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at this place would appear to lend force to the argument that well or \oall indicates an enclosure or cultivated area.

Another district in the same region is known as Whitwell, and answers to similar conditions.

Further, the reference to Baslow, in Derby- shire, as containing the A.-S. name Bassa or Bassan would certainly appear to be con- firmed by the name Bassenthwaite, near Keswick, in Cumberland, and proves how necessary it is to appeal to the older spelling of place-names, if we are to unravel aright the true meaning of the past.

JOSEPH KEN WORTHY.

Deepcar, near Sheffield.

ST. DUNSTAN (10 th S. i. 149, 216). Allen quotes Aubery (1673) as follows with regard to this saint and the devil :

" There was also a chapel, larger than at Trinity College, Oxford, the windows of the fashion as the chapel windows at the Priory of St. Mary in Wilts. There were no escutcheons or monuments remain- ing ; but in the parlour and chamber over it (built not long since) were some roundels of painted glass, about 8 inches diameter, viz., St. Michael fighting with the devil, St. Dunstan holding the devil by the nose with its pincers, and having retorts, crucibles, and chemical instruments about him ; with several others, so exactly drawn as if done from a good modern print."

The above appears under ' Waverley ' in ' Abbeys around London."

JOHN A. KANDOLPH.

SPEAKERS OP THE IRISH HOUSE OF COM- MONS, AND MEMBERS FOR COUNTY AND BOROUGHS OF KING'S COUNTY (10 th S. i. 227). The Speakers FRANCESCA will find in the 'Journals' of the Irish House of Commons, the members in part ii. of the 'Official Return of Members of Parliament.'

G. F. R. B.

The following editorial note appeared in 4 th S. vii. 323 :

"Lodge's 'Parliamentary Register of the Irish House of Commons from 1585 to 1769 ' is printed in the ' Liber Munerum Publicorum Hibernise,' being the Report of R. Lascelles published by the Record Commission, 2 vols. 1824, fol. See part i. pp. 1 to 40. For a continuation of the list to the year 1800, consult 'The Journals of the House of Commons of Ireland,' vols. viii. to xix., Dublin, 1796-1800, fol."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

LECHE FAMILY (10 th S. i. 207, 274). There is a reference to this family in Edward Hasted's 'History of Kent,' 1778, vol. i. p. 385, from which it appears that Squerries was at one time possessed by Lambert, the Parliamen- tary general, who sold it to John Leach, Esq.,

whose son, Sir William Leach, Knt., sheriff of the county in 1667, sold it in 1681 to Sir Nicholas Crisp, Bt. W. S.

TORCH AND TAPER (10 th S. i. 109, 196). The following extract from the will of a John Swynnerton, proved at Lichfield in 1547, may be read with interest :

" Itm I will to have iij torches tobringe rne home and therafter to be kepte tyll suche tyme as God shall caull for my wiff. And after her decease one to be gyven to Wolstanton and another to Thurs- felde chappell and the other to Astbury towards the maiutenynge of God s'vys and to be praed for."

CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

JACOBITE WINEGLASSES (10 th S. i. 204). I have a glass goblet, 7| in. high, 3| in. in diameter. It belonged to my great-grand- father, born 1708, whose father lived near Oxford. On it are a star, and a thistle full blown with four leaves ; issuing from the stem of the thistle is a spray consisting of a full-blown rose, a bud, and four rose leaves. Is it Jacobite ?

To 5 th S. i. 62 I contributed a letter pur- porting to have been written by a Fynmore to his son at Oxford, who had sent a request for money. The father, in sending a draft, expressed his satisfaction at his son s conduct on the birthday of "that old rump rogue with an orange " (William III.). Some very extraordinary advice follows. Fynmore pro- ceeds : " Our family have allways been in the true old cause, and we will live and dye by it, Boy. Damn the rump that is my motto."

Another family manuscript has the fol- lowing expression : " King Charles, I wish I call king now." R. J. FYNMORE.

CLAVERING : DE MANDEVILLE (10 th S. i. 149, 213). Saffron Walden was head of the Man- devilles' honour in Essex, and members of this family were probably overlords to Swain's descendants, one of whom, viz., Eleanor, daughter and coheiress to Henry de Essex, married Roger FitzRichard ; his son suc- ceeded to the manor of Clavering, and a great-grandson became Baron of Clavering y writ. The manor fell subsequently to Nevil and Barrington. A. H.

FLESH AND SHAMBLE MEATS (10 th S. i. 68). The only explanation of this seems to be that the " Shambles," the regular meat- market, were closed on fast days, so that any meat required on those occasions was necessarily obtained from some other source. " Flesh daies " and " fysh daies " are fre- quently specified in the ' Regulations of the Percy Household,' 1827 ; and William Benet bequeathed "v. for the reparation of the