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years of age, he so pleased the Queen that she offered to kiss him then and there. He gave Burleigh, who had charge of his educa- tion, some concern, and that great reader of men would early see his qualities and defects the qualities which his own son Robert could not hope to imitate, and the defects which he was rigorously to avoid. At Cam- bridge, in 1579, Essex complained of the scantiness of his wardrobe in a Latin epistle to his guardian. There was some difficulty in adjusting matters, and Burleigh, to whom personal magnificence was nothing, would little care to recommend such a brilliant lack-penny to his son's admiration. Essex was M.A. at fourteen (1581). In 1582 came further apologies for extravagance ; while two years later a wasteful outlay of 1,000/. on a troop of horse drew from Sir Francis Knollys, Essex's grandfather, a severe rebuke.

That Robert Cecil bitterly felt the differ- ence between his own dull star and such brilliant comets as Essex and Raleigh can easily be imagined. They sank, brilliant to the last, but he remained to leave a deeper mark on the history of his time. Burleigh must have felt doubly anxious for his young son, since Thomas was at the time little but a profligate, and never became very much more. The father's grave wisdom may have been salt to the smarts of his son ; but there can be very little doubt that it contributed in no small degree to that son's future great- ness. GEORGE MARSHALL.

Sefton Park, Liverpool.

" VEIT "=GuY (9 th S. iii. 249). If the former name represents the German "Weit" there is no difficulty about the identification with " Guy." The latter is derived through French from the Frankish Wldo (corresponding to Old English Wlda), and this is generally held to be derived from the adjective "wide," a derivation countenanced by the use of the adjective " broad " as a name-stem (cf. the Greek names in Eupv-, such as Evpu-crrpaTos). Probably the equation of " Veit " with " Guy " comes from Pott, ' Die Personennamen,' p. 192. Wldo is a form of a full name be- ginning with Wld- with the addition of the hyporistic suffix -o (Germanic "-on," corre- sponding to Greek -cov, gen. -ovos, which was also used for the same purpose). It is re- markable that the English form is "Guy," for from the Normans we should have ex- pected Wy, just as we have Walter and William, Warin, Warner, not Gauti(e)r, Guillaume, Garin, Garner. This Wy form is, however, recorded in the derivative surnames Wyatt and Wyon, corresponding

to the French Guyot (Italian Guidotto) and Guyon. The latter was originally the objec- tive form of " Guis " or " Gui," according to the Old French declension of these Germanic names in -o. (See Fallot, ' Recherches sur les Formes Grammaticales de la Langue Fran- gaise,' Paris, 1839, p. 193.) "Guyatt" exists as a modern English surname.

W. H. STEVENSON.

BENJAMIN POOLE (9^ S. iii. 407). On 20 January, 1896, I copied the following in- scription in St. Mary's Churchyard, Waltham- stow. It is to be seen on the south side of a stone ornamented altar - tomb, with brick foundation, against the south side of the church. There is only one side inscribed, but on the upper slab are the arms of Poole im- paling Lowther, with mantling, helmet, and crest, all within a circle. The inscription is very lightly carved and now scarcely read- able :

"In a vault beneath this tomb | is interred the body of Benjamin Poole Esq. eldest son | of S r William Poole of Wprral (?) in the county of Chester Kn* | He first married Henrietta, the daughter of George Vernon | of Sudbury in the county of Derby, Esq. by whom he had no ] issue, and afterwards Margaret the daughter of Anthony | Lowther of Maske, in Cleveland, in the county of Yorke Esq. | by whom he hath left issue one daughter Margaret | and by whom this monument has been erected | in memory of her most dear and most beloved hus- band | He was born Jan^ xxvi in the year MDCLVI | and dyed Jan? xii in the year MDCCXIV."

I should be pleased to have any further particulars regarding this branch of the Poole family. If your correspondent would like to have a rubbing of the arms, I shall no doubt be able to let her have one.

CHAS. H. CROUCH.

Nightingale Lane, Wanstead.

There is no monument in Waltham Abbey Church to any one of this name now.

W. B. GERISH. Hoddesdon, Herts.

"BURLEYMEN" (9 th S. iii. 421). Your cor- respondent may care to know of these refer- ences : 'N., & O.,' 6 th S. xii. 510; 7 th S. ii.382; Archceologia, xlvi. 387 ; Yorkshire Archaeo- logical Journal, vii. 56. But, above all, he should consult the ' H.E.D.' under ' By-law ' and'Byr-law.' W. C. B.

A DESERTED VILLAGE (9 th S. iii. 404). Some particulars relating to the history of Auburn have been brought together in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, x. 72, to which it may be added that the 'Inventory of Church Goods' there in the time of Edward VI. has been printed in the Reliquary, xii. 199 (1872) ;