passage which ERICA quotes from Lord Coke has not the
significance which he attributes to it. A man can have but one Christian or
baptismal name, of however many single names or words that baptismal name
may be composed. I have spoken in this letter of two Christian names, in
order to be more intelligible at the expense of correctness.

J. J. H.

Temple.

_Lamech's War-song_ (Vol. vii., p. 432.).--There have been many
speculations about the origin and meaning of these lines. I agree with
EWALD in _Die Poetischen Buecher des Alten Bundes_, vol. i., who calls it a
"sword-song;" and I imagine it might have been preserved by tradition among
the Canaanitish nations, and so quoted by Moses as familiar to the
Israelites. I should translate it--

"Adah and Zillah, hear ye my voice!
Wives of Lemek, heed ye my saying!
For man do I slay, for my wound;
And child, for my bruise.
For seven-fold is Cain avenged,
And Lemek seventy-fold and seven."

Bishop Hall, in his _Explication of Hard Texts_, paraphrases it thus:

"And Lamech said to his wives, 'Adah and Zillah, what tell you me of
any dangers and fears? Hear my voice, oh ye faint-hearted wives of
Lamech, and hearken unto my speech; I pass not of the strength of my
adversary: for I know my own valour and power to revenge; if any man
give me but a wound or a stroke, though he be never so young and lusty,
I can and will kill him dead.'"

Your correspondent H. WALTER says that "every branch of Cain's family was
destroyed by the Deluge." Where is the authority to be found for the
tradition, quoted in an _Introduction to the Books of Moses_, by James
Morison, p. 26., that Naameh, the daughter of Lamech the Cainite and
Zillah, married Ham, the son of Noah, and thus survived the Flood?

W. FRASER.

Tor-Mohun.

_Traitor's Ford_ (Vol. vii., p. 382.).--Nothing is known of any legend in
connexion with the stirring events of the battle of Edgehill, or its times,
and the origin of the name is a matter of speculation. One _Trait_ had
lands near this stream, and it is thought by some that, from this
circumstance, it is properly _Trait's_ Ford, corrupted into Traitor's
Ford,--a locality well known to sportsmen as a favourite meet of the
Warwickshire hounds.

A. B. R.

Banbury.

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