in the
church. Their arms, Or, on two bars gules six mascles of the field, on a
canton sable a leopard's face of the first. The Geerings were long tenants
of a part of the estate which they purchased; they are extinct in the male
line. A grandson, John Bockett, Esq. (by the female line), of the last
heir, possessed a small farm in the parish which was sold by him some years
ago. The manor now belongs to Worcester College, Oxford, who purchased it
of Gregory Geering, gent., in 1758. The name is spelt Gearing and Geary in
the early registers.

The books in the small study (mentioned in "N. & Q." some time ago) were
given by Gregory Geering, Esq., Mr. Ralph Kedden, vicar of Denchworth, and
Mr. Edward Brewster, stationer, of London, most of which are attached by
long chains to the cases.

JULIA R. BOCKETT.

Southcote Lodge.

_Island_ (Vol. viii., p. 279.).--H. C. K. is quite right in saying that the
_s_ has been inserted in this word: not, however, as he thinks, "to
assimilate {505} the Saxon and French terms," but from a fancied French or
Latin derivation, just as _rime_ is spelt _rhyme_, because it was fancied
that it came from [Greek: rhuthmos]; and as critics and editors will print
_coelum_ instead of _caelum_, contrary to all authority, because they have
taken it into their heads that it comes from [Greek: koilon]. We have also
_spright_, _impregnable_, and other misspelt words, for which it is
difficult to assign a reason. But I think H. C. K. is altogether mistaken
in connecting the A.-S. _ig_ (pr. _ee_), an island, with _eye_. It is
evidently one of the original underived nouns of the Teutonic family, being
_ig_ A.-S., _ey_ Icel., whence _oe_ Swed., _oe_ or _oee_ Dan., and which also
appears in the German and Dutch _eiland_; while in the words for _eye_ the
_g_ is radical, as _eage_ A.-S., _auga_ Icel., _auge_ Germ., _oog_ Dutch.

T. K.

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