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found in places, though of course it is rare.
In the reign of Queen Anne a William
Charnelhouse was a silversmith in Gutter
Lane, London, and he entered his trade-
mark at Goldsmiths' Hall on June 10, 1703.
(2) Ion is. I think, a contraction of the
Welsh surname John. In sixteenth-century
records I have found the name of Jones
'contracted into Ions. (3) The origin of Ormandy appears to be uncertain. I do not think it is connected with Ormonde, and am Inclined to regard it as a phonetic variation of Ommaney (French Aumonier), the d
'being intrusive. (4) Twisaday (twice-a-day is perhaps a burlesque rendering of Bisdee (Latin Bis die}. Several well-known names have their burlesque satellites : thus Shakespea-re has Wagstaff, Turnbull has Metcalf, Rushout has Inskip, Bacon has Hogsflesh, &c. H. D. ELLIS.
7 Roland Gardens, S.W.
Ormondy is the only one of the abov surnames which is at all common in the records of the Furness district, and, although 'not common at the present day, is still to be met with, especially in the Barrow district. .An excellent series of historical articles dealing with the villages of the Furness district and their inhabitants is contained in the Transactions of the Barrow Naturalists' Field Club, vols. xii., xiii., and xvii.
PAUL V. KELLY. Barrow-in-Furness .
[MB. N. W. HILL thanked for reply.]
VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117, 193). There is a pound in very good preservation -within half-a-dozen miles of Charing Cross -at the south-east corner of Wimbledon ^Common. HERBERT MAXWELL.
Monreith.
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (v. sub 'Con- tributions to European Travel': 'Kheven- liuller,' 12 S. i. 182). The relics are not those of St. James, the brother of our Lord, but of St. James the Greater. Mr. John W. Taylor in ' The Coming of the Saints,' at p. 62, says :
" The active belief in the legend or tradition of the Spanish mission of St. James appears to date irom about 829 A.D., when the body of the saint
was 'discovered 'by Theodosius, Bishop of Tira
<But long before the supposed discovery or re- discoveryof the body of St. James, we have evidence that the essentials of the tradition were held by Spanish inhabitants and Spanish writers.
The summing-up of the Bollandists in the
- Aeta Sanctorum' appears to be decidedly in
favour of the thesis that the reputed Spanish emission of St. James is reliable and historical. 1 ' JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
HANDLE Y CROSS (12 S. i. 228). It is
certainly a fictitious name. For many years
the belief was entertained that Cheltenham
was the town which Mr. Robert Smith
Surtees had in mind when he wrote ' Handley
Cross. ' A lengthy disquisition on the sub j ect ,
signed by a writer who subscribed himself
" The Mouse in the Corner," appeared in
The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
of Nov. 20, 1886, in which it was not only
asserted that Surtees was staying in the
vicinity of Cheltenham when he conceived
the idea of his book, but further that he took
for his prototype of Mr. John Jorrocks one
Paul Crump, a welter-weight yeoman who
hunted a pack of harriers, and resided in
the " fifties " at Coomb Hill, near Tewkes-
bury. But quite recently, in a work entitled
' Northern Sport and Sportsmen,' by J.
Fairfax Blakeborough, it is contended that
Croft Spa, near Darlington, in the Hurworth
country, is the original of Handley Cross ;
and as Mr. Surtees was himself a Durham
man, it is more than probable that this
hypothesis is well founded. On the other
hand, however, Mr. Charles Fox, ex-
huntsman of the Blackmoor Vale Hounds,
and at one time whipper-in to the Hurworth
pack, while admitting that Mr. Surtees was
familiar with Croft Spa, and, indeed, owned
a fishing lodge nea,r Neasham, a mile distant
from that watering-place, recently expressed
the opinion, in a sporting contemporary,
that Handley Cross could not have been
intended for Croft Spa, since the pump room
of the latter does not boast of a " spacious
vestibule " such as that described in
' Handley Cross.' Another correspondent
though on what grounds he based his belief
I have no knowledge insisted that Leam-
ington was Handley Cross. Personally,
nevertheless, I lean to Croft Spa ; but there
is much force in an observation made by
Mr. Charles Fox that
Mr. Surtees used a bit of this place, a bit of another ; a bit of one country and a bit of another, to help him tell his story in his own inimitable way."
WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
" PAT (MARTHA) ALEXANDER, TAVERN KEEPER" (12 S. i. 248). I find I was in error in saying that Sarah Malcolm was executed at Tyburn. It is so stated in the ate Major Arthur Griffiths' s ' Chronicles of Newgate,' but he was wrong, and misled me. As a matter of fact, the woman was executed n Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, where many persons in those days suffered the extreme )enalty of the law.
WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
