_Welsh Names "Blaen"_ (Vol. v., p. 128.).--Although my acquaintance with the language of the Cymri is very limited, I think that a knowledge of the cognate Erse or Gaelic enables me to make a shrewd guess at the meaning of the word _Blaen_, prefixed to the names of so many farms in Wales. The Gaelic word _Baile_, pronounced _Ballé_, signifies a town--the Scotch _toun_--or farm, and, with the preposition _an_ or _na_--Anglicè _of_--is written _Baile'n_, pronounced _Ballen_: this, I think, is probably the same word as _Blaen_, and means, being interpreted, "the farm of." In the examples given by your correspondent α, the words affixed to _Blaen_ are descriptive; many of them scarcely differ in sound from their Gaelic synonyms _e.g._ _Blaen-awen_ is the Gaelic _Baile'n abhuinn_, pronounced _Ballen avine_, Ang. "the farm on, or of the river;" _Blaen-argy_--Gaelic, _Baile'n airgiod_, "the silver farm," or perhaps _'n arguin_, of strife; _Blaen-angell_--Gaelic, _Baile'n aingeal_, "angel farm"; _Blaen-y-foss_--Gaelic, _Baile-na-fois_, pronounced _f[=o]sh_, and synonymous with the Dutch _lust_, "leisure or pleasure farm;" and _Blaen-nefern_--Gaelic, _Baile-na-fearn_, "alder farm." In England these farms or towns would have been called respectively, _Riverton_, _Silverton_, _Alderston_, and so on. The same word, generally spelt _Bally_, forms part of the name of a very large proportion of the small towns and farms in Ireland. W. A. C. Ormsary. _The Verb "to commit"_ (Vol. v., p. 125.).--The verb _to commit_, in the sense used by Junius, was employed by Lord Chesterfield so far back as the year 1757. In a letter to his son (Nov. 26), his lordship, after instructing Mr. Stanhope what to say to one of the foreign ministers, directs him to send to his own court an account of what he had done: "Tell them you thought the measure of such great importance that you could not help taking this little step towards bringing it about, but that you mentioned it only from yourself, and that you have not _committed_ them by it." Lord Chesterfield's _Letters to his Son_ were not published until 1774, which will account for Walker ascribing to Junius the merit of introducing into the English language the French signification of the verb _to commit_. WILLIAM CRAMP. _Beócera-gent_ (Vol. v., p. 201.).--As I asked a question relating to the Irish, perhaps I may be allowed the so-called Irish mode of answering it myself. _Beócherie_ is evidently derived from _Beóceraige_, the islet of bee-hives, or bee-keepers (who were regularly appointed officers in Saxon England); but as I was utterly at a loss for the word _gent_, I requested the opinion of Dr. Lèo, from whom I have received the following satisfactory reply:--