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While on the opposite page we have " it soule " 

 for " its soule," thus : 



" But as a woefiill mother docth lament, 



Her tender babe, with cruel death opprest ; 

 Whose life was spotlessc, pure and innocent, 



(And therefore sure it soule is gone to rest) : 

 So Bountie, which herselfe did upright keepe, 

 Yet for her losse, loue cannot chuse but weepe." 



May not this lead to the conclusion that it was 

 to avoid confusion with the ellipsis of it is, that 

 the possessive case was thus written it f 



S. W. Singer. 



'■'•Hip, hip, hurrah!" (Vol. viii., pp. 20. 185.). — 

 No one, I think, who heard the cheering of the 

 ships' companies at the late naval review can 

 doubt that Cheverell's explanation of " hip, hi[)," 

 is the true one. They are not icards, but inter- 

 jectional sounds ; with no other meaning than to 

 prey)are for and time the coming "hurrah!" 

 When the men are ready to cheer, the boatswain's 

 mate gives the signal " hip, hip," and then follows 

 the general " hurrah ! " This practice is adopted 

 in public assemblies for the same reason — to ensure 

 concert and unity in the final cheer. " Hurrah ! " 

 also I take ( pace Sir F. Palgrave) to be a mere 

 sound : a natural exclamation of pleasure, with no 

 more instrinsic meaning than " Oh ! " or " Ah ! " 

 for pain, or " Bah !" for contempt. It surely can 

 have no connexion with the phrase of old Norman 

 law — "clameurs de haro:" for "haro" Is an 

 exclamation of dissent and opposition. " Crier 

 haro sur quelqu'un," is to excite mischief and scan- 

 dal against him — the very reverse o£ hurrah! C. 



Derivation of '■'• WeUesley" (Vol. viii., p. 173.). — 

 In reply to J. M., I think the following particulars 

 may not be uninteresting to him. There is good 

 reason to believe that the name of Wellesley was 

 derived from an ancient manor about one mile 

 south of Wells, called Wellesleigh, which once 

 belonged to the Bishops of Bath and Wells. It is 

 certain that a family called " De Wellsleigh" lived, 

 and held considerable lands in this manor at a 

 very remote period. In 1253, a Philip de Wells- 

 leigh, and in 1349 another of the same name, are 

 recorded as holding part of the manor of the 

 Bishops of Bath and Wells. These lands, with 

 the serjeanty and office of bailiff and " cryer of 

 the hundred," passed into the family of the Hills 

 of Spaxton, A.D. 1435. In 7 Henry VII., John 

 Stourton held half a knight's fee in this manor : 

 "formerly held by William de Wellsleigh." I 

 have an original deed in my possession dated 26th 

 Edward I., being a feoffment or grant of lands in 

 Binder (an adjoining parish) by William Le 

 Fleming, " Dns de Dynder," in which " Thomas 

 de Welesle5e" and "Robert de Welesle^e" (so 

 the name is spelt) are, among others, named as 

 witnesses. Thus manor was held by the Bishops 



of Bath and Wells until the time of Ralph de 

 Salopia (succeeded a.d. 1329, died a.d. 1363), who 

 gave it to the vicars choral of the cathedral, by 

 whom it has been held down to the last year (1852), 

 when they sold the fee of it to Robert Charles 

 Tudway, Esq., M.P. for Wells. Ina. 



Wells. J<jt^lnr//K^f> 2)1 



Penny-come-quick (Vol. viii., pp. 8, 113. 184.). — 

 Your correspondents on the subject of this name 

 do not appear to be aware that there is a place 

 also so called in Ireland : a small public-house, 

 and one or two others, on the high road between 

 Wicklow and Arklow, near the sea-shore, three 

 miles north of the latter town. In Taylor and 

 Skinner's Road Maps of Ireland (1776), it is 

 spelled "Penny-co?i- quick." I have been there, 

 and do not think that the site countenances 

 H. C. K.'s ingenious etymology. C. 



Eugene Aram's Comparative Lexicon (Vol. vii., 

 p. 597.). — Mr. E. S. Taylor will perhaps be glad 

 to know that specimens of the above Lexicon were 

 printed at the end of a small work published about 

 twenty-five years since by Mr. Bell of Richmond 

 (Yorkshire), entitled The Trial and Life of 

 Eugene Aram. Norkis Deck. 



Cambridge. 



Wooden Tombs and Effigies (Vol. vii., pp. 528. 

 607., &c.). — At Sparsholt, Berks, in the south 

 transept, are two female effigies of wood, under 

 sepulchral arches, richly carved in stone : one of 

 them is engraved in HoUis's Monuments. At 

 Burghfield and Barkham, in the same county, are 

 also wooden effigies of the fourteenth century. 



At Hildersham Church, Cambridgeshire, within 

 the altar rails, on the north side, is a wooden 

 monument of a knight and his lady : the knight 

 cross-legged, and drawing his sword. They are 

 said to be the effigies of Sir Thomas Busteler and 

 lady, temp. Edward 11. Norris Deck. 



Cambridge. 



Queen Anne's Motto (Vol. viii., p. 174.). — By 

 an order of the queen in council, 17th of April, 

 1707, consequent upon the union of Scotland with 

 England, it was declared in what manner the en- 

 signs armorial of the United Kingdom (called - 

 Great Britain) should thenceforth be borne ; 

 when it was also declared that her majesty's motto, 

 " Semper eadem," should be continued. G. 



Longevity (Vol. vii., p. 358. &c.). — Several of 

 the upland parishes bordering on the river Yare 

 have had remarkable instances of longevity. One 

 of the best authenticated was a man named Pottle, 

 who resided on the Reedham estate of the late 

 J. F. Leathes, Esq., of Herringfleet. When 

 Pottle was 104 years old, the tenantry on the 

 estate subscribed to have his portrait painted. 



