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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL FEB. 1.3,

' THE STOBY OF MY HEAKT.' A friend is anxious to discover the name of the author of a book with the above title. It is not a novel, but a personal narration, mainly autobiographical. M. L. R. BRESLAR. Percy House, South Hackney.

[It is by Richard Jefferies, the naturalist, and appeared in 1883.]

PARISH BEADLE. What are or were the legal powers, function, and status of a parish beadle ? THE SMITH OF HALIFAX.

" HOGLING-MONEY." In the late Mr. Bruce's preface to ' Extracts from Accounts of the Churchwardens of Minchinhampton,' read before the Society of Antiquaries on 5 May, 1853, occurs this sentence :

" ' Hogling-money,' which I take to have been a customary payment made by the sheep-farmers of the parish for their hoglings, or hoggets, i.e., their sheep of the second year ; this payment was not continued after 1595."

I should be glad to learn something more about this payment, as the information may throw light on an item in the church- wardens' accounts of this parish :

" 1545 [Received] Itm for the hoggells at the tyme of Chrystemas, xxijs. vjd." Surrey Archteol. Coll., xv. 82.

Does a similar receipt occur elsewhere ?

LIBRARIAN. Public Library, Wandsworth.

CORTJNNA : BEARER OF THE FIRST NEWS. Would it be possible to discover by what ship the first news of the battle of Corunna and the death of Sir John Moore reached England at what port, and on what day, she arrived, &c. ?

I find in some old family papers the auto- biography of a midshipman who served on board the Cossack (24 guns), under Capt. George Digby, in 1808-9. This middy (son of a school chum of Nelson's) is " com- manding a cutter and employed embarking the troops all night " at Corunna ; " and the next day after the battle of General Sir John Moore afterwards [sic] brought home Lord Paget with news of the victory." Was Lord Paget the bearer of the first news ?

F. A. W.

EPISCOPAL SCARF OR TIPPET. What is the true origin of the scarf (" otherwise called the tippet") worn by bishops, and over the surplice, by other dignitaries of the Church, as well as by royal and episcopal chaplains ? Who are, and who are not, entitled to wear it ? And when ?

CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

THE TYBURN. (10 S. x. 341, 430, 494 ; xi. 31.)

COL. PRIDEATJX has again brought forward that interesting perplexity Tyburn, he having since it was last discussed evolved a new theory, or perhaps it should be said, con- siderably expanded a previous conception, viz., that the name in its primitive signific- ance referred to land, not water to a large tract rather than to a small stream. He shows reasons for his conclusion, and his challenge for venerable evidence of map or document indicating the name Tyburn as applied to the stream is no more likely to be answered than was his former similar challenge in respect of the Westbourne. But he will not expect us to resign a lifelong belief in Tyburn as the name of the burn without a struggle.

Applying, however, our own experience, we may hardly be surprised at the sugges- tion that the small streams of London had no definite names ; they were rivulets, not rivers, and generally throughout the country to rivers only have names been given. The " purling brooks " have no names, or if they have, the name is seldom used, or even known. They are simply spoken of in the places they water as " the brook," " the beck," or " the burn " ; and if further designated, it is by the name of the hamlet or parish they pass through. My present remembrance is of one in the North Country. It was a considerable stream ; anglers fished it for perch, if not for trout, and it turned a mill ; but I knew it by no other name than " the beck." And bringing our experience to London, we ought not to be immoderately surprised were COL. PRIDEAUX able to prove that the stream we discuss had no general name that it was, as Leland called it (the quota- tion is very interesting), " the Maribone broke " in its northern quarter ; and when it ran " by the parke-waulle at St. James," it is named, in an Act of 1532, as the Ey, or rather in that situation (near the site of Buckingham Palace) were the Ey Cross and the Ey Bridge names that seem to be derived from the stream. And further on, as it approached the Thames it is noted in a plan of 1614 as " the Aye or Ty bourn broke " a term which COL. PRIDEAUX will read as descriptive, but which has a nominal appearance. At the Abbey, where another course of the stream turned