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name being reminiscent of the days when the city was known as "New Amsterdam." Curiously enough, I find the same word used in England in the churchwardens' accounts of South Tawton, 1586-7, after an item respecting the setting-up of a new pulpit, thus : " for carrying of ye stoope for the same."

Can the woman have been sentenced to do penance on the steps, or in the porch, of church or market hall, or was the holy water stoup to be filled with scalding water, into which her hand must be thrust ?

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

3. M.E. fot-fetcl= fetter ; fytelfoted means fettered, or hobbled.

7 and 8. Champartie, partnership.

9. A mounting block, or a rest for porters' loads.

10. M.E. sttdpe (O.N. stolpi), a pillar, or post, to which the woman would be tied.

H. P. L.

The following suggestions may be made : Corr may be a misreading for corb = corbellos or corbel stones ; ad cambipartem, in cham- perty ; the helping stock may be the mounting- stone ; la stoupe may be the ducking stool or bucket for scolds (stoppe=& bucket).

R. S. B.

STRUAN ROBERTSON (10 S. xi. 409). There is a memoir of this poet in Chambers's ' Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen,' from which it appears that he was born in 1670 and died in 1749, and was a strong Jacobite. He is honoured with mention by the Baron of Bradwardine in 1745 :

"I would premonish you when you address her, to remember and quote the words of Virgilius : Nunc insanus amor duri me Martis in armis, Tela inter media atque adversos detinet hostes, whilk verses Robertson of Struan, Chief of the Clan Donnochy (unless the claims of Lude ought to be preferred primo loco), has thus elegantly rendered :

For cruel love has gartan'd low my leg And clad my hurdles in a philabeg. Although, indeed, ye wear the trews, a garment whilk I approve maist of the twa, as mair ancient and seemly." ' Waverley,' chap, xliii.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

" BROKENSELDE " (10 S. xi. 10, 58, 110, 172, 233). Since it has now been definitely decided that selde here means a shed, a few other combinations of the word may be noted, all serving the purpose of a sign, as in the case of the long-shoppe, &c. The "Aernselde" was a sign in Westchepe, which in 1349 distinguished the stall of William de

Wynton, cordwainer ; and that of the "Berne- selde," St. Peter de Wodestrete, Westchepe, mentioned in 1349, and noted by the late Mr. F. G. Hilton Price in volume iv. of The Topographical Record, pp. 29 and 31. There were also the " Crowned Seld " in Westchepe, mentioned in 1384 (p. 39 ibid.), and the " Tannersselde " in the Forum of Westchepe (p. 58). The last two carry their meaning with them pretty obviously ; but what were the " Aernselde " and the " Berneselde " ? Was the latter a barn-shed, a shed adjoining a barn ?

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

"THA' WOOD IN IMAGE" (10 S. xi. 305, 396). Besides life-sized figures of high- landers at the doors of tobacconists' shops there were in Hull, between forty and fifty years ago, various figures of the kind that have been described in the contributions at the above references. One such figure represented a naval officer in uniform (cocked hat, blue swallow-tail coat, and white trousers) taking an observation with a sextant. This was over the entrance to a ship-chandler's establishment in Dock Street. I can corroborate the statement that the negro figure described by MR. RHODES was a familiar object in seaport towns fifty years ago. F. JARRATT.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S CLUB (10 S. xi. 147, 251, 330, 415, 455). " Weltie's Club " is, I should think, meant for the club founded by Weltje, who had been cook in the service of George, Prince of Wales, and who is frequently mentioned by Capt. Gronow and other writers on the Regency period. Being, however, away from my books, I cannot at this moment resolve a doubt which occurs to me as to whether " Weltje's " was in existence at so early a date as 1782.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

EARL OP WESTMORLAND'S ELOPEMENT WITH Miss CHILD (10 S. x. 248, 293 ; xi. 471). May I make an addition to my reply at the last reference ?

In Munsey's Magazine of February, 1902 (New York, vol. xxvi. p. 601), is ' The Griefs and Glories of Gretna,' by Marian West. There is one short paragraph about the above elopement. There are reproductions of two of the prints which I named as appearing in The Lady's Realm, the fifth and sixth, here entitled respectively " ' One mile from Gretna. The Governor in sight, and a screw loose ! ' From an old print of a painting by C. B. Newhouse," and ' 'Tis only the Mail ! ^