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Respecting the 2nd and 3rd names, Chaloner Smith states:

Alexander Small. A native of Scotland, and eminent as a surgeon at Birmingham and at York Buildings, London. Died, 8th April, 1752.

Add:-Another eminent surgeon, of the same

names, died at Ware in Herefordshire, Aug. 31,

1794, aged 84.

Sir Benjamin Wrench.-He died Aug. 15, 1747.
His daughter had married in 1736, Harbord Har-
bord, Esq., M.P. for Norfolk.
F. B. M.

There are many definitions given of this in 'N.E.D.' and Morris's Austral English' (1898). The bush seems to have been of Dutch origin, and is synonymous with forest or jungle, and applied to all land in its primæval condition whether occupied by herds or not. Trollope in Australia and New Zealand,' page 250, says the "Technical meaning of the word 'bush' is the gumtree forest with which so great a part of HARRIS, A SPANISH JESUIT (12 S. vi. 227). Australia is covered, that folk who follow This was Father Raymond Hormasa a country life are invariably said to live in (alias Harris), S.J., the second son of a the bush," and Rusden in his History of genteel but not wealthy Spanish family at Australia,' page 67, says, "Bush was Bilbao, where he was born Sept. 4, 1741. general term for the interior. It might be He was a priest in Spain from 1756 to 1767, thick bush, bush forest, or scrubby bush, when he was banished to Corsica, and after terms which explain themselves." Else-wandering about for some time he came to where it seems that nearly every place England, and became Chaplain at Walton Tin Australia] beyond the influence of the Hall, Yorkshire, and later joined Father big towns is called 'bush,' even though there Joseph Gittings, alias Williams, S.J., at should not be a tree to be seen around." St. Mary's, Liverpool. He was three times suspended by his bishop, and died at Liverpool, May 1, 1789. The title of his pamphlet was: Scriptural researches on the licitness of the slave-trade, showing its conformity with the principles of natural and revealed religion, delineated in the sacred writings of the Word of God. Liverpool, 1788, 8vo." A second edition was issued the same "To which year added Scriptural directions for the proper treatment of slaves, and a review of some scurrilous pamphlets lately published against the author and his doctrine."

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ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

Plate's Lloyd Guide to Australasia' (London, Edw. Stanford, 1906), at p. 7, says:

"The tropical scrubs of the coastal districts of Queensland are sometimes almost impenetrable, and are really virgin forests with palm, tree ferns, ficas, climbing plants, lianes, orchids and the rest. The ordinary scrub of Australia is of quite a different character, being found in regions where plentiful rains alternate with periods of drought ..Such scrubs cover immense areas of country, and among them are the bingalow and myall scrubs of Queensland, the mulga scrubs of New South Wales, and the mallee scrubs of Victoria."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

BROWNE: SMALL: WRENCH: MACBRIDE (12 S. vi. 208).-Sir Benjamin Wrench, for sixty years a physician at Norwich, died Aug. 15, 1747, aged 82. He married Ann, the widow of Col. Robert Laton (1667-1737) of Norwich.

According to Musgrave's Obituary,' there were two surgeons named Alexander Small.

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The pamphlet is called Scriptural Researches on the licitness of the Slave Trade,' by the Rev. R. Harris (1788). The author's Christian name was Raymund, and in his preface he describes himself as a foreigner unacquainted with the least element of the

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year of his age ; and states that he quotes the visions which he professed to have his texts from the Protestant vulgar received. His influence was very great, and translation of the Bible." There is a copy his followers numerous. At Delft, Haarlem, and elsewhere many suffered death for their adherence to him; his own mother amongst them. 1544 as John of Bruges, and was highly He appeared in Basel in esteemed for his wealth and virtues, and died in 1566 was betrayed three years later by his son-in-law, when his body was dug up and burned. The Sect survived about half a century after his death and circulated his writings. There is a short account of the Sect in the Encyclopædia Britannica,' and an account of the founder in the same book under Joris. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

DAVIDIANS : DAVID GEORGE'S SECT (12 S. vi. 227).—This anabaptist heresiarch has a place in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (Partition III., sect. iv., member i., subsection iii) :

"What greater madness can there be, than for a man to take upon him to be God, as some do? to be the Holy Ghost, Elias, and what not?......One David George, an illiterate Painter, not many years since, did as much in Holland, took upon him to be the Messias, and had many followers.'

Burton gives his authority in the margin as Guicciardini, Descrip. Belg.'

The man here styled David George was Jan Jorisz or Joriszoon. In later years he called himself, Jan van Brugge. The * Encyclopædia Britannica' devotes a column to him under the heading of Joris, David (c. 1501-1556). He was at one time a glass-painter and is said to have visited England in this capacity. There is an account of him by A. van der Linde in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie,' and the Encyclopædia adds the titles of other Information about David George' and his views is also given in the threecolumn article on Familists' in J. H. Blunt's 'Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought.' David George's disciple, Henry Nicolas, is said to have come to England in the latter end of the reign of

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Edward VI.

EDWARD BENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

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23. Randolph Gallery. The Oxford University building in Beaumont Street, for which Cockerell is accountable as architect, consist of three parts: a central building running east and west, facing the south, and two advanced wings at the eastern and western ends thereof. The eastern wing on St. Giles's Street is appropriated to Modern European Languages and is known as the Taylor Institution ; the central and western portions were originally known as the University Galleries and housed a number of works of arts of various kinds belonging to the University It was to including the Pomfret statues. house these especially that Francis Randolph, D.D., Principal of St. Alban Hall, who died in 1726 bequeathed 1,000!., which with accumulated interest formed the nucleus of the sum spent by the University on their part of the building. When I went up to Oxford it was often spoken of as the Randolph Galleries. The building is now appropriated to the Ashmolean Museum (transferred from Wren's building in Broad Street), the gallery of casts from the antique, the picture gallery, the Ruskin School of Art, These were followers of David George or a studio for the Slade Professor in addition Joris (or Jorisz), a native of Ghent or to its original contents. Owing to the preBruges. He founded a sect in 1542, and ponderance of the Ashmolean Collection

For an account of the Davidists or Davidians see the article in the Ency. Brit.,' on David Joris, or George (1501-56), a Dutch anabaptist heresiarch, who espoused Lutheranism, and afterwards adopted extreme views which he disseminated by means of several works written in Dutch (from Basel where he ultimately died. He was also known as Jan van Brugge. He is said to have been christened David because his father was an actor who played the part of the Jewish king in a mystery. Sometime after his death his body was exhumed and burnt.

N. W. HILL.

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THE REV. JOHN GUTCH, ANTIQUARY AND DIVINE (12 S. vi. 170, 213, 232).--I am sure that the Provost of Queen's College will be glad that an inaccuracy in his Gutch pedigree should be corrected.

Anna Goff was the aunt not mother of the above. On Mar. 1, 1743/4 she married at Wimborne Minster the antiquary's uncle, the Rev. Robert Gutch, second son of Robert Gutch and Jane (Prickman), his wife, who was born at Wells, Dec. 5, 1712; B.A., Christ Church, Oxford, 1735; usher, 1738; headmaster, 1757, of the Free Grammar School at Wimborne; died Rector of Bryanston and Dunveston, Oct. 19, 1797 (Will P.C.C. 548 Major).

The second edition of Hutchin's Dorset' contains some inaccuracies about this man, but not having a copy before me I cannot now give details; I think amongst other things it incorrectly states that the Rev. R. Gutch married Anne Gifford, and also gives a wrong date for his death.

WILFRID GUTCH. 2 Stone Buildings, Lincolns Inn.

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Queen's College, Oxford.

OVEY (12 S. vi. 209).-Timothy Perry Ovey, merchant of St. Benet, Sherehog, London, Lord of the Manor of Warmington, Gloucester (son of Thomas Perry of Cirencester); buried at Turville, Bucks, Jan. 30, 1732, aged 72; will proved Jan. 24, 1732-3; married Jane, daughter and co-heir of John Ovey of Greenville Green, Watlington, Oxon; buried at Turville, December, 1707, aged 39; Adm. P.C.C. Nov. 17, 1712. For a pedigree of the Perry family, see The

George Sherwood. Arms granted March 24, 1717-18, to Samuel Perry of Goodman's Fields, viz., Vert, a fesse embattled ermine between three pears pendant or. Crest, a castle with two towers gules, from the top a cubit arm erect in armour, the gauntlet holding a sword, all proper (Add. MS. 14830).. The above arms occur on a monument at Turville, and the following escutcheon of pretence: 1 and 4, Vert, a bend sinister or in dexter chief, a mullet of six points of the last for Ovey"; 2 and 3, gules, three: closed and clasped books, or, for.

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One of the sons of Ovey of Watlington settled at Henley-on-Thames, in 1695, and his descendants are still living there. One branch late of Badgemore, whose arms areto be seen in Armorial Families,' fifth edition, viz., Vert, guttée d'or, two bendletssinister and raguly, between as many mullets of six points or, pierced of the first. Crest, On a wreath of the colours, upon a rock proper a lamb passant. Argent, guttée-de-sang supporting with the dexter forefoot a flagstaff in bend sinister or, the whole within a chain in arch of the third. The other branch of Henley and Regents Park, London, whose arms are to be seen on the Mausoleum in Paddington Cemetery, London, and are the same as those on the monument at Turville. Crest, a lamb and flag with glory. LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell.

PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES (12 S. vi. 213).-I should value the references or authorities for the three taverns kindly named by W. B. H. At the dates stated these taverns could hardly be said to have stood in Shug Lane. That lane is mentioned in the New View of London,' 1708, but it had disappeared by 1745; see Rocque's Survey,' where Davies Street, Berkeley Square, is marked as David Street.

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UNCOLLECTED KIPLING ITEMS: WITH NUMBER THREE: SURGICAL AND MEDICAL (11 S. ix. 309; vi. 38, 178).-I should like to express my regret that when stating at the first reference that these two stories appeared in The Daily Express I failed to verify my references. Both stories are in my collection of Kipling items, but I have not recorded the name of the paper in which they first appeared, and I rashly jumped to the conclusion that they, as well as the

mentioned by MR. YOUNG at 11 S. viii. 441, had appeared in The Daily Express. I was in Canada in 1900, when the stories were published, and I have recently found in an old diary, an entry to the effect that the first instalment of "With Number Three appeared also in The Toronto Globe on April 21, 1900. J. R. H.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LEPERS IN ENGLAND (12 S. vi. 150, 195, 218).—Although__the following list of articles upon Leper Hospitals does not profess to be complete, it presents a considerable body of information which may be of use to your correspondent: Bartleet (Rev. S. E.) The Leper Hospitals of St. Margaret and St. Mary Magdalen, Gloucester. Bristol & Glouc. Arch. Soc.' xx., pp. 127

137. Taylor (Rev. C. S.) A lease of the Master or Warden of St. Lawrence Leper Hospital

without Lawfords Gate, Bristol.-' Clifton
Ant. Club,' iii., pp. 25-34.

Doe (George M.) Some Notes on the Leper Hos-
pital, which formerly existed at Taddiport,
Devon Assoc.,' xxxii.,
Little Torrington.
pp. 289-295.
Andrews (R. T.) and Gerish (W. B.) The Leper
Hospital, Hoddesdon.- East Herts, Arch.
Soc.,' 1. pp. 299-303.
Hodson (W. W.) John Colney's or St. Leonard's
Hospital for Lepers at Sudbury. Suffolk
Arch. Instit.' vii., pp. 268-274.
Pettigrew (T. J.) On Leper Hospitals or houses.

Brit. Arch. Assoc.,' xi., pp. 9-34 and 95-117. Lower (M. A.) The Hospital of Lepers at Seaford, Sussex. Arch. Soc. Coll.,' xii., 112-116. Serjeantson (Rev. R. M.) The Leper Hospitals of Northampton, Northants. Nat. His. Soc.,'

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THE EARLIEST CLERICAL DIRECTORY (12 S. vi. 64, 157, 194, 237).—I have a copy of what appears to be the first edition of Cox's 'Clerical Directory.' It is entitled The Clergy List for 1841,' and is a tall octavo volume, bound in cloth, consisting of pp. iv, 224 and 300, with sundry advertisements at the end. It promises on the title-page to be published annually," though making no fresh appearance, it would seem, before

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BURNT CHAMPAGNE (12 S. iv. 217, 251).— It is quite likely that burnt brandy was intended. I have often remarked fine champagne that almost invariable accompaniment of a cup of black coffee in Franceignited in a spoon before mixing, though I have never seen a Frenchman do this. And what child has not been thrilled when with lights turned low, brandy on fire has been poured over the Christmas pudding with such weird effect? CECIL CLARKE.

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FOLK-LORE OF THE ELDER (12 S. i. 94).The folk-beliefs associated with the elder have been often discussed in these columns and the following random bibliographical notes are offered for what they are worth in completing the study. The most significant contributions are three mutually complementary articles: Majewski, Bez i hebd,' Wisła,' xiv. (1900), 527 ff.; Jawor skij, Zeitschrift für österreichische Volkskunde,' ii. (1895), 355, n. 1 (reprinted in Dähnhardt, Natursagen,' J. Harris ii. 238); and Stone, England's Riviera,' London, 1912, pp. 456-64, Appendix II., The Elder Tree and Its Story.' See further Keightley, Fairy Mythology,' London, 1850, p. 93; Frazer, Golden Bough,' VII. ii. ('Balder, the Beautiful,' ii.), London, 1913, p. 64; A. Fischer, Aberglaube unter den Angelsachsen,' Programm, Meiningen, 1891; C. S. Burne, Shropshire Folklore,' pp. 193-194, 243-244; W. Henderson, Folklore of the Northern Counties,' pp. 219 ff.; Thomas Browne, 'Works' (ed. Sayle), i. 306 (Pseudodoxia Epidemica,' II. vii.); Byegones,' 1907, 104; Barbour, Folk-Lore, viii. (1897), 389; ibid., xxii. (1911), 24, 53, 187-188, 213, 235-236; E. M. Leather,

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Folklore of Herefordshire,' pp. 19, 53, 80; H. N. Ellacombe, The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare,' Exeter [1878]; Jellinghaus, 'Anglia,' xx. (1898), 267 (elder in place-names); Shakespeare's England,' i. 524. For the French traditions compare E. Rolland, Flore populaire'; Sébillot, 'Le Folklore de France,' iii. 134, 369, 381, 385, 387, 390, 403, 413, 415, 419, 421 Harou, Revue des traditions populaires,' xviii. (1903), 157. For Germany see Grimm,

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Deutsche Mythologie,' 4th ed., p. 543, and iii. 358; E. H. Meyer, Germanische Mythologie,' 1891, p. 85, § 116; A. Freudenthal, Der Hollunder,' Niedersachsen,' ii. (1895), 54-70; Söhns, Zeitschrift für den deutschen Unterricht,' xi. (1897), 123 ff.; M. Höfler, Wald-und Baumkult in Be.

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Höfler, Volksmedizinische Botanik der Germanen (Quellen und Forschungen zur deutschen Volkskunde,' v. 1908); Schüz, 'Alemannia,' iv. (1877), 273; Zingerle and Meier, Zeitschrift für deutsche Mythologie,' i. (1853), 236, 326, 335, 446; Strackerjan, Aberglaube und Sagen aus dem Herzogtum Oldenburg,' 2nd ed., 1909, ii. 122; and various writers in the Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde,' i. (1890), 212; iv. (1894), 80, 450; viii. (1898), 442; xxii. (1912), 179-180. For other countries see Kolbuzowski, Lud,' Lemberg, 1895; Jones and Kropf, Skekely Folk-Medicine,' Folk-Lore Journal, ii. (1884), 98, 103; A. Andersen, Overtroiske forestillinger nærmest vedrrende dyr og planter,' 'Historisk arkiv,' vols. xvii and xviii. SAGITTARIUS.

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hermitage at Conan near Arbroath is
pointed out as his residence; near by is St.
Vigean's well. A fair was held annually
at Arbroath on St. Vigean's feast (Jan. 20)
up to the eighteenth century.
RORY FLETCHER.

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MONKSHOOD (12 S. vi. 13, 72, 216).Aconitum and Napellus do not appear to have been used in apposition as a name for monkshood until comparatively recent times. Littleton (1693), under Aconitum, says: "Tis known by its head, and the root like a little turnep, therefore by our forefathers called Napellus." Lyte calls the plant Lycoctonum Cæruleum maius, with Napellus verus as an alternative name; Gerard stylesit Napellus verus cœruleus; Caspar and Johann Bauhin (quoted by Lemery), Aconitum Caruleum, seu Napellus, and Aconitum TORPHICHEN: TORFECKAN (12 S. vi. 207). magnum purpureus fore, vulgo Napellus, -In answer to MR. PIERPOINT, there is not respectively. When the two names likely to be any connexion between first used together as at present I cannot Hospital of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in Scotland and a house of Canons say, but the herb was introduced into our pharmacopoeia as Aconitum Napellus in Regular in Ireland. The only connexion is 1788, having been used in medicine for the in the place-names which are antecedent to first time by Störck of Vienna about twentyeither of these religious foundations. Tor- six years earlier. It was at first thought his phichen or Torfeckan may be, as suggested, aconitum was the A. Cammarum of Linnæus "the sanctuary of St. Fechin " (tearmunn- but this misunderstanding Störck himself fechan), or the well of St. Fechin " (tobar-corrected. Ramesey, in his Treatise 'Of fechan), or the hill of St. Fechin (torr- Poysons' (1660), credits Matthiolus with the fechan). Or as torr means also a body of discovery that Napellus "is a kind of men, a congregation, it may denote a Aconite.' For the name Napellus Avicen community founded by the Saint. is cited by Lyte: Napellus, quasi paruus Napus. C. C. B.

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St. Fechin was one of the greatest of the Irish Saints. He founded the Abbey of Cong in 626; also the Abbey of Fore (anciently Fobhar) in West Meath. In the latter house he ruled over 300 monks. His life was written by his contemporary St. Aileran, "the Wise," professor in the school of Clonard. Both of them died in 664 of the great Yellow Plague which swept off four kings and nearly two-thirds of the population of Ireland. St. Fechin was buried at Fore. Several villages and churches in Ireland take their name from him, also an island off the west coast, Ardilaun of St. Fechin.

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In Scotland there is Ecclefechan the church of St. Fechin described in the mediæval charters as Ecclesia Sancti Fechani, but the more common form of the saint's name in that country is Vigean. His connexion with Scotland is not clear, but he appears to have spent some time there from the remains which bear his name. There is a

There are numerous plants and animals for which the Roman peasant possessed native names, the classical language taking over the corresponding terms from the Greek. The Latin vernacular was fond of diminutives and also of metaphor. Napellus, a diminutive of napus, signifies "a little turnip " and refers to the swollen part at the base of the stem of monkshood. In the same way the almond tree (classicalamygdala) was called in the vernacular nucicla, "little nut." In my copy of Mattiolis, Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides,' printed in 1598 (original edition, 1544), there is a detailed and accurate description and illustration of Napellus. In this he says: "radice nititur turbinata, vulgaris rapunculi modo." Rapunculus a little turnip: cf. Horace (Sat., II. ii. 43) rapulum. Mattioli gives napellus Italian napello.

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