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eating him at Michaelmas and at Christmas, and in popular phrases.

THOMAS J. JEAKES.

A RHYMING WARNING TO BOOK-BORROWERS (9 th S. i. 366, 512). Among such skits I think a place is due to William Barnes's clever tetraglot epigram :

Se 1' uom che deruba un tomo

Trium literarum est homo,*

Celui qui derobe trois tomes

A man of letters must become.

PATRICK MAXWELL. Bath.

George Wightwick, a Plymouth architect and author, had a printed copy of the follow- ing verses inserted in each of the books belonging to him :

To whomsoe'er this book I lend,

I give one word no more : They who to borrow condescend

Should graciously restore. And whosoe'er this book should find

(Be't trunk-maker or critick), I '11 thank him if he '11 bear in mind

That it is mine George Wightwick.

A. R. BAYLEY.

Forty years ago the first two verses quoted by MR. MURRAY were in frequent use in Devonshire, and I have seen them written on the fly-leaves of many books under the owner's name, but I doubt if they are to be found now. The first two lines of the last verse in MR. MURRAY'S paragraph are not so familiar to me, but I have often seen them written as follows :

Steal not this book for fear of shame, For in it is the author's name, &c.

A. J. DAVY.

Torquay.

LOCHWINNOCH, IN RENFREWSHIRE (9 th S. ii.

26). I regret that I can throw no light on the origin of this name. As MR. PLATT observes, the z in the old spelling Loch- quhinzeoch represents the consonantal ?/, and, he might have added, quh represents wh, as in Quhitherne, the old spelling of Whithorn. There is a large lake at Lochwinnoch, which makes the meaning of the prefix pretty obvious, but the perplexing part of the problem is the local pronunciation, which is "Lochlnoch," with equal stress on the first and the last syllables. The presence of a railway station has altered the local pro- nunciation to correspond with the name as printed, and one hears it called Lochwinnoch, with the stress on the penultimate ; but one

letters/, u, r.
 * The Romans called a

thief a. man of three

should never disregard the true local pro- nunciation of place-names, which is generally significant. Lochwinnoch lies in a district full of historic interest, namely, the territory of the Strathclyde Welshmen. Near the north shore of the lake is a solitary boulder known as Cloriddrick (cloch Ryddeirch), reputed to be the burial-place of the great Christian champion of the sixth century, Rydderch Hael, who, in A.D. 573, overthrew the pagan Gwendolew at the battle of Ardderyd (the bellum Armterid of Nennius), now Arthuret. a few miles north of Carlisle, and established the Christian kingdom of Strathclyde. Gwen- dolew's stronghold, probably the earthwork now called the Moat of Liddel, has given its name to a tributary of the Esk, near Arthuret, which is called Carwhinelow (caer Gwen- dolew). HERBERT MAXWELL.

Rev. James B. Johnston, in his 'Place- Names of Scotland,' derives Lochwinnoch from St. Winnoc or Wynniri St. Vininus an Irish saint, who died in 579. The name of the same saint is said to appear in Kilwinning, in Ayrshire. J. E.

I find in Crawf urd's ' History of Renfrew- shire,' p. 142, "The parish of Lochwinioch derives its name from St. Winioch, who was the guardian saint of the place, as also of the

loch."

WILLIAM F. COHNS.

"HOP-PICKER" (9 th S. i. 487; ii. 32). In Hadlow Churchyard, near Tonbridge, there is a small pyramidal-shaped monument with the following inscription :

" This monument was erected by Public Sub- scription in memory of the Thirty Hop-Pickers who were drowned at Hartlake Bridge in a flood of the river Medway, on the 20th of October, 1853, and whose bodies were buried in this churchyard."

J. H. A.

Maidstone.

On turning back to 9 th S. i. 322 your corre- spondents will find that I have already mentioned the first engraving of Smith's ' Hop-pickers,' made by F. Vivares. and pub- lishea 1 Aug., 1760. I have sent this to DR.

MURRAY.

W. C. B.

THE TERMINATION "-HALGH" (9 th S. i. 345~; ii. 15). See the articles on hough and hale (2) in the 'H.E.D.' The original sense was corner, nook, angle, and the like. The etymology is ultimately from Teutonic *hal (A.-S. heel), second grade of hel-an, to hide, the sense of "hidden" leading to that of " retired nook." WALTER W. SKEAT.

ST. WERNER (9 th S. ii. 8). The story is told by Mr. Baring-Gould under 19 April, the