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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th is. HI. APRIL 22, m

14 Aug., 1620. Richard Addams, of City of London, butcher. Licence issued from Bishop of London's Office for marriage with Lucy Baker, of same, daughter of - - Baker, deceased.

Circa 1655. John Addams was an emissary to Holland.

1656. Addams* (Alderman) was chosen

as one of the M.P.s for London.

28 Jan., 1661/2. Thomas Addams, of St. Benet, Gracechurch (London), gentleman, bachelor, thirty -one. Licence issued for marriage with Jane James, of Ightham, Kent, spinster, twenty ; consent of mother, Jane James, widow. At. (This entry erased and " vacat " written.)

23 Nov., 1680. John Addams, of St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, bachelor, twenty- five. Licence issued at the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury for marriage with Elizabeth Holden, of Bowleshurst, Bedford- shire, spinster, her parents dead, with consent of Joseph Holden, her uncle and guardian. At Bowleshurst aforesaid.

7 Oct., 1708. An. Addams, Mrs., married to Richard Jennings at St. Saviour's, South- wark.

19 March, 1718/9. Adam Addams, son of Adam Addams, of Monmouth, matriculated at Trin. Coll., Oxon, cet. seventeen, proceeded B.A. 1722, M.A. 1725.

1771-1848. Joseph Addams, Esq., of Swan- age, co. Dorset, and H.E.I.C.S., b. 1771, d. 1848.

9 Aug., 1805. Richard Addams, of Doctors' Commons, married a daughter of Nathaniel Bishop, Esq., of Gloucester Place, London.

1834-37. Robert Addams was a member of the British Association for the Advance- ment of Science (Acoustics and Chemistry).

1841. Henry Bishop Addams was a graduate of the Inst. C.E.

It may fairly be concluded that a branch of this family was settled in and around Deptford, co. Kent, at any rate from 1560, and that many of its members were con- nected with the dockyard there, the royal navy, or the merchant shipping service. It would be interesting to know what became of the Addams Brothers' shipbuilding business at Rotherhithe and Buckler's Hard, which must have been an extensive one.

The name of John Addey, one of the King's master shipwrights, who died 16 April, 1606, cet. fifty-six, and was buried at St. Nicholas's Church, Deptford, is suspiciously like Addams. He gave his executors 2001. to procure a per- petual annuity towards the relief of the poor people of Deptford, to last for ever. This is


 * This may be a misspelling of Adams.

known as Addey 's charity, and in 1884 pro- duced 2001. per annum.

My authorities for the above, amongst others, are 'British Family Names, their Origin and Meaning,' by Hy. Barber, M.D. (London, Elliot Stock, 1894); Burke's 'Landed Gentry'; 'Calendars of State Papers '; Cam- den Society's publications ; Foster's ' London Marriage Licences ' ; the Genealogist ; ' His- tory of Deptford,' by Nathan Dews (second ed., 1884); Foster's 'Alumni Oxonierises'; and ' The Patrician,' by Sir Bernard Burke.

JAMES TALBOT.

Adelaide, South Australia.

"LONDON" AND "LONNON." Though ap- parently unindexed, this point of pronuncia- tion can hardly have escaped notice from former contributors. However, I offer the following citations. Samuel Rogers (1763- 1855) remarked that in his youth everybody said Lonnon, not London; and Fox said Lonnon to the last. Miss Burney, writing to Crabb Robinson in February, 1835, says, "I like Bath better than Lonnon, as you cockneys call it." Canon Venables, in a letter to the Spectator, 1 March, 1893, stated on his own father's authority that George IV. used to say "my royal city of Lonnon" ; and that, contemporaneously, the aristocratic pronun- ciation of St. James, gold, and Rome was St. Jeames, goold, and Room. South ey, in 'The March to Moscow,' rhymes London with un- done. RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Portland, Oregon.

" PHANTOMNATION." (See ' Ghost - words, 9 th S. ii. 341, 406, 486.) It may be a conve- nience to readers of ' N. & Q.' who take an interest in "ghost -words" to have the pre- cise reference to the passage in Pope from which this monstrosity originated. In the translation of the 'Odyssey,' book x. 627, occur the lines :

These solemn vows and holy offerings paid To all the phantom nations of the dead.

It is really amazing that the monster should have found a place in so recent and so scholarly a work as the ' Encyclopaedic Dic- tionary ' (1889). ALEX. LEEPER.

Trinity College, Melbourne University.

" DANIEL " CHAUCER. If the following has not been noticed before, it might find a suitable place in your columns. The mistake is really humorous, especially when the reason for it is perceived. In a novel by Mr. Clark Russell called ' What Cheer ! ' at the beginning of chap, vii., come the words : "Into this cathedral, headed by cheerful, hearty Daniel Chaucer " Chaucer's name