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Miss Toulmin Smith identifies " Bercam- stede broke " with the Bulbourne, and " Hamersham water," which is mentioned a little further on, with the Misbourne ; but apparently these names were not habitually employed by the villagers in Leland's time.

In using the word " generally," I meant to imply that there were exceptions to the proposition I laid down, or, in other words, that a few of these small rivulets had specific denominations. The Ravensbourne is one of them ; the Otterburn, celebrated in song and history, is another ; while the Fish- bourne may be regarded as a third. Leland says ('Itinerary,' iv. 93):

''There is a tounelet a 2 or 3 miles lower than Chicester on the farther side of the creke, caullid Fischeburne, whereof of sum the haven is caullid Fischeburne Haven. And to this creke resortith the litle broke that cummith by Chichester."

Taking everything into consideration, I do not think I am wrong in asserting that village- names ending in -bourne are considerably in excess of stream-names with the same termination ; but before quitting the subject, I should like to draw attention to a place which is not mentioned by PROF. SKEAT. This is Pangbourne, a delightful village in Berkshire which I know well. The little stream which runs from Bradfield through the village to the Thames is always known as the Pang, and I am unable to say why in this case the -bourne termination should have been applied to the village. The name seems analogous to that of Ouseburn in Yorkshire. This reply is already long enough, and therefore I will not enter on the question of my doubts as to whether in some cases the termination -bourne may not represent some non-Teutonic word.

With regard to Marylebone, I anticipated PROF. SKEAT by several years in pointing out that it meant Mary-at-the-Bourne. I think it probable that the form " Mari- boune " or " Maribonne," instanced by MR. H. A. HARBEN (ante, p. 291), from an Inquisition of 1461, is an error of the scribe for "Maribo r ne." In a deed of 1721 in my possession the manor is mentioned under a form unrecorded by MR. HARBEN, namely St. Mary-la-bone. In this and other deeds of the same period the alias Marybone is always recorded. Colbone in Somerset- shire, which is mentioned by PROF. SKEAT, is doubtless analogous to Marylebone. Another similar case is Rathborne, which since the seventeenth century has been curtailed into Rathbone.

W. F. PRIDEAUX. Palace Hotel, Baveno.

An interesting illustration which strongly supports PROF. SKEAT'S contention as to the meaning of "bourne" and its use as a place-name occurs at Hastings. Bourne Street in that town is admittedly so called from the stream which once flowed between All Saints Street and High Street. The stream was probably at one time of con- siderable size, and the whole valley in which Old Hastings lies is still sometimes spoken of as the Bourne Valley ; but by 1824, when Moss wrote his ' History of Hastings,' the stream had become " narrow and incon- siderable," and at the present day it has wholly disappeared.

LEONARD J. HODSON.

Robertsbridge, Sussex.

Running through the centre of the ancient town of Lewes is a stream called Winterbourne so named because it is usually dry in summer, but flows in winter. In the days when the Cluniac Priory existed it turned, I believe, a flour mill.

CAROLINE STEGGALL. Southover, Lewes.

I do not think that Milton has yet been quoted as an authority. He says : And every bosky bourne from side to side.

I venture neither to offer any opinion nor to tread in the thorny paths of philology, but having dwelt for thirty-six years in a remote Suffolk village named Newbourne, I am desirous to have its unde derivatur settled. Certainly a perennial stream flows through it, finding its way into the Deben ; and the village is situated on what is called geologically Suffolk crag.

There is a large village in Northumberland on the Tyne called Newburn, the name of which is easily accounted for.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

Sockburn is in Durham county, not in Yorkshire.

In Northumberland there is another Otterburn (the site of the famous Redesdale battle). Not far from the village is Otter- caps, &c. In the same county is Simonburn.

R. B R.

South Shields.

" MARYLEBONE " : PREPOSITIONS IN

PLACE-NAMES (10 S. xi. 201, 270, 291, 356,

415). The name of Mary Bourne, varying

i in spelling to Maribound and even Marrow-

! bone, has been handed down, as commonly

I pronounced, Marybone. St. Marybourne

J has also been corruptly changed to St. Mary