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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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and north-east, almost from the city wall. To the 

 south the Thames extended far beyond its present 

 boundary, forminnj an extensive lake, i^ejjchurch 

 Street, Turnmill Street, Fleet Street, show tliat 

 there were streams and fens to the east and west. 



Bearinn; in mind tliat British names were irene- 

 rally descriptive of the locality, may not the situ 

 ation of old London furnish a clue to its etymo- 

 logy ? Was not London then truly and descrip- 

 tively Llijn-dun, or Llin-dun, the fortified place or 

 fortress ia or on the hjn or lake ? 



CUDTN GWTN. 



JRejjIic^ to iiSiimr CHucn'cS. 



Legend of the Robin Redbreast (Vol. ii., p. JG4.). 



— The foUowinif beautiful legend of the Robin 

 Redbreast, which I have just met with, was quite 

 new to me. If you think it likely to be so to T. Y. 

 or any other of your readers, you will perhaps find 

 a place for it. 



" Eusebia. — Like tliat sweet superstition current in 

 Brittany, which would explain the cause why the 

 robin retibreast has always been a favourite and 

 protege of man. While our Saviour was bearing His 

 cross, one of these birds, they say, took one thorn from 

 His crown, which dyed its breast ; and ever since that 

 time robin redbreasts have been the friends of man." 



— Communications loith the Unseen fforU, p. 2(5. 



AV. Frasek. 



Monk and Cromwell (Vol. iv., p. 381.). — AVill 

 your correspondent state by what intermarriage 

 the estate granted to the Duke of Albemarle, 

 vested in Oliver Cromwell, who died in 1821 ; 

 and how, if he knows, it departed from Monk ? 

 If acquired by purchase from the successors of 

 Monk, the interest ceases. G. 



Souling (Vol. iv., p. 381.). — The custom of 

 " souling," described by Mr. W. Fraser, is car- 

 ried on with great zeal and energy in this neigh- 

 bourhood on All Souls' Day. The song which the 

 children sing is exactly the same as Mr. Fraser 

 gives, with the exception of the second verse. Iti 

 the evening, grown persons go round singing and 

 collecting contributions from house to liouse. It 

 is universally believed in this neighbourhood to 

 be a remnant of the old custom of begging money, 

 to be applied to the purpose of procuring masses 

 for the souls of the dead. Lewis Evanss. 



Sandbach, Cheshire. 



Clekit House {Vo\. iv., p.473.). — With reference 

 to this Query, I beg to suggest the following 

 explanation. In Scotland, a cleek signifies a 

 book; and to cleek, is to hook or join together: 

 thus, a lady and gentleman walking arm-in-arm 

 are said to be cleekit together. The word is in 

 fidl use at present, and has been so for centuries ; 

 and I think it not improbable that at the time the 

 will referred to was written, the word might be 



common to both countries. On this supposition 

 the meaning would be, that the " two tenements" 

 communicated with each other in some way — 

 probably by a bridge thrown across — so as to 

 tbrm one house, which obtained its name from 

 their being thus joined or cleekit together. J. S. B. 



Peter Talbot (Vol. iv., pp. 239. 458.). — The bio- 

 grapliy of this iiidiviilual, who was the titular pre- 

 late presiding over the see of Dublin from 1669 to 

 1680, is given very fully in D' Alton's Memoirs of 

 the Archbishops of Dublin. R. 



Races in ivhich Children, &fc. (Vol. iv., p. 442.). 

 — AVhen consulting my Le.xicon this morning, I 

 met under "'Att!)" witli the following, Ka\iov<n into 

 t5>v uriTepaiv eoiur^ui, they name themselves after, or 

 from their mothers, Herodot. i. 173. Not having 

 the work, I am unable to pursue the search ; but 

 perhaps the reference may assist THEoniTLACX 

 in his inquiry. J. V. S. 



Sydenham. 



For the information of Theophtlact, I tran- 

 scribe the following jiassage i'rom Johnson's Se- 

 lections from the Mahabharnt, \). 67. The note is 

 from the pen of Professor Wilson : — 



" Among the Bhotias a family of brothers has a wife 

 in common ; and we can scarcely question the object of 

 the arrangement, when the unproductive region which 



these people occupy is considered What led to 



its adoption by the Nair tribe in Malabar is not so 

 easy to conjecture. At present its object seems to be 

 to preserve the purity of descent, which it is thought 

 is more secure on the female than on the male side; 

 and accordingly, the child claims ])roperty, or even the 

 Raj, not through his father, but his mother." 



Rechabite. 



Bacon a Poet (Vol. iv., p. 474.). — AVhether 

 Lord Bacon was, or was not, the author of the 

 well-known lines noted and queried by R. Cs., I 

 will leave the intended editor of Hackneyed Quo- 

 tations to decide, hoping that he will soon make 

 his appearance as public umpire in all such cases. 



Whether Lord Bacon was, or was not, really a 

 poet, I will leave to the decision of those who are 

 conversant with the glorious works of his mind 

 aiid imagination. 



But I have something to say to the note with 

 which R. Cs. follows up his query: — "Sir Ni- 

 cholas Bacon, Lord Bacon, and Bacon the Sculptor, 

 are the only conspicuous men of tiie name, and 

 none of them, that I know, wrote verses." 



This must not go unchallenged in the truthful 

 pages of "Notes and Queries." "Pray, Sir," 

 said a lady to me once, with a very complimentary 

 air, " though no great Latin scholar, may I not 

 judge by your name that you are a descendant of 

 TtiE great Friar Bacon?" To which I could 

 only reply, " JMadara, I have never yet discovered 

 the bend sinister on our escutcheon." From that 



