lower down the Waveney, near its confluence with the Yare, confusion with which may have led to the idea that Bungay was formerly called Burgh.

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

CHANNEL ISLAND NAMES ANCIENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH CORNWALL.—St. Michael in the Priory of the Vale, St. Sampsons, St. Aubins (Aubyns), Tintageux, Tintagel. There are three places bearing the name Tintageux: one in Sark, a priory in Herm, and another at Pleinmont Point in Guernsey.

T. W. CAREY.

Guernsey.

LORD CHESTERFIELD ON LAUGHTER.—See my reply 4 th S. vm. 272. It may be worth adding that in 177B Hannah More; Dr. Johnson, and Garriick spent ' ' above an hour laughing in defiance of every rule of decorum and Chesterfield " (' Memoirs of Mrs. Hannah More,' ed. W. Roberts, 1834, vol. L p. 70). W. G. BOSWELL-STONE.

2, Bardwell Road, Oxford.

WESTMINSTER CUSTOM.—I always feel that one of the primary objects for which 'N. & Q.' exists is to prevent old customs from being forgotten. In London, where life is lived so fast, there is considerable danger of what is old being pushed aside by what is new. I therefore send the following extract from the fifth number of the Westminster Observer, published on 2'August, as I think a record of the event there described should be preserved in the pages of 'N. & Q.':—

" ST. JAMES'S DAY IN WESTMINSTER. For several generations we had almost written from time immemorial the day dedicated to this saint has been quietly and [un]osteutatiously observed in this old city. It is the name-day of the Rev. James Palmer, to whose benevolence the foundation of some of the United Westminster Almshouses is due, and who desired that an annual gathering of the 'Almspeople and Out-Pensioners' should be held on that day, and conformably to that wish the meeting always takes place on 25 July. The trustees, or at least some of them, put in an appearance, and generally the Dean of Westminster is present. On Friday last the gathering took place, the almspeople assembling as expected at 11 o'clock. I am informed that they were regaled with a slight repast of cake and lemonade, the two wardens, Messrs. Griffiths and Huggins (almsmen) wearing large medallions embossed with a portrait of Emery Hill, another old Westminster