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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S. VII. Mar. 19. '59. 



qucns^ whicb reappear in various languages as 

 guena, queue, quen, quinna, &c., a wife, a woman ; 

 e. g., in very old German, " Quena fona Aarones 

 tohterun," a wife from the daughters of Aaron." 

 (Wachter.) 



This last derivation is good as far as it goes ; 

 and " wench " was probably derived from cwen 

 or some of the kindred words, — yet not without 

 the addition of something corresponding to the 

 Dutch diminutive tje or je, expressing familiarity 

 or affection. Wijf, ivijf-je (wife, little wife) ; 

 kind, kind-tje (child, little child). So queue, cwen, 

 quene-tje, cwen-je, wench. Thomas Boys. 



Chap is a mere abbreviation of " chapman," and 

 originally meant, as chapman does, a seller or mer- 

 chant. " If you want to sell, here is your chap," 

 is quoted by Webster from Steele. Then it came 

 to be used generally for a man or youth. Richard- 

 son gives "these critical chaps" from Byrom. 

 Compare the somewhat analogous transition in 

 the meanings of " fellow." 



Wench is the Anglo-Saxon wencle, a maid, ser- 

 vant. The word wenchell occurs in the Ormulum 

 for a child ; in v. 14665. it is applied to Isaac : — 



" Godd sezzde thuss till Abraham ; 

 Tacc Ysaac thin loenchell," &c. 



This is probably derived from a masculine noun, 

 wincel, a child, of which however only the plural 

 winch appears in the A.-S. dictionaries. See 

 White's note, Ormul. vol. ii. p. 637. H. C. 



Stnelt Family (2"^ S. vi. 432.; vil. 154.) — 

 Leonard Smelt, eldest son of Leonard Smelt, of 

 KIrkby Fleetham, represented North Allerton in 

 parliament from 1713 until his death in 1740. 

 In 1733 he accepted the office of clerk to his 

 majesty's ordnance. William Smelt, of Leases, 

 upon the death of his brother was chosen M. P. 

 for North Allerton, which place he represented 

 until 1745, when he was appointed receiver of his 

 majesty's casual revenue in the island of Barba- 

 does. His will is dated 17 Jan. 1754. He died 

 in 1755, aged sixty-six, according to a monument 

 in KIrkby Fleetham church. He had a son 

 Leonard (whose niece married Thomas Frank- 

 land, M. P. for Thirsk, in 1775), who had a posi- 

 tion in the Prince of Wales' establishment In 1775, 

 and who was living In 1799. C. J. D. Ingledew. 



Arms of Man (2"^ S. vil. 32.) — The position of 

 the spur is in nowise mysterious, for In armour- 

 wearing times the spur was placed much higher 

 than the present fashion of wearing It. See Illu- 

 minations, Tombs, ^x. P. P. 



Ireland and the Irish (2"^ S. vl. 266.) — Cole- 

 ridge has described Ireland as " that vulnerable 

 heel of the British Achilles." AnnnA will find 

 the other words he has quoted in Voltaire's 

 Steele de Louis XIV., vol. Ii. p. 170. A. A. 11. 



The Wellesleys (2"'' S. vll. 165.)— It may be worth 

 mentioning, in illustration of the statement of your 

 correspondent Ina with regard to the Banastres 

 and the coheirs of Philip de Welleslegh, that In 

 the east window of Denton church, co. Norfolk, 

 there is a shield bearing the following arms : vert 

 a raaunch argent, impaling gules, a cross argent 

 between 4 plates. Below the shield is the follow- 

 ing inscription : on the dexter side, " WlUIelmus 

 Banister de com. Somerset Armlg. ;" on the 

 sinister side, " Ellzabetha filia haeres PhillppI de 

 Wellesleigh com. Somerset." Both shield and 

 Inscription are of course of very much later date 

 than the time of Philip de Welleslegh. They 

 probably formed part of a series of " household 

 coats" in the window of some hall or mortuary 

 chapel; and were bought at the time (some 100 

 years ago) when the east window ^)f Denton 

 church was filled with stained glass of a most 

 fragmentary and heterogeneous character. 



Selrach. 



Oak Bedsteads (2"* S. vil. 69. 203.)— I once had 

 a portion of a very old bedstead ; the head-board 

 was pannelled with Gothic linen pannels; the 

 square pillars holding the pannelHng chamfered 

 with a rude Gothic rose at intervals. The third, 

 and perhaps top row of pannels had been cut 

 away, and the remnant was fixed to a very heavy 

 stump bedstead, the sides or framework of which 

 were quite a foot deep, with holes and a groove 

 on the face for the cord to He in. 



One of the handsomest bedsteads I ever saw is 

 the Cumnor bedstead at Sudely Castle, Glouces- 

 tershire, said to have been the property of the 

 unfortunate Amy Robsart. Most of the oak bed- 

 steads I have seen have had immensely thick 

 pillars at the foot. One of these had the pillars 

 cut through from each angle halfway up, which 

 made the upper part of the pillar look like a pillar 

 on four legs. The shelf at the bed's head was 

 doubtless for settling a candle on, from the fact 

 of most of them showing the signs of burning ; 

 ergo, reading in bed was in fashion two hundred 

 years ago. W. M. 



Esquire : Cockade (2»* S. vil. 158.) —The an- 

 swer to the second part of your correspondent's 

 Query is, I believe, that military men only are 

 entitled to place a cockade in their servants' hats. 

 The servant often Is, and is always supposed to 

 be, a private soldier, and wears the cockade as 

 such. Stylites. 



Ann as a Mans Name (2"'' S. vll. 181.) — The 

 present owner of Barkby Hall, near Leicester, is 

 William Ann Pochin, Esq. Mr. Pochin was High 

 Sheriff" of the county in the year 1846. S. S. S. 



Mr. Patrick Anna Smith, solicitor of Dublin, 

 had his second Christian name " Anna " given to 

 him at his baptism. Hodi. 



