Sept. 8. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Coney Gore (Vol. xii., p. 126.). — The first part 

 of this term occurs also in Coney Street, York, 

 and Coney Shaw (or King's Grove), near Leeds. 

 Thoresby derives it from Anglo-Saxon comns or 

 cynins, a king. The second part is either gore^ a 

 triangular slip or plot of ground, or garth (Anglo- 

 Saxon seanb), a word still in use to denote an en- 

 closure : thus, willowgarth is the common term in 

 the West Riding for osier-bed. It is probable, 

 therefore, that the places in question were origin- 

 ally portions of crown-land. J. Eastwood. 



In Somersetshire, Wiltshire, and other counties 

 in the west of England, the word conigree or 

 cony gar is frequently met with as the name of a 

 field, or, as in the town of Trowbridge, of a street. 

 In old dictionaries we find the word comjgree put 

 for a coney-warren or rabbit warren, which in old 

 law Latin is called conigera. Hence the most 

 probable explanation is that those localities, now 

 known by the term " Coney Gore," were formerly 

 occupied by rabbit wai'rens. 



In my Common-Place Book is the following 

 entry ; it was extracted from a newspaper, but I 

 cannot state its ultimate authority : 



" Part of the site of Lincoln's Inn formerly bore the 

 name of coney-garth or conigera, and acts of parliament 

 were passed in 8 Edw. IV. and 2i Hen. VIIL, by which 

 penalties were imposed on the students of that inn for 

 hunting rabbits or coneys in those fielde, with bow, 

 arrows, or darts." 



S. H. Griffith. 



Ladies and Wives (Vol. xii., p. 61.). — In re- 

 ference to the witty note of M. on this subject, I 

 would remark, that the affectation of calling Mrs. 

 Smith " the lady of Mr. Smith" is by no means a 

 modern one. It is at least as old as Pepys. In 

 p. 215. of the fourth volume of his Diary (edit. 

 1849j, he mentions " seeing Mr. Lowther and his 

 lady in a coach, going to Walthamstow." And as, 

 at p. 217., he speaks of himself and his wife calling 

 on "Mrs. Lowther," there is no reason for sup- 

 posing that the "lady" was other than Mr. 

 Lowther's wedded wife. 



A similar affectation, if It be one, has been long 

 prevalent in France ; where it would be very old- 

 fashioned to talk oil'epouse of any one. You say, 

 " la iemme de Monsieur A." — literally, " Mr. A.'s 

 woman." Stylites. 



Marriages made in Heaven (Vol. xi., pp. 106. 

 486.). — The ibllowing extract from a new Erench 

 novel gives a pretty development of this doctrine : 



" Le Seigneur, chaque fois qu'il cree une ame, lui cr^e 

 en meme temps une ame pareille, car toute ame a sa soeur 

 quelque part ; puis II les separe, et met quelquefois entre 

 elles deux tout un monde, jusqu'a ce que le hasard 

 comme diseiit les hommes, la Providence comme disent 

 les sages, fasse trouver en face ces deux natures qui, 

 cree'es I'une pour I'autre, se reconnaissent h. des signes 

 celestes et particuliers, et parties ensemble de la meme 

 patrie doiveiit y retourner ensemble. Ceci, vois-tu bien, 



No. 306.1 



est la volenti du Seigneur : s'y opposer, c'est non seule- 

 ment se faire malheureux, mais se faire sacrilege." — 

 Dumas Fils, Roman d'une Femme, eh. v. 



Some other curious fancies on this point may be 

 found in the first part of Cahagnet's Secrets of the 

 Future World Unveiled, and also in many of Swe- 

 denborg's works. The ancients seem not to have 

 speculated upon it. William Eraser, B.C.L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



Longevity (Vol. vii., pp. 358. 504. 607.). — 

 Toney Proctor, a free coloured man, died at 

 Tallahasse, Elorida, on the 16th of June last, aged 

 112. He was at the battle of Quebec, as the 

 servant of an English officer, in 1759, which is 

 ninety-six years ago. He was also at the be- 

 ginning of the revolutionary war in the vicinity 

 of Boston, at the time the tea was thrown over- 

 board, and afterwards present at the battle of 

 licxington. Proctor went to Elorida when it 

 was a Spanish settlement, and settled in St. Au- 

 gustine, where he purchased his freedom, married, 

 and reared a large family. W. W. 



Malta. 



Simile of a Woman to the Moon (Vol. xii., 

 pp. 87. 132.). — The epigram of Richard Lyne 

 having probably never been printed, as Lord 

 Bratbrooke observes, it is not likely that it has 

 ever been " done into English." Perhaps the 

 ibllowing attempt at translation may find a place 

 in " N. & Q. : " 



" Woman compared to the Ifoon. 



The Moon turns red, and pale, and changes too, 

 She walks by night and strays : thus women do. 

 The Moon makes horns, and such is woman's way : 

 The Moon's horns change each month, hers every day." 



E. C. HUSENBETH. 



Pollard Oaks (Vol. xii., pp. 9. 54.). — Is the 

 pollarding of oaks, as formerly practised on the 

 confiscation of an estate to the crown, symbolical 

 of such confiscation ? was a subject lately agitated 

 in my hearing. Is it, or is it not so ? 



P. J. E. Gantillox. 



Length of Miles (Vol. xii.," p. 125.). — In the 

 article Mile, In the Penny Cyclopcedia, I have 

 discussed this question ; and have shown that the 

 old English mile is, roughly, half as long again as 

 the statute mile. A, De Morgan. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



" It is a striking, and perhaps a significant coincidence," 

 remarks the Rev. Dr. Croly, in his introduction to the 

 volume to which we are about to call the attention of oiu- 

 readers, " that the art of making paper from linen fibre, 

 and the art of printing, were discovered nearly at the 

 same time ; and were coeval with the first preaching of 

 the Reformation, by Huss and Jerome of Prague, of whom 



