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CONTENTS. Page | Word heil, in the Celto-Scythian, is, in the Latin, 
Notes: — rendered Sol. Inthe Armoric dialect of the Celtic 
Etymology of Penniel - 449 
Notes on Cuoningham’s London, by E. F. Rimbault, 
LL.D. - - - - = - - 450 
Original Letter of Peter Le Neve, by E. Hailstone —- 
Folk Lore: — Superstitions of Middle Counties — Rain- 
bow in the Morning - - - - 451 
Error in Johnson’s Life of Selden - - - 
P.-pe and Petronius, by C. Forbes - - - 
QUERIES : — 
Purvey of the Apocalypse—Bonner on the Seven Sacra- 
ments, by Sir F, Madden - - - - 
Replies to Minor Queries: — Arrangement of a Monas- 
tery —Constantine the Artist — Josias Ibach Stada— 
Worm of Lambton - - - - - 453 
REPLIEs : — 
Luther’s Translation, by S.W. Singer, « . = 
Lines on London Dissenting Ministers - - - 
Replies to Minor Queries: — Tracts by Dekker and 
Nash — Tureen — English Translations of Erasmus — 
—Court of Wards—Scala Coeli —T wm Shawn Cattie— 
Cheshire Round— Horns to a River — Horns— Coal 
Brandy— Howkey or Horkey—Luther’s Portrait — 
Symbolism of Flowers, &c.—*‘ Where England’s Mo- 
narch’’ — Journeyman— Sydenham or Tidenham— 
J. B.’s Treatise on Nature and Art—“ A Frog he 
would a-wooing go” — “My Love and I, &c.” — 
Tereber Wednesday — Buckingham Motto — Lerig — 
Zenobia a Jewess— Temple Stanyan,&c. = - 
MISCELLANIES : — 
Spur Money —Note Books—Lady Rachael Russell — 
Byron and Tacitus— Aboriginal Chambers near ‘Til- 
bury —Sir R. Haigh’s Letter-Book—A Phonetic Pe- 
culiarity - - - - - - - 
MiscELLANEOUs : -—~ 
Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. - - - 
Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 
Notices to Correspondents - - = - 
454 
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463 
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ETYMOLOGY OF PENNIEL. 
Some eighteen years ago, the writer of the fol- 
lowing sonnets, by the kindness of the proprietors 
of a pleasant house upon the banks of the Teviot, 
enjoyed two happy autumns there. The Roman 
road which runs between the remains of the camp 
at Chew Green, in Northumberland, and the Eil- 
don Hills (the Trimontium of General Roy), 
assed hard by. The road is yet distinctly visible 
in all its course among the Cheviots, and in the 
uncultivated tracts; and occasionally also, where 
the plough has spared it, among the agricultural 
— inclosures. 
The house stands near the base of the hill called 
Penniel or Penniel-heugh: and it is hoped that 
the etymological derivation of that word now to 
be hazarded will not imply in the etymologist the 
eredulity of a Monkbarns. Pen, it is known, sig- 
nifies in the Celtic language “a hill.” And the 
also, heol means “ the sun :” hence, Penheil, Pen- 
heol, or Penniel, ‘the hill of the sun.” Beyond 
the garden of the abode there stood, and, it is be- 
lieved, yet stands, a single stone of a once exten- 
sive Druid circle, not many years ago destroyed 
by the then proprietor, who used the sacred re- 
mains in building his garden wall. A little far- 
ther antiquarian conjecture is necessary to clothe 
the country with oak woods. Jedwood or Jedworth 
Forest was part of “the forest” which covered 
Selkirkshire and parts of the counties around. 
The Capon Tree, and the King of the Wood, two 
venerable oaks yet flourishing on the water of Jed, 
attest the once wooded condition of the land; 
which is farther irresistibly corroborated by evi- 
dence drawn from the interesting volumes of the 
Rotuli Parliamentorum. ‘The Bishops of Glasgow 
had a religious establishment in the neighbouring 
sunward village of Nether Ancrum. Of their 
buildings, of the vicar’s house, or of the ancient 
gardens existing in the memory of persons living, 
not a vestige now remains. [In the first volume of 
the Rotuli, p. 472., there is a Petition, of uncer- 
tain date, by the Bishop of Glasgow to Edward L., 
then in possession of Scotland, in these terms ; — 
“ Derechief pry ly dit Evesqe a soen Segiir le Roy 
qe ly plese aider &c, * * * e sur ceo transmettr’, sa lettre 
al veseonte de Lanark. E une autre, si ly plest, a ses 
Forresters de Geddeworth de autant de Merin {mere- 
mium, meheremium, wood for building] pour fere 
une receitea Allyncrom (Ancrum) desur la marche, ou 
il poet aver recett e entendre a ses ministres qnt il le 
voudrent aver.” 
To which the King’s answer is, — 
“ Héat Bre Ten’ locu R. in Scoe. qd fae’. ei tire me- 
heremiu in Foresta de Selkirk et de Maddesleye usq ad 
numum quinquaginta quercu.” 
Thus, no doubt is left that oak woods abounded 
in the district ; and it was under the influence of 
these beliefs that the sonnets were composed :— 
I. 
“Twas on this spot some thousand years ago, 
Amid the silence of its hoary wood 
By sound unbroken, save the Teviot’s flow, 
The lonely ‘Temple of the Druids stood ! 
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