2" d S. IX. June 23. '60. ] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



495 



man, Jarman, O. G. Kermunt, Gaermunt, and the in- 

 vers«*Manger, Mangar, Monger; Gerbert or Chari- 

 bertus; O. H. G. Gericbo, O. G. Gerricb (synoin. 

 with the name Cararicus, a ruler of the Franks), 

 whence Gerrish, and the Eng. name Garrick; Ger- 

 ken ; the O. G. Gertraut, " very beloved," whence 

 Gertrude ; Gerhart, Gerrard, Girardin ; Glrauld ; 

 Garot, Garrett, and the inverse, Rudiger, Hrothgar, 

 or Roger (whence Hodge, Hodgkin), Garbutt, and 

 the inverse Bodger ; the O. H. G. Gerlind, Eng. 

 Garland; perhaps, as an inverse, Linnegar; Garra- 

 way; Alger, Aligar, whence Dante Alghieri ; Lu- 

 degar, Leodgar, Lutiger or Ledger; Otgar, Eadgar 

 or Edgar ; Gerlach, by corruption Garlick ; the 

 O. G. Leofgar, and the inverse Gerlof. Indeed 

 Mb. Garstin himself may derive his name from 

 the same root ; for we have the name Garstang, 

 i. e. " Garri's stang or pool;" although Garstiu 

 might also be from Garristein. 



The French names Pelissier, Pellisier, Peletier, 

 Pelletier are from the Fr. pelissier, pelletier, a fur- 

 rier, one who sells skins ; from pellis, a hide, skin. 

 In like manner the English names Pilcher and 

 Pillischer mean a maker of pilches, a warm kind 

 of upper garment (the great coat of the fourteenth 

 century) from A.-S. pylche (Fr. pelisse). 



R. S. Charnock. 



Gray's Inn. 



" Vant," Derivation of (2 nd S. ix. 426.)— Mr. 

 Charnock suggests that the termination vant may 

 be derived from the Danish vand, water, and 

 gives as an instance of a local name so ending 

 " Bullevant in Ireland." I have searched in vain 

 for any place so called. If, however, I am correct 

 in supposing that name to be a misprint for JBut- 

 tevant, a garrison town in the co. Cork, the com- 

 mon etymology assigned to it will not support his 

 theory. 



This town, which was anciently called Bothon, 

 is said to have derived its present name from 

 the exclamation Boidez en avant! "Push for- 

 ward," used by David de Barry, its proprietor, to 

 animate his men in a contest with the M'Carthys. 

 It was subsequently adopted as the family motto 

 of the Earls of Barrymore, who derived their title 

 of viscount from the place, which was in their 

 possession till sold by Richard the last Lord Barry- 

 more. John Ribton Garstin. 



Dublin. 



Pope and Hogarth (2 nd S. ix. 445.) — 



"In 1731, he [Hogarth] published a satirical plate 

 against Pope, founded on the well-known imputation 

 against him of his having satirised the Duke of Chandos 

 under the name of Timon in his poem on Taste. The plate 

 represented a view of Burlington House with Pope 

 whitewashing it, and bespattering the Duke of Chandos's 

 coach. Pope made no retort, and has never mentioned 

 Hogarth. " — Thackeray's Lectures on the English Ha- 

 mm itls, p. 233., note. 



R. F. Sketculey. 



Martha Gunn (2 nd S. ix. 403.) — The follow- 

 ing lines, copied from the tombstone of Martha 

 Gunn, in the churchyard of the parish church of 

 Brighton, will be doubtless acceptable to N. I. A. 



" In Memory of Stephen Gunn, who died 4th of Sep- 

 tember, 1813, aged 79 years. 



" Also Martha, wife of Stephen Gunn, who was pecu- 

 liarly distinguished as a bather in this town nearly 70 

 years. She died 2nd of May, 1815, aged 88 years." 



Under her name follow those of her children, 

 Friend, Elizabeth, Martha, and Thomas. The 

 above is copied verbatim, and may be seen on a 

 tombstone to your right as you enter the N.E. gate 

 of the churchyard. H. J. Matthews. 



Muswell, Clerkenwell (2 nd S. ix. 199.) — 

 In the Repertories to the Originalia, 6 th part, 31 

 Hen. VIII. Rotul. xvj., we find the following 

 entry : — 



"De homagio Willielmi Cowper et Cecilie uxoris ejus 

 tenendum unum magnum messuagium sive firmam vo- 

 catam Mousewell ferme ac Capellam vocatam Mouswell 

 chapell in parochia de Clerkenwell in comitatu Midd. 

 necnon advocacionem etc. ecclesie sancti Michaelis in 

 Wodestrete London, per liceuciam Regis inde factam." 



Abracadabra. 

 Poor Belle (2 nd S. ix. 364.) — In reply to the 

 Rev. Mb. Graves, I beg to say that the Dublin 

 Correspondent, edited by the late Counsellor 

 Townsend, was the newspaper from which I made 

 the cutting anent "Poor Belle." I have got in 

 my possession files of this once influential journal 

 from 1808 to 1821, and to the best of my recol- 

 lection the extract in question appeared in the file 

 for 1809. I sent the original cutting to the Edi- 

 tor of " N. & Q.," but did not consider it of 

 sufficient importance to preserve any memorandum 

 of the exact date. William J. Fitz-Patrick. 



Kippen (2 nd S. ix. 444.), in local names, is said 

 to mean a " promontory." It is probably from 

 the Gaelic ceap, cip, the " top, as of a hill " — 

 doubtless from caput. In Irish, besides several 

 other meanings, it has that of " head," a " piece of 

 ground," " district," "limit," " bounds ;" and cea- 

 pan is a " stump," a " small block." Carlisle 

 (Topog.) says, cip, kip, in Irish local names de- 

 notes " a file of armed men " ! There is the 

 parish of Kippen, co. Stirling ; Kippendavie, co. 

 Perth ; and Kippure is the name of a mountain, 

 co. Leinster, Ireland. There are several local 

 names compounded of hip and kippet in Scotland. 

 There is also Kippenheim, a market town in 

 Baden ; but this, of course, is doubtful. 



R. S. Charnock. 



Eyelin (2 nd S. ix. 426.)— A travelled friend 

 informs me that the picture by Lessing referred 

 to, is in the Stadel Museum at Frankfort. It re- 

 presents the tyrant Ezzelin of Ferrara in prison, 

 visited by two monks. For Ezzelin, Byron will 

 afford plenty of information. E. K. 



