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meaning cannot be positively determiner But if a guess may be hazarded, it is possibl from eochaill, a " yew wood," which is a ferti source of Irish names ; among which ar Youghal, Aughall, Donohill, and in th plural Aughils, Aghilly, and Aghills. Th form Oghill, which is the name of abou twenty townlands, is the commonest.

ISAAC TAYLOR.

DR. J. MERVIN NOOTH (9 th S. vi. 470). I the list of '"Officers of the Hospitals for th Forces in North America' in 1776 Dr. Jph Mervin Nooth appears both as a " Physicia Extraordinary" and as a "Purveyor." H was author of 'An Account of the Medi cinal Virtues of the Principal Mineral Water of Great Britain,' 8vo, 1789. W. S.

In Cheriton (Kent) Churchyard there is a memorial to James Nooth, Esq., late pa: master of the Dorset Militia, who died a Sandgate 30 December, 1814, aged seventy one. It also states, " Till the latter part of hi life he practised the profession of a Surgeon.

R. J. F.

JULIUS CJSSAR (9 th S. vi. 407, 474). In the National Portrait Gallery (Room III. there is a portrait by Van Somer of Sir Julius Caesar (Adelmare), Knt., Master of the Rolls. On the frame is written a short sketch of the life. His father, Dr. Caesar Adelmare came from Padua, and was Court Physician to the Queens Mary and Elizabeth. It was " by command of Mary I." that Dr. Caesar Adel- mare "dropped the family name, and became known as Caesar only." The mother of Caesar Adelmar (or Adelmare) was daughter to the Duke de Cesarini, from whom he had the name of Caesar :

"In December, 1757, Sir Julius Caesar's collection of manuscripts, which had long been preserved in the family, was sold by public auction by Sam. Paterson. By the lapse' of time and the decay of the family, they had fallen into the hands of some uninformed persons, and were on the point of being sold by weight to a cheesemonger, as waste-paper, for the sum of ten pounds ; but some of them hap- pened to be shown to Mr. Paterson, who instantly discovered their value. He then digested a masterly catalogue of the whole collection, and distributing it in several thousands of the most interesting heads, caused them to be sold by auction, which proved 356Y." Chalmers's 'Biog. Diet.,' 1813.

Besides the lives of Sir Julius Caesar and his brother Sir Thomas, there is in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' a short biography of Julius Caesar (1656-1712), physician and musical composer, who lived at Rochester,

"only known as the author of three convivial

catches which appeared in the sixth edition of the

Pleasant Musical Companion' (1720). He was

probably the same Julius Ceesar who was the son of Joseph Cresar, a grandson of Dr. Gerard Caesar of Canterbury, who is generally supposed to have been grandson of Sir Thomas Caesar."

The second instance, as quoted by MR. WILSON, of a Julius Caesar, Master of the Rolls, 1815, is seemingly a mistake as to date. The third Julius he mentions, chemist student, who passed his examinations in (I think) 1876, is at present in business at the West -End of London as a chemist (vide ' London Directory : ).

HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

There is an interesting account of the family of Chester of Bush Hall, co. Herts, and a notice of Sir Julius Caesar, to be found in Burke's ' Commoners,' vol. ii. pp. 16-21 (1836). It is there said that "the family of Caesar was of Italian origin, and its ancestors, under the surname of Adelmare, sprung from Ademar, Count of Genoa and Admiral of France in the year 1086, had been long settled in the city of Trevisp." The same authority says that "Sir Julius Csesar was born at Tottenham in 1557, and by the Queen's desire, i.e., Elizabeth, adopted the Matter name" as a surname. His second wife was a niece of the great Lord Bacon, and he died in 1636. This ancient family apparently became extinct in the male line about 1770.

The family of Chester of Bush Hall was in existence in 1836, and in the book above mentioned may be found much illustrative nformation of it and the Caesar family. There is no mention of this family in Burke's Landed Gentry,' but a pedigree is given of he family of Chester of Chicheley Hall, o. Bucks, perhaps collaterally descended, Chicheley is a village near Newport Pagnell, and I can well remember the monuments of he Chester and Cave families in the church, nd used to entertain the idea that the name Jhester was in some way derived from that f Caesar. No doubt much further informa- ion might be obtained in Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire' and other works.
 * hough their arms are quite different.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

I think the Caesars were connected with tie Vanlores and Alexanders of Reading.

(Mrs.) J. HAUTENVILLE COPE. Sulhamstead, Berkshire.

The two lawyers named Sir Julius Caesar vere one man. As Master of the Rolls le married a third wife, Mrs. Hungate ; ie died in 1636, and the date given as 1815