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covered a number of small streams running down from the hills to the Thames, the name would have been too indefinite for use in a legal document, as no one would have known which of the many Tyburns was intended to be expressed. I am also compelled to differ from MR. RUTTON in his view regarding " aqua de Tyburne." Since Domesday the name has been in- declinable, and Tyburne is not the genitive form, even if we can conceive of the pre- position de governing the genitive. In my translation I did not lose sight of the de- in decurrente, which gives the signification of the stream running down into the Thames from a higher level.

But while agreeing to differ with MR. RUTTON on these points, I must acknow- ledge the courtesy and candour with which he has treated my own heretical views, and I am especially grateful for his valuable reference to the plan of 1614 in the Grace Collection in which is noted " the Aye or Ty bourn broke." This alternative de- signation bears out, I venture to think, my proposition that in Aye the stream was known as the Aye Brook, and in Tyburn as the Tyburn Brook.

When I last wrote (ante, p. 132), I men- tioned the numerous names of places ending in " burn," and the comparative rarity of stream-names ending in that word, espe- cially in the South of England. As a further instance I may name Kilburn, which in old days was a tiny rural village situated on the upper waters of the modern Westbourne, or MR. RUTTON'S Tyburn No. 2. This place, being the seat of a well-known nunnery, is frequently mentioned in ancient charters and grants, but it never occurs as the name of a stream or of a part of a stream. Putting aside the French " borne " as inadmissible in most of these cases, as being of too recent introduction, I have wondered if " burn " may not have some other meaning than that of brook. Can PROF. SXEAT or some other authority say what is the exact force of the termination " born " in the German place-name Paderborn ?

In conclusion and the Editor and readers of ' N. & Q.' will be glad to learn that I really intend on the present occasion to conclude my remarks on this thorny subject I may point out with reference to MR. H. A. HAR- BEN'S question (10 S. x. 431) as to the exist- ence of Tyburn in the Bayswater district, that in a pedigree given in Mr. F. A. Crisp's issued to subscribers, Lord William Murray, third son of the third Duke of Atholl, who
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died 31 Dec., 1796, is stated to have been buried in " St. George's Cemetery, Tyburn, co. Middlesex." His wife, who survived him for nearly twenty-eight years, was also buried in the same place. The title-deeds of this burying-ground as well as of the older buildings in the neighbourhood would, I feel no doubt, corroborate my view that originally the manor of Tyburn extended as far as the Westbourne Brook.

W. F. PRIDEAUX. Grand Hotel, Locarno.

HARTLEY COLERIDGE (10 S. x. 49, 118). Referring to the inquiry respecting contribu- tions by Hartley Coleridge to periodicals, I have just come across two items which may have been overlooked. They are both in a periodical called The North of England Magazine, published in Manchester in 1842. One is a stanza of twelve lines entitled ' The Poet,' and the other is one of three verses of six lines each, called ' Thoughts while Smoking.' The latter is dated from Spring Cottage, March, 1842.

I have only one volume of this periodical, but I believe it ran to two volumes. Pos- sibly the second may have further contri- butions. A. H. ARKLE.

Elmhurst, Oxton, Birkenhead.

WALTON CASTLE, CLEVEDON, SOMERSET (10 S. xi. 108). In the Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological Society for 1860, p. 18, this building is described as " a house of the time of James I. or Charles I. built in mediaeval style." As it bears the arms of the Paulet or Poulett family, who were Royalists, the suggestion of Cromwell as its builder seems hardly well founded. The heads of that family during the above reigns were : 1. Sir Anthony, who succeeded to the title in 1588. 2. His eldest son John, who in 1627 advanced to the dignity of Baron Poulett of Hinton St. George. 3. His eldest son John, who was in 1640 elected knight of the shire, and who died in 1665. To one of these, therefore, might be ascribed the founding of the building.

CHAS. WM. TERRY. Taunton.

SAMUEL HAYES (10 S. xi. 149). There is the following record of him in Allibone's ' Dictionary,' vol. ii. : " Hayes, Samuel, pub. several poems, 1775-89 ; two separate serms., 1789-92; and XVI. Serms. 1797, 8vo."

In the ' Life of Southey ' in 6 vols., by his son Charles Cuthbert Southey, the father, who was at Westminster from 1788 to 1794,