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not stated where lie found any trace of an idea 

 that seems to me so paradoxicaL I remember 

 what I believe to have been the first appearance 

 of the toy about 1790, or a year or two later; it 

 was then called a quiz, and everybody used to play 

 with it everywhere, even while walking in the 

 streets ; and I have not only heard but read that 

 the Duke of Wellington, when a very young 

 officei-, Avas peculiarly adroit at managing it. It 

 was long after that I heard it called the " banda- 

 lore," which was, I think, its French name. C. 



" Char a valeto. Char a vale, sed non aeternum " 

 (2""^ S. ii. 289.) — Whence this line ? It occurs 

 not. Bishop Lowth's epitaph on " a favourite 

 daughter who died young," runs something like it : 



" Cara, vale, ingenio praestans, pietate, pudore, 

 Et plusquam natse nomine cara, vale. 

 Cara Maria vale ! at veniet felicius aevum, 

 Quando iterum tecum sim, modo dignus ero. 

 Cara redi, Iseta tum dicam voce, paternos 

 Eja age in amplexus, cara Maria, redi." 



But a nearer similitude will be found in an 

 epitaph on a monument in the church of Bris- 

 lington, near Bristol, the subject of which is a 

 son, who died early, of consumption : 



" Care vale ; sed non ajternum ; care valeto, 

 Namque iterum tecum sim, modo dignus ero. 

 Tum nihil amplexus poterit divellere nostros : 

 Nee tu marcesces, nee lachrymabov ego." 



B. 



Archer, the English Sirname (2"*^ S. ii. 350.) — 

 I know not what answer can be made to J. B. S.'s 

 question as to this " English szVname " (swrname), 

 except that it seems to be of the same class as 

 Bowman, Speerman, Gunner, Baker, Butcher, 

 Sadler, and hundreds of others derived from 

 trades or professions. There was a short-lived 

 peerage in the Worcestershire family of the name, 

 created in 1747, and extinct with the second 

 lord in 1778, s. p. m. The estates, I think, passed 

 into the Downshire family. C. 



Saguntum Sword Blades (2"'> S. ii. 172. 356.) — 

 Sahagun derives its name and its celebrity from 

 Saint Facundus (a Spanish general), who was 

 martyred there, Nov. 17, 140, (some say 139, others 

 180). San Facundo, phacundo, hacundo, ha- 

 gundo, hagund, hagun — Sanhagun, Sahagun. 



K. S. Chaknock. 



I have often wished for information upon this 

 subject, as I never heard of any manufactory of 

 sword blades at this place. I can, however, assure 

 Cacadore that the name is frequently impressed 

 on blades. One in my collection is a heavy two- 

 edged broadsword, with a perforated shell. The 

 blade is impressed with a fox and two shields, 

 both surmounted by a crown ; one on each side, 

 close to the tang. On one is a capital P, the 

 other bears the arms of Amsterdam. The legend 



reads : •'.• sahagom •[• It is the style of weapon 

 usually placed in the hand of Peter the Great in 

 his portraits. I have another example as well : — 

 a cut and thrust walking rapier, with flamboy- 

 ant blade and brass hilt, about the time of Wil- 

 liam and Mary. The inscription on this is — 



'!• 8, A. 11. a. G. v. M '!• 



I fancy few collections of arms are v?ithout 



examples. The blades generally appear very 



good. W. J. Bernhakd Smith. 



Temple. 



Aneroid (2"'^ S. ii. 337.) — The more probable 

 derivation of this word is d and v-npbs, humidus, 

 (see Liddell and Scott) whence Nereus, and the 

 modern Greek vephs. Vacuum. 



It seems a pity that any of your correspondents 

 (however learned) should continue to send you 

 what " they believe " to be the etymology of this 

 word, as the question is much more historical 

 than philological. Probably all persons agree in 

 considering the word to be a faulty and barbarous 

 one, to which the ordinary rules of etymology do 

 not apply ; and therefore the only way of arriving 

 at the real derivation is to see the meaning which 

 the inventor himself wished the word to bear. I 

 would therefore again inquire, 1. Where the word 

 is first used? 2. Who is the inventor of it? and 

 3. What is the derivation given by the inventor 

 himself? M. D. 



Ministers of St. James', Clerlienwell (2"'' S. ii. 

 309.) — In my interleaved copy of Pennant, the 

 required names are thus given : 



"Dewel Peed, elected 1G91, died 1725-6. 

 Charles Lee, died 1743, succeeded by Gilbert Burnet. 

 174G, John Doughty. 

 William Sellon, 1757, died 1790." 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



"Radchenister" or "Rodman'' (2"-^ S. ii. 353.) 

 — This word signifying, according to Ducange, 

 liber homo, may find its derivation partly from the 

 Celtic. In Welsh Rhdd signifies free, which, 

 added to the Saxon man or kin, would give the 

 above -ivords. 



It is probable that in like manner the con-elative 

 term soc-man is formed from the Celtic swch, a 

 ploughshare ; and that the Latin soca, and French 

 soc, a plough, have a common origin in the older 

 Celtic. 



The terms radman, or radkin, and socman, were 

 probably first applied to different classes of the 

 Celtic population of Britain by their native name, 

 and thus gradually crept into the phraseology of 

 feudal law. Eden Warwick. 



Birmingham. 



Spelman, in his Glossarium Archaiologicum, 

 notices this office under the heads " Radenites," 



