As this old ditty turns upon the making "a viol," it may be as well to add that this instrument was the precursor of the violin: but while the viol was the instrument of the higher classes of society, the "fiddle" served only for the amusement of the lower. The viol was entirely out of use at the beginning of the last century. Moll (or Mall) Symms (mentioned in the thirteenth stanza) was a celebrated dance tune of the sixteenth century. The musical notes may be found in _Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book_, in the Fitzwillian Museum, Cambridge; and in the curious Dutch collection, _Neder Lantsche Gedenck clank_, Haerlem, 1626. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. * * * * * SURNAMES. (Vol. v., p. 509.) I shall endeavour to answer some of MR. LOWER'S Queries. 1. Names having the prefix _Le_ and ending in _er_ or _re_. They are undoubtedly Norman or French, and generally relate to personal trade or employment, as _Le Mesurier_, _Le Tellier_, _Le Tanneur_, _Le Fevre_. Another class with the prefix _Le_, but of various terminations, are obviously of French origin, as _Leblanc_, _Lenoir_, _Lebreton_, _Lechaplin_, _Lemarchant_. All these came to us by the French Protestant refugees, or from Jersey and Guernsey. 2. The meaning of _worth_. This word generally implies a _military work_, and, I think, an _earth-work_; and I doubt whether _worth_ and _earth_ are not from the same root; I personally have been able to trace _works_ in many places whose names end in _worth_. I am satisfied all such surnames were _local_, that is, derived from _places_ so named from military mounds or _earth-works_. 3. The meaning of _Le Chaloneur_. It is evidently the same as our English name _Challoner_, which Cole admits into his dictionary as "the name of an ancient family." It means in old French either the _boatman_, from "chalun," a boat; or a _fisherman_, from "chalon," a kind of net. As we have in English _Fisher_, in modern French _Lepécheur_, in Italian _Piscatory_. 4. _Le Cayser._ The same as _Cæsar_, a name now, we believe, extinct amongst us, but preserved in our literature by Lord Clarendon and Pope. I suspect that it was of a class of _fancy_ names which I shall mention presently. 5. Baird and Aird are Scotch names, and probably local. Jameson (whose authority is very low with me) derives _Baird_ from _bard_, and _Aird_ he does not mention. _Aird_ or _ard_ is Celtic for _high_, and is a common local denomination in Scotland and Ireland.