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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 257. 



Double Christian Names (Vol. x., p. 18.). — In 

 looking over the Alumni Etonenses from 1443, I 

 find tlfe first instance of more than one Christian 

 name in 1737, when the name of " Thomas Roger 

 Duquesne " occurs. Duquesne was, I believe, the 

 son of the Marquis Duquesne, a French refugee, 

 and grandson of the famous High Admiral of 

 France. Afterwards, in 1741, occurs " George 

 Lewis Jones." From 1742 to 1752, out of forty- 

 nine Alumni, only five have more than one Chris- 

 tian name. In ten years, from 1836 to 1846, out 

 of thirty-seven Alumni no less than twenty-three 

 have more than one Christian name. J. H. L. 



In reading the references of your correspon- 

 dents on this topic, and accepting the restriction 

 of Mr. Warden, the instances of the Scaligers, 

 which go farther back, at once occurred to me. 

 Joseph Justus Scaliger, for example, was born in 

 1540 ; but his father, Julius Cassar Scaliger, dates 

 himself back to 1484. If, however, we doubt, as 

 we may do, the accuracy of the soi-disant Sca- 

 liger, and consider his pr^nomen as an adoptive, 

 not baptismal, name, we are not left without still 

 earlier examples. On looking back to a list I 

 once made for another purpose, I find, for ex- 

 ample : 



Giov. Battista Eamusio, the well-known his- 

 torian and geographer of Venice, born in 1485. ^ 



Giov. Giorgio Trissino, of Vicenza, bora in 

 1478. 



Gian. Giacopo Trivulzio, of Milan, goes back to 

 1447. 



Cocceius Sabellicus, the Venetian historian, 

 whose real name was Marc- Antonio Coccio, is to 

 be dated to 1436 ; and unless, as in the case_ of 

 J. C. Scaliger, we regard the name as not having 

 been baptismal (though I do not see how this 

 afiects the historical aspect of the question), the 

 Ferrarese poet and administrator, Strozzi, bears 

 a magnificent double name of Tito-Vespasiano as 

 far back as 1422. 



All these are Italians ; and it did not strike nae 

 till writing this that your correspondents are in 

 reality referring only to English instances, in 

 which case this note, unless for its bearing on the 

 general topic of civilisation, as evinced in bap- 

 tismal nomenclature, becomes superfluous. 



I. H. A. 



Baltimore, U. S. 



Is not the following an earlier instance pf double 

 Christian name than any yet recorded in " N. & 

 Q."? 



« The house of James Lynch Fitzstephen, who was mayor 

 in 1493," he— Penny Cyclop., vol. ii. p. 61., art. Galway. 



N. J. H. 



Major Andre (Vol. ix., p. 1 1 1 .). — Three maiden 

 sisters of Major Andre lived for many years at 

 No. 23. Circus, Bath. They dropped olf one after 

 another; the last died within the last ten years. 



About twenty-five or thirty years ago, a young 

 Frenchman named Ernest Andre came to see his 

 old aunts ; he was their great-nephew. His father 

 at that time lived at Paris. The old ladies said he 

 was their nearest relation. Perhaps some one at 

 Bath could tell where they were buried ; the date 

 would give a clue to the will of the last, and it is 

 most probable their nearest relatives inherited 

 their property, so that their names would probably 

 be in the will. 



The old ladies probably were buried at Weston, 

 a village near Bath, a favourite burial-place of 

 the gentry at Bath. AnoN. 



It is to be hoped that some of the correspon- 

 dents of " N. & Q.," who have the means of doing 

 so, will come forward and vindicate the memory 

 of Major Andre from the imputations cast upon it 

 by Mr. Thompson Westcott. The question is 

 no longer confined to a mere difierence of opinion 

 as to whether or not Andre had acted the part of 

 a spy. Mr. Westcott not only contests his right 

 to that honourable and honest character ; but goes 

 the length of representing him as having been 

 engaged in the dishonourable offices of a " tempter 

 of virtue " and a " negociator of treason." The 

 sympathy shown in England for the unmerited 

 fate of that gallant officer, was universal ; and it 

 found a fitting expression in the honours paid to 

 his memory by the British government. But, if 

 the character given of him by Mr. Westcott is 

 to be accredited, then all our sympathy has been 

 bestowed upon a man, whose name goes down to 

 posterity with the brand of infamy and dishonour. 



I was not a little surprised to find Mr. West- 

 cott using such expressions as " honourable spy," 

 " honest spy ; " and suggesting, as a palliation for 

 Andre s alleged dishonourable conduct, that " he 

 might have been forced into the position by su- 

 perior command." These sentiments may be 

 American, but they are not English. Our notion 

 of such matters was long ago expressed by that 

 right-minded Briton, who thanked God that we 

 had no synonym in our language for the word 

 espionnage. Henry H. Breen. 



St. Lucia. 



In the pleasant village of Tarrytown, West 

 Chester county, which is situated on the east 

 banks of the Hudson river, and only twenty-six 

 miles from New York, a monument has been re- 

 cently erected bearing the following inscription : 



" On this spot, the 23rd day of December, 1780, the 

 spy, Major Andre, was captured by John Caulding, Isaac 

 Van Wart, and David Williams, all natives and inhabit- 

 ants of this county. History has told the rest." 



An engraving of the monument appeared in the 

 New York Sun, June 3, 1854. From the notice 

 which accompanied it the above extract is taken. 



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Malta. 



