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named in Gwennap, two in Kea, two in Sithney, two in St. Allen, and one each in Lansallos and St. Anthony - in - Meneage ; possibly there are others.

Of Carnmarth, Norden says, " Kern-margh beacon or Carn-marigh, signifyinge rocke wher horses shelter them " ; and this seems to be a plausible explanation. Cam, s.m., signifies a rock, a rocky place, a high rock ; march, mark, merh, margh ; pi. merch, merh, mergh, a horse.

Lan, s.f., primarily meant an enclosure, a yard ; hence a churchyard, and finally a church. There are many instances in Cornish place-names in which Ian signifies enclosure, e.g., Lambourne (Lambron) in Perranzabuloe, the enclosure of the round field ; Lanyon, a common personal and place-name, the furzy enclosure ; Landew in Lezant, the black enclosure ; and why not Lanner, the long enclosure (7w*=long) ? See Lhuyd's 'Archseo- logia Britannica,' 1707 ; Price's ' Archseo- logia Cornu-Britannica,' 1790 ; Williams's ' Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum,' 1865 ; and Jago's 'English-Cornish Dictionary,' 1887.

P* JENNINGS.

St. Day.

"SINEWS OF WAR" (10 S. ix. 470; x. 137, 218). It may perhaps be worth while to add a somewhat later example of this expression. Bacon in his essay on the true greatness of kingdoms and estates says : " Neither is money the sinews of war." E. YARDLEY.

Much interesting information concerning the early Latin origin and the English use of this phrase was given at 2 S. ix. 103, 228, 374 ; 3 S. iii. 438. ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

"COCK-FOSTER" (10 S. x. 30, 94). This place and its derivation are discussed under ' Enfield ' in Thome's ' Environs of London,' vol. i. p. 185 :

"Cock Foster is a little secluded hamlet on the

S.W. side of Enfield Chase The name has caused

some speculation. There can be little doubt that Forsters (sic) is a corruption of foresters (in either the English or French form). The derivation of Cock is not so palpable. It has been suggested that it comes from bicoque, a small house, hut, a collec- tion of huts ; Cotgrave renders it ' Bicoque, a little paltry town,' and if the huts of the Chase foresters and woodmen were collected here, the place may have been called Bicoque Forestiere ; but a more obvious explanation is that here may have been the house of the chief forester, Coq de Forestiers."

I have seen no reference in Thorne or elsewhere to an interesting place-name once existing in this neighbourhood, which seems to bear out Thome's derivation of " chief "

or " head " forester. Some" fields bordering a road called Cool Oak Lane,t leading to Kingsbury, and about a mile from the main road are named in John Cooke's map of the manor of Hendon {published in 1796)^ " Cockmans in the Wood," an interesting relic, no doubt, of the great forest of Middle- sex ; one might imagine that a house once stood here, perhaps the head-quarters of the chief forester in these parts. I think Lysons suggests that the name Kingsbury is derived from the fact that the neighbourhood was one of the royal hunting demesnes. Enfield Chase and Theobalds were of course the hunting grounds of later monarchs. " Cock- mans in the Wood " as a name seems to have disappeared, and no mention of the place is found on the Ordnance map.

F. S. SNELL. Hendon.

BTJDGEE, A KIND OF APE (10 S. x. 89, 137). May not budgee be a corruption of Portu- guese bugio, ape ? DONALD FERGUSON.

CORBET =VALLETORT (10 S. x. 168). Peter Corbet, second Baron Corbet of Caus (Cause Castle, near Westbury, Salop), married Beatrix, daughter of John de Beauchamp of Hach or Hatch, Somerset- shire (Betham, ' Baronetage,' vol. v., 1805, Appendix, p. 6 ; Burke, ' Dormant Peerages/ 1866, p. 136). Her father was not Lord Beauchamp of Hach, as erroneously stated by Betham, but was governor of the castles of Carmarthen and Cardigan, 1276-7, and died 24 Oct., 1283. He married Cecily de Vyvon ; and it was his son, John de Beau- champ, who was the first Baron Beauchamp of Hacche (see Collinson, ' History of Somer- setshire,' 1791, i. 44; ii. 118, 150; Burke, Cleveland, 'The Battle Abbey Roll,' 1889, iii. 411 ; 10 S. viii. 307, 472). Lord Corbet died 15 Edward II. (1322), and Beatrix, who survived him, was married secondly to Sir John de Leyborne, and died before him in 1347 (Duchess of Cleveland, 'The Battle Abbey Roll,' i. 321).
 * Dormant Peerages,' p. 33 ; Duchess of

According to Collinson and Burke, the grandfather of the first-named John de Beauchamp was a Robert de Beauchamp of Hacche, who was Sheriff of Dorset and Somerset 9 Henry II., and again 22-29 Henry II., and died 13 John (1211-12). But there is " strong presumption " that these compilers have missed a generation in which the male descent was broken ; that the only child of this Robert was a daughter, Muriel, who became the wife of Simon de Valletort ; and that the issue of this marriage, Robert