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The late beadle of the church, a very aged man, told me years ago that he had seen the remains.

The church is in Tower Street Ward not Cripplegate. W. H. WHITEAR.

CRIMEAN WAR IN FICTION (12 S. vii. 90,

135, 178). See also

Anon.: 'Frederick Gordon.'

Dempster (C.) : Vera.'

Finnemore (John) : 'In the Trenches.'

Grant : ' Laura Everingham ' ; ' Lord Hermi- tage ' ; * Under the Bed Dragon.'

Lynn (Escott) : ' Blair of Balaclava.'

Smith ( J. F.) : ' Henri de la Four.'

Yelverton (T.) : ' Martyrs to Circumstance.'

J. ARDAGH.

I am surprised that nobody has mentioned Kingsley's 'Two Years Ago.' It is a very long time since I read the story and I remember it imperfectly, but surely Tom Thurnall was out in the Crimea during the war ? C. C. B.

CURIOUS SURNAMES (12 S. vi. 68, 115, 196, 238, 282, 302, 321 ; vii. 15, 34, 95, 137, 176). I have a large collection of curious present- day surnames, most of them droll or gro- tesque, and many of them decidedly un- pleasant. Nine or ten years ago I obtained the majority of these names from a monthly Army List, and ever since I have been gradually adding to them from public sources. Many of these names sound " too good to be true," but there they are. One Davies changed his name modestly to Christ. Mr. Shitler changed to Shutler, and I also noted with pleasure a Mr. Ephraim Very Ott. Here are a few outlandish specimens :

Cowmeadows, Moke, Glue, Bubbers, Chew, Fulljames. Fux, Shorthose, Sneezum, Dabs, Diaper, Greengrass, Dodge, Frizzle, Fussey,Foggie, GutseU, Giipwell, Shattock, Boggie, Gass, Kiss, Squelch, Tosh, Sharky, Tiplady, Ballhatchet, Sweetapple, Bible, Screech, Howl, Wink, Yell, Gospel, Creeper, Cass, Beetles, Villain, Bladder, Kidney, Tripe, Snoddy, Piggins, Prigg, Eumpus, Ketchum, Bugbird, Dupe, Cadd, Bilke, Goose, Bogie, Beastall, Billups, Cheese, Quack, Snapper, Whopples, Pinches, Cheeke, Slugg, Juggins, Wyper, Yallop, Rummey, Breeks.

Basingstoke. STANHOPE KENNEDY.

- Strongitharm " was a well-known name

in this district until about twenty years ago. One of the strangest combinations I have ever known was that of a firm engaged in the leather trade in this town " Bytheway & Hathaway."

Walsall. S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.

In the Chelmsford marriage register occurs the following entry : " John Hogsflesh and Margaret Manning, lie., 2 Dec., 1765." Both these surnames will be familiar to any one who, like Lionel Johnson, is a~ "long lover " of Charles Lamb.

A curious Norfolk surname is, or was,. Whalebelly somewhat reminiscent of the prophet Jonah. A. R. BAYLEY.

I think that Hogsflesh may hold up its head with Pigg and Bacon. It is not impossibly cognate with hoflich, polite and so may be an equivalent of Curtois, Curtis, andl the like which signify the same, courteous. Spelling has a great deal to do with the aspect of many of the names which have attracted the attention of D. K. T. One of my trades- men is a Tee, and I suppose that his epony- mous ancestor came from Teigh in Rutland- shire, which is so pronounced. Tew is well known in Yorkshire, and came there, pro- bably indirectly, from a parish in Oxford- shire. Somebody chose to spell it Tue. I do not see that Trout is any funnier thart Salmon or Chubb.

When one considers what very ignorant- people bear surnames, and how exceedingly careless those who ought to have been less- lax Shakespeare, for instance have been about spelling, it should not be a matter of surprise that corruptions have occurred. It would not be difficult to track out the original, and perhaps quite ordinary form,, of most of the names which now strike men as- being remarkable. ST. SWITHIN.

THEOLOGICAL MS. ; IDENTIFICATION" WANTED (12 S. vi. 14). Owing to separation, from my books I have only just been able to confirm my impression formed when this- query was published, that I could supply the answer. I possess a quarto, vellum- bound volume, printed in Latin, the title- page of which I transcribe :

Tiguri, | Typis Heideggeri et Bahnii, | M DCCT -A_Jv V-L-L*

The date of the book, the subject-matter of which is brought down to the year 1721, is a century and a half later than the period assigned by your correspondent to the hand- writing of the MS., and I am no Latir*.