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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1898.

CONTENTS. -No. 36.

NOTES : Surrey Etymologies. 181 High Holborn. 182 Marston and Shakspeare A Wake Discontinued Waterloo Mr. Gladstone as Philologist, 183 Llanthony Surnames Tennyson on Havelock Wireless Telegraphy, 184 Folk-lore " Cyclopaedia " False Quantities in Scott "Helpmate," 185 Byron on Napoleon "Boulanger" Keats's Epitaph on Himself Superstition in Somerset, 186 Epitaph, 187.

QUERIES : " Dutify " Arms Wanted" Huddle"" Coll. Beg. Oxon." " And now, O Father," &c. Cedar Trees- Brass Ladles Frantz von Mebren Sir T. Cooke's Burial- place St. Valentine's Farewell and Crisman, 187 "A brace of caps" Norfolk Folk-lore Whitehead's "Para- dise "New Testament Query St. Thomas of Dancastre, 188 Sir Thomas Cotton Rev. J. Powell Herbault Thomas Eastgate, 189.

REPLIES : Shakspeare and the Sea, 189 Capfc. Gibbs Sir Hercules Langrishe, 190 Temperate Latitudes Barbers, 191 ' Telegraph 'Punch The Cowslip, 192 Memoirs of the Princess de Lamballe African Names Mispronounced Morning, 193 Slabs in St. Margaret's Churchyard " Jack-up-the-Orchard " R. Fergusson Duke of York's Campaign in Flanders, 194 Autographs- Princess Bagration Sedan Chairs Christian Names- Thackeray's ' Little Billee 'Bishop George Lloyd, 195 ' The drenching of a swan " Hollington Church Soleby, 196 Child's Hymn Hair-powder Curious Christian Name ' Comin' thro' the Rye,' 197 " Go about " His- toric Stones at the Royal Exchange Stolen Relics Beards Source of Quotation From Holborn to the Strand, 198 Labrusca English Agents in Poland, 199.

HOTES ON BOOKS: -Piper's 'Church Towers of Somer- setshire ' Daniell's ' Calendar of State Papers ' Macleod's ' Church Ministry and Sacraments.'

Notices to Correspondents.

SURREY ETYMOLOGIES. THE lower reaches of the Thames are fringed with a curious series of names, ostensibly of similar origin, as their terminations are iaen- tical, or at least homophonous. Beginning from the west, we find Chertsey, Moulsey, Putney, Battersea, Chelsea, Bermondsey, Sheppey, and, chief of all, Surrey itself the county in which most of them are situated. On the opposite bank of the Thames there is another series, less im- portant: Stepney, Canvey, Pitsey, Casey, Wallasea, Dengie, and Mersea. There is no such series of names elsewhere, though on the coast of the English Channel we have Portsea, Thorney, Selsea, Pevensey, Lidsey, Winchelsea, Romney, and Eastry ; to which we may add Guernsey, Jersey, ana Alderney. On the Severn there is a series resembling that on the Thames, such as Courtney, Stowey, Longney, Kempsev, and Lydney. Most of these places ought to receive a similar explanation. They used to be explained from ey, an "island," which we have in eyot. To this it may be objected that many of them are not islands. In one thing, however, they all agree they are all near water. Now in A.-S. " water," or rather

" running water," is ed t which we see in Eton, Bucks, and in Eaton in Berks, Oxon, Cheshire, and Staffordshire, which is A.-S. Edtun, the " tun by the water." So Binney, in Kent, is A.-S. Binnen-ed, " between the waters," in a charter. The river Mersey is also probably from ed. A derivative of ed is ig, an "island," or eg, a "place near water," a " coast " or " shore," whence we obtain igeoth, now "eyot," and A.-S. igland (M.E. Hand), "island," the"s" being inserted owing to confusion with "isle," which is ultimately from Latin insula.

For convenience we may call a place sur- rounded by water an " isle," and one beside the water an " eyland." The ey in eyot appears in Eye, Northants, A.-S. Ege, dative of eg, and as a prefix in Egham, A.-S. Egeham, a village on the Surrey shore of the Thames ; in Chertsey, A.-S. Cerotes-ig, "Ce rot's eyland"; in Cholsey, Berks, A.-S. Ce6lesig, from ce6l (gen. cedles), a " ship " or " keel." Sheppey, Kent, is A.-S. Scedpig, the " sheep isle." Ramsey, Hunts, is A.-S. Ramesig, the " ram's eyland." Hanney, Berks, is A.-S. Hannig, the " isle of (water) nens." Goosey, Berks, is A.-S. Gooseig. Hinksey, Berks, is A.-S. Hengestesig, the "horse's isle." Thorney, A.-S. Thorneg, is the "thorn shore." Selsey, A.-S. Seleseg, is the " seal isle ": and Dengie, Essex, is A.-S. Denesig, the " Dane's isle."

From personal names we have Dauntsey, Wilts, A.-S. Domeccesig ; Kempsey, Worces- tershire, A.-S. Cyme&lg ; Battersea, Surrey, A.-S. Batrices-eg, the "shore of Beadoric," afterwards becoming Patricesey, " PatrickV. eyland "; Putney, A.-S. Puttan-e'g, the " eyland of Putta." Pewsey, Wilts, is A.-S. Pefesig. Oseney, Oxford, is A.-S. Osanig. Romsey, Hants, is A.-S. Rummesig. Mersea, Essex, is A.-S. Meresig, the " sea isle."

The O.N. equivalent of A.-S. ig is eg, whence Orkney ; Anglesey, O.N. onguls-eg, the " isle of the strait": Ronaldshay, the "isle of Rognvald "; Rona, "St. Ronan's isle "; Staffa, O.N. Staf-ey, the "staff isle"; Papa, the "priest's isle"; Roosey, formerly Hrolfsey, " Hrolf 's isle." Eastry, Kent, A.-S. Eastorec/, the " eastern coast," supplies the clue to the meaning of Surrey, the most difficult name of all. As I have fully discussed ib in ' Names and their Histories, p. 269, I need here only say that the A.-S. Suthrig most probably means the " southern shore " of the Thames, opposite Middlesex. Austry, how- ever, which we might suppose to mean the western shore, is really a corruption of Aldul- festreo, " Aldulf 's tree," as Oswestry is " Os- wald's tree," and Coventry the "cave tree." The suffix -ey may dwindle down to y, as at