2»* S. IX. Jan. 14. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Dutch Bibliography would inform me what is the 

 value and rarity of this book, and where any 

 notice of it may be found? I should also be glad 

 to know why it was suppressed. R. C. O. 



Fafelty Clough. — A few days ago a person 

 was brought for interment to the church here, 

 who came from a place pronounced " Fafelty 

 Clou^h," a district within a mile hence. Can 

 any of your readers give the orthography of this 

 ■word ? Due inquiry has been made amongst the 

 local literary authorities, but neither the deriva- 

 tion nor spelling can be ascertained. One of the 

 gentlemen present while this is being written had 

 two masons, father and son, from "Fafelty 

 Clough," who were called Joe Fafelty and Jim 

 Fafefty. whose real name was Lord. 



This is a district where much stone is got for 

 building and flooring purposes, and a suggestion 

 is made that the words in question mean Faulty 

 Cliff. Truth-seeker. 



Whitworth, near Rochdale. 



Stakes fastened together with Lead as a 

 Defence. — Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History 

 (lib. i. cap. 2.), describes the victory by Caesar 

 over the Britons, and his pursuit of them to the 

 River Thames ; and goes on to say : — 



" On the farther bank of this river, Cassobellaunus 

 being the leader, an immense body of the enemy had 

 placed themselves: and had studded (praestruxerat) the 

 bank of the river, and almost the whole of the ford under 

 water, with verv sharp stakes (acutissimis sudibus) ; the 

 vestiges of which stakes are to be seen there to this day, 

 and it appears to the spectators that each of them is thick 

 (grosse) as the human thigh, and lead having been poured 

 round them (circumfusa? plumbo), they were fixed lm- 

 moveably in the bottom of the river." 



How this could have been done seems quite in- 

 comprehensible : where could they have obtained 

 the enormous quantity of lead necessary for the 

 purpose, and in what way could the melted metal 

 have been used under water ? Camden (Hist., 

 p. 155.) places the site of the battle that ensued 

 at a place called Coway Stakes, near Oatlands, in 

 Surrey. I have heard a tradition that some of 

 them existed in the memory of persons now living ; 

 and that they were of oak, and carefully charred 

 by the action of fire, probably to preserve them. 

 Can any reader of " N. & Q." inform me whether 

 there are now any remains of these stakes, and 

 can they throw any light on this singular story of 

 their being united together by lead. A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Extraordinary Custom at a Wedding. — The 

 author of the paper on " Marriage in Low Life," 

 in Chambers's Journal (vol. xii. p. 397.), says that 

 persons have been known to come, at Easter time, 

 into a certain church on the eastern borders of 

 London, with long sticks, to the ends of which 

 were fastened pieces of sweet-stuff; of which the 



clerk, on going to request them to lay down their 

 staves before coming into the chancel, was re- 

 quested to partake. In what church has this ex- 

 traordinary practice ever been witnessed ? It is 

 the carrying out with a vengeance of the Greek* 

 custom of sweetmeats being poured over the 

 heads of newly-married couples. I can find no 

 reference in Brand. P. J. F. Gantillon. 



Sepulchral Slabs and Crosses. — The fol- 

 lowing sentence will be found at p. 29. of the Rev. 

 Edward L. Cutts' Manual for the Study of the 

 Sepulchral Slabs and Crosses: — 



" In the case of a lavman, the foot of the cross is laid 

 towards the east ; in that of an ecclesiastic towards the 

 west • for a layman was buried with his face to the altar, 

 a cleric with his face to the people. This rule, however, 

 was not invariably observed." 



Unfortunately for those interested in the sub- 

 ject there are no references to the localities of 

 existing examples ; but which it is probable some 

 of your 5 readers will obligingly supply. 



In continuation, it is very desirable to know it 

 inscriptions were included in the same distinction, 

 and consequent^ were obliged to be read stand- 

 in<r with the face towards the east. The latter 

 question is suggested by the desire to forward an 

 example bearing every evidence of being origin- 

 ally placed in the position it now occupies. 



J V H. D'AvENEY. 



Blofield. 



Sir Mark Kennaway. — In 2 nd S. ii. 368. 

 mention is made of a " Sir Mark Kennaway, 

 Knight, as brought up from the court of the 

 " Savoy, 1716, for divers criminal acts against the 

 King's Majesty." . 



The wife of a very kind friend of mine, ot a 

 similar name, is very anxious to obtain some infor- 

 mation as to who Sir Mark Kennaway was, and 

 from whence, and if your correspondent at the 

 time the No. of " N. & Q." was published (Nov. 7, 

 1857), could communicate any information, and 

 would kindly transmit it to me, or reply in your 

 next number, he would very much oblige 



Wm. Collyns. 



Haldon House, Exeter. 



«Suer(esJ totth VLnttDtxi. 



EIKON BASILICA: PICTURE OF CHARLES I. 

 I am much obliged to you and your correspon- 

 dents (2 od S. viii. 356. 444. 500.) for answering 

 my Query respecting the editio princeps of this 

 work. Since writing about it, I have succeeded 

 in obtaining a copy with Marshall's plate, but un- 

 luckily the book is imperfect. It agrees in the 

 minutest details with the one I first described, and 

 has no trace of the c urious variations observed by 



• See Scho.1. on Ar., Plut. 768. 



