Oct. 6. 1855.] 



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the word renisht ; except saying that it is " perhaps 

 a derivation from renitco, to shine." 



All subsequent editors of Percy whom I have 

 consulted, have passed the word by without com- 

 ment. Nor does it occur in Halliwell's Dictionary. 

 I can suggest no explanation of it, and perhaps as 

 none of his editors could, they have wisely passed 

 it by. 



Jamieson, Scot. Diet, gives : " Renye, v. to 

 rein. Renye, s. a rein." Or, perhaps the correct 

 reading may be "furnished :" 



" And thus they furnish'd them to ride, 

 On two good furnish'd steeds." 



E. G. R. 



Huns and Frisians. — In Bede's History of the 

 Church, book v. ch. ix., among the other tribes 

 enumerated as taking part in the^English invasion 

 of Britain, are the Hunni. This has commonly 

 been read Huns ; and as the other tribes enume- 

 rated are German, the presence of this supposed 

 Uigur element has not been accounted for. I 

 consider the Hunni are to be identified with the 

 Hunsing, one of the four great branches of the 

 Frisians enumerated in the laws of the Anglo- 

 Varini and Frisia, and whose name might well be 

 taken as a synonyme or representative of the 

 Frisian clans. 



Ilunning and Hunsing are equivalent forms of 

 the collective in -ing : as Bulling and Bulsing, 

 Walling and Walsing, Kenning and Kensing. 



This gives another evidence, in addition to 

 those of Sir Francis Palgrave, of the large and 

 direct share our Frisian brethren took in the in- 

 vasion of Britain. On this point the collection 

 of evidence is still desirable ; and the topographical 

 nomenclature of South England, when carefully 

 searched and compared with that of the Frisian 

 countries, will supply many facts. 



The clan of the Running or Hunsing undoubt- 

 edly took part in the invasion of Britain, for their 

 name is found in every part of England : as in the 

 places Hunnington, Hunningham, Hunsingore, 

 Hunsten (three), Hunten (two), Hunsden, Hun- 

 den (two), Hunstenworth, Hunstanten, Hun- 

 worth, Hunsworth, Hunscote, Huncote, Huns- 

 coat, Hunslet, and Hunwick ; and a more careful 

 search would recognise many more. 



The singular of Hunning, giving name to the 

 collective, I do not know. There is a collective 

 much like this in form, Honning ; but it is the 

 plural of Hone, and I consider it as a distinct word, 

 and not as a dialectic variation. Hyde Clarke. 



" Jower."" — It has often occurred to me, that 

 many curious words and phrases might be rescued 

 from oblivion, if a list of such as are made use of 

 by witnesses at assizes, sessions, &c., were from 

 time to time recorded in " N. & Q." For ex- 

 ample : in an action for wages, brought by the 

 crew of a fishing-boat against their employer, at 



No. 310.] 



the last Norfolk Summer Assizes, one of the wit- 

 nesses completely posed the court by describing 

 the crew as " right-on jowered out :" meaning, as 

 explained by Forby, " exhausted with labour and 

 fiitigue." I would suggest as an etymology 

 Anglo-Sax. seopt'San, "to subdue" (Bosworth). 



E. G. R. 

 Dr. Bliss's New Edition of Wood^s ^^ Athence 

 Oxonienses" (Vol. xii., p. 205.). — No more has 

 appeared of this new edition, except the volume 

 containing the " Life of Wood," in consequence of 

 the bankruptcy of the Society which undertook 

 to publish the work. Would it not be an under- 

 taking worthy of the University of Oxford to 

 complete this edition ? It is understood that Dr. 

 Bliss, whose untiring habits of bibliographical 

 research are well known, has made most im- 

 portant and valuable additions to his former 

 edition of Wood ; additions which he intended in- 

 corporating in his long-looked-for reprint. Surely 

 the learned University, which has sent from its 

 press so many valuable works, will not suffer this 

 monument to the literary fame of its great men 

 to remain in darkness. X. Y, 



€iutntg. 



WHAT ARE WIJ TO DO WITH OCR PAMPHLETS ? 



What is to be done with our destitute and 

 criminal children, is one of the greatest and 

 most difficult social problems of the present day. 

 They exist, and cannot be got rid of. They are 

 worse than worthless in their present condition, 

 yet they may be made so valuable, and turned to 

 such an account, that the mere cold calculating 

 politician, to say nothing of the Christian philan- 

 thropist, asks, with deep anxiety, What are we to 

 do with them? 



What these poor outcasts are to the body social, 

 tracts and pamphlets are to our libraries. They 

 exist, and can not be dispensed with, even if we 

 were so disposed, llich in material, and capable of 

 being turned to the very best account (we should 

 like to know how much of Macaulay's forth- 

 coming volumes he has gathered from such 

 sources), they are frequently, for want of some 

 mode of keeping and arranging them, almost use- 

 less. Ragged, untidy, in the way when not 

 wanted, never to be found when required for 

 purposes of reference, they are literary pests, for 

 which it is to be hoped some system of wholesome 

 reformation may be devised. 



Among the readers of " N. & Q." must be many 

 who know at once the value and the worry of this 

 numerous and unfortunate class. Will any who 

 have succeeded in bringing them into order give 

 us the benefit of their experience ? In the ad- 

 mirable library collected by George III., and now 



