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tenements, <fec. (named), in the parishes of convince him that usage has made the pro- " the Blessed Mary al's S fc Leonard at Brom- nunciation " Morlborough " universal, except ley " and at Stepney in same county, he was as a rustic solecism. Every boy at Marl- seized ; that there was a post-nuptial settle- | borough College, or who ever was at

Maryborough College, calls his school " Morlborough." I do not think that all

-^ovj., o^vv^uv^ ovii uj. Kjxi xnviiicvo .LU. A V*V*V?II/WU, I Marlburians are necessarily what B. calls knight and alderman of London," dated " fine people." Why the pronunciation 22 July, 1615, as well as another settlement should be so I cannot explain. The deriva- of same date between the parties, relating to tion of the name of the town is doubtless the Middleton property (entered on Close obscure, but I gather from the ' History of Roll, 13 Jac. I., part xii., No. 10), in which | Marlborough College' that Prof. Earle our Alderman

ment, relating to the Johnson property the said Martha and "Timothie Middelton, Esq., second son of Sir Thomas Middelton,

Johnson is described as suggests as the origin of " Marl " the two

" Citizen & grocer of London," thus settling words mce'r-leah. Mce'r, being interpreted,

the question as to whether " grocer " or means a boundary, and Uah or lea is a

(according to Or ridge's 'Citizens of London meadow or cattle -run. Marl therefore

and their Rulers ') " goldsmith," and men- stands for " the cattle-run on the boundary."

tioning (inter alia} i 2,000. as given by him in The "borough" is beorh or beorg, a hill or

part of the marriage portion of his said barrow, and this refers to the curious

daughter.

" mound " which is now part of the master's

AUTHORSHIP OF 'THE BRITISH APOLLO' th "iii. 99, 158). Lindamira, the name of

It is therefore clear that St. Mary-le-Bow garden at Marlborough College. B. may in City of London is the parish referred to in draw his own deductions as to what ought the Administration Act, P.C.C., of 17 Octo- to be the pronunciation of Marlborough ber, 1626, and that in which Alderman from its etymology. But I can answer for Johnson resided, as well as at Bromley | the usage. OLD MARLBURIAN.

St. Leonards (near Bow), while Stratford-le- Bow is the place meant by the letter of

6 October, 1626. I need hardly add that the, - , ^. n -, -.

writer of such letter was singularly in error as one ot the. Bohemian twins, is that also of a to Alderman Cockin (Sir William Cokayne), k hara S te ^' m ^ h 1 ard Cumberland's piece 'The who did not die until 20th of same month, as ox ">&by Challenge, played by Miss De evidenced by his Inq. p.m., Funeral Certifi- am P> afterwards Mrs. Charles Kemble. cate &c Cumberland (1732-1811), dramatist and

The Robert Johnson of London, grocer, miscellaneous writer, was the author of second son of Alderman Johnson's brother u P wa ^ d ; s of fi ^ d matic pieces, the titles and referred to in Visit. Lond., 1633-4 was ' of whlch are glven by Genesfc - and conducted

the merchant of that name mentioned under

paper for a short time in imitation of the

JOHN HEBB.


 * / *- E *-' .-JV/i V/1ACVXJ. V V7JL 1/llOUl/ UGVUlVs l-Llt-ll Ui-VllV^Vi tilled I Cf 7

1 Vintry Ward ' in my ' List of the Principal *P ectator -

Inhabitants of the City of London, 1640,' of THE LoNGBOW (9 th S> viiL 144). - Joseph

11% V 1 ''^ in his 'Sports and Pastimes of tL

wards for which the Returns are now missing, if, indeed, they ever existed) for a new edition.

W. I. R. V.

SHIFTING PRONUNCIATION (9 th S. viii. 164). In Wiltshire the name of the town of Marl- borough (I can answer for upwards of fifty years) has always been pronounced as "Moll- borough." The first r is ignored, and the vowel has a sound rather shorter than the a hall, &c. Is there any right or wrong

in

in the pronunciation of place-names 1

K. S.

B. may or may not be right in his conten- tion that the Marl in Marlborough ought to rime to Parl in Parliament. But a visit to the little Wiltshire town from which the Duke of Marlborough takes his title would

script drawings to have been as tall, at least, as the bearers, agreeable to an ordinance made in the fifth year of Edward IV. commanding every man to have a bow his own height, and they might, upon the average, be something short of six feet long. The arrows used by the English archers at the memorable battle of Agincourt were a full yard in length. Carew, in his ' Survey of Cornwall,' says : . T g e Cornish archers for long shooting used arrows a cloth yard long.' The old and more modern ballads of Chevy Chase speak of the arrow as being the length of a cloth yard, but some of these poetical legends extend to an ell."

St. Christopher was the patron saint of all fi eld sports EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71 Brecknock Road.

"RACING" (9 th S. viii. 104, 150). If there were a phonetic bridge between O.H.G. reiza,