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NOTES AND QUEEIES. [9* s. v. APRIL 21, 1900.

might be. If further information would be of use to G. F. K. B., perhaps he would com- municate direct with me.

F. ELRINGTON BALL. Dundrum, co. Dublin.

"DOCTOR" A CHRISTIAN NAME (9 th S. iy. 518 ; v. 53, 194). Some of the answers to this query published in 4 N. & Q.' have dealt with a question of some interest, but a different question from the one originally asked. Some of the replies refer to the use of a surname as a Christian name, which, as every one knows, is no uncommon thing. The following are all surnames : Squire, Major, Prince, Earl, Lord, Duke. At a small but well-known seaside town in Suffolk Mynherr is a not uncommon Christian name. Formerly there were people there bearing the surname Mynherr.

R. S.

In the churchyard of North Curry, Somer- set, there is a headstone bearing the name "Doctress Ann Pounsbury." I have been told that she was the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, and therefore was pre- sumed to possess the power of healing. It is said that she practised to some extent in herbs. My friend Dr. Olivey has recently discovered from the parish register that the title was her baptismal name.

T. BRUCE DILKS.

Sunnyside, Bridgwater.

RECLAMATION OF TRAETH MAWR (9 th S iv. 538 ; v. 257). The area reclaimed was about 7,000 acres, and the cost of the work 100,00p. The anonymous author of Virtue's ' Tourist in Wales ' says the project of re- claiming the marsh originated with Sir John Gwynne, of Gwydir, in 1625, who did not, however, proceed with it. W. A. Madock, Esq., began his great work by reclaiming about 2,000 acres near the estate of Tan yr-Allt, which he had purchased in 1798. In 1807 he obtained a grant from the Crown vesting in him and his heirs the whole of the lands from Pont Aberglaslyn to the point of Gest. The work of reclaiming these and building the magnificent sea-wall was concluded in 1811. From the centre of this wall or embankment rather we get, perhaps, the most perfect distant view of the Snowdon range. C. C. B.

"PINEAPPLE" (9 th S. iv. 419). In the Art Journal for 1852 a quaint pineapple cup is described as being in the possession of the Baroness Rothschild, under the base of which are a coat of arms and the date 1631. Can this be the article alluded to as " worn out at the bottom," the identity of which MR. I. C.

GOULD is in quest of ? An illustration accom- panies it. The cup is "of silver gilt, and enriched with figures and flowers ; the lid is made to fit close and form the upper part of the pine, which is of most gigantic propor- tions " another circumstance, besides that of the date on the base, suggesting its identity with the "old" monstrosity of which your correspondent has a shadowy memory. In the Whitehall Evening Post of 10 January, 1756, there is an advertisement relating to "a curious Piece of Plate for a Desart, in the Form of a Pine-Apple," for sale. The formal introduction of the pineapple dates from 1660, under the patronage of Charles II, but there seems to have been some acquaintance with it before that by nearly two hundred years, for amongst the appointments for the coronation of Richard III, in 1483, there is an item in the wardrobe account relating to " a doublet made of ij yerds a quarter di' blue clothe of gold wroght with netts and pyne appels" (Grose, 'Antiq. Repert.,' vol. i. p. 29). The Great Seal of Jamaica represents on the obverse side a negro upon his knees, presenting some pineapples to Charles II. ; reverse, on a cross, five pines, &c. (Simon's 'Medals,' plate xxxvi.). An old copper Bar- badoes penny in my possession bears on the obverse the date 1788 and a pineapple, while, judging from the reverse, this, the oldest colony of the British Empire, appears to have had a sort of native viceroy, whose head supports the English regal crown surmounted by the Prince of Wales's feathers.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

TOM-ALL-ALONE'S (9 th S. v. 246). I remember being told by a Chatham friend, soon after the mention of this locality in ' Bleak House,' that the name was undoubtedly derived from that town. See the Standard, 19, 20 January, 1894, for description of Falcon Court and Maypole Alley in the Borough, with which it has been identified by some critics.

P. J. F. GANTILLON.

ON THE WORD "Up "(9 th S. v. 121, 195). " Full up " is now not only colloquially common, but in some places may be seen put up as a notice outside the tramcars. One might suppose it short for " Full up to the limit fixed ; but it is more probably an instance of the " duplication " noticed by one correspondent, " full up " being a mere pat expression for " quite full." This enhancing or completing force of " up," however, seems mainly confined to verbs, and I cannot just now recall another instance of its use with an adjective.

It may be worth adding that if the two