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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. OCT. 21,

of Laxton, Notts, hereditary custodians of Sherwood Forest, wherein one clause reads : " And also that they take and have of every carte lode of salte that goeth throw the forreste one skeppe of salte, and of everie halfe carte lode, halfe a skeppe."

A. STAPLETON.

The main road from Lichfield to Birming- ham crosses the river Tame at the foot of Gravelly Hill by a bridge known as Salford Bridge. Willows grow thereabout upon the river bank. BENJ. WALKER.

Gravelly Hill, Erdington.

CAMPBELL : PRONUNCIATION OP THE NAME (10 S. x. 228, 278). My aunt, Frances Countess Russell, who died in 1898, always pronounced the name Campbell like " Camel." She was a Scotchwoman, but a Lowlander. G. W. E. RUSSELL.

Scott implies that the current Scottish pronunciation was " Cawmil " ; see ' Rob Roy,' ed. 3, 1818, iii. 44, 45. W. C. B.

In a letter dated 15 May, 1848, Lord Chan- cellor Campbell writes to his brother ( ' Auto- biography,' chap, xxviii.) that the Duke of Wellington

" introduced me to the Prince of Wales [the present King]. The little boy running up to him when I was standing by, he said to him, ' Do you know LordCammel? You should know Lord Cammel.' So I shook hands with his Royal Highness."

HERMAN COHEN.

Of an old firm " Cammell & Co." I have heard it said that they belonged to " the Campbells are coming."

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

CHANGES IN HANDWRITING : LARGE-TEXT W AND LONG S (10 S. x. 269). A great many people still use the longs (as in my signature) where there is a double s. Lord Kimberley's family still use it for a single s, inWodehouse. This is unusual. G. W. E. RUSSELL.

FRENCH PEERAGE (10 S. x. 289). There is no French Peerage corresponding to our Burke. J. B. P. Jullien de Courcelles, ' Dictionnaire universel de la Noblesse de France,' 5 vols., 1820-22, and Saint- Allais, ' Nobiliaire de France,' 21 vols., 1872-7, are excellent works. The Peerage of France has been dealt with in instalments in the ' Annuaire de la Noblesse de France,' which was started in 1843 by Borel d'Hauterive, and is still continued by the Vicomte Albert Reverend ; it is in 64 vols. An index to the genealogies dealt with in the first series

will be found at the end of the issue foi* 1879 or 1880, I forget which. Those dealt with since 1880 will be found indexed in the current volume. This is the best modern book of its kind, and is trustworthy. There is a complete set in the British Museum (Large Room). The work is published at 25, Rue Fontaine, Paris, and also by H. Champion, 9, Quai Voltaire. W. ROBERTS.

WATERLOO : CHARLOTTE (10 S. x. 190, 232, 271, 315). The Queen died in 1818. ' Rejected Adclresses ' was published in 1813. There " Charlotte " (the. name of the Prin- cess) is made to rime with " scarlet." Pre- sumably the Princess's name and the Queen' & were pronounced in the same way.

G. W. E. RUSSELL,

The local poet of my native village in Nottinghamshire at the time of the Crimean War scarcely gave the last syllable of Water- loo its usual sound in English pronunciation when he said, or sang, of the " Rooshians " :

We '11 feight 'em as we fought the French when we

met at Wetterloo ; We brogged 'em in the belly wi' our bagginets, and

made 'em go ugh !

It was quite usual in the sixties of last century to hear Great Charlotte Street, Liverpool, called Great Charlotte Street, and I have heard the name so pronounced when used as a personal name. Its most common diminutive is, of course, Lottie.

C. C. B.

CHURCH OF LLANTWIT MAJOR (10 S. x. 288). Mr. Alfred C. Fryer's work ' Llantwit Major : a Fifth-Century University,' would assist MR. ADDY. The church, founded by St. Illtyd, was granted to the Abbey of St. Mary, Tewkesbury :

"The college of Thodosius at Caer Worgorn, Llantwit Major, was not a monastery, however, but

rather an enfranchised school, to exhibit and teach
 * he distinguished knowledge and exalted sciences

that were known in Rome, and to the Romans at !aerleoii upon Use (Isca Silurium)." 'lolo MSS.,'

p. 422.

[f MR. ADDY likes to communicate with me, I can supply him with much information respecting Llanilltydfawr. AP RHYS.

91, Seaford Road, West Baling, W.

' The Ecclesiastical Buildings of Llantwit Major ' (published by the author, Mr. J. W. Rodger, architect, Cardiff) will give MR. ADDY much information respecting the present condition of the church.

Mr. G. E. Halliday has two papers on the church in Archceologia Camhrensis for April, 1900, and July, 1905. DAVID SALMON.