"Siste--tace--Gnatho sum Miles, cum gloria cives Evocat ad Martem, quis parasitus erit? Aut quis venari coenas et prandia malit, Nobile cui stimulet pectus honoris amor?" And the concluding lines are: "Arma viros facient--Vosmet simul arma geratis, Seribatis, jubeo, protinus armigeros: Hâc lege, ut conclametis, Rex Vivat; idemque Tu repetas, Stentor noster, utrâque manu." This epilogue is in my possession in MS., the handwriting of my father, who was, in 1746, a scholar of Westminster College. It should seem, from a letter written to the _Gentleman's Magazine_ by the late Archdeacon Nares, in April, 1826, and reprinted in Nichols's _Illustrations_, vol. vii. p. 656., that he was in possession of a copy, as he there tenders it to the editor of the sixth edition of _Bourne_, which had then (1826) recently issued from the Oxford press. W. S. Richmond, Surrey. [The Epilogue referred to will be found in the beautiful edition of Vinny Bourne's _Poems_, published by Pickering in 1840, and in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, May, 1826, p. 450, where, however, the first line reads-- 'Siste, tace; Gnatho sum Miles, cum gloria _pulchra_,' &c.] _Burton, Bp., Founder of Schools, &c., at Loughborough, co. Leicester._--Can any of your genealogical readers give a clue to his family, and their armorial bearings? J. K. [Thomas Burton was a French merchant, not a prelate. A short notice of him and his gifts will be found in the _Reports of Commissioners of Inquiry into Charities_, and in Carlisle's _Endowed Charities_; but no account of his family has been given by his namesake, William Burton, in his _History of Leicestershire_, or by Nichols in his _History_.] _Hoo._--What is the meaning of this word? In Bedfordshire there are two houses and estates called by this name, Luton Hoo and Pertenhall Hoo; and in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent are villages so called. ARUN. [Luton Hoo, in Bedfordshire, was the manor of the family of Hoo, or De Hoo, who are said by Sir Henry Chauncy to have been settled there before the Norman Conquest. Hasted, in his Kent, says, "Hoo comes from the Saxon _hou_, a hill." Ihre derives the word from _hoeg_, high. Spelman, vo. _Hoga_, observes that _ho_, _how_, signifies mons, collis. Jamieson says "_How_ is certainly no other than Isl. _haug_, Suio-Gothic _hoeg_, the name given to sepulchral mounds." See also Lemon's _English Etymology_, s. v. _Hough_, _how_.] Replies. MODERN NAMES OF PLACES. (Vol. iv., p. 470.) Your correspondent L. H. J. T. has noticed the corruption of Greek topographical names, arising from the use of the definite article, which the ear of a traveller not skilled in the language supposes to be a part of the name, and so makes _Statines_ or _Satines_ from Athens, _Stives_ from Thebes, &c.