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the first year of William and Mary, John Smith of Ted worth was a collector for Wilts. A John Smith of Tedworth married Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas Stuart of Hart- ley Mauduit, who died 1709, cet. ninety-three. Thomas Smith, of Tedworth (died 1662), had a daughter Jane, married to William Gore, and by him ancestress of Lord Temple. The Speaker, who died in 1723, had a sister who married Sir Samuel Dashwood, Lord Mayor of London, and left many children by him, Lord Archer (born 1695) being her grandson. The will of Henry Smith, of South Tedworth, was proved (P.C.C.) 1732. SARUM.

COLD HARBOUR : WINDY ARBOUR (10 th S. i. 341). There really cannot remain, at the present date, any doubt whatever as to the sense. It simply means "harbour without a fire," and is explained in ' H.E.D.,' otherwise known as 'N.E.D.' (Neglected English Dictionary), s.v. 'Harbour,' section 2.

Just in the same way, a "cold chamber" meant a room without a fire. Thus in Malory's ' Morte Arthure,' bk. vi. c. 2: "They leyd him in a chamber cold." It seems to me that the attempt to connect Cold with places containing Col- will be all lost labour ; we know for certain that there is no connexion except when Col- represents cool ; and even this is accidental.

It will be much more to the point if some one will give us more information about the Cold Harbour in London, which was neither mixed up with any Col-, nor beside a country road, nor beside a Roman road. Stowe, in his ' Survey of London,' says that the steeple and choir of the church of Allhallows the Less

" standeth on an arched gate, being the entry to

a great house called Cold Harbrough Touching

this Cold Harbrough, I find that in the thirteenth of Ed ward II. Sir John Abel, knight, demised or let unto Henry Stow, draper, all that his capital messuage called the Cold Harbrough, in the parish of All Saints ad ffenum, and all the appurtenances within the gate, with the key which Robert Hartford had and ought,"

i.e., possessed. The same Cold Harbrough was sold to John Poultney, four times Mayor, and took the name of Poultney's Inn. Sub- sequently Poultney gave to Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, "his whole tene- ment called Cold Harbrough [so that the old name stuck to it], with all the tenements and key adjoining/' We find several other par- ticulars, such as that Edmond, Earl of Cam- bridge, " was there lodged " ; and, in the time of Henry VIII., " Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of Durham, was lodged in this Cold Har- brough "; and finally, it was pulled down,

and replaced by a great number of small tenements.

This Cold Harbour was evidently a "great house," used as a lodging by great people ; in fact, a large hostel. 1 contribute a reference to it on my own account, dated 1410: " L'oustiel appellez le Coldherbergh en Londres " (' Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council,' ed. Sir H. Nicolas, i. 330). WALTER W. SKEAT.

It is to be hoped that MR. SNOWDEN WARD'S request for an exhaustive list of places bear- ing this name will meet with a good response, if only to give us a chance of testing the theoretical connexion with Roman villas and Roman roads that has been confidently pro- claimed for so many years. Would it be a very bold thing to suggest that "cole arbour," so often found as the older spelling, gives, after all, the true origin, viz., "charcoal-burners' hut"? It would then be precisely parallel to the countless " colcots," and explain such frequent names as Cole Farm, Cole Barn, Coles Hill, Cole Allen, Collier's Green, Collier's Hill, Collier Street.

As MR. WARD asks for similar forms, the following may interest him : Coldstaple, Cold roast, Cold Ash, Cold Comfort, Cold Kitchen, Cold Bridge, Coldswood, Cold Blow, Key Cold Hill. SARDM.

WALBEOFF FAMILY (10 th S. i. 347). See Dwnn's 'Visitations of Wales,' ii. 37, 58, and Jones's ' History of the County of Breck- nock,' ii. 583. A. R. BAYLEY.

This was a Norman stock, dwelling for many centuries in the South Wales Marches, on the Herefordshire border. Persons of the name (mostly in humble circumstances) were living in the same district down to the nine- teenth century, and the surname could pro- bably even yet be found extant. I have a short Elizabethan pedigree of the family of Walbeoff of Llanhamulch.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Mon mouth.

REV. ARTHUR GALTON (10 th S. i. 349). If I am right in identifying this gentleman with the Rev. Arthur Howard Galton, then Crockford's ' Clerical Directory ' supplies information. Mr. Galton joined the Church of Rome, and was ordained priest in 1880. His 'Thomas Cromwell' appeared in 1887. Since his readmittance to the Church of England (1898) he has published: 'The Message of the Church of England ' (1899) , 'Rome and Romanizing' (1900); 'Our Atti- tude towards English Roman Catholics and the Papal Court ' (1901) ; and k Ecclesiastical