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496 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.ix.DEc.i7.mi. knowledge, for the congregation to stand when the Lord's Prayer came in the course of the ! lesson in Hawarden Parish Church. The j custom may have been in use previous to my experience, but of that I cannot say. I j should be grateful for further information as to its origin. DEINIOL. BURIAL REGISTERS : ST. KATHARINE'S, LONDON (12 S. ix. 408, 453). The registers of the Royal Hospital of St. Katharine's juxta turrim are here, and by proper applica- 1 tion I am willing to allow search for a | specified name with date. I always resent the word charitable or charity as applied to St. Katharine's. St. Katharine's is not, and never was, a " charity." There were small charges on the whole property, but that is all. SEVERNE MAJENDIE. Acting Master for St. Katharine's in the Regent's Park, and Warden of the Royal Chapel. CURIOUS SURNAMES (12 S. vi. 68, 115, 196, 238, 282, 302, 321 ; vii. 15, 34, 95, 137, 176, 213; ix. 208). In the hope that it is not too late to reopen this correspon- dence I venture to send the following quota- tion from The Evening Standard : A Londoner on holiday writes to me that he has discovered on his travels a most appropriate name for a parson. The name is the Rev. John Scaredevyle, who was a rector near Bognor. Some months ago the same newspaper reported that a woman charged at a London police-court with being abusive gave her name as " Language," and the police - constable in charge of the case confirmed her statement. j. R jj Mentmore Church Register. Godspeed. (Early and middle eighteenth century.) Poll Book of the Liverymen of the City of London. April, 1722. Robert Shoote- well. (He was a member of the Bowyers' Company.) HERBERT SOUTHAM. In the Wigan Parish Registers (published by the Lancashire Parish Register Society) the following occurs under ' Burials ' in 1603 : William God-send-us of Abram, The Lancaster Parish Registers name the marriage, in 1607, of John Heuzmenoughe. FREDERIC CROOKS. The following names were noted by me as curious when I was engaged in one of the Departments during the war : Backway Boily Bokins Bonnett Bontoft Branchflower Breed Bridle Brotherhood Buncher Bunkum Buttle Caket Capstack Careless Cathersides Cleverly Clout Cogbill Common Corking Crackle Currant Cushion Disher Ditchfield Faultless Getgood Goodfleld Gravestock Greengrass Guntrip Hayloft Highway Hoccom Holdaway Hopcraft Hopkirk Hornagold Inkpen Innocent Kilgrass Kinsman Kneebone Leatherbarrow Leatherland Legg-Bugg Liptrot Littlechild of the War Office Lowley Meadowcroft Millichap Nut brown Nutkins Oven Parlour Pearmain Penwarden Pert Pigney Pignills Plinboy Puffer* Quickfall Recklin Samways Sawdye September Sheargold Shipway Shirt Snowball Spidy Stoat Stonehewer Swingwood Taphouse Threkbroom Thumpston Tummons Waddle Waintail Walkey Wallwork Warbrick Washer Welfare Wellaway Whalebelly Wheatland Whitwane Wicker Wicket Wildbur Windmill Wintersflood Wire Witty M. H. C. W. JONAS COAKER, " THE DARTMOOR POET " (12 S. ix. 448). I believe that Coaker used to call himself the " Poet of the Moor," but Mr. Baring-Gould ('Dartmoor Idylls,' at p. 144) says that he " was a sorry poet, really no better than an indifferent rhy raster." Coaker's story has been told by the late Mr. Robert Burnard in his ' Dartmoor Pictorial Records ' (portrait) and in an article in The Western Antiquary (Plymouth), vol. ix., pp. 196-7. Another account may be found in a book edited by the late Mr. Robert Dymond, ' Things New and Old concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and