Dec. 15. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



481 



Double Christian Names (Vol. xii., p. 394.). — 

 Has your correspondent Mr. Denton any special 

 reason for supposin? Benetson and De Newton, 

 in the passages produced by him from the Tes- 

 tamenta Eboracensia, to have been really Christian 

 names ? If so, the instances are more singular 

 than if they be only examples of double surnames. 

 Double surnames are common enough in the older 

 records, and surnames may be found not unfre- 

 quently holding the place of Christian names, fol- 

 lowed by local or other descriptive titles. But I 

 should doubt whether local names, or patronymicks 

 (properly so called), were in early times given at 

 baptism. 



A fair sample of double surnames is to be seen 

 among the founders of Kirkstall Abbey in the 

 family of Samson, which family seems ultimately 

 to have lost its original surname in the various 

 local names which its several branches assumed, 

 viz. Farnelay, Wridlesford, AUerton, Pudsey, &c. 

 Thus the heading of art. xxxvi. of the "Kirkstall 

 Charters " (Motiasiicon, v. 542.) runs, " Carta 

 Walteri filii Adce de Puddesay,'" &c., Avhereas the 

 donor, in the body of the charter, describes him- 

 self as " Walterus filius Adce Samson de Pud- 

 desay." Still Mr. Denton's instances are curious, 

 on account of the situation of the descriptive 

 names. Has Mr. M. A. Lower ever completed 

 his Dictionai-y of Surnames ? S. J. B. 



" Philamour and Philamena''' (Vol. xii., p. 366.). 

 — I have in my possession a copy of this interest- 

 ing pamphlet, which formerly belonged to that 

 celebrated antiquary the late Charles Kirkpatrick 

 Sharpe (editor of Laws Memorialise Kirkton's 

 Church History, &c.), upon the fly-leaf of which 

 I find he has written the following note : 



" This pamphlet was printed after the barbarous murder 

 of Mrs. Dalrj'mple, wife of Captain William Dalrymple, 

 son of Sir Hew, first Baronet of North Berwick. She was 

 murdered in her own house in Cavendish Square, London, 

 ou March 25, 1746, by the foot-boy (Matthew Henderson), 

 having received upwards of forty wounds. See his trial 

 in the Annals of Neivgate. He was hanged at the end of 

 Oxford Street. There is an account of this affair in Miss 

 Catheart's Letters to Sir John Houston, printed in the 

 Houston case." 



He appears, however, not to have known who was 

 the author thereof. J. A. S. 



Edinburgh. 



The Sarmati (Vol. xii., p. 394.). — In answer to 

 your correspondent D. S. (who apparently casts a 

 doubt on my correctness, for the purpose of in- 

 troducing a school epigram), T beg to state, that 

 the proverb, " Grteca fides nulla fides," was quite 

 as common among the Romans (thougli perhaps 

 not so in English schools) as " Punica fides," &c. 

 Thus, Plautus uses the expression, " Grajca fide 

 mercari," to buy on no trust, viz. for ready money. 



A.G. 



No. 320.] 



Sultan Krim Gherry (Vol. xi. passim ; Vol. xii., 

 p. 410.). — In the Gentleman's Magazine for this 

 month occurs the following notice of the deaths of 

 two of the sultan's daughters : 



"June. At Simpheropol, in the Crimea, Baroness 

 Alexandrina Gersdorf, eldest daughter of his Highness the 

 late Sultan Katte Ghery Krim Gheiy : and a week after- 

 wards at Ekaterinoslav, in the Crimea, her sister Mar- 

 garet Anne, second daughter of the Sultan, and wife of 

 Thomas Upton, Esq. The mother of these ladies was for- 

 merly Miss Anne Neilson of Edinburgh, who became the 

 wife of the Sultan of the Crimea, when he visited Edin- 

 burgh about thirty years ago." 



E. H. A. 



A sleeveless Errand (Vol. xii. p. 58.). — If the 

 conjecture hazarded by Mr. Singer, as to the 

 meaning of this phrase, be adopted, what can be 

 said about that of a bootless errand, which, if I mis- 

 take not, was equally popular ? G. A. C. 



Green Rose (Vol. xii., p. 371.). — A lady, who is 

 now on a visit to us, tells me that she saw a green 

 rose at a horticultural show at Bury St. Edmunds 

 in May last. E. H. A. 



" Lay of Gascoyne " (Vol. xii., p. 406.). — Mr. 

 Gantillon will find this Lay in vol. xxxv. of the 

 Law Magazine. C. S. Greaves. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



When George Herbert bade the world 



" Think when the bells do chime, 

 'Tis angels' mu.sic." 



he little dreamed how those few solemn words would one 

 day form, as it were, the kej'-note to an outpouring of the 

 melody of sacred verse, which would have bathed his own 

 gentle spirit in delight. Yet so it is. They seem to have 

 suggested to the editor of Sabbath Bells chimed by the 

 Poets, the idea of his very excellent selection from the 

 English Poets, Avho have made the Sabbath and its ob- 

 servances the burden of their songs. The notion is a 

 most happy one, and has been happily executed. The 

 designs of Mr. Birket Foster are excellent, thoroughly 

 English, and have been printed in colours in a marvellous 

 manner. So that what with the excellence of the selection, 

 and the beauty of the pictures, Sabbath Bells chimed by the 

 Poets will be an acceptable Christmas Book to all who 

 love good poetry tastefully illustrated. 



We do not know how, with our limited space, we can 

 better describe Dr. Bosworth's last contribution to Anglo- 

 Saxon literature, than by transcribing its ample title- 

 page, which is as follows : A Description of Europe, and 

 the Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan, written in Anglo- 

 Saxon by King Alfred the Great, containing a facsimile 

 Copy of the ivhole Anglo- Saxon Text from the Ci'tton MS., 

 and also from the First Part of the Lauderdale 3fS. — A 

 Printed Anglo Saxon Text based upon these 3ISS., and an 

 English Translation and Notes. By the Rev. Joseph Bos- 

 worth, D.D., F.Ii.S., &c. The work, as all Anglo-Saxon 

 students are aware, forms a portion of Alfred's Translation 

 of Orosius ; but Avhen we tell them that the whole of this 

 portion has been reproduced in fac-simile with most ex- 



