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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Cold Harbour (2"'^' S. vi. 143.)— I am glad to 

 see the commencement of a catalogue of the places 

 where this name is found. They are much more 

 abundant than Mk. Htde Clarke seems to sup- 

 pose. Take for instance my own county. The 

 following additions are entered on the map at- 

 tached to my essay entitled Ancient Cambridge- 

 shire, lately published for the Cambridge Anti- 

 quarian Society by Bell and Daldy : — 



" Betweeu Wisbech and Guyhirne. 

 Between Littleport and Southrey. 

 Near Ej'nesbury, but in Cambridgeshire. 

 Kear Ramsey, just in Hunts." 



Of these the second and third are on Roman 

 roads ; the fourth is near to a supposed Roman 

 station; and the first not many miles from the 

 Roman sea-wall near Wisbech. 



What is meant by Arbury in Cambridgeshire? 

 There is a camp so-named, but rto Cold Harbour 

 that I know of near to it. C. C. Babington. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Topograpliical Desideratum (2""^ S. vi. 204.) — 

 2. will be pleased to hear a topographical diction- 

 ary of the rivers, lakes, &c. of Great Britain and 

 Ireland is in progress. C. J. D. Ikgledew. 



Xorthallerton. 



Schools with Chapels attached (2"'^ S. vi. 246.) — 

 In the list of schools possessing chapels I see Mer- 

 chant Taylors' mentioned, though with a Query 

 attached to it. 



There is an apartment on the school premises 

 which is called " the chapel," and which occupies 

 the place of the original chapel belonging to the 

 mansion of the Duke of Buckingham. On the 

 buildings coming into the hands of the Merchant 

 Taylors' Company the chapel, which was much 

 too small for the scholars to assemble in, was ap- 

 propriated to the ceremonies of examination and 

 elections. It continued to be thus used until its 

 destruction at the Fire of London, and the apart- 

 ment which now stands in the same situation is s(*» 

 employed to this hour. About five-and-twenty 

 years ago it was fitted up as a library, and the 

 books belonging to the foundation were removed 

 to it. 



I have said that the present apartment occupies 

 the situation of the original ducal chapel ; perhaps 

 it would have been more correct to say of " part 

 of the ducal chapel," for the Merchant Taylors' 

 Company did not purchase the whole of it. I will 

 add that the chapel does not stand on the ground, 

 but on the first iloor, and thjit the apartment be- 

 low it does not belong to the company. J. A. H. 



Persecution of Polish Nuns (2""! S. vi. 187. 259.) 

 A. D. wishes to know whether the story of the 

 nuns of Minsk and of their persecutions under 

 the late Emperor of Russia is supported by any 

 hut Roman CuUiolic authorities. 



A. D. began by observing tliat it has lately been 

 reproduced in the Recollections of the Four Last 

 Popes, and in The Life of Cardinal MezT.ofanti. 



A. D. hopes this question, thanks to the wide 

 circulation of " N". & Q.," may meet the eye of 

 some one competent as well as willing to answer 

 it. 



Newbury. 



James N. Barker (2°"^ S. ii. 430.)— This gentle- 

 man, who was considered an author of some note 

 about forty years ago, died recently in Washing- 

 ton City at an advanced age. He had for many 

 years filled an important post in the Treasury 

 Department, to which he was appointed, I think, 

 by President Jackson. He had previously been 

 mayor of Philadelphia and collector of the customs 

 for the port of Philadelphia. Unkda. 



Philadelphia. 



Surnames (2°'* S. vi. 202.) — The detail given 

 by Mr. Lower, of his proposed work on this sub- 

 ject, will doubtless draw forth much information 

 from the contributors to " N. & Q." Permit me 

 to furnish a mite thereto by the remark (in case 

 such has not already been suggested), that curious 

 information and anecdotes of the kind he seems 

 to wish for, are often to be found in the first page 

 or pages of Lives, Memoirs, Sfc. The following 

 quotation from the Life of Mr. John Bowdler 

 (1824) will illustrate my meaning : — 



" The Bowdler family formerlj- settled in Shropshire, 

 where two parishes bear the name, Hope Bowdler and 

 Ashford Bowdler. The family mansion stood at the 

 former, and the word -Hope has been adopted as its motto, 

 being oi'iginally, no doubt, applied to describe its situa- 

 tion, a dingle or small valley. The meaning of the name 

 Bowdler cannot be ascertained, and is found in old signa- 

 tures used indiscriminately with the French le and de 

 prelixed." 



S. M. S. 



Fish mentioned in " Havelok the Dane " (2'"^ S. 

 vi. 232.), 1.751. : — 



" Mani god fish ther inne he tok, 

 Bothe with neth, and with hok. 

 He took the shirgiun and the qual. 

 And the turbut, and lax withal, 

 ■ He took the sele, and the luvel; 

 He spedde ofte swithe wel : 

 Keling he tok, and tumberel, 

 Heriny, and the viakerel. 

 The hulte, the schulle, the tlwrnehahe, 

 God paniers dede he make." 



Query " the qual?" Belater-Adime. 



[ Qual, Sax. hwa:l, the whale or grampus. Glossari/ to 

 the Roxburgh cdition.'\ 



Flowers noticed hj our Early Poets (2"* S. vi. 

 20G.) — Eden Warwick's Poefs Pleasaunce (8vo. 

 London, 1847, Longman & Co.), contains extracts 

 from English Poets, both before and after the time 

 of Shakspeare, referring to various sorts of flowers. 



R. S. Q. 



