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 9»s.iv.s»T.sv»] NOTES AND QUERIES. 251 most of what is known about the name Apella. The etymology which MR. FORD discusses is a sheer impossibility, and belongs to the pre-scientific stage of philology. The name Apella is manifestly of Greek origin — the Latin form of 'AireAAas or ' cf. the analogous Prusia, Pausania, Atrida, jEeta, <fec. Horace's Apella may have been either a Greek-speaking Jew, or perhaps a proselyte. Cicero speaks of a Chian sculptor named Apella in ' Epp. ad Att.,' xii. 19. and the name occurs in Cicero's correspondence in at least two other places, in one of which it is certainly applied to a freedman. It is not unlikely that, as Mr. Wickham suggests in his note ad loc., the name had in Horace's time come to be used generically for a Jewish freedman. It is often found in inscriptions. ALEX. LEEPER. Trinity College, Melbourne University. 'A HISTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE' (9th S. iv. 140). — That 'Technogamia ' was acted on Sunday night is stated on the authority of Anthony Wood. See Rev. E. Marshall's 'Woodstock Manor.' EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings. 'BOOK- WORLD' (9th S. iv. 48, 95).— The writer of these lines was named Harris. Other poems by him appeared about the same time in All the Year Jtound, and were reprinted in a small volume. He died in the early sixties. M. W. TOM DAY (9* S. iv. 148).— A gentleman who was born in the last century, but has long been dead, told me that somewhere in Lin- colnshire — he did not name the place, so far as I remember — a blinded hawk was found with a label attached, inscribed : — I wander, I wander, I know not whither ; The parson of Thrumpton sent me hither. He cut off my claws and he put out my een For stealing a chicken on Thrumpton Green. Thrumpton is a village near Nottingham. COM. LINC. While unable to give your correspondent any information about Tom Day, of Twyford, let me say that the anecdote related of him is also recorded in connexion with a former vicar of Ebchester, in the county of Durham, of the name of Wrightson. According to Mickleton, who relates the story, a hawk was taken in Mr. Wrightson's neighbourhood, with a label of parchment tied around its neck, on which were these words : — The parson of Ebchester me hath taken, And Both my eyes he hath outputten Because his chickens I have stolen. See ' The Acts of the High Commission within the Diocese of Durham' Surtees Society, vol. xxxiv. p. 29. W. W. TOMLINSON. 6, Bristol Terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. "MuMBUDOET" (9th S. iv. 144).—This word I have never heard used in any sense, but " budgeting " is common enough in the Mid- land counties. "A budgeting body" is a "fussy," officious, demonstrative person ; "budgeting about" is bustling about^in an ineffectual sort of way. C. C. B. LIST OF VICARS OF ST. MARY'S CHURCH, WALTHAMSTOW, ESSEX (9th S. iv. 148)., — Three of these names (which arc badly spelt) are well known, e.g., Thos. Cartwright (Bishop of Chester), Edward Sparke, and Edmund Chishull, for which the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' should be consulted. W. C. B. THE ETYMOLOGY or "HUZZAR" (9th S. iv. 67).—The correct derivation of Hussar (not Huzzar) was first given by Miklosich, and not by Szarvas. See ' Die slavischen Elemente in Magyarischen,' p. 29 (Vienna, 1871). M. W. GATES ON COMMONS (9th S. iv. 107, 155).— More than forty years ago there was (there may be yet) a wooden foot-bridge which crossed one of the large agricultural drains running into the river Hull at Hull. This bridge was known as the " halfpenny hatch, because it had a gate at which a halfpenny toll had once been levied. One entrance to it was on Holborn Mount on the east side of the river. See ' H.E.D.' under ' Hatch/ W • O. 15« ARCHBISHOP COURTENAY'S BURIAL-PLACE (8th S. x. 375, 420).—As there has been some diversity of opinion as to Maidstone orCanter- bury being the burial-place of this archbishop, it may be well to record that in 'Arch. Cantiana,' vol. xxiii., is a paper on this sub- ject by Mr. M. Beazeley, FlR.G.S., and Hon. Librarian of Canterbury Cathedral, who, from the old monastery records—Register G., "Acta Sedevacante, 1348-1414 "-proves that Archbishop Courtenay was buried in Canter- bury Cathedral, and not at Maidstone. _ In the same volume of 'Arch. Cantiana' is printed the will of Archbishop Courtenay. ARTHUR HUSSEY. Wingham, Kent. "To BE AFF THE GLEu" (9th S. IV. 47).—I have never heard " gleg " used precisely as in the phrase quoted, but "glegging about," in the sense of playing the spy, and to give a " gleg," meaning a glance of suspicion or in- quisition, are common expressions in the Midland counties. C. C. B.