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 9* S.V.JAN. 6, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

and to be found in the Eolls of Parliament (vol. v. p. 293), "His best belovyd first begotten sonne, tyme of his birth is Duke of Cornewayle." It is separately entered that the King, " by his Letters Patentes under his grete Seall, hath creat Edward his moost entierly belovyd firstbegottyn sonne and heir apparaunt, Prince of Wales, and Erie of the Counte Palatyne of Chestre" (ibid., p. 290). The birth had taken place on 13 October, 1453; the creation here noted on 15 March, 1454. ALFEED F. BOBBINS.

A PASQUIL. From a rare and curious pamphlet in Latin and Italian of the fifteenth century which I have before me, it appears that pasquils or pasquinades were not always synonymous with lampoons or libels, but might be applied to any written or printed news and report of exciting interest. They were probably at first stuck upon pillars (cp. the columnce of Horace's 'Ars Poetica') at Rome, and afterwards in other large cities of Italy, where the public could read them. Now the pasquinade, which is not mentioned in Brunet's 'Manuel' (where nine earlier pieces of a similar character, printed 1512- 1526 in Rome, are described), and may deserve a brief record, bears the title * Car- mina apposita ad Pasquillum in personam Victorie [sic] MDXXXIII.' It is a pamphlet of 12mo. size, without place and date, but most probably printed at Rome in 1533, the year after the eventful victory to which its title refers, comprising twenty-four pages. The title-page is adorned with the large woodcut figure of a woman, and the text with four woodcut medals representing the goddess Victoria. The Latin text is followed by four- pages of Italian 'Pasquini,' and the whole work concludes with a curious Latin song of six lines in hexameters, each word of which begins with the letter p. Considering its subject, this pasquil is evidently not satirical, but really an historical poem or hymn, which purposed to glorify the famous victory gained by the Emperor Charles V.'s captain Sebas- tian Schertlin over the Turks near Vienna on 19 September, A.D. 1532, when the Papal see was held by the Roman Pontiff Clemens VII., who reigned 1523-34. H. KREBS.

Oxford.

KINNUI : JEWISH EKE-NAMES. In Mr. Joseph Jacobs's ' Jews of Angevin England ' (1893, p. 370), in a dissertation on old Anglo- Jewish names, it is stated that " English is indeed conspicuous by its absence in the list, except for Alfild, among the ladies, and Jurnet (Jornet), among the men, if the latter be, as has. been suggested, derived from jornet, a jerkin or

jacket, and so an appropriate Kinnui (vernacular form) of Jacob."

Readers of Jewish history are familiar with such curious forms as Rambam, Rashbam, and Rashi, which respectively stand for Rabbi Maimun ben Maimun (Maimonides), Rabbi Samuel ben Meir, and Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac. Borrow, in his celebrated eulogy on prizefighting ('Lavengro,' ch. xxvi.), says, "The Jews may have Rambams in plenty, but never a Fielding nor a Shakespeare." The ordinary Hebrew names Berachyah, Isaiah, Eleazar, are converted into Benedict, Deulesalt, and Deusaie (or Deus adjuvet), and so forth ; and the common form Hyams is vulgarized Hebrew for Chairn (life), also found in the forms Vives, Vivard, Vivelot, &c. The same may be said of other common Jewish names, as Myers, Bear, Ursel, and so forth. Some Jews cast off their Hebrew patronymics altogether, and, if I remember rightly, the well-known clothier Moses, who had extensive premises in Aldgate, when he retired from business and occupied a West- End mansion, called himself Beddington, and under that name left a large fortune. I suppose "Barney Barnato" was pure Kinnui. But it seems that the Jews not only confuse their names while alert in business, but as a last resource, to cheat Azrael, change them when dying, for Mr. Jacobs tells us that "it is a Jewish custom to change a man's name when in articulo mortis, in the hope that the Angel of Death wilt not recognize him under the altered name." Surely a very strange superstition.

JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

"WAITS" AND "GAITAS." Talking a few days ago in Berlin to Don Pedro de Muxica, Professor of Castilian in the Oriental Semin- ary there, about the false etymologies and absence of etymologies which he criticizes so justly in the 'Dictionary' of the Royal Academy at Madrid, I suggested that gaita, the name of a kind of bagpipes used in some parts of Spain, might be of Keltic origin, from a word meaning wind, as it is eminently a wind instrument. Gustav Korting, in his ' Lateinisch-Romanisches Worterbuch ' (Pader- born, 1891), explains the word as little as the Castilian Academy. The choice of an etymon seems to confine itself to the tribe to which English gay, Basque jai, Manx gaih ('A Dic- tionary of the Manks Language,' by A. Cregeen, Douglas, 1835), belong, or to the wind- words represented by Manx geay, gheay. Prof. Muxica, however, is inclined to connect it with English ivaits. In discussing this