2°<» S. VII. May 14. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



405 



mentioned Ralf died, without issue, in 1635, aged 



77. 



From an early period a family of Tukes pos- 

 sessed land at Aukley and Ffnningley (the former 

 on the Yorkshire, and the latter on the Notting- 

 hamshire side of the boundary between these 

 counties). One of this branch, William, died in 

 1655. Was he related to Ralf Tuke of York, 

 above mentioned, or to a William Tuke who took 

 up his freedom of the city of York in 1629 ? 



Mea Militia Multiplex. 



Sir William and Sir Richard Weston (2''«» _S. 

 vii. 317.) — There is a long account of Sir Wil- 

 liam Weston in Wallen's History of the Round 

 Church at Little Maplestead, Essex, at p. 121., &c., 

 and a representation of his tomb, &c. as it for- 

 merly stood in the church of the suppressed nun- 

 nery of St. Mary's, Clerkenwell. There is also a 

 representation of the monument in Cromwell's 

 History of Clerhenwell. Sir William was the last 

 prior of the Knights Hospitallers ; he died on the 

 day of the dissolution of his house (in April, 1540), 

 according to Mr. Wallen. 



Sir William Weston was the second son of Ed- 

 mund Weston of Boston, Lincolnshire. His sister 

 Mabel married John Dingley, Esq. of that place ; 

 and their son. Sir Thomas Dingley or Dyneley, 

 was a Knight Hospitaller, and at Malta in 1531. 

 The Dyneley family held much property in Boston 

 so late as 1640, and Sir John Dingley, Knight, of 

 " East Sheen, Richmond," — whence he dates his 

 will, 9th Oct. 1668 — was born there. An altar- 

 tomb in Boston church, bearing the full-length 

 effigy of a cross-legged knight, having a Maltese 

 cross hanging from the neck, is generally supposed 

 to represent a knight of either the Weston or the 

 Dyneley family. Pishet Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



St. Barbara (2'"*S. vii. 318,) — It is true that 

 St. Barbara is considered the patroness of artil- 

 lery ; and she is often represented with cannon 

 near her, as at Venice, in the church of Sa, Maria 

 Formosa. The reason appears to have been, that 

 in the accounts of her life she is recorded to have 

 been shut up by her father in a strong tower. It 

 may also be somewhat connected with the fate of 

 her impious father, who was killed by lightning, 

 after having beheaded his daughter. Hence the 

 saint is invoked against lightning and tempests. 



F. C. H. 



Paraphrases used in Scotch Kirk (2"'* S. vii. 

 358.) — Senex will find the information he wishes 

 in the publication I formerly referred to (p. 323.), 

 The Scottish Christian Herald (vol. vi. p. .17.), 

 where there is along and interesting article, "The 

 Origin and Authorship of the Paraphrases," by 

 the Rev. Dr. Jameson, now one of the ministers 

 of Glasgow. Permit me to add that in various 

 Hymn Books, of Episcopalian and other churches, 



g 



many of these beautiful compositions have been 

 inserted without any acknowledgment of the 

 source from which they have been got : the merit 

 of their authorship by ministers of the Church of 

 Scotland being thus unfairly ignored. 



The Scottish Christian Herald has been discon- 

 tinued for many years ; but Senex will probably 

 have no difficulty in getting access to it in an 

 library of ecclesiastical works. 



Edinburgh. 



Lord Howard of Effingham (1'* S. iii. 185. 244. 

 287. 309.; 2°* S. vii. 364.) — I omitted to insert 

 the following material extract in my recent com- 

 munication : — 



" May 20, 1623. Earl of Nottingham to the Abp. of 

 Canterbury. John Monson, son of Sir Wm. Monson, is a 

 dangerous Papist ; neither Garnet, Constable, nor Tobie 

 Mathew is comparable to him. He asserts openly that 

 the King is a Papist at heart, words for which Watson 

 was executed at Winchester, and delights in striving to 

 pervert people. Has turned him out of his house for 

 tampering with a relative; but thinks it his duty, as 

 Lieutenant of the shire, to inform against him." — Calen- 

 dar of State Papers, Domestic, James I. 



J.K. 



Highclere. 



Cockshut (2"'i S. vi. 345. 400. 423. 512.; vii. 

 345.) — While fully agreeing with those of your 

 correspondents who view the word cochshut as 

 primarily referring to the catching of woodcocks, 

 and with those also who explain the same word in 

 its secondary signification of evening twilight by 

 the fact that evening twilight was the time when 

 woodcocks were caught, I have been led, with re- 

 spect to the origin of the word cockshut itself, to 

 a view not quite in accordance with any that has 

 hitherto been offered. 



Sportsmen who netted woodcocks had a " place 

 of concealment" (as intimated 2"'' S. vi. 400.) for 

 the purpose of watching. Now, in the sporting 

 language of France, such a place of concealment, 

 specially used by sportsmen, went by the name of 

 hutte (a hut or lodge) : " Hutte, Loge qu'on se 

 construit pour se cacher a la chasse a la pipee, et 

 quelquefois pour d'autres chasses " (Bescherelle). 

 " Hutte, a cote or cottage ; also, the cloth or bush 

 behind which men hide themselves in staulking for 

 the wolfe" (Cotgrave). 



In preference, then, to the etymological division 

 of the word cockshut which has hitherto been 

 adopted, namely, cock-shut, I would venture to 

 suggest cocks-hut; that is, first, in the primary 

 meaning of the term, cocks-hut, a hut, lodge, or 

 bower where the fowler intent on netting cocks 

 or woodcocks lay concealed, and then, in a se- 

 condary meaning, cocks-hut, any spot where such 

 huts were usually placed, &c. 



In thus netting woodcocks, the lines of the net 

 were led into the hut, to be pulled by the fowler 

 when the birds had struck. Such is the mode of 



