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I believe that the right name of the feast is wake, though I have heard " wakes," and even

meaning the night when they watch in th_ house of death. These village feasts have nothing to do with churches or their so- called patron saints. !S. O. ADDY. Little Hucklow Hall, Eyam.

WYMONDHAM GUILDS (9 th S. xii. 410). MR. HUGHES'S query reminds me of an inscrip tion on an old house in Wymondham which I sketched in the year 1867 (it may be there

now) : NEC MIHI GLIS SERVUS NEC HOSPES

HIRUDO. I have often wondered if the person who caused it to be carved was as genial a host and as good a master as the text seems to imply. HENRY TAYLOR.

" YCLEPING " THE CHURCH (9 th S. Vlii. 420,

486 ; ix. 55, 216, 394 ; x. 54, 136 ; xii. 371). This is an unfortunate title, for of course ydeping is an error for dipping. Various ingenious origins have been suggested ; I think the right one is far simpler than any jet mentioned. The great book of the Middle Ages was the Latin Bible, and of this book the most familiar part was the Psalms, which many knew by heart.

In Ps. xlviii. 12 (xlvii. 13 in the Vulgate) we read : " Walk about Sion, and go round about her." The Vulgate has: lt Circumdate Sion, et complectimini earn."

The Vespasian Psalter (A.D. 875) translates this by : " Ymbsellath Sion and dyppath hie." And Wycliffe has : " Cumpasse ye Syon, and bidippe ye it."

Nothing could be more obvious than to found upon this a simple practical custom, carried out in the literal sense by taking hands all round a church.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

PANNELL (9 th S. xii. 248). This name would appear to be a Yorkshire one, especially in the North and West Ridings.

Kippax, about an equal distance from ILeeds and Pontefract, seems to have been an early temporary home of the family. The registers commence in 1539, but the name does not occur until 1559, when John Pannell married Mary Taylor, while several baptisms and burials are found after this date. Thomas Pannell, of Kippax, also had two children Alice, born and died 1600, and Hobert, died 1602. The family left Kippax early in the seventeenth century.

The marriage registers of St. Michael-le-

Belfry, York, contain only one entry of the name, viz., Katharine Pannell, who married Humphrey Thompson in 1587. Two Pannell burials also occur in the eighteenth century.

William Pannell, of Horbury, near Wake- field, had a child Mary, born in 1662. This is the only time the name appears in the Horbury registers.

In the eighteenth century a family of this name were living at Stokesley, in Cleveland, Yorks. Robert Pannell, maltster, of Stokesley died in 1743, and his wife Jane a year after- wards. They had two children Hugh, born 1721, who, I believe, became a clockmaker at Stokesley, and a daughter Jane, born in 1724 and died 1740. Thomas Pannell, probably a brother of Robert, died in 1729. Whether the name is found after 1750 I cannot say, as the Yorkshire Parish Register Society have only printed the registers up to that date.

All the registers referred to have been published by the above society.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 5, Grove Villas, Wanstead.

ENGLISH ACCENTUATION (9 th S. xi. 408, 515 ; xii. 94, 158, 316;. The remark at the last reference, that Ismail ia is very generally mispronounced Ismaylia, tempts me to draw attention to other names with the same termination, which also tend to throw back the stress towards the beginning. For in- stance, I frequently hear Pavia pronounced as if it had something to do with pavier. Rogers accents it correctly in his * Italy,' part i. vii. :

And now appear, as on a phosphor sea,

. Numberless barks from Milan, from Pavia.

Our poets are, however, not always blame- iess. In ' Paradise Lost ' Milton anglicizes the Spanish Fuenterrabia as Fontarabia. Among Italian and Spanish personal names which I have heard wrongly accented by Englishmen I may mention Beccaria, Eche- verria, Faria, Garcia. To these may be added the territorial designations Almeria, Anda- ucia, Antioquia, fec. The countries which we call Roumania and Russia are Romania and Rossia in the mouths of natives. On the _ther hand, the Bulgarian capital is always jailed Sofia by its inhabitants.

JAMES PLATT, Jun.

ORIGIN OF THE TURNBULLS (9 th S. xi. 109, 233, 329, 498 ; xii. 51, 353, 416). I am sur- prised at J. B. P.'s reply. From the first to nor have I, any wish to cause vexation or orrow to a single individual.
 * his, my last note on the subject, I had not,

'1ST. & Q.' is not a literary arena for the purpose of " disturbing " anything but wrong