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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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3Rc{iltc^ ta Minor ^utvitS, 



^^ Life is leforeye!" (2°^ S. vlii. 109.)— I have 

 been requested to give you the name of the author 

 of some verses, which I repeated this summer at 

 the distribution of Prizes at the University of 

 London. 



They are the last lines of a beautiful address by 

 Mrs. Butler (Fanny Kemble) to the students 

 leaving a college in the United States, of which 

 I forget the name, and I have not with me the 

 small volume of Mrs. Butler's Poems in which the 

 Address is to be found. Granville. 



Paris, Sept. 19. 



[Having referred to the volume for the purpose of 

 completing the information so kindly communicated by 

 Lord Granville, we are enabled to furnish the precise 

 title of the poem in question. It is "Lines addressed to 

 the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lennox, 

 Massachusetts," and will be found at p. 130. of Poems, by 

 Frances Anne Butler, Philadelphia, 12mo. 1844.] 



Efford (2"* S. viii. 207.)— The word Eaford is 

 in Anglo-Saxon the equivalent of Waterford in 

 English, but ea or ey (running water) often occurs 

 at the termination of our names of localities as 

 the abbreviation of ealand, ealond, igland and 

 iglond, the Anglo-Saxon for island, or more pro- 

 perly perhaps as the abbreviation of aege, island, 

 in Anglo-Saxon, the pronunciation of which ap- 

 proximates to ey-e, contracted to ey and ei in 

 German.* The Anglo-Saxon aege, island, appears 

 to be derived from aeg, an egg, as in German also 

 from ey or ei, egg, comes eyland or eiland, an 

 island, or egg-shaped-land. It is possible that 

 EfFord may be a corruption of ebb-/ord=i'ordahle 

 on the ebb-tide. The locality must determine 

 whether island-ford or ebb-ford are admissible. 

 In the same county (Hants) are Axfor(i = Aecs or 

 Oaks-ford, TvryfoYd=Two-fords, Alresford=/ortZ 

 of the Aller (a tributary of the Itchin), and Shaw- 

 ford =:/or^ of the wood. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Supei'- Altars (2"-^ S. viii. 204.)— What is com- 

 monly called the " Super-altar " is simply a ledge 

 at the back of the altar, to support the cross and 

 candlesticks which are ordered to be placed there 

 by the Rubric of our present Prayer Book in the 

 Church of England. It is by no means peculiar 

 to cathedral churches, and your correspondent 

 will find this addition to the altar in every pro- 

 perly arranged church. R. H. Nisbett Browne. 



Vales of Red and White Horse (2"^ S. vii. 28. 

 288. 485.) — Your correspondents have described 

 two figures of white horses, delineated by re- 

 moving the turf which is superincumbent on a 



* Anglesea, Winchelsea, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, 

 Molesey, Orkney, Ramsey, Romney, Whitney, Ely, &c. 

 In Norwegian this terminal is oe, in Faroe, Mageroe, 

 Reenoe, Tromsoe, &c. 



stratum of chalk, — one near Calne and the other 

 at Westbury, both in the county of Wilts. You 

 have also had a third representation of a horse 

 pointed out, which is cut in red-coloured earth, 

 near Tysoe in Warwickshire, and occasions the 

 district to be called the Vale of Red Horse. There 

 is I conceive another, or fourth, to be added, of 

 which I believe there has been a learned disqui- 

 sition by the Rev. Francis Wise, formerly rector 

 of Rotherfield- Greys, and vicar of Elsfield (Ox- 

 fordshire), and which I believe he published, 

 though I am not aware under what form. This 

 last figure has given rise to the appellation of the 

 White-horse Hill and Vale in Berkshire. Would 

 some correspondent give an account of this last, 

 or indicate where I may find Mr. Wise's essay on 

 the subject? Eques. 



[Dr. Wise's work is entitled, A Letter to Dr. Mead 

 concerning some Antiquities in Berkshire, particularly 

 showing that the White Horse, which gives name to the 

 Vale, is a monument of the West Saxons, made in me- 

 mory of a great victory obtained over the Danes, A. d. 

 871. Oxford, 4to. 1738. This work occasioned a keen 

 controversy among antiquaries, and elicited the fol- 

 lowing reply: The Impertinence and Imposture of Modem 

 Antiquaries Displayed : or, A Refutation of the Rev. Mr. 

 Wise's Letter to Dr. Mead, concerning the White Horse, 

 and other Antiquities in Berkshire. In a Familiar Letter 

 to a Friend. By Philalethes Rusticus [ — Bumpsted, 

 Esq.] Lond. 4to. 1740. A reply to the latter appeared, 

 entitled An Answer to a Scandalous Libet, entitled " The 

 Imperti^ience and Imposture of Modern Antiquaries Dis- 

 played, §-c." Lond. 4to. 1741. The figure of the White 

 Horse in Berkshire is engraved in the Gent. Mag. of 

 Feb. 1796, p. 105., but far more accurately in the Archa- 

 ologia, xxxi. p. 289., where it illustrates a paper by Mr. 

 Thorns, in which he enters very fully into the history of 

 these figures. The Red Horse has long ceased to exist. 

 Mr. Pye, in his poem of Farringdon Hill, thus describes 

 the figure on that site : — 



" Carved rudely on the pendant sod, is seen 



The snow-white courser stretching o'er the green ; 



The antique figures scan with curious eye, 



The glorious monument of victory ! 



There England rear'd her long dejected head. 



There Alfred triumph'd, and invasion bled." 

 After this manner the horse is formed, on the side of 

 an high and steep hill facing the north-west. His dimen- 

 sions are extended over about an acre of ground. His 

 head, neck, body, and tail consist of one white line, as 

 does also each of his four legs. This is done by cutting 

 a trench into the chalk, of about two or three feet deep, 

 and about ten feet broad. — Ed.] 



John Anderson (2°* S. viiT 435.) — I have not 

 been inattentive to your correspondent Sigma 

 Theta's request for information as to the family 

 of John Anderson, minister of Dumbarton. I 

 have only delayed answering — as I have but a 

 meagre reply to make him — to my regret. I 

 know of no work where he can get information 

 as to this branch of the family of Anderson. _ All 

 I have been able to pick up is shortly and simply 

 as follows, and this ab origine. John Anderson, a 

 person of some standing and substance, born and 

 resident in Elgin, was so sorely persecuted and 



