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452 NOTES AND QUERIES. [10 S. XI. 5, 1909. la bonne. The date of introduction of "le" must be considered with St. Mary le Strand, &c.; and for "Bourne" placenames see ante, p. 361. Lysons ('Environs of London,' iii. 242) gives a print of "old Marybonne Church as it appeared in the 16th century," and says that when the church of St. John the Evangelist at Tyburn fell into decay, it was succeeded by a new church erected beside the same brook at another spot within the boundary of the said parish, and called Mary Bourne or St. Mary at the Brook.

The form "Marybone" is also given in Dekker and Middleton's 'The Roaring Girl,' 1611 (Dodsley, 1780, vi. 48, where mention is made of "Marybone Park").

As to the r being intrusive in "Maryborne" (ante, p. 415), the statement does not find support at least in J. Heywood's 'Four P's,' 1547 (Dodsley, i. 53), where "Ridybone" is the spelling, and doubtless the old pronunciation of Redbourne, to which place reference is made.

"Marybone" is a thoroughfare in Liverpool, where London place-names are common. To connect its origin with "Mary Bohun," Queen of King Henry IV. (ante, p. 415), is rather startling.

"Bourne" locally is a fact, and not to be lightly overlooked. Places named from the river, not previously mentioned, are Patricksbourn on the Lesser Stour, in Kent, and St. Mary Bourne, a parish and village on the river Bourne, a tributary of the Test in Hampshire.

(10 S. xi. 409).—

I should recommend to apply to Mr. Batsford, 94, High Holborn, W.C., who will probably be able to supply the book needed.

Although it is true Liverpool has been described as an arid literary desert, it is not quite so bad as your correspondent paints it. If is sure of his facts or inferences, which I doubt, his note would make depressing reading.

Among the forty-one bookshops in this city, all of which assures us he visited, there are twenty of an antiquarian nature. At two of these, if no more, the information, and probably the book, could surely have been obtained.

Without knowing something more of the age, size, and character of the volume sought for, one would expect any good gazetteer, such as Lippincott or Johnston, to supply all the usual details upon the world's harbours.

One of the best-known works on the subject is the delightful volume by Ruskin and Turner entitled 'Harbours of England,' issued in 1856. For Great Britain only, Bartholomew (1904) and Cassell (1893) are among the most popular geographical dictionaries of the kind.

A briefly descriptive list of 134 harbours all over the world will be found in Rees's 'Cyclopaedia,' s.v. 'Port.'

Relating more particularly to these isles are Finden's 'Views of the Ports, Harbours, and Watering-Places of Great Britain,' by W. H. Bartlett, being a series of fine steel views by Creswick, Cooke, Harding, &c., with descriptions by Dr. Win. Beattie, 2 vols., 4to, 1842; 'Harbours and Docks: their History, Construction,' &c., by L. F. V. Harcourt, 2 vols., 8vo, Oxford, 1885; 'Harbours of Refuge,' by the Earl of Lovelace, 8vo, 1849; and 'The Harbours of England,' with illustrative text by J. Ruskin, 12 exceedingly beautiful engravings by Lupton, from the drawings made expressly for the work by Turner, 1877.

(10 S. xi. 326).—This word, with the meaning of "annoyed," "disgusted," has seemingly survived in America from old English, like "behoove" for "behove"; "I had as lief," "I had liefe," for "I had rather"; "pshaw," the interjection; "plumb," evenly, as in "plumb down" (Milton), &c., which are in common use both in the Eastern and Western States.

Mr. H. E. Krehbiel, the musical critic and author, is an American by birth, so that his use of the word is not to be wondered at.

(10 S. xi. 386).—There is one superstition in connexion with this bird which, I think, should not be perpetuated in a paper like 'N. & Q.' That is, as to the spelling of the name. The letter h is superfluous. There is no