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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL APRIL 10, im

WE must request correspondents desiring in formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct

ST. MARY THE EGYPTIAN. Can any one give the history of St. Mary the Egyptian, whose memory is perpetuated by a very curious bas-relief in the church of St. Nicolas, Blois ? In this St. Mary's history seems to be recounted. Two curious fea- tures are to be noted. She appears to be receiving a chalice at the hands of a priest : would this mark the sculpture as executed before the denial of the cup to the laity ? And at her decease she is being lifted into her tomb by a cowled monk aided by a lion. The local tradition in Blois about her is very scanty ; the relief is supposed to be fifteenth-century work. A modern window above it represents St. Mary again as receiving the Sacrament. I should be much obliged for any information about her and about the history of this bas-relief. I am unaware if it has been engraved for any purpose. I have an excellent drawing of it made by a friend on the spot.

F. G. MONTAGU POWELL. Foxlease. Southbourne, Christchurch.

ROBERT NOYES. I have a clever water- colour drawing of the High Rock, Bridg- north, signed " Robert Noyes, 1820 " ; but I can find no reference to the artist or his work in any book I have consulted. Per- haps some correspondent can direct my attention to an account of him.

JOHN LANE. Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.

PLACE-NAMES : BOOKS ON THEIR ETY- MOLOGY. Being much interested in the names of places, I should like to know whether there are now published any books similar to Canon Isaac Taylor's (which I understand are now obsolete, vide COL. PRIDEATJX), Mr. C. Blackie's ' Dictionary of Place-Names,' and Mr. F. Edmunds's ' His- tory in the Names of Places.' The latter two may be also obsolete, as they have been published some years, and Edmunds is out of print.

Is there any recent book of a similar character as to the Celtic or British origin of place-names ? Is Mr. Johnston's ' Place- Names of Scotland,' 1892, to be relied upon ?

I have seen Mr. Duignan's book on Stafford- shire place-names ; and there are several

local place-names books in the Manchester Reference Library. W. H. VAUGHAN.

77, Windsor Road, Southport, Lanes.

THOMAS WEATHERALL. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' furnish information respecting Thomas Weatherall, supposed to have been born at Durham early in the eighteenth century ?

His brother was Nathan Weatherall, D.D, Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford, who was also Prebendary of West- minster 1775, and Dean of Hereford 1771 to 1807. GEORGE WEATHERALL.

THE* CARTER OF YORK. In ' Rede Me and be nott Wrothe ' Wolsey,

the englisshe Lucifer, Wotherwyse called the Cardinall,

is referred to as " the carter of yorcke."" Wherefore ?

I observe that in the course of the com- position carter is made to rime with after :

we are vndone for ever, Yf the gospell abroade be spred.

For then with in a whyle after,

Every plowe manne and carter Shall se what a lyfe we have led.

Now because Bunyan rimed after and; daughter, Mr. Kington Oliphant accepted the fact as evidence that the glorious tinker would speak of his dafter (see ' The- Sources of Standard English,' 1st ed., p. 142).. Prof. Earle, more cautious, had askei :

" Does John Bunyan pronounce da,u$iter as.

' dafter,' or is the rhyme ' arter ' and ' darter ' ? Despondency, good man, is coming after, And so is also Much-afraid, his daughteu"

' The Philology of the English Tongue,' 4th ed, p. 153,

I should suppose there can be no ioubt that after was " arter " in ' Rede M and be nott Wrothe,' and I think it was most probably intended to be so pronounced in Bunyan's lines. ST. SWITHN.

" BEAT ON, PROUD BILLOWS." Who wote the poem beginning

Beat on, proud billows ; Boreas, blow ; Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof?

In ' The New Foundling Hospital for Wit/ a new edition, 1786, iv. 40, it is headd : " Stanzas by Lord Capel ; written when he was a prisoner in the Tower during Croip.- well's usurpation."

In ' Elegant Extracts in Poetry ' (? 1790,. Book IV. No. 119 of " Songs, Ballads, &c.,' . 928, it is called ' Loyalty Confined,' an( a note says :

" This excellent old song is preserved in David jloyd's ' Memoires of those that suffered in the ause of Charles I.' He speaks of it as the com- position of a worthy personage, who suffered \