492,-Critical Observations on the verbs to veil, and to vail, with an 494.-Biographical Account of Prynne. 499 (note)-Braithwaite, the writer of the humorous poem entitled "Drunken Barnaby's four Journeys to the North of England," on the authority of Mr. Haslewood. 500.-Memoirs and Works of Townshend. 506.-Brief Notice of Sir Thomas More, and his "Utopia." 509.-Diversified Translation of an ancient Latin Epigram, 510.-The Grade of the Frankelein discussed. 511. The Voyage of John Taylor, the Water Poet, from Christchurch to the City of Salisbury, and further observations on the Fashion 594.-Death of Admiral Hosier, and Poem, by Glover, with reference to 595.-Observations on the plural terminations of Saxon Substantives. 25. 596.-Statute of Richard, the Third, passed A. D. 1583, restrictive on 602.-Proof, that Sir Thomas Hungerford may be justly called as of Down Ampney, in the County of Wilts. 603.-Origin of the name of the estate of Bishopsdown, near Salisbury. 605. On the inconvenience, and impropriety, of a perambulating Legis- Essay E. Origin of Names. Name of Halle. 66 John Halle (as it appears from the ancient pedigree of the Hungerford Family) was a citizen, and merchant, of Salisbury. We also learn from the manuscript notes of (1) Aubrey (the Wiltshire Antiquary) in the libraries of the Royal Society and the Ashmolean Museum, that his mansion in that city was on the Ditch (now known by the name of the New Canal). "Halle, I doe believe" (says he) was a Merchant of the Staple at Salisbury where he had many Houses his dwelling house, now a Taverne, 1669, was on the Ditch, where in the glassewindowes are many Scutchions of his Armes and severall merchants markes yet remaining." He then makes a query: viz. " if there are not also woolsacks in the pannells of glasse?" Again, says Aubrey, "as (2) Greville & Wenman bought all the Coteswold, soe did Halle & Webb all the wooll of Salisbury plaines." A We have thus, gentle reader, from these united testimonies the most credible evidence, that there was a John Halle, who did live at Salisbury, that he had a mansion on the (then) Ditch, and that he was a citizen, and merchant, and buyer of wool-in fact-an affluent and eminent wool-stapler. I shall at present say nothing further of John Halle, (having much to report of him in my future Essays) but, as I have thus introduced the Hero of my humble history, I beg permission, in the following dissertation on names, to develope that of Halle, or (as in modern orthography) Hall. Interesting indeed is the inquiry into the origin of names, and that interest is yet increased from the obvious and clear result of such investigation. That the purposes of social intercourse pointed out the necessity of the distinctive appellations of nations, tribes, families, and individuals, must be apparent to every reflecting mind. The civilised Romans well understood, and acted, on this principle; they had their Prænomen, Nomen, and Cognomen, yet (as well observed by Mr. Markland) "the succession of names in one family, passing from a father to his posterity, as fixed and settled appellations, cannot " (as he apprehends) “ be traced to a period more remote than during the existence of the Roman Republic in its most flourishing state."* The Cognomen of the Romans well answers to our English Surname, of the origin of which word the following some Archæologia, vol. 18, p. 105. |