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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd g. N« 92., Oct. 3. '57. 



racter, to have seut him a box of tennis-balls, insinuating 

 that such things were more adapted to his capacity and 

 disposition than the implements of war." However, as 

 the story continues, " The kyng thought to avenge hym 

 upon hem as sone as God wold send hym grace and 

 myght, and anon lette make tonys ballis for the Dol- 

 phynne, in all the hast that they mj'ght be made ; and 

 they were great gonne stones for the Dolphynne to plaj' 

 wyth all." For references to copies of the old English 

 ballad on this subject, commencing, — 



"As our King lay musing on his bed," 



see"N.&Q.,"l'tS. 1.445.] 



HCjJlCir^. 



PORTRAITS OF MARY, QUEEN OP SCOTLAND. 



(2°'i S. iv. 13. 32. 194.) 



The following epitaphs are too nearly connected 

 ■with Mary, Queen of" Scots, to be left unnoticed 

 in the present investigation into her history, and 

 that of those faithful companions who adhered to 

 their mistress in the last moments of her eventful 

 life. They are taken from the pamphlet of the 

 Door Van Visschers (2"** S. iv. 194.), who reprints 

 the first from Van Gestel, and ^ives Ihe place of 

 interment in the village of Terhulpen, near 

 Brussels. 



The other is a fragment of an inscription taken 

 from the ruins of the abbey of St. Michel at An- 

 twerp. This ancient monastery was founded about 

 the year 900; was suppressed in 1795. The 

 buildings were converted into an arsenal in 1805, 

 which were chiefly destroyed in the bombardment 

 of the citadel in 1832. 



" Cy gist Sr. Charles Bailly en son vivant 



de la Chambre, et Secretaire de La Reyne d'Escosse, 



decapit^e en Angletaire pour la foy Catholique, et depuis 



Commissaire de vivres du camp de sa Majesty, 



qui Irespassa fi I'age de 84 Ans, le 27 Decembre, 1G24." 



" Et Damoiselle Democrite Swerts, sa femme, 

 qui trespassa a Page de 92 Ans, le 3 jour de Mars 1633, 

 lesquels out estc par mariage 50 Ans par ensembles. 

 Priez Dieu pour leur ames. 



Respice Finem. 



Quarlerie — Bailly, Laviin, PeroUe, Rollin, Swerts, Apel- 

 terre, Dongodt, Pervys." 



" Cy gist Marguerite Stuart, 

 fille d'honneur de son Altesse 



Royal, Madame la Duchesse 

 d'Orleans, issue de George 



Stuart, son pere, de I'illustre 



Maison du Stuart de Lenox, 

 Comtes de Bouesbei en Ecosse, 

 de D;ime Marie de Baqueville 

 de Normandie, qui d^ceda le 



HsNRT D'Ayenet. 



SURNAMES. 



(1" & 2°'* S. passim.) 



Modern nomenclature presents a wide and in- 

 teresting field of research ; and while it offers 

 much that may repay the diligent student, it also 

 affords much that is curious and entertaining, to 

 be met with rather by the way-side than in the 

 more regular and beaten path of pursuit. 



The corruption of surnames affords one illus- 

 tration of this remark; and as the subject ap- 

 pears still to have interest for the readers of " N. 

 & Q.," I beg to offer a few desultoi-y gleanings, 

 prefacing them by a paragraph extracted from 

 The Times a short time since, being the evidence 

 of the principal witness in a late trial : " The 

 Queen v. Cayley and others " : — 



" John Mitchell examined by Mr. Bodkin. — Jiy real 

 name is Midgeley. I go by the name of Mitchell. I am 

 a licensed drover at Smithfield Market. 1 have got my 

 licence with me; the licence is for Jno. Midgelej% I 

 always went by the name of Mitchell. My father and 

 mother went hy the name of Mitchell. Their right name was 

 Midgeley. 1 stated to Inspector Sherlock that my name 

 was Midgeley." 



I have no doubt the records of many towns 

 could afford instances of gradual declension from 

 the true orthography of names, similar to those 

 referred to by your correspondents Bramble and 

 others ; and in this neighbourhood there exist 

 many names whose proper spelling and their evi- 

 dent corruptions flourish side by side, the most 

 remarkable of which are the following : Elliott 

 and Ellyet, Lancaster and Lankester, Randall and 

 Handle, Coupland and Copelatul, Atherley* and 

 Hatherly, Lucas and Lvlds, Miller and Millard, 

 Atkins and Adkins, Aldridge and Eldridge, Mun- 

 day and Mondey, Farrant and Farrand, Phippard 

 and Fippard. Of some of the foregoing more 

 than one variation is to be found : Eendell, Ren- 

 dle, Copland, Millar, Mundy ; to which may per- 

 haps be added, Cannaway, Gannaway, and Jana- 

 •way ; Pearce, Peirce, and Pierce ; Gouk, Gook, 

 and Gookey ; Chamberlayne, -lain, -lin. With 

 reference to the etymology of Deadman, I would 

 remark that there exists in this neighbourhood 

 the name Dudman, to which Bailey assigns the 

 meaning given to Deadman by Mr. Eastwood 

 (2"^ S. iv. 177.) on the authority of Halliwell. 

 Probably this may be the original name, of which 

 Deadman, with its graveyard associations, is the 

 corruption. 



Another interesting feature of this subject is 

 the lingering amongst us of memorials of the age 

 of chivalry : I allude to the occurrence of ancient 

 baronial names, similar to the specimens of lapsed 



* This name (from a similarity in the arms borne bj' a 

 family located here for several generations) seems rather 

 to be a branch of the Shropshire family of Adderley. 

 Hatherley and Hatherleigh are names of localities in the 

 adjoining counties. 



