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maunch gules bezantee (Flamville) ; 20, Quarterly, argent and gules, over all a stag's head of the second, attired and pierced through the nose with an arrow or (Trewick) ; 21, Sable, a maunch argent (Wharton); 22, Argent, three hair bottles or (Harbottle) ;

23, Argent, three ewers gules (Montboucher) ;

24, Gules, a chevron between three escallops arg. (Charron). H. R. LEIGHTON.

East Boldon, co. Durham.

FIELD-NAMES, WEST HADDON, co. NORTH- AMPTON (10 th S. i. 46, 94). For his exceedingly kind and helpful reply I desire to offer to MR. EDWARD PEACOCK my hearty thanks. Although at present unable to test all the points raised, I may refer to some of them.

California. This field was purchased in 1851 by the trustees of the Benefit Society, and laid out in allotments for the use of their members. The Californian gold fever was then at its height, and so the field received the name uppermost in men's minds at that period. But it happens to be rather a long word, and so it has got reduced to the more diminutive and easy form of " Cally." The field is now in my possession.

Huckaback.\ find a good many people call this " Ho-back," but it appears in certain writings as " Huckaback, 5 ' and I believe this is quite correct. The field forms part of one of our local watersheds, but there are no ponds or streams actually on the ground.

Hungerwells. The ground gently slopes on all sides to some farm buildings in a corner of this field.

LorcFs Piece. I cannot make out that this ever belonged to the Lord of the Manor, but it is close to West Haddon Hall. More pro- bably it refers to the surname Lord, which frequently occurs in our registers.

Toot Hill. This is one of the highest points in the parish. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

As a small rider to MR. PEACOCK'S interest- ing article on place-names with the ghastly prefix or suffix " hell," I venture to give two instances of its use as the sole name. Amonj the documents belonging to the Mayor am Corporation of Dorchester is a fine old oak- covered, brass-bossed and clasped parchment book of records, &c. Its title is ' Dorchester Domesday.' In it, at f. xx, is enrolled a deed about a burgage in Uluenlane, now Colhton Street. This burgage is described as being between a certain tenement and "placeam Kob'i Gutton voc' helle" (date 2 Hen. IV.). Again, at Weymouth there was an instance. In the ' Descriptive Catalogue of the Charters, Minute Books, &c., of the

Borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis ' [Weymouth, Sherren, 1883), p. 64, we find as follows. Among other presentments on 12 Sept. and 2 Oct., 1620, there is one that a boat had been placed " in vico sive venella vocat : the East Lane ante domum vocut : Hell." Part of this house is still standing.

H. J. MOULE. Dorchester.

REV. SAMUEL FISHER (9 th S. xi. 8).- On 10 March, 1650, Dr. John Reading publicly disputed with Samuel Fisher, an Anabaptist, in Folkestone Church. It was this Dr. Reading who presented a large Bible, with gold clasps, to Charles II., when he landed at Dover, 26 May, 1660. See * The Illustrated Guide to Sandgate, Folkestone, Hythe, &c.,' c. 1862, p. 19. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

PENRITH (10 th S. i. 29, 97). I have seen the surname "Piercy." Not only do Alnwick people also pronounce Percy " Peercy," but it is so pronounced throughout Northumber- land. R, B R.

South Shields.

WILLIAM HARTLEY (10 th S. i. 87). The late J. Hartley, LL.D., barrister-at-law, of 2, Temple Gardens, who had a residence in or near Leeds, was, I believe, the son of a Leeds manufacturer or merchant. Perhaps some member of his family might answer MR. ARKLE'S question. I believe that the Rev. S. St. G. J. Hartley, vicar of Exton with Horn, killed in the Alps last year, was a son of Dr. Hartley. MISTLETOE.

" GIMERRO " (10 th S. i. 107). I remember reading about this hybrid, the offspring of a bull and a mare, some time ago, where I cannot now remember. It occurs in the mountains of Savoy and Piedmont, and can only feed on rich grass land, as the front teeth do not meet, and this prevents it nibbling short Alpine grass. SHERBORNE.

A hybrid of the kind described by Baretti is a mere figment of the brain a chimera (with softened ch) in fact. The gimerro or jumart is, in reality, a hinny, the correlative of a mule. Probably one of the antelopes, the gnu, the bubaline, or the nylghau, gave rise to the idea that a cow could be crossed with a horse. J. DORMER.

GLOWWORM OR FIREFLY (10 th S. i. 47, 112). The explanatory addition of "i.e., the glowworms'," at the latter reference is a curious slip. It was the waxen thighs of humble-bees which Shakespeare's elves were commanded by Titania to crop.