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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. AUG. s, im.

and to call them Latin ; but to utter them as " Anglo-Saxon " is thought to be meri- torious.

I find, ante, p. 14, the statement that " Hov [is] deriving from a Saxon word meaning low-lying " ; and on the very next page, under ' Stymie,' that there is an " A.-S. stima, a gleam, brightness."

I wonder whether the authors of these remarkable statements can give their refer- ences, or justify their assertions.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

In default of information as to the mys- terious Saxon word meaning "low-lying" (in a physical sense) that has any resem- blance to Hove, it may be permitted to suggest the precise A.-S. equivalent hof, given as enclosure, dwelling, temple. The word seems to have died out after the Con- quest, excepting its occurrence in Gower as " ho ve-daunce "= Court- dance, though this is probably borrowed from the M.H. German hove-tanz. H. P. L.

" STYMIE " AT GOLF (10 S. ix. 370, 414, 492 ; x. 15). With regard to the concluding paragraph at the last reference it was pre- cisely because my Anglo-Saxon dictionary (Sweet's) contained no such word as stima, gleam, or anything like it, that I penned the query at the first reference, in order to obtain, inferentially, the etymon of stime in the ' Cursor Mundi ' quotation. The latter is the only reference I could find calculated to throw any light on the golf word. H. P. L.

HUNGARIAN GRAMMAR (10 S. ix. 489 ; x. 14). Triibner published an excellent sketch of the language in his " Simplified Grammar Series." Messrs. Williams & Nor- gate may still supply it.

To any one able to read German I can recommend a series " Kunst der Poly- glottie," published by Hartleben of Vienna. These grammars are excellent for conversa- tional purposes. ' Ungarisch,' by F. Gorg, would cost about two shillings.

FRED. G. ACKERLEY. Grindleton, Clitheroe.

TITLES CONFERRED BY CROMWELL (10 S. x. 49). A list of these will be found in vol. ii. of Noble's ' Memoirs of the Protectorate House of Cromwell.' For an exhaustive list of Cromwell's " Other House " or " House of Lords " see G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage,' vol. ii. pp. 84-9. For full particu- lars of Cromwellian baronets see G. E. C.'s
 * Complete Baronetage,' vol. iii. pp. 3 to 9.

The knights made by both the Protectors, Oliver and Richard, are enumerated in Dr. W. A. Shaw's 'Knights of England/ vol. ii. pp. 223-4. W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton-le- Willows.

The MS. Journal of the Protectorate House of Lords, in possession of the late Sir Richard Tangye, was published this year for the first time in " The House of Lords' Manuscripts, Vol. IV. (New Series)," which can be obtained from H.M. Stationery Office for 2s. 9dL This contains the lists of the different peers attending the meetings of Cromwell's House of Lords, with mention also of the various offices held by them.

R. B.

Upton.

There is a list of many of these persona (with armorial bearings) in Sir J. Prest- wich's ' Respublica,' 1787, at pp. 149 et seqq.

M.

PETER QUIVEL, BISHOP OF EXETER (10 S. x. 30). It is pleasant to find my old friend MR. JAMES DALLAS (for many years an honoured citizen of Exeter) protesting against Mr. R. L. Poole's spelling of this bishop's name. I have looked over a score of creditable authorities, and do not find any of them rendering it Quinel. The Rev. George Oliver, D.D., in his ' Lives of the Bishops of Exeter ' (1861), remarks :

" Peter Quivil was the son of Peter and Helewisa Quivil of Exeter."

Prebendary F. C. Hingeston Randolph, in his reproduction of ' The Register of Peter Quivil (A.D. 1280-91),' published in 1889, says in the preface :

" Peter Quivil, our thirteenth Bishop, like his two immediate predecessors, was a native of

Exeter He was instituted to the remote

country parish of St. Mullion The date of his

institution is unknown, but tie resigned the benefice in 1262, and John Quivel doubtless his kinsman succeeded him."

In a foot-note the author adds :

"The name does not occur elsewhere in the Registers, and it should be noted that it is there spelt ' Quivel.' Was not this, rather than ' Quivil,' the true spelling ? "

Harking back to the same learned cleric's rendering of Bishop Bronescombe's Register (A.D. 1257-80), we find the following entry :

" Rectors of St. Mullion (Sancti Melani in Kerier, MS.), Master P(eter) Quivel, on whose resignation John Quivel, priest, was inst. 7 July, 1262, on the presentation of Sir Philip Basset."

Archdeacon Freeman, in his ' Architec- tural History of Exeter Cathedral' (1873), invariably renders the Bishop's patronymic