nd correspondence
relating to the _Lives_. From one document, entitled "Minutes relating
to the Lives of the Professors of Gresham College, being Additions to
the printed Work," we extract the following notice of "William Cokayne,
who was the son of George Cokayne, of Dovebridge in Devonshire, clerk.
He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, in London, and from thence
elected probationer Fellow of St. John's College, where he was
matriculated 9th July, 1736. He commenced A.M. 9th July, 1744; made
Junior Proctor 1750; and B.D. 4th July, 1751." The date of his
appointment as Astronomy Professor is not given; but his resignation,
in 1795, will be found in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lxv. p. 711.
He appears to have died in 1798 (see _Ib._, vol. lxviii. p. 641.), when
the Rev. Joseph Monkhouse succeeded him as Rector of Kilkhampton, co.
Cornwall.

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The MS. "Minutes" also contain a notice of William Roman, the
thirteenth Geometry Professor, "who was educated at Merchant Taylors'
School, London, and from thence elected to St. John's College, Oxford,
in 1740, being matriculated as the son of Richard Roman, of London,
Gent., aetat. 17. He commenced B.C.L., May 5th, 1747; Deacon at Christ
Church, 21st Sept., 1746; Priest at Christ Church, 20th Sept., 1747."
No date of his appointment, but he was Professor in 1755, when Maitland
wrote his account of the college. Dr. Samuel Kettilby succeeded the
Rev. Samuel Birch as Geometry Lecturer, and died June 25, 1808.--See
_Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lxxviii. p. 657.]

"_Haulf Naked._"--In poring over an old deed the other night, I stumbled
upon the above name, which I take to be that of a manor in the county of
Sussex. Is it so? and, if so, by what name is the property now known?

CHARLES REED.

[In Dallaway's _Western Sussex_, art. WASHINGTON, vol. ii. pt. ii. p.
133., is the following entry:--"In 1310, Henry Balduyne sold to Walter
de Halfenaked one messuage, two acres of arable, and two acres of
meadow, in Washington and Sullington. Ped. fin. 3 Edw. II."]

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THE LEGEND OF LAMECH--HEBREW ETYMOLOGY.

(Vol. vii., p. 363.)

Etymologists are a race who frequently need to be drawn up with a somewhat
tight rein. Our Celtic fellow-subjects will not, perhaps, be much gratified
by MR. CROSSLEY's tracing the f