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at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century travelled a great deal in Italy, and were able to pronounce Italian names correctly, there should be no doubt as to how the name was pronounced. The lady's fame seems to have survived well into the fifties, or the beginning of the sixties, because ladies in the East of Europe then wore Pamela hats of straw. They had broad, curved brims, if I remember correctly, and were trimmed with some plain coloured ribbon and an artificial flower or two.

L. L. K.

COLD HARBOUR : WINDY ARBOUR (10 th S. i- 341, 413). If the learned Professor cares to give further attention to-this subject he may find reasons to connect the site of Stow's " Cold Harbrough " with the Roman occupa- tion ; and first, there is a Coldharbour in the Tower precincts, where the Roman route is known to have first crossed the Thames, subsequently vid Watling Street to Dowgate ; from there a route eastward would include Stow's site. We have a Stoney Lane, Tooley Street, for the Tower, and a Stoney Street at the Clink for Watling Street, turning west- ward : both indicate the Roman paved ways.

A. H.

Mr. S. O. Addy in his 'Evolution of the English House,' 1898, says there were cottages in Yorkshire in which fire was not used daily, or perhaps not used at all :

1532. " I wilto every hows within the parisheing of Acclome \vhar os fyer is daily used, xiijd." ' Test. Ebor.' (Surtees Soc.), v. 291.

1542. " The fyer-house that Foxe wyffe off Ulver- 8ton dwellithe in." ' Richmond Wills' (Surtees Soc.), 32.

The occupants of such cottages, Mr. Addy observes, must often have sought warmth at some place of common resort, like the village smithy or like the lesche or public inn of the ancient Greeks. The place-name Cold Harbour, which occurs so often in England, and is found in Germany as Kalteherberge, seems to refer to an inn of this kind (pp. 60 and 128). J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

^ I send a few notes that I have made from time to time as to this place-name. I trust no one will regard them as in any way exhaustive. ' N. & Q.' has at various periods chronicled many others.

American Historical Mar/. (1858). ii. 95.

Ashover, Derbyshire. tioston Herald, 4 Sept., 1832, p. 2.

Berkshire. Cooper King's ' History,' 50.

Bignor Hill." Gentleman's Magazine Library " :

Komano-British Remains,' part ii. 330.

Croxton, Lincolnshire. "A labourer's thatched double cottage on Mr. Lawson's farm at Cold

Harbour, Croxton, was entirely destroyed by fire during the high wind last Friday afternoon." Stamford Mercury, 16 Sept., 1859.

' Croydon in the Past,' p. xiii.

Cuckfield, Sussex. "Gentleman's Magazine Library": 'Romano-British Remains,' part ii. 333.

Essex. Trans, of Ewex Archaeological Society, N.S. v. part iii. 155.

Folk-lore Journal, i. 90.

Gosport. Gentleman's Mag., vol. Ixi. part ii. 1166.

London. Surtees's ' Hist. Co. Pal. of Durham,' i. xxi; Archcroloyia, Ivii. 260; Proc. Soc. Ant., i. 294, ii. 120; Webster, 'Westward Ho,' Act IV. sc. ii.

Louth, Lincolnshire. Goulding, 'Notes on Louth Houses,' 3; ' Corporation Records,' 184.

Northfleet. " Gentleman's Magazine Library " : ' Romano-British Remains,' part ii. 529.

Northorpe, Lincolnshire. A place on the north side of the road between Kirton-in-Lindsey and. Gainsburgh, whether in the parish of Northorpe or Blyton I am not certain.

Okeley, Sussex. " Gentleman's Magazine Library": 'Romano-British Remains,' part ii. 333.

Saint Briavels. " Gentleman's Magazine Library " : ' Archaeology,' part ii. 210.

Swindon. Proceedings of Soc. of Antiquaries, i. 298.

Thompson. ' Hist, of Boston,' second ed., 609 732.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

"THE ETERNAL FEMININE" (10 th S. i. 108,

234, 335). I have consulted the earliest Eng- lish translation of the second part of ' Faust ' that I could find (published in 1838), and in it the last two lines read :

The Ever- Feminine Wills that we rise.

A translation, by Anna Swanwick, in "Bohn's Libraries" (1886 edition), concludes :

The ever-womanly

Draws us from above.

EDWARD LATHAM.

LATIN QUOTATIONS (9 th S. xi. 466 ; xii. 315). For H. W. 's last quotation, "Ubique ingenia hominum situs formant." see Curtius, bk. viii. ch. ix. 20 : "Ingenia hominum, sicut ubique, apud illos locorum quoque situs format." EDWARD BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, South Australia.

HOCKDAY : POTTAGE CALLED HOK (10 th S. i. 187). I wish Miss LEGA-WEEKES all success in her investigation of hockday. As the 'New English Dictionary' (which she has. doubtless consulted) points out : " Few words have received so much etymological and historical investigation." Is it possible that the second Tuesday after Easter Sunday, being the day on which the Exchequer opened (in England at any rate), was called hoc day in office slang from some formula, that