through
William Fishbourne, their foreman),--

"Whereas it has been frequently and often presented by several former
grand juries for this city, the necessity of a ducking-stool and house
of correction for the just punishment of scolding, drunken women, as
well as divers other profligate and unruly persons in this place, who
are become a public nuisance and disturbance to this town in general;
therefore we, the present grand jury, do earnestly again present the
same to this court of quarter sessions for the city, desiring their
immediate care, that _those publick conveniences_ may not be any longer
delayed, but with all possible speed provided for the detection and
quieting such disorderly persons."

Another, the date of which is not given, but which is signed by the same
foreman, presents "Alsoe that a ducking-stoole be made for publick use,
being very much wanting for scolding women," &c. And in 1720, another grand
jury, of which Benjamin Duffield was foreman, say:

"The Grand Inquest, we taking in consideration the great disorders of
the turbulent and ill-behaviour of many people in this city, we present
the great necessity of a ducking-stool for such people according to
their deserts."

UNEDA.

Philadelphia.

_Double Christian Names_ (Vol. ix., p. 45.).--It is surely not correct to
say that the earliest instance of two Christian names is in the case of a
person born in 1635. Surely Henry, Prince of Wales, the son of James I., is
an earlier instance. Sir Thomas Strand Fairfax was certainly born before
that date. Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was probably an earlier instance; and
Sir Robert Bruce Colton, the antiquary, certainly so. Writing at a distance
from my books, I can only appeal to memory; but see Southey's _Common-Place
Book_, vol. i. p. 510. Venables, in his _Travels in Russia_, {233} tells us
that "a Russian has never more than one Christian name, which must be
always that of a saint." To these a patronymic is often added of the
father's name, with the addition _vich_, as in the case of the present
Czar, Nicholas Paulovich, the son of Paul.

W. DENTON.

Torquay.

_Pedigree to the Time of Alfred_ (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--Some ten or twelve
years since I was staying at the King's Head Inn, Egham, Surrey (now
defunct), when a fresh-looking, respectable man was pointed out to one as
Mr. Wapshot, who had held an estate in the neighbourhood from his anc