Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
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Ludlow died at Vevay, in Switzerland, in 1693, and the Memoirs were
published at Vevay shortly after. There is no will of Ludlow's in Doctor's Commons. _Finkle or Finkel._--I should be glad if any of your numerous correspondents could give me the derivation and meaning of the word _Finkle_, or _Finkel_, as applied to the name of a street. There is a street so designated in Carlisle, York, Richmond in Yorkshire, Kendal, Sedberg, Norwich (in 1508 spelt Fenkyl, and in 1702 Fenkel), and, I believe, in many other of our more ancient cities and towns. In the township of Gildersome, a village some few miles from Leeds, there is an ancient way, till lately wholly unbuilt upon, called Finkle Lane; and in London we have the parish of St. Benedict Finck, though I do not imagine that the latter is any way synonymous with the word in question. The appellation of Finkle is, without doubt, a descriptive one; but the character of the lane so styled in Gildersome seems to negative the idea that it has any reference to the peculiarity of trade or class of persons carried on or inhabiting the locality distinguished by this title. W.M. Cowgill, March 13. 1850. _Coxcombs vanquish Berkeley, &c._--In Lewis's _Biography of Philosophy_ (vol. iv. p. 7.) occurs the following quotation:-- "And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin." |
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