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 10 S. XL APRIL 24, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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"BLAZERS" (10 S. xi. 287). MR. JOHN MURRAY, "writing of Oxford, puts the first use of " flannel coats of club colours " " in the late sixties." At Cambridge " flannel coats of club colours " were obligatory for ratfe nights and for " procession," and the term " Johnian blazer " in use at an earlier date. D.

The origin of the word is already recorded in ' N.E.D.' The statement that flannel coats of club colours first began to be used in the late sixties can only apply to Oxford. When I first went to Cambridge in 1854, every boat club had its coloured flannels, and the Johnian coat was of a bright scarlet, without any trimming, and so continues still. WALTER W. SKEAT.

THE TYBURN (10 S. x. 341, 430, 494 ; xi. 31, 130, 216). I do not wish to "lengthen out a closing song," but merely desire to state clearly that my idea of the application of the name Tyburn to more streams than one arises from the fact that in the docu- ments of c. 951 and 1222 it is found applied, in different forms, to two streams fully half a mile apart. For if as has been held the same stream is referred to in both docu- ments, then in the 1222 statement of the Abbey estate a huge portion, viz., the manor of Eia, acquired since c. 951, is omitted and unaccounted for. It is " the indefinite use " of the name in these two " legal documents " that gives rise to argument.

As to the parsing of " aqua de Tyburne," although " Tyburne " is not ablative, I will not further claim it as genitive ( ' ' Tyburne "for " Tyburnse "), being assuied on trustworthy authority that in variably de commands the ablative. My quoted example " de istius " (ante, p. 132, footnote) has to be taken with its context : " ut aliquam part em de istius impudentia reticere possim," de having reference not to istius, but to impudentia. And for the satisfaction of COL. PRIDEAUX I may add that my classic authority, un- aware of the argument, thought " Tyburne " to be vernacular, not declined Latin.

COL. PRIDEAUX curiously attributes to me " a reluctance to depart from established shibboleths," not recalling my several at- tempts in ' N. & Q.' to correct stereotyped current errors. He remembers for the moment only my " strenuous " plea, many years ago, for Westbourne as the name of the stream, whereas he gave it to a locality. It seemed to me that the usual meaning attached to the name was the more natural and probable, but my maturer views favour his argument. W. L. RUTTON.

In reply to the query of COL. PRIDEAUX (ante, p. 217), I may say that Born is the Low-German form of the High-German Brunnen, cognate, of course, with metathesis of r, with Eng. " bourn." H. P. L.

Although I had not intended to write any more on this subject, I cannot resist bringing forward a fresh piece of evidence in con- firmation of the opinion expressed at the last reference that the title-deeds of the older buildings in the Bayswater district would corroborate my view that the manor of Tyburn extended as far as Westbourne Brook. Mr. F. Marcham of Tottenham includes in the last issue of The Antiquaries' List of Middlesex Deeds, vol. 1, Part 5 (April, 1909), the following entry :

"Bargain and Sale for a year, 3 Dec., 1746. Mary Dearing of Wokingham, co. Berks, spinster, and Mary Huckle of Paddington, spinster. Mess, in Padd. parcel of Tybourn Manor called Bayards Watering Place, mess, formerly called the King's Head, and lately the Bell, etc. Sig. of first party."

Two leases in the same catalogue, dated respectively 23 Oct., 1752, and 3 Oct., 1769, are said to refer to the same premises.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

The following is taken from The Standard of 8 March :

" Site of Tyburn Tree. The site of Tyburn gallows has been exactly located, after consider- able research, and arrangements have been made by the Local Government Committee of the London County Council for marking the spot with a stone tablet, to be sunk in the roadway at the junction of Edgware Road, Bayswater Road, and Oxford Street, with a representation of the triangular gallows in brass and the inscrip- tion :

' Here stood Tyburn Tree. Removed 1759.' ATI original stone, bearing the inscription, ' Half a mile from Tyburn Gate,' which has been pre- sented to the London County Council by the Consolidated London Properties (Limited), is to be affixed to the Edgware Road branch of the Capital and Counties Bank."

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

" POT- GALLERY " (10 S. vii. 388, 431; viii. 172, 254, 312, 493, 517 ; ix. 36, 212). In citing at the last reference a lease, dated 1658, from William Angell to John Shorter, of " 4 putt gallaries, or shedds, built over the mill stream upon the wharfe thereof, in Paris Garden," I assumed that " putt " was a corruption of " pot " ; but it has since occurred to me that " putt gallery " might have been the original form, and that it might have meant a structure built out or thrust forth from another, as