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the nature of poetical jargon, such as Bret Harte's "no-account men," 'Jim'; and Wm. Browne's " sad-sweet glance," ' Britannia's Pastorals,' ii. 4. But beyond these there is an extraordinary class which furnishes the following instances :

" World-withcrat-end bargain." 'Love's Labour Lost,' V. ii. 799.

" World-without-end hour." Sonnet Ivii. " Long-since-cancelFd woe." Sonnet xxx. "Long -with -love -acquainted eyes.' Sidney's " With how sad steps."

"Six - hundred - thousand - voiced shout. " Pat- more's ' Amelia.'

Monstr'-inform-ingens-horrend-ous

Demon iaco-seraphic

Penman's. Browning's 'Waring.'

The last is probably the most remarkable of its kind, and the two extraordinary ad- jectives do not exhaust all the attributes applied to the penman, as readers of Brown- ing will know. The '^Eneid,' iii. 658, has " Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens," no doubt providing the source of the first extra- ordinary compound adjective. Even an un- gainly form of locution .becomes serviceable in the hands of gifted men.

ARTHUR MAYALL.

MODERN CHANGES OF NAMES. Dialect affects every name in Berkshire. Hath- away, Alloway, and Holloway are identical. Slaughter is usually in the registers written Slater or Slatter. Armstrong and Amsden are the same. I could give numberless other instances derived from parish registers.

E. E. THOYTS.

Sulhamstead, Berks.

ADDAMS FAMILY OP BEAULIEU, co. HANTS,

AND ROTHERHITHE, CO. SURREY. (See 7 th S.

xi. 169 ; 8 th S. iii. 387, 417, 478 ; iv. 169, 407.) In reply to BEAUTJEU and others, I have recently been informed, on unimpeachable authority, that Richard Addams (not Adams), of Rother- hithe, co. Surrey, shipbuilder, was father of the late eminent lawyer Dr. Jesse Addams, Q.C., D.C.L., &c. (1786-1871). He must, there- fore, have been of the Beaulieu stock, and a question of spelling, as to which I was previously in doubt, has thus been cleared up. It must be noted that Addams and Adams are distinct families, between which much confusion has arisen through what can only be termed wilful misspelling, and that the former are, from a professional standpoint, simply an egregious example of neglected genealogy. Burke ('Landed Gentry,' 1858 ed., art. ' Williams ') refers to Addams of Cheaten (Chetton?), co. Salop, whence is derived Addams-Williams of Llangibby Castle, co. Mon. Also Munk's 'Roll of the College of

Physicians ' includes Thomas Addams, M.D., F.C.P. 1741, Censor C.P. 1745, 1750, and 1752, and physician to St. Thomas's Hospital, 1749 to 1759, where he was succeeded by Akenside the poet. Dr. Addams died 26 April, 1785, and was buried in the church of St. 'Lawrence, Reading, co- Berks. The Addamses of Beau- lieu and Rotherhithe were probably de- scended from the Waldos through John Waldo, citizen and founder, buried at Dept- ford, co. Kent, 1617 (vide 'Notes respecting the Family of Waldo,' printed for private circula- tion by M. O. Jones, of Gungrog, near Welsh- pool, 1863 a work to which, however, I have hitherto been unable to obtain access). Lieut.- Col. James Addams, R.A., is stated in Hart's 'Army Lists,' 1898 and ante, to have retired 6 Nov., 1827, and presumably still survives. The Beaulieu parish registers date from 1654, and an Addams coat of arms is given in Newton's 'Display of Heraldry' (London, 1846) as Vert, a pale arg. between two grif- fins rampant or (vide also 'N. & Q.,' 8" 1 S. viii. 127, 207 ; x. 317).

This being my mother's family, I am naturally much interested in its genealogy and history. JAMES TALBOT.

Adelaide, South Australia.

BOLTON HOUSE, RUSSELL SQUARE. Bolton House, Russell Square, at the corner of Guilford Street, was built in 1759 for Lard Baltimore, and was then called Baltimore House. It was afterwards purchased by the Duke of Bolton, and the name was changed to Bolton House. Northouck says of the house :

" It was either built without a plan or else had very whimsical owners ; for the door has been shifted to different parts of the house until at last it is lost to all outward appearance, being now (1776) carried into the stable yard."

Thornbury says :

" When Russell Square was laid out for building Bolton House was the only house left standing, and was incorporated into the rest of the square, though somewhat incongruously; and although it is now divided into two large residences, it still retains the name of Bolton House." 'Old and New London,' iv. 566.

The house fronting on Guilford Street, and now called No. 71, Russell Square, was for- merly known as Bolton Gardens, and was for many years the residence of Prof. T. L. Donaldson. This house, with the premises in the rear in Guilford Mews, and the two houses Nos. 66 and 67, Russell Square, appear to mark the site of Bolton House, every trace of which, as Northouck says, " is lost to all outward appearance." JOHN HEBB.

Canonbury Mansions, N.