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Tidhild, Tidburg, Tidreda, Tidhere, Tiduald, Tidbald, Tiduulf, Tidberct, Tidhelm.

Many other English lows have preserved the names of persons buried in them, as, for instance, Hounslow. At the second reference W. C. B. pointed to Tinsley, near Sheffield, which, he says, was Tanslaw in 1633. I find that it was Tynneslow in 1451. I believe it is in Domesday Book, but I have not been able to refer. The Bosworth-Toller ' A.-S. Dic- tionary' mentions local names compounded with hlceiv, hldiv, as " Cwicchelmes hlsew " (" Cwicchelm's low"). In Thorpe's ' Diplo- matarium' we have Oswaldeslaw, Oswald's tomb, and Wulfereslaw, Wulfhere's tomb. These two last-named lows seem to have been used as moot-hills. There is a barrow at Bolsterstone, near Sheffield, called Walders- low, meaning Waldhere's tomb. We know much about the urns, weapons, jewels, and other contents of our English prehistoric sepulchres. But due attention has not been given to the personal names which, in so many cases, yet cling to these ancient memorials. It is something to know that a man of note called Tid gave his name to Tideswell, and that he received the lasting honour of mound-burial on a hill which over- looks that town.

The suffix -well, or -watt, seems in many cases, as here, to be the O.N. voll-r, dat. vell-i, a field or paddock. I have already referred to New Wall Nook, and I might have men- tioned Swinden Walls, between Sheffield and Penistone. Tideswell is written Tiddeswall and Tidswale in a Derbyshire Poll-Book of 1734, and the neighbouring Bradwell occurs in that book as Brad wall and Bradall. On Speed's map, 1610, I find Tiddeswall and Bradwall. In 1758 some fields at Heeley, near Sheffield, are described as " Semary (alias St. Mary) Walls," and they also seem to have been known as Malkin Crofts. Here, then, ?raU=O.N. voll-r. I often go to Tides- well and Bradwell, but I have not yet seen, or heard of, either the " ebbing and flowing well " or the salt well. Davies, in his ' Histori- cal, &c., View of Derbyshire,' 1811, p. 653, says that Tides well" is supposed to have received its name from an ebbing and flowing well, situated in a field near the town, but which has now ceased to flow for more than a century." What proof is there that it ever did flow ? Davies say that " the ebbing and flowing well, the last of the Wonders of the Peak, is about a mile and [a] half from Chapel-en-le-Frith, on the road to Tideswell. It is situated in Barmoor Clough " (p. 712). Barmoor Clough is six miles from Tideswell. The story about the tides of an ebbing well

appears to have been invented by Charles Cotton, for he, in his ' Wonders of the Peake,' 1681, mentions k ' Weeding-wall or Tydes-well, the third Wonder," and asks this question : For me, who worst can speculate, what hope To find the secret cause of these strange tides, Which an impenetrable mountain hides ?*

S. O. ADDY.

'OXFORD UNIVERSITY CALENDAR' (10 th S. i. 47). The list of heads of colleges and halls appears for the last time in the 'Calendar' for 1862. To the 'Calendar' for 1863 is prefixed the following note :

" The Class Lists and other historical matter which purchasers of the ' Oxford University Calendar ' will miss in the ' Calendar ' for 1863 are now printed in a separate volume called ' The Oxford Year -Book,' together with a full Index of Names."

G. F. K. B.

In the 'Oxford Historical Register, 1220- 1900,' the lists of colleges with their heads from the foundations are duly given. I understand that from the latter date the 'Historical Register' as a separate publica- tion has been discontinued, and that the record of distinctions for the future is con- tained, year by year, in the annual ' Calendar.' It is to be hoped that all heads of houses after 1900 are, with their dates of office, included. A. R. BAYLEY.

[OLD OXONIAN also thanked for reply.]

"MEYNES" AND "RHINES" (10 th S.i. 49). River-names are old, and the origins of them are mostly unknown. In my opinion, it is quite unsafe to mix them up with modern words.

As to meyne, I know nothing at present. As to the Somersetshire rhine, I am quite clear that the less we muddle it up with the river Rhine, the better. Neither is it Dutch. It is just provincial English, and duly explained in the ' English Dialect Dictionary,' under the correct spelling rean. The extracts given says: "The wide open chains are all written rhine and pronounced reen." Rhine is an absurd misspelling invented by some very learned man to whom English was " all Greek " ; and he misspelt it accordingly. If English were really studied for its own sake, it would not be mixed up with Greek and Dutch. WALTER W. SKEAT.

u CHAPERONED BY HER FATHER" (9 th S. xii. 245, 370, 431 ; 10 th S. i. 54). There can surely be no objection to the use of chaperon if it be remembered that the French seldom, if ever, use the word in the English sense.


 * Ed. 1699, pp. 24, 27.