602 Notes. 



Fonthill. A popular derivation, and " emendation " of the form 

 Funtgeal ; see Earle's English Charters, index. Local speech still 

 faithfully preserves the correct form, for the h is never sounded, and the 

 pronunciation is nearly " Funtle." 



Knook. We might be tempted to invent an obvious but popular 

 derivation for this " terrarum angTilus," were it not for the persistent 

 appearance of a C or K in the name as vv^ritten in the ancient documents. 

 We may, therefore, regard it as a Celtic word, and compare the Welsh 

 Cnoc, and Knock, a name which is scattered over Ireland, meaning 

 "hill." 



Hill Deverell. Sherrington. The rails to the communion table at 

 Hill Deverell, are Jacobean ; hence, correct the statement in W.A.M., Vol. 

 xxviii., p. 242, that they are of "the last," i.e., the eighteenth century. 

 We shall probably be right in attributing them to the Cavalier family of 

 Coker. Similar rails, but of a less elegant design, are found at Sher- 

 rington. For the whole subject of such rails, which were ordered to be 

 made so narrow that dogs might not get through, e/"Cox, ^w^ZwA Church 

 Furniture, Methuen (1907) p. 17, where examples are given from 

 many parts of the country, but none from Wiltshire. " By far the 

 most elaborate and beautiful rails are those of Winchester Chathedral 

 . . . now ... in the Lady Chapel.'' And he mentions Winch - 

 field, Hants. Dr. Cox truly says such are " infinitely more dignified 

 than the cast-iron standards, or oak or brass rail of modern church 

 furnishers. See also Victoria Hist, of Gloucestershire, Vol. ii., and 

 "The Evolution of Church Chancels, K. H. Murray; Transactions of 

 the Birmingham Archceological Society, vol. 31, which gives photo- 

 graphs and fine examples from Gloucestershire, at Deerhurst, and 

 AVinchcombe (as it was in 1855), and from Lyddington, in Eutland (the 

 Deverell example is of the type of the last two), and from Branscombe 

 (Dorset). In 1634, the tables were " fenced " by order of Archbishop 

 Laud. The A spiral type is often found in Devonshire, and the Cavalier 

 West. — J. U. Powell. 



Amesbury Church. The work of restoration lately carried out has 



largely consisted in undoing what was done at the " restoration " in 

 1853. The good fifteenth century screen, which was then got rid of, 

 came into the hands of Mr. Job Edwards, and was preserved by him in 

 a building at Amesbury filled with curiosities of various kinds and known 

 as the museum, for many years. On his death, however, a few years 

 ago, a horse dealer took over the premises, and used them as stables, 

 the screen coming in handy as a partition between the stalls. Naturally 

 this did not improve its condition, but happily it has been rescued in 

 time, and with some repairs has been replaced in the position from which 

 it was cast out sixty-four years ago. 



Equally curious are the adventures of the font. In the 1853 " res- 

 toration " it was actually broken up into fifty or sixty pieces and buried 

 under the chancel floor, together with a number of monumental stones, 

 and the brass inscription to Edith, wife of Eobert Matyn of 1470. The 



