What the late Dr. Graves meant by _haupt_ or _hope_, for head, I am at a loss to conceive. _Haupt_, in German, it is true, means _head_; but in speaking of a small body of men, marching at the head of an army, no German would ever say _Haupt_, but _Spitze_. As to _hope_ (another word for _head_) I know not from what language he took it; certainly not from the Saxon, for in that tongue _head_ was called _heafod_, _hefed_, or _heafd_; whilst _hope_ was called _hopa_, not _hope_. C. S. (An Old Soldier.) Oak Cottage, Coniston, Lancashire. _Two Brothers of the same Christian Name_ (Vol. viii., p.338.).--I have recently met with another instance of this peculiarity. John Upton, of Trelaske, Cornwall, an ancestor of the Uptons of Ingsmire Hall, Westmoreland, had two sons, living in 1450, to both of whom he gave the Christian name of John. The elder of these alike-named brothers is stated by Burke, in his _History of the Landed Gentry_, to have been the father of the learned Dr. Nicholas Upton, canon of Salisbury and Wells, and afterwards of St. Paul's, one of the earliest known of our authors on heraldic subjects. The desire of the elder Upton to perpetuate his own Christian name may in some way account for this curious eccentricity. T. HUGHES. Chester. _Passage in Watson_ (Vol. viii., p. 587.).--Your correspondent G. asks, whence Bishop Watson took the passage: "Scire ubi aliquid invenire posses, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est." In the account of conference between Spalato and Bishop Overall, preserved in Gutch's _Collectanea Curiosa_, and printed in the Anglo-Catholic Library, Cosin's _Works_, vol. iv. p. 470., the same sentiment is thus expressed: "By keeping Bishop Overall's library, he (Cosin) began to learn, 'Quanta pars eruditionis erat bonos nosse auctores;' which was the saying of Joseph Scaliger." Can any of your correspondents trace the words in the writings of Scaliger? J. SANSOM. _Derivation of "Mammet"_ (Vol. viii., p. 515.).--It may help to throw light on this question to note that Wiclif's translation of 2 Cor. vi. 16. reads thus: "What consent to the temple of God with _mawmetis_?" Calfhill, in his _Answer to Martiall_ (ed. Parker Soc., p. 31.), has the following sentence: "Gregory, therefore, if he had lived but awhile longer; and had seen the least part of all the miseries which all the world hath felt since, only for maintenance of those _mawmots_; he would, and well might, have cursed himself, for leaving behind him so lewd a precedent." And at p. 175. this,-- "That Jesabel Irene, which was so bewitched with superstition, that all order, all honesty, all law of nature broken, she cared not what she did, so she might have her _mawmots_." See also the editor's note on the use of the word in this last passage. In Dorsetshire, among the common people, the word _mammet_ is in frequent use to designate a puppet, a doll, an odd figure, a scarecrow. J. D. S.