execution to prevent bloodshed in 1813. WTF?

I came upon this snippet in the Hereford Journal, 20th October, 1813

It reads,
"The punishment of seconds in duels, by death, where every effort has not been made to reconcile the parties, consistent with honour, will prove a very probable method of stopping the effusion of human blood unnecessarily."

I had to share this.  What idiot thought that executing the seconds would bring about a reduction in bloodshed?

About my writing

I have set up a new blogspot https://mywipwriting.blogspot.co.uk/ where my draft work can be viewed and read, and I will post as I write.  I will preview covers there as well. 
I will delete all but the first chapter of each work when I am ready to publish.

Update on where I've been, why, and what I'm up to.

Somewhere along the line of being made very ill with the blood pressure pills I was given, Enalapril, whose side effects look like an M.E. relapse, I pretty much lost 2017.
So this was a time following my husband's illness, when an M.E. relapse might be expected to happen that I spent with a permanent fluey cold, hacking cough, swollen neck and throat, and sleeping 16 hours a day.
You may begin to understand why my writing productivity has been poor.
However, when I came off the damned drug and it cleared from my system, I wrote the first draught of 'Heiress in Hiding', the sixth Brandon Scandal, in less than a fortnight. I think it was eleven days, which isn't bad going by anyone's standards.  It's now published. 

I've also just released 'The Redemption of Chauvelin' which is a Scarlet Pimpernel sequel.  I've been waiting to publish that for a while, but under British law, Baroness Orczy wasn't out of copyright until January this year. So I have been editing that, and having it edited and so on as well.

I'll shortly also be releasing 'The Ace of Schemes', a sequel to 'The Valiant Viscount' [previously called 'The Pugilist Peer'] which was about the only thing I managed to write during that whole annus horribilis. 

I've been working through the next Felicia and Robin, and need to go through to see what my Editor has said with regards to that.  I am also writing a Jane and Caleb book, in which they must solve three mysteries simultaneously, which have connections to each other, after the fashion of the Chinese detective story - I am a fan of Robert Van Gulik, who is the master, and I, the detective story padawan, sit at his feet.  It's good fun actually but a bit slower and I reduced my cast list to 33.  I'm on chapter 9 and one chapter a day is about all I can manage, though I have just got over the Australian flu, so that might account for it as well.
I haven't forgotten a sequel to the revamped Cousin Prudence, or the Charity School stories and will be working on them.

Future plans
there are 4 more Charity School stories I want to write,  and I'll be going with the suggestion made to me of drawing in the character Stoat from 'Unwilling Viscount' who raised requests to see more of him.
I am thinking of doing series of Brandon Scandals set in other times/places, like the American branch founded by Henry Brandon in 1620 or so; also the children of those I have already covered, and maybe series set in late Victorian times and 1920s.  It has a certain soap opera quality to it which demands spinoffs
I have two other series outlined, the Seven Stepsisters series and the Diaries of a Chaperone for Hire series, both set in the Long Regency.
I have one short story which will hopefully be joined by others; it involves a Regency maiden lady detective. 
I've also been playing with some noir cyberpunk.
I have not abandoned Bess and the Dragons, in which Kit Marlowe's daughter goes to a school to learn about the dragons hatching from the eggs Walter Raleigh found instead of El Dorado. 
I will probably write more Regency and Georgian short stories and eventually put together another anthology to go with Belles and Bucks.
The  Bailiff's Baroness will be another in the Georgian Gambles series, following Ace of Schemes, and will be the third of 4 planned for that series. That one plunges us forward into the French Revolution. 
The muse being a fickle jade plans are made to be overturned, but these are my intentions to date.

Naming elements in place names

When I place my characters into a landscape, I usually give them fictional surroundings, based on local names, but made up of [usually Saxon/Old English] naming elements.

I use the same system to give peers names since most are going to be Lord [Somewhere]. 

If I have a definite county in mind, I look at a map to see if there are any peculiarities about naming, such as using -hithe, a good place for a harbour in East Anglia, and Hasel- in rural Wiltshire, as well as the obvious tre-, pol- and pen- in Cornwall.  I haven't gone into the peculiarities of the Cornish dialect, though I have made up the name Penroselly for one of my short stories.  Thorpe tends to be north-eastern. Glen tends to be Scots.  Devon feels right with Otter- [the most famous fictional example being Ottery St Catchpole, home of the Weasley, Diggory and Lovegood families]

As many surnames are locative there is nothing wrong with using these elements for surnames, whether to use as people named after a village, or as a more immediate location, like the surname Attwood, someone who lives at the wood; Nokes, from Attenokes, he who lives by the oak trees, etc.

Following are lists of naming elements with their meanings, for mixing and matching as seems appropriate. Unless appended as ON [old Norse] Lat. [Latin] or Celt [Celtic] they are Saxon in origin.

Land

land an area of land

acre, aker, iker,ager an area of land, an acre is a measure of land.

hurst, hersh, nersh field

field, feld field

wix, wis[ce], -wisse marshy meadow

lea, ley, meadow

hale, heale, hele nook

hop[e] remote enclosed space

brick, brig top, slope

dun [Celt] hill

linch, link bank, hedge

lyth, lith, lither [ON]  slope

thwaite clearing, meadow, paddock

dale or comb valley

den[e] valley or weedy place

-dish pasture

wynn [celt] pasture

ham settlement or hamm land hemmed by water

ton town

wic[h] town anglicised from Lat. vicus

burgh fortified settlement

cester [Lat] town

to which one may also add mud, sand/samp, ston/stain/stan, chesil/ching/chilles gravel to add a component of what it may be made of as well.

Watery words

-ea river

-ea or -ey island or land raised above marsh

beck, brook, brok, burn, bourne, lak[e] stream

keld [ON] stream

fleot, fleet estuary, stream that goes inland

rith/reth small stream sometimes -ry and -ready

mere, mire, marsh, mersh, fen[n] a marshy area

font, spring, well spring

flode, flood, wash an area prone to flooding

strode, stroth, car[r], boggy marginal regions overgrown with brush and water-loving trees like alder

staith [ON]  a place to tie up boats, usually only found in eastern counties.

vath/wath [ON] ford

wade, ford ford

brig, bridge bridge

Concerned with woods and vegetation

den woodland pasture

wood, holt wood

wold uncultivated land, overun with vegetation weald, wald the Kentish version

with [ON] uncultivated land

chet, chat [Celt] wood, forest

grove, grave, beer, bere, barrow thicket or grove

hay, hey woodland enclosure

hangar sloping wood

hurst wooded hill

lound, lund, shaw, skew, seue small wood, shaw implies single species of tree and can be teamed with same

frith fir, scrubland

brake, brak, brex, brec brake,furzy bracken

ac, ake, oc, oak, oke, noke, roke  oak

As, ask, ash, esk ash

boc, box, beech, bex beech

ew yew

berk, bar, birch, birk birch

holen, holm[e] holly

alor, alr, alder alder

appel apple

piri pear

hazel, hasle, hasel hazel

withy, withi[a], weli- weel, win, sall, saul, willow

hather, thorn, thearne, thyrne hawthorn

elm, alm, el elm

lyne, lind lime

asp, esp aspen

red reed

plus rush, sedge, grass, heath, nut

Animals

ox ox

gos goose

hurt, hart stag

wul, wool wolf

bag badger

beever beaver

tad toad

il hedgehog

al eel

pik pike

cran, hern heron

eld, swan swan

fin woodpecker

fowl, ful fowl

gled kite

craw, crow crow

are eagle

find also fish, fox, frog, raven, cat etc

Miscellaneous

brad, braid broad

durn, darn, dern hidden

dip, dep deep

scal shallow

ful foul

lang, long long

sher[e] bright

so here are some to get you going: Bradwath, Braxstrode, Withymere, Litherthwaite, Okedene.   Have fun!