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cited I may refer to Dr. Morris as on my side. He says ('Hist. Eng. Grammar,' p. 126) : "Compounds of any are anyone, anybody (M.E. any wight, any persone, any man), any- thing." And again : " M.E. evric/ion, everilkan (cp. each one) survives in everyone."

SIR THOMAS COOKE, SHERIFF OF LONDON, 1692-3 (9 th S. vii. 429). The account given of him and his family in Le Neve's ' Knights ' (p. 434, to which, however, no proper refer- ence is given in the index) can be supple- mented as under. He was lord of the manor of Lordshold in Hackney, as also of the manor of Barnet. His wife Elizabeth (who sold certain plantations she had inherited in Antigua) was daughter of William Home, of Ead, near Exeter, and of Antigua. A pedi- gree of her family is in V. L. Oliver's * An- tigua.' Besides being M.P. for Colchester 1694-5 and 1698-1705, he was High Sheriff of Essex in 1693. He died 6 September, 1709, "at Ebsham [query Epsom], Surrey," accord- ing to Le Neve's * Obituary.' His will, dated 6 September, was proved 4 November, 1709, by his relict Elizabeth (240 Lane). She, who lived in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, is doubtless the " Dame Elizabeth Cooke" buried 23 December, 1720, at St. Bride's, Fleet Street. Of their children, Elizabeth, the first daughter, married firstly, 10 March, 1690/1, at Hackney

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Sir Josiah Child, second baronet (1678), o Wanstead, co. Essex, who died s.jt?.,20 Janu ary, and was buried at Hackney, 4 February 1703/4. She married secondly "Jo. Chad wick, Esq.," who was buried there 8 Decem

ber, 1713. After a third marriage with

Osbaldeston, she herself was buried a Hackney as "Dame Elizabeth Child, widow,' 26 January, 1740/1. Her younger brother Josiah Cooke, was baptized 31 January 1691/2, at Hackney, about nine months after her marriage with Sir Josiah Child, after whom he was doubtless named.

Sir Charles Cooke, Alderman of Bassishaw, Sheriff of London, 1716-17 (mentioned at the above reference), was (though also connected with Hackney) certainly not a son (as therein is suggested) of the above-named sheriff, whose widow, Elizabeth, proved his will in 1709. This Charles died unmarried, and was buried 11 January, 1720/1, at Hackney, ad- ministration of nis goods being granted 23 January, 1720/1, to James Cooke, Esq., the brother, on the renunciation of Margaret

will is dated 6 September, and was proved by his widow 4 November, 1709, P.C.C. 240 Lane. He had twelve children. Sir Thomas Cooke had a brother John Cooke, who by his wife Catherine had issue. Sir Thomas Cooke's father-in-law was William Home.

Sir Charles Cooke was son of Thomas Cooke, of Hackney (he died 20 December, 1694), by Margaret his wife (she died 16 August, 1723). In Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. i. pp. 346, 347, 348, I give a pedigree of Cooke of Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, and Sir Charles Cooke appears ; and at vol. iii.

E. 212 of the same publication I give extracts
 * om his will.

REGINALD STEWART BODDINGTON.

15, Markham Square, Chelsea.

NEPTUNE AND CROSSING THE LINE (9 th S. vii. 404). In " (Euvres Completes de Jacques- Henri-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, mises en ordre et precedees de la Vie de 1'Auteur, par L. Aime-Martin (a Paris, chez Mequignon- Marvis, Libraire, Rue de 1'Ecole de Me'decine No. 3, M.DCCC.XX.)," 'Voyage a 1'Ile de France,' tome i. pp. 42-3, is the following :

" Le 10 [Avril, 1768], on annonca le bapt^me de la Ligne, dont nous etions & un degre. Un matelot, de"guis en masque, vint demander au capitaine a

Cooke, widow, the mother.

G. E. C.

I have a note in my copy of Le Neve's c Knights' (Harl. Soc.) that Sir Thomas Cooke was great-grandson of a John Cooke, of Creeting, Norfolk. Sir Thomas Cooke's

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faire observer I'usage ancien. Ce sont des fe"tes imagine'es pour dissiper la melancolie des Equipages. Nos matefots sont fort tristes, le scorbut gagne insensibleraent, et nous ne sommes pas au tiers du voyage. Le 11, on fit la cer^monie du baptfime. On rangea les principaux passagers le long d'un cordon, les pouces attaches avec un ruban. On leur versa quelques gouttes d'eau sur la tdte. On donna ensuite quelque argent aux pilotes. Le 12, nous ne passames point encore la Ligne. Les courants pprtaient au nord. On cessa de voir l'<5toile polaire. Le 13, nous passames la Ligne. La mer paraissait, la nuit, remplie de grands phos- phores lumineux."

THOMAS J. JEAKES. Tower House, New Hampton.

Bishop Heber gives a long account of the "Neptune" ceremonies on crossing "the line,* 26 July, 1823, 'Journal,' 1856, i. 7.

W. C. B.

"LA-DI-DA" (9 th S. vii. 425). " Lardy- dardy," "L'Ardy d'Hardy," " la-di-da," &c., as a name for a " swell " probably the last pre- vious to "masher" came out in the early sixties ; perhaps earlier, though I scarcely think so. It originated most likely in one of the "society" plays of the period. The earliest printed allusion to the word which I lave so far been able to trace occurs in a story called 'Such is Life,' by Pierce Egan the younger), which appeared in the London Journal in 1864. On 12 March of that year
 * he reader is introduced to the swell villain of