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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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tician, S r Anthonv Ashlev Conper, afterwards Earl of 

 Shaftsbury, tried at the Old Bailey, 24" 1 Nov, 1681, for 

 libelling the King. 



"To match this Saint there was another Coll" John 

 Lilburn, Chief. 



" S r Pride, First a Drayman, afterwards a Colonel in 

 the Parliament Army. 



" Great Croysado, General Lord Fairfax, an old dansor( ?), 

 Old Prideaux, noted equally for extorting money from 

 Delinquents as from Dissenters. 



"Philip Nye, one of the Assembly of dissenting Minis- 

 ters, noted for his ugly Beard. 



" The preceeding Illustrations of the Principal Charac- 

 ters in the Poem were taken from a Manuscript in the 

 Possession of M r Lomax of Bath, whose Great Grand- 

 father was intimate with Butler, and from whom he re- 

 ceived the account. 



" Mr. Lomax allowed them to be transcribed by me, 



" J DO Shadwell, 

 "1" February, 1803." 



Epigram by Mr. AYesley alluding to a well- 

 known text of Scripture on the setting up of a 

 monument in Westminster Abbey to the memory 

 of Butler : — 



" While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive 

 No gen'rous Patron would a Dinner give : 

 See him, when starv'd to Death and turn'd to Dust, 

 Presented with a Monumental Bust: 

 The Poet's Fate is here in emblem shown : 

 He ask'd for Bread and he received a Stone." 



J. Tanswell. 

 Temple. 



COLDHARBOUR. 

 There has been already so much discussion in 

 " N. & Q." as to the derivation of this word, which 

 occurs so frequently in the names of places in the 

 south-eastern counties of Kent, Surrey, and Sus- 

 sex, that I have felt considerable reluctance to 

 reopen the subject. But reflection has so con- 

 vinced me that I have stumbled upon its real 

 origin that I am induced to lay it before your 

 readers. Coldharbour, sometimes, and, I believe, 

 more correctly, written " Coleharbour," that is, 

 " Cole-arbcrye," or wood-coal, was applied as a 

 name to places where charcoal was made or sold. 

 Mr. Halliwell, in his Dictionary of Archaic and 

 Provincial Words, has — 



" Arberye, Wood. — In that contree is but lytille ar- 

 berye, ne trees that beren fruite, ne othere. Thei lyjn in 

 tentes, and thei brennen the dong of bestes for defaute of 

 wood." — Maundeville's Travels, p. 25G. 



" Enhorilde with arborve, and alkyns trees." — Morte 

 Arthure, MS. Lincoln, f. 87. 



That the consumption of charcoal by the iron- 

 works in these counties in former times was very 

 great is well known. Simon Sturtevant, in his 

 Mi tallica, published in 1612, says " there are 400 

 milnes for the making of iron in Surry, Kent, and 

 Sussex, as the townsmen of Haslemere have testi- 

 fied and numbered unto me;" and hecalculates that 

 " one inline alone spendeth yearly in char-coale 

 500 pound and more" (p. 5. of the reprint of the 



Metalliea, by T. Simpson, Wolverhampton, in 

 1854.) 



This enormous consumption of charcoal ac- 

 counts for the frequency with which the name 

 occurs in these counties ; as the number of " milnes " 

 in a similar manner accounts for the frequency of 

 the name of "Hammer Ports" and "Hammer 

 Ponds " scattered throughout the " forest ridge " 

 of Sussex (see Murray's Handbook for Surrey, 

 Hants, and Isle of Wight, 1858, p. 135.). The 

 name of this manufacture is retained in other 

 forms ; for we find the road leading from Godal- 

 ming to Peperharrow is called "Charcoal Lane" 

 (ib. p. 134.); and there is in the Ordnance Map, 

 about one mile west of Nutfield, a place called 

 "Colmonger's Farm." 



The only objection to this derivation that oc- 

 curs to me is, that the word arberye, which was 

 thus so frequently and commonly applied to places 

 where charcoal was made or sold, had dropped out 

 of our language, even so early as the reigns of 

 Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, when the iron trade 

 flourished in these parts of the country. During 

 these reigns numerous acts of parliament were 

 passed for the protection and preservation of our 

 timber, but the word arberye never occurs in any 

 of them. This, however, is merely negative ; and 

 similar instances of the disuse of words might be 

 mentioned; as in the instance of the word " mon- 

 ger," which for a very long time is only found in 

 combination with other words, as in " ironmon- 

 ger," " costard-monger," and, as above-mentioned, 

 in " colmonger." C. T. 



SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS. 



PRICES OF HIS PICTURES AS APPRAISED BY THE 

 COMMONWEALTH. 



Mr. Sainsbury has so fully and felicitously 

 illustrated the life of this illustrious artist, follow- 

 ing his career not only as a painter, but a diplo- 

 matist, as Andrew Marvel tells us : — 



" For so, too, Rubens with affairs of state 

 His laboring pencil oft would recreate," — 



that he has left but little ground to beat over. 

 When, however, the iron rule of Cromwell had 

 determined upon sacrificing the relics of royalty, 

 and to disperse the magnificent collections of art 

 amassed prior to the usurpation, some few of the 

 creations of Eubens fell to the hand of the ap- 

 praiser. 



In one of Symonds' Diaries it is stated : " The 

 Committee at Somerset House valued the King's 

 pictures at 200,000Z., notwithstanding that both 

 himself and the Queen had carried away abund- 

 ance." It may be curious to note the prices at 

 which some of those painted by Rubens were sold, 

 as compared with their present estimated value : — 



1. One described as "Three naked Nymphs," &c, 

 which I judge to be the same with the following: "A 



