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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL JAN. 9, im

tlgan was itself derived (with the usual vowel-mutation) from the sb. teag-, nom. teah, a tie, band, also an enclosure or pad- dock ; which was itself derived from teah, the second grade of the root-verb teohan, which is cognate with the G. Ziehen and the well- known Lat. ducere. Indeed, the sb. teah sometimes appears as tlh, with the mutated vowel, as is clearly shown in Bosworth and Toller's ' Dictionary.' Toller quotes from Thorpe's ' Diplomatarium,' p. 467, the following : " clausulam quam Angli dicunt teage, que pertinet ad predictam mansionem." And I have myself noticed the compound tlg-wella, i.e. Tye-well, in a list of boundaries, in Birch's ' Cart. Saxon.,' iii. 223. Cf. cet Tlgan, i.e. at Tye (Thorpe, ' Dipl.,' pp. 507, 523), with reference to Essex.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

In the eighteenth-century Catholic regis- ters of Crondon Park, Essex, to appear in the Catholic Record Society's sixth volume, there are some varied spellings of a place- name which the Rev. W. H. Cologan, the priest at Stock, says may be Margaretting or Margaretting-Tye, the word tye being equivalent to " common " locally.

JOSEPH S. HANSOM.

No one has as yet mentioned that a place called Ty"burn near Micklegate Bar, whence " York o'erlooked the town of York " after the battle of Wakefield, was the spot of execution in former times. Here was hanged the famous Dick Turpin, whose irons are yet preserved at York Castle.

What the derivation of the name may be, or how it was assigned at York, I cannot say ; but I remember that an old friend of mine erroneously supposed it to be the place of execution of Adam Sedbergh, Sedbar, or Sedbury, who suffered in 1537 for his share in the Pilgrimage of Grace. This idea was effectually disproved by the carving in the Tower of London which the abbot left by way of epitaph before suffering capital punishment at the well-known Tyburn near London. JOHN PICKFOKD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

THE CURIOUS HOUSE, GREENWICH (10 S. x. 469). Where was this house situated ? To one who has known the town for many years, and studied its history, the query is a puzzler. A friend of mine, Mr. Smithers, whose name is not unknown to the pages of ' N. & Q.,' and whose knowledge of Green- wich extends back to the forties, agrees with me in saying that there must be some mis- take as to the locality. The description

does not tally with any known house, especially a residence of the few mayors who have worn the robes of Greenwich.

AYEAHR.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. x. 510). Is this the passage that Lucis wishes to find ?

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing.

Pope, ' The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I. 1-3.

Erasmus in his ' Adagia ' under ' Originis * has " Ex minimis initiis maxima."

EDWARD BENSLY.

Is Lucis perhaps thinking of the first line of Pope's ' Rape of the Lock ' ?

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs a line which Tennyson hated. T. M. W.

Compare Claudian ' In Rufinum,' ii. 49 : Ehen, quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. [Other correspondents also refer to Pope. ]

HAWKINS FAMILY AND ARMS (10 x. S. 389, 472). If your correspondents will refer to Burke' s ' Colonial Gentry ' under the heading Smith of Kyogle or Gordon Brook, I forget which, they will find some authentic information on the Hawkins family. Of the members of this family there are still extant some letters of the dates of Mr. Serjeant Hawkins, besides a pastel portrait believed to be of the Serjeant.

H. S. SMITH-REWSE.

ADRIAN SCROPE (10 S. x. 469), the Regi- cide, who was executed at Charing Cross, 17 Oct., 1660, was most certainly not buried 22 years later at " Sonning, Herts " (if such a place exists) ; neither does the name occur in the copious extracts from the registers of Sonning, Berks, in Col. Chester's collec- tion. The name Adrian was a very common one in the family. " Adrian, son of Raphe Scroope, Gent.," was bap. 21 Sept., 1589, at Ruscombe, Berks. Sir Adrian Scrope of Cockerington, co. Lincoln, who died 10 Dec., 1623, a brother of the said Raphe, was father of Adrian Scrope, living 1642, the father of another Adrian Scrope, born shortly after 1622. The above-named Sir Adrian Scrope was, by his son Sir Gervase Scrope, grand- father of another Sir Adrian Scrope, K.B., who died in or shortly before Sept., 1667. Moreover, there was an Adrian Scrope, of Hambleden, Bucks, died 1577 (uncle to Sir Adrian Scrope first mentioned), who, by