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and Vandals had similar villages inhabited solely by men of their own tribe.* It is evident, therefore, that we must reject MR. ADDY's line of argument unless we are prepared to rewrite our early history. I hold that these names no more prove the existence of such national or tribal settlements than the name of the present King of Italy proves that he is a Hun.

find an actual instance, apart from the evidence of local names, of the use of these pet forms. The evidence being ample that the Anglo-Saxons used all the above stems in compounding full names, we are, I hold, entitled to assume that they also used these stems alone as pet forms. For instance, we know that Wealh was used in full names; therefore we can at once assume a pet-name Wealh. The accuracy of our principles is at once established by the occurrence of this very name in the following instances: A.D. 696-713, Walh presbyter, 'Cart.

id., i. 131, 27; A.D. 757, Uales, gen., id., i. 262, 14; A.D. 777-9, Wales, gen., id., i. 313, 13; 325, 10; A.D. 800-900, Walch, Liber Vita Dunelm., 20, col. 3; A.D. 805-31, Wealh, 'Cart. Saxon.,' i. 445, 26. I have instances of the use of the pet forms Hún and Dene, and the existence of Swa'f is proved by the Swa'fes-healh or heall of 'Cart. Sax.,' ii. 490, 15; but so far I have not met with instances of the names Franc, Wendel, and Seax. But as these names are regular formations from authenticated name-stems, and as they are preserved and recorded in local names, there is not the slightest reason to doubt their having existed.

What, then, is the explanation of these names? My answer is that it is to be found in the AngloSaxon system of personal names, which is, in truth, the key to the etymology of a large pro-Saxon.,' i. 131, 27; A.D. 696-716, Walh presbyter, portion of our local names. Every one of the above names is derived from a personal name embodying a national name. The Teutonic tribes adopted tribal and national names—such as Angle, Goth, Frank, Saxon, Sueve, Vandal, Dane, Hun, &c.—as name-stems; that is, they were freely compounded with other stems to form personal names. Adopting the same principle, the Anglo-Saxons similarly used Piht, a Pict. The name-stem Wealh was, no doubt, used by them long before they made acquaintance with the Welsh. Jordanes, c. xiv., records a fourth century Vala-rauans,t an ancestor of Theodoric the Great. The Walhs of this name cannot, it is evident, refer to either the Welsh or the Italians, but relates to some other non-Teutonic race, whose acquaintance the Teutons had made at a much earlier date. These names compounded with national names were, of course, subject to the same laws as the other Teutonic names. Hence the first stem could be used as a pet or diminutive form. It is this practice that accounts for the appearance of these national names in our English local names. In other words, local names in Weales-, Swa'fes-, Húnes-, Denes-, Wendles-, &c., are simply derived from men named Wealh, Swae'f, Hún, Dene, Wendel, &c.; or, to put it more accurately, from men whose full names began with these stems.

To show the fallacy of MR. ADDY's arguments it is only necessary to consider that most of the Normantons are older than the Norman conquest, and hence cannot record Norman settlements. They are derived from the name Nord-mann. Similarly the Nottinghamshire Saxon-dale does not record a Saxon settlement, but is derived from the personal name Seax-a, masc., or *Seax-e, fem., gen. masc. and fem. Seax-an.

The notion that Gestfield, and Sibbfield, record a Celtic occupation is surely one of the most absurd arguments that has been produced even by the "Celtic" etymologists. It is astonishing enough to hear of separate Welsh and English villages in A.-S. times; but the idea of separate settlements I have maintained upon several occasions that it in the fields of one village, distinguished as the is only necessary for us to know that a certain" friends' field "English, and the "foes' field "= stem was used in compounding personal names to Welsh, is one that very few people will be able to enable us to assume, with reasonable certainty, swallow. W. H. STEVENSON. that that stem was used alone as a pet form. I have been assailed for this by those who were not acquainted with the principles of the Teutonic name-system; but every day confirms me more and more in my opinion. It is not always possible to

This is, practically, the view adopted by Dr. Taylor in 'Words and Places." †This represents a Gothic Wala-hrabns, A.-S. *Weath-hrafn, O.H.G. Walah-hraban. The High German or Frankish form of this name is familiar to us in the Norman Waleran or the French Gualeran. The name Balcho-baudes in Ammianus Marcellinus, xxvii. 2, 6, is, according to Dietrich, from the stem Walho-z.

The impossibility of interpreting these personal names as having any ethnic origin is shown by the A.-S. names Weath-hun and Piht-hun, where we have two natural names in each compound,

'FAME'S MEMORIALL,' BY JOHN FORD.

Ford's dull and pompous lament for Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy, who was created Earl of Devonshire in 1603 by James I., has suffered a general, and perhaps merited neglect. I wish to call attention, however, to a few points connected with it, which may not be without interest either to the biographical or bibliographical student. The subject of the poem, it will be remembered, was for some years before his death a lover of Lady Rich, better known as Sir Philip Sidney's "Stella." lady lived from the first very unhappily with her husband, and about Nov. 15, 1605, she obtained a divorce from him, On December 26 following

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she was married to the Earl of Devonshire at Wanstead, in Essex, by William Laud, at that time his chaplain.

This event caused considerable scandal at Court, where before both parties had enjoyed great favour. The legality of the marriage was disputed, and in turn defended by the earl in a learned protest addressed to the king. James remained obdurate, and when the earl died, April 3, 1606, the heralds, it is said, refused to quarter his wife's arms on his tomb. Public opinion, however, was divided. Lamentations for the deceased appeared as usual, and among them was what seems to be Ford's first poetical effort. A MS. of 'Fame's Memoriall' is preserved in the Bodleian Library (Malone, 238). It is a beautifully written small quarto. When purchased, Malone says in a note, it had gilt edges, and is in all probability the actual copy presented to the widowed countess, A comparison of this MS. with the first edition, printed by Christopher Purset, 1606, and, I believe, all subsequent editions, reveals three stanzas more in the MS., 151 against 148, and different, apparently contradictory, dedications. I will notice the latter first. After a few lines common to both, the Epistle Dedicatory (which, by the way, is quaintly addressed to the "Rightlie right Honorable Ladie, the ladie Penelope Countesse of Deuonshire ") in the MS. runs : "Yet ere I committed it to the presse (for fame vndiuulged is an hidden minerall) being vnknowne vnto you, I might haue beene imputed as much impudent as fond if I had not first presented it to yo' milder view: Earnest to vnderstand whether your acceptation and liking may priuiledge the passe vnder your honorable conduct: wch if it may, I shall deeme my willing paines, (though hitherto confined to the Inns of Court & Studie different) highlie guerdoned; and myne vnfeathered Muse richlie graced wth ye Plumes of soe worthie a protectresse. The honourer & Louer of your Noble perfections, John Ford."

The parallel passage in the first edition runs :"Let not therefore (worthie Countesse) my rasher presumption seem presumptuous folly, in the eyes of your discreeter iudegment, in that without your priuitie (being a meere straunger alltogether vnknowne to you) I haue thus aduentured to shelter my lines vnder the well-guided conduct of your Honorable name: grounding my boldnes upon this assurance that true ge'tility is euer acco'panyd (especially in your sex, more specially in your selfe) with her inseparable adiunct singular Humanity, principally towards those whom neither Mercenary hopes or seruile flattery haue induced to speake but with the Priuiledge of troth...... Thus (Madame) presuming on your acceptance I will think my willing paines," &c.

The two dedications, I have said, appear contradictory. But it seems most unlikely that Ford should have abstained from presenting his lament to the Countess of Devonshire after having it copied by a professional transcriber for the purThe explanation is probably that Lady Devonshire disliked to appear to sanction the publication of a poem which treated very frankly various matters concerning herself and her

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late husband, and this view is supported by the fact that the three verses omitted from the printed edition are more directly addressed to her and more personal than any others in the work. The second especially describes very forcibly the contrast between Lady Devonshire's position at Court before and after her second marriage. The differences between MS. and printed text gain in interest if we may conclude that they were desired by her. The following are the omitted stanzas. They occur after the verse beginning "O sad disgrace" (v. 94), which, with the previous one, is slightly altered from the original MS. :Lyue thou vntoucht foreuer aboue fame! More happie yt thou canst not be more haplesse ! The wordes of malice are an vsual game, Whose mouth is lawlesse, whose invention saplesse, Their breast of hony tornes to poison paplesse Still be thine eares to sufferance tun'd readie In mynde resolu'd in resolution stedie. What hee, amongst the proudest of contempt Whiles as thy sunshine lasted, did not bend Vnto thy presence? flattery redempt Wth seruice on their seruice did attend? All stryving to admire, protest, comend, Wch now by imputation black as hell They seeme to derrogate from dooing well. Thy virtue caus'd thy honor to support thee In noble contract of vndoubted merit, His knowledge to his credence did report thee A creature of a more then female sperit, Concord of musick did thy soule inherit, Courtiers but counterfeit thy Rarity For thy perfections brookt no parity. The next verse begins as in the printed editions, "Even as a quire." RACHAEL POOLE.

ALE-TASTERS.-I think the following is worthy of preservation in N. & Q.':—

"A correspondent of the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle gives the following particulars concerning the last of the taster of Rossendale), may with propriety be described as ale-tasters :-The late Richard Taylor, of Bacup (the alethe last of the ale tasters.' His proper calling was that and the curious will find allusions to him in the 'History of a spindlemaker, hence his nickname Spindle Dick'; of Rossendale.' He was a fellow of infinite humour, and performed his duties to his lord and the halmot jury as if to the manner born, as the following extract from one of his annual reports will testify-The appointment which I hold is a very ancient one, dating (as you are aware) from the time of the good King Alfred, when the jury at the court leet appointed their head-boroughs, tithing men, bursholder, and ale-taster, which appointments were again regulated in the time of King Edward III., and through neglect this important office to a beerimbibing population ought not to be suffered to fall into beer is meat, drink, and washing; do away with the office disrepute or oblivion......To some Rossendale men, indeed, of ale-taster, an inferior quality of the beverage may be sold, and the consequent waste of tissue would be awful to contemplate......In my district there are fifty-five licensed public-houses and sixty-five beer-houses. The and calculated to prevent the deterioration of tissue, and quality of beer retailed at these houses is generally good, I do not detect any signs of adulteration.' When dis

charging his high functions, Dick carried in his coat of the name was partly brought about by the fact pocket a pewter gill measure, of peculiar old-world shape, that Pliny speaks also of a Chalcedonian jasper with a turned ebony wood handle in the form of a cross that projected straight from the middle of the side. This Nat. Hist.,' xxxvii. 37). But it is not likely that symbol of his office was secured by a leathern thong about the third stone in the foundation of the New Jeruhalf a yard in length, one end being round the handle, salem was the "chalcedonius" described by Pliny the other through a button-hole in his coat. As might (Nat. Hist.,' xxxvii. 18). The fourth stone was the be expected, he was occasionally summoned before the ouápaydos, translated "emerald" in our versions. Bench on the charge of being drunk and incapable; to The third is called xaλkηdúv in most of the MSS., this he alluded in his report :-'I have even been dragged before a subordinate court and fined five shillings and costs but there are other readings, externally indeed of whilst fulfilling the duties of my office.' In a wide and no great authority, which make it very probable populous district the duties when conscientiously per- that the original reading was kaрxndúv, the Greek formed were more than mortal stomach could bear un-word for Carthage, from which a species of the carharmed; in the words of the good ale-conner, deteriora- bunculus or carbuncle was called "carchedonius," tion of tissue' was certain to ensue. The last of the aletasters died, a mart to duty, on October 10, 1876.” propter opulentiam Carthaginis magna" (Pliny, 'Hist. Nat., xxxvii. 25). The carbuncle was called avopag by the Greek writers (that name occurs in the Septuagint, Ex. xxviii. 18, where the stone composes one of the twelve on the breastplate of the high priest), from its supposed resemblance to a live coal, and the Latin name is derived in a similar manner from "carbo" (Pliny, in loc. cit., "a similitudine ignium appellati").

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WALTER KIRKLAND.

A CURE FOR WHOOPING COUGH.-The following appeared in the Edinburgh Evening News of Saturday, May 14, 1887. Maryhill, the scene of the incident described, is a large and important suburb of Glasgow; indeed, it is practically an integral portion of the "second city." Perhaps readers will say whether anything of a similar character has recently come under their notice :On Thursday a travelling candyman and rag-gatherer, with a cart drawn by an ass, drew up in front of a row of houses know as Pirrat's Row, a little off the highway at Maryhill, Glasgow. Two children living in this quarter are suffering from whooping cough. After a short conversation with the proprietor of the ass, the mothers of the two children took up a position one on each side of the animal. One woman then took one of the children and passed it below the ass's belly to the other woman, the child's face being towards the ground. The woman on the other side caught hold of the child, and, giving it a gentle somersault, handed it back to the other woman over the ass, the child's face being turned towards the sky. The process having been repeated three times, the child was taken away to the house, and then the second child was similarly treated. While this was going on two other children were brought to undergo the magical cure. In order that the operation may have its due effect the ass must not be forgotten, and at the close of the ceremony each mother must carry her child to the head of the animal, and allow it to eat something, such as bread or biscuits, out of the child's lap. This proceeding having been performed in turn by the four mothers, the prescribed course was concluded. When it began there were not many people present, but before it was finished quite a crowd of spectators had gathered. From inquiries' made yesterday morning, and again last night, it seems the mothers are thoroughly satisfied that their children

are the better of the enchantment."

Helensburgh, N.B.

THOMAS BAYNE.

CHALCEDONY, CARBUNCLE.-It is well known that the precious stone called chalcedony in Rev. xxi. 19 is not the stone which now goes by that name, and is popularly called "white carnelian." The "chalcedonius" of Pliny was an inferior kind of smaragdus or emerald, found in the coppermines near Chalcedon. Mr. King thinks ('Precious Stones and Gems,' p. 158) that the transference

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Attention was called to the probability of Kapуndóv being the true reading in Rev. xxi. 19 by a "London Physician" in a very interesting little work published by him a few years ago under the title 'The Precious Stones of the Bible.' It is evident that this was also the opinion of Mr. King, who seems to have fallen into the error of supposing that the translators of the Authorized Version took the same view. "Epiphanius," he says ('Precious Stones and Gems,' p. 157), "and the Vulgate render xaλknowν, the third stone in the foundations of the New Jerusalem, by smaragdus, but the Authorized Version translates it buncle."" The Authorized Version, the Douay, and the Revised Version all call it "chalcedony," and the Vulgate has "chalcedonius," the fourth stone being the "smaragdus," from the Greek pápaydos, correctly translated in the English versions "emerald."

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W. T. LYNN.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCHOOL AND COLLEGE MAGAZINES.-Such a bibliography is still a desideratum. The following is the result of some gleanings in this field, which the readers of N. & Q.' may be able to increase.

The Student; or, the Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Magazine. 2 vols. 8vo., Oxford, 17501751. This is the first college magazine I have come across. Lowndes gives "Tho. Warton, Smart, Bonnel Thorton, Geo. Colman, and Dr. Sam. Johnson" as the contributors. An annotated copy exists in the Dyce Collection.

The Microcosm: a Periodical Work by Gregory Griffin, of the College of Eton. Windsor, 1786.— This magazine, to which the four principal writers were John Smith, Robert Smith, George Canning, and John Hookham Frere, ran through at least four editions, the fourth appearing in 1809.

The Trifler.-A Westminster School magazine of Eastwood, near Glasgow, the following items about 1788. occur of disbursements for tobacco during two months. The prices are in Scots currency, the pound Scots being equal to twenty pence sterling:

The Flagellant. 1792.-This was a Westminster School magazine conducted by Southey, and for an article in it on "Flogging" he was expelled. It consisted of five numbers.

The College Magazine. Hora Otiosa.-These two magazines (in MS.) were Eton productions about 1819, the writers being Lord Carlisle, H. N. Coleridge, W. Sidney Walker, Moultrie, C. H. Townshend, and Trower.

Apis Matina. 1820.-This, another Eton magazine, was mainly the work of W. M. Praed, and consisted of six monthly numbers. Among the other contributors were Trower (afterwards Bishop of Gibraltar) and F. Curzon.

The Etonian. London, 1820-21. 2 vols.-It appeared in October, and was carried on with great spirit by Praed, H. N. Coleridge, Moultrie. It ran through four editions, and Charles Knight was the publisher.

The Brazen Head. Cambridge, 1826.—It ran for three numbers notwithstanding Praed's brilliant papers in it.

The Snob. Cambridge, 1829.—Edited by Thackeray, who wrote, among other things, a parody on Tennyson's prize poem Timbuctoo,' which was the talk of the day. It lived for nine numbers. The Gownsman. Cambridge, 1830.-This was another of Thackeray's undertakings. Seventeen numbers appeared.

The Eagle. Cambridge, 1867.-The late Prof. Palmer was one of the editors.

Momus.-Another college venture, of which Palmer and Mr. Walter Pollock were the editors. I hope that this very incomplete list may be greatly enlarged by the readers of ' N. & Q.'

Aberdeen.

J. MALCOLM BULLOCH.

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"Is prius quam episcopus factus esset duo preclara construxit monasteria sumptibus suis, de bonis que jure hereditario sibi obvenerunt, unum sibi in finibus australium Saxonum, loco qui Certesey vocatur, alterum Edelburge sorori sue, femini laudatissime, ad Bereking in ditione Orientalium Saxonum," &c. Erkenwald, moreover, enlarged the church of St. Paul, as we learn from the same inscription, "Idem Erkenwaldus celeberrimum hoc S. Pauli templum novis edificiis auxit," &c. Whence you may observe that "celeberrimum hoc S. Pauli templum" could never be the language of Erkenwald's time, neither would he have been buried in the church; so that we may be assured the inscription was not written till the translation of his bones, anno 1140; and, indeed, as Weever observes, the whole of it is compiled from Bede (iv. c. 6) and the annals of this church.

This inscription was destroyed in the Fire of Rev. S. Pegge's 'Sylloge of Authentic InscripLondon, 1666, and has never been replaced. See tions." W. LOVELL.

Cambridge.

"WOMAN" OR "FEMALE."— When will "the better half of creation" be properly called? The Public Baths of Oldham are now being rebuilt, and the two principal entrances bear the words above them "Females," "Males." The kindliness shown to dumb creatures in these later days may be carried beyond the lines of sense if the Corporation of Oldham really propose, as they set forth in stone, that hot, cold, and Turkish baths will in the future be provided for cows and bulls, and the females and males generally of all created things. Old-fashioned "men" and "women" are evidently out of date. J. ROSE.

Southport.

BOUTER-In the Life of Crabbe,' by his son (vol. i. pp. 142-6), there is an admirable picture

of the interior of a Suffolk's yeoman's household at the end of the last century, which those who have not read should read at once, and those who have read will be glad to read again. I quote the following passage for the sake of the word at the head of this note, which is no longer used, and has been commonly misunderstood :

"If the sacred apartments had not been opened, the family dined on this wise; the heads seated in the kitchen at our old table; the farm-men standing in the adjoining scullery, door open-the female servants at a side table, called a bouter; with the principals, at the table, perchance some travelling rat-catcher, or tinker, or farrier, or an occasional gardener in his shirt-sleeves, his face streaming with perspiration."

That bouter is nothing more than boulter will be apparent from the accompanying extract from a letter written by Francis Capper Brooke, of Ufford, to Edward Fitzgerald, of Woodbridge, only four days before the death of the latter:

"An old inhabitant of Parham says that a Bouter Table' is a Table fitted with a sieve through which flour is sifted, and having drawers underneath to receive that flour. It was an ordinary piece of furniture in old houses. An old carpenter in Ufford adds that the ground wheat was put into it, without having any bran detached from the rough mass."

WILLIAM ALDIS Wright. Trinity College, Cambridge.

Queries.

We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest, to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct,

'RANTING, ROARING WILLIE.'-In an interesting note from K., Arbroath, in 'N. & Q.,' 2nd S. v. 186, a version of the above was given which had been obtained from a lady well versed in the ballad literature of the district in which she was born, and who had had it recalled to her memory by seeing one of Halliwell's Nursery Rhymes.' I have lately received a version identically the same, which is said to have been current about Bellingham in Northumberland, and to have been taken down viva voce; and I am very anxious to know if the version given by K. also came from Northumberland, or whether it was known in any other district. W. E. L. Jos. SIDNEY HORTON.-I wish to ask who this person was. I find his name written on the back of the frames of two water-colour portraits, and do not know whether he was the artist or the subject. The portraits are of men in Eastern dress, and have titles written under each in faded ink: "Admiral Pacha," "Reis Effeindi." The robes are very voluminous, and are trimmed with fur; the one is red and the other blue; the turbans are quite different in fashion. The face in each case

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BOLOGNIAN ENIGMA. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' inform me whether any solution of the well-known Bolognian enigma, Ælia Lælia Crispis," &c., has ever been generally accepted; and, if so, what such solution is; or whether the enigma still remains unsolved? W. G.

THE GREAT FEast of St. GeoRGE.-Will any one tell me where I can find description, and especially pictures, of entertainment given by Edw. III. in 1358 to the King of France, &c.?

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there. His name occurs in that most valuable ediMARSON OF HOLBORN.-I suppose a bookseller tion of the Tatler by Nichols, 1786. At vol. v. p. 428, in an account of John Partridge, the almanac-maker, the editor says he has compiled the memoir from old almanacs annotated with many curious notes in MS., and that Mr. Marsom lent them for the purpose of drawing up the account "in three score volumes or more.' collection and known to the curious? Are they still together in any

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C. A. WARD.

CREATURE DRINK.-How long has the word been used in the above sense? We still talk about creature comforts," and whiskey is the Irishman's "cratur." The following passages show that the word is not of recent adoption :

"Having very exactly viewed the situation of the island, and the way of living of the Enasséd nation, we went to take a cup of the creature at a tavern." Rabelais's' Works,' ed. Bohn, vol. ii. p. 230. should have liv'd to see Obadiah overcome with the "Oh fie upon 't! Who would have believ'd that we creature."-Sir Robert Howard, The Committee,' Act IV., first acted 1663.

F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY.

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