Dec. 31. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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1 ;To persons acquainted with the Welsh or 

 Breton, the names of places in Cornwall, though 

 sometimes strangely corrupted, are almost all sig- 

 nificant. The dialect of Celtic spoken in Cornwall 

 appears to have approached more closely to the 

 latter than to the former of these tongues ; or 

 perhaps, speaking more correctly, it formed a con- 

 necting link between them, as Cornwall itself lies 

 about midway between Wales and Brittany. 



Edgar MacCduloch. 

 Guernsey. 



Gentile Names of the Jews (Vol. viii., p. 563.). 



— The names of Rothschild, Montefiore, and 

 Davis are fiimily names, and not noins de guerre. 



It is possible that the honoured names of 

 Rothschild and Montefiore date from a purchase by 

 some one of their ancestry of Gentile castles or 

 lands, and with it the purchase right of name, 



Davis is legitimately Jewish, but probably the 

 Gentile name of Davis cannot boast of its pure 

 source, and no doubt vvhei'e Gentile pedigree 

 loses trace, Jewish descent commences, either by 

 a left-handed Jew connexion with a Gentile fair 

 one, or a renegade ancestry. Israel ben Isaac. 



Red Lion Square. 



Longevity (Vol. viii., p. 113.). — On October 15, 

 Judy, a slave, died on the plantation of Edmund 

 B. Richardson, in Bladen county. North Carolina, 

 aged 110 years. She was one of eight slaves who 

 nearly sixty years ago were the first settlers on 

 the plantation, whei'e she died. Of the seven 

 others, one died over 90 years of age, another 93, 

 and a third 81 ; two are living, one 75 and the 

 other OTcr GO years of age. 



Within five miles of the place where Judy died, 

 William Pridgen lived, who died about five years 

 ago, aged 122 years. ^ 



David Kennison, a soldier of the Revolution, 

 died near Albany (N. Y.) on the 24th of Febru- 

 ary, 1852, aged 117 years. M. E. 



Philadelphia. 



Reversible Names (Vol. viii., p. 244.). — Emme 

 might have been added to your correspondent's 

 list, a female name which, when first known in 

 England, was spelt as above written, and not 

 Emma, as at the present time. In an old book I 

 have seen the name and its meaning thus recorded, 



— in English, Emme; in French, Emme, bonne 

 nourrice. 



I must beg to differ in opinion from your cor- 

 respondent, even with his epicene restriction, who 

 states " that varium et mutabile semper femina 

 only means that whatever reads backwards and 

 forwards, the same is always feminine.'^ 



If M. will take the trouble to look in Boyle's 

 Court Guide for 1845, p. 358., he will find the 

 name of a late very distinguished general officer, 



Sir Burges Camac. A wealthy branch of this 

 family is now established in the United States, 

 and one of its members bears the name of Camac 

 Camac. 



I am unable to give M. another instance, and 

 doubt if one can be easily found where the 

 Christian and surnames of a gentleman are alike, 

 and both reversible. W.W. 



Malta. 



Etymology of Eve. — Only one instance of a re- 

 versible name seems to me at present among the 

 propria quce vmribus, and that is Bob. As, how- 

 ever, the name of our universal mother lias been 

 brought forward, you will, perhaps, allow me to 

 transcribe the following remarkable etymology : 



" Omnes nascimur ejulantes, ut nostram Tniseriam 

 exprimamus. Masculus enim recenter natus dicit A ; 

 foemina vero E ; dicentes E vel A quotquot nascuntur 

 ab Eva. Quid est jgltur Eva nisi heu ha ? Utrumque 

 dolentis est interjectio doloris ex])riniens magnitudinem. 

 Hinc enim ante peccatum virago, post peccatuni Era 

 meruit appellari. . . . Mulier autem ut naufragus, 

 cum parit tristitiam habet," &c. — De Contemptu Mundi, 

 lib. i. C.6., a Lothario, diacono cardinal], S.S. Sergii et 

 Bacchi, editus, qui postea Innocentius Papa IIJ. ap- 

 pellatus est." 



Balliolensis. 



Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas (Vol. viii., 

 p. 585.). — Allow me to correct a gross error into 

 which I have been led, by an imperfect concord- 

 ance, in hastily concluding that the words " In 

 te Domine speravi, non confundar in seternum," 

 were not in the Psalms, as I have found them in 

 the Vulgate, Psalms xxxi. 1. and Ixxi. 1. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 

 Lichfield. 



Binometrical Verse (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 375.). — 

 In answer to these inquiries, the copyright of 

 this united hexameter and pentameter belongs to 

 Mr. De la Pryme, of Trin. Coll., Cambridj^e, who 

 is also the author of another line which is both 

 an alcaic and sapphic : 



" Quando nigrescit sacra latro patrat." 



X. 



Gale of Rent (Vol. viii., p. 563.). — Gale {Gavel, 

 Sax., a rent or duty,] a periodical payment of 

 rent. The Latin form of the word is gabelbun, 

 and the French gabelle. (See Wharton's Law 

 Lexicon.") 'AXitvs. 



Dubl'ui, 



MiittXlKixtaxi^. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The History of Milhoall, commovly called the Isle of 

 Dogs, including Notices of the West India Docks and 

 City Canal, and Notes on Poplar, Blackmail, Limehouse, 



