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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 190l>.

CONTENTS.-No. 18.

NOTES : Cold Harbour: Windy Arbour, 341 "Horse" in ' Macbeth 'Bibliography "of Publishing. 342 M. Hildes- ley, 344 "Parade-Rest " Shanks's Mare, 345 " Only Fred" "Chop-dollar" Farnley Hall " Vestibule " as a Verb Siberia Georgiana M. Craik, 346 Russian Folk- lore" Copy "=Copyhold Moon and the Weather, 347.

QUERIES: Manzoni in English Walbeoff Family 'Grenadier's Exercise of the Grenado,' 347 "Feed the brute " Byard Family Hugo's ' Les Abeilles Imperiales ' Massinger's 'Fatal Dowry' North Australian Voca- bularies Cathedral High Stewards ' Athena Canta- brigienses' William Peck John Smith, Speaker 1705-8, 348 Printing in the Channel Isles ' Irus,' Supposed Play by Shakespeare Stoyle "Barrar"' St. Fina of Gimignano Military Buttons : Sergeants' Chevrons- Admiral Sir S. Greig Indian Sport Wesley and Gardens Rev. Arthur Gallon Nicomede Bianchi, 349.

REPLIES : Passing-bell, 350 Dr. Samuel Hinds, 351 Bellamy's Shakespeare's Grave Easter Day by the Julian Reckoning Flaying Alive Marlborough and Shakespeare, 352 " Tugs," Wykehamical Notion Muti- lated Latin Lines Feudal System, 353 The Ploughgang Penrith, 354 Westminster Changes in 1903" I expect to pass through "" Badger in the bag" 'The Creevey Papers ' Sleep and Death Miniature of Sir Isaac Newton, 355" Hanged, drawn, and quartered" Martello Towers Howe Family N pronounced as ng, 356 Burns Anti- cipated Leslie Stephen on the Eighteenth Century John Inglesant, ' 357.

NOTBS ON BOOKS: Sir J. B. Paul's 'Scots Peerage' 'Great Masters ' Cassell's "National Library "Book- sellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondents.

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COLD HARBOUR: WINDY ARBOUR. ALTHOUGH this interesting subject has often been discussed in 'N. <fe Q..' it has never been exhausted, and unless you can refer me to some exhaustive and authorita- tive treatment of the matter, I hope you will allow me sufficient space to raise certain points, and to ask your many readers to assist in clearing them.

1. As to meaning. The best authorities seem to agree that Cold Harbour (with its variants Cold Arbour, &c.) is simply a com- bination of the ordinary word "cold" (possibly in a sense nearly akin to our present "cool") and "harbour," in the sense of a shelter or resting-place. Other suggestions that I have seen appear to be guesses ; but it will be interesting to have any proof or evidence that may seem to support other theories of meaning or derivation.

2. As to kindred "Col" names. If the ordinary suggestion as to meaning and as to use (see below) of the Cold Harbours be accepted, it seems curious that many Cold Harbours should be close to other places with "Col" names. For instance, to mention only a few : Cold Arbour, two miles west-north- west of Sittingbourne, is close to Keycol

Hill ; Coldharbour, two miles north of Wrot- nam, is not far from the Coldrum Stones ; and Cold-harbour farm, four miles and a naif south-south-east from Canterbury, is near Cooling Downs. Near other Cold Harbours, or alongside the roads with which they are associated, are such names as dolman's Ash, Colley Hill, Collickmpor, Jolekitchen, &c., and the meanings or deriva- tions of some of them may throw light on some of the Cold Harbours.

3. As to equivalent or partially equivalent names. Windy Arbour, found along some of bhe old roads in the North of England, has been stated to be the exact equivalent of Cold Harbour, though it would seem to imply that the name was given in an unapprecia- tive sense rather than as conveying appre- ciation of a cool shelter in the summer travelling time. Caldecot, Caldecote, and corruptions are quoted as names of kindred significance, and these seem to suggest that the coldness is bleak and undesirable rather than advantageous.

4. As to use. It is stated that our Cold Harbours were all shelters, or unwarmed resting-places, along roads, and it is some- times suggested that they were buildings. It is also stated that they were camping- places (without buildings), chosen on account of sheltering trees and suitable water supply for the travellers' horses. Again, it is sug- gested that the shelters were not connected primarily with travellers, but were night- camping places for drovers moving herds of cattle or horses to distant fairs or markets.

5. As to locality. It is stated that " almost all " the Cold Harbours and Windy Arbours are along Roman roads, and they are asso- ciated with the Romans. Alternatively, it is said that they all lie near old roads, without reference to the Romans.

The collection, collation, and study of facts from a large number of localities should throw interesting light upon several points which are not at all clear at present, and I suggest that your readers who have access to, or knowledge of, Cold Harbours, Windy Arbours, Caldecotes, &c., be asked to com- municate the following particulars : 1. Name, as now spelt. 2. Position. 3. Local suggestions as to meaning or derivation ; with evidence, if any. 4. Other local " Col "- named places, stating whether the o is pro- nounced long or short ; and their direc- tion and distance from the Cold Harbour, &c. 5. Locally accepted derivations of these names. 6. Distance and direction of the Cold Harbour (<fcc.) from nearest old trade road or Roman road. 7. Suitability