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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. xn. AUG. 28, 1999.

SACKED PLACE-NAMES IN FOREIGN LANDS (10 S. xi. 467). The terrible Hussite wars, to which the work of Count Liitzow has lately directed attention, gave rise to whole- gale adoption of Scriptural names. The peasant warriors were " the chosen people," and their opponents " Moabites," " Ammon- ites," and " Philistines." The brother- hoods Tabor and Horeb were founded by the grim blind general Zizka, whose statue stands in the square of the former town. I know Tabor well, and have examined its strategic streets, and gazed from the fortified terrace on the baptismal pond " Jordan," and the meadow where some fanatics tried to construct a literal "garden of Eden," incurring Zizka's fierce wrath. Their German antagonists flung captive Hussites at Kutna Hora down a mining shaft, mockingly styled " Tabor."

Oxford men know the pleasant walk to "Mesopotamia." FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

I have sent the following list direct to MR. McGovERN, but it may be of sufficient interest to appeal to some readers of ' N. & Q.' I may add that my extensive collection of place-names has been derived from examination of Ordnance maps, though these were examined for other purposes. Names marked with an * are from other sources.

Mount Zion, Alton parish, Staff.

Mount Zion Bottom, Shilton, Oxon.

Mount Sion, Peper Harrow, Surrey.

Sion Hill, Wolverton, Wore.

Paradise, Bradfield, Berks.

Paradise, Ravendale, Westmorland.

Paradise, a suburb of Dudley.

Paradise, near Glastonbury,' might have justified its name once, but now is close to the gas works and not far from the police station

Paradise Farm, Wigginton, Oxon.

Mount Paradise, a suburb of Dartmouth.

Eden Coppice, Ebbesbourne Wake, Dorset.

Capernaum, Wolston, Lanark.

Jericho, Sancreed, Cornwall.

Jericho, St. Eorth, Cornwall.

Jericho, Uplyme, Dorset.

Jericho, Earl Sterndale, Derby.

Mericho, " in Lancashire."


 * Jericho, "between Fishguard and Pembroke."

Jericho Farm, Cassington, Oxon.

Jericho, Clyffe Pypard, Wilts.


 * Hebron, "in Wales."


 * Bethlehem, Newport, Monmouth.

Joppa, Sancreed, Cornwall.


 * Joppa, " in Scotland."

Ararat Hill, Douglas, Lanark.

Mount Ararat, on Boverridge Common, Dorset.

Mount Ararat, Toyil, Kent.

Mount Ararat, Wimbledon, Surrey.

Noah's Ark, Hildersham, Camb.

Noah's Ark, Shapwick, Somerset.

Noah's Ark, St. Paul Malmesbury, Wilts.

Calvery Wood, Luton Hoo, Beds'.

Heavens Wood, Luton Hoo, Beds.


 * Jerusalem, " Oxon."


 * Alexandria, " Scotland."

Antioch Farm, Stalbridge Common, Dorset.

Nineveh, Cleobury Mortimer, Wore.

Nineveh, Epworth, Line.
 * Nineveh, "Lanark."

Nineveh Farm, Radley, Oxon.

Herod, Glossop, Derby.

Jordan Hill, Cranbourne, Dorset.

Holy City, Chardstock, Dorset.

Holy Land, Auchtermurchy, Fife.
 * Moses Gate, " near Manchester."
 * Gideon, "between Fishguard and Pembroke."

Mount Ephraim, Cranbrook, Kent.

Mount Ephraim, Ash-near- Sandwich, Kent.

Mount Ephraim, Tonbridge, Kent.

The Land of Nod, Headley, Hants.

Moab's Wash-Pot, Clent, Wore. There is also a Calvary at Ilkley, Yorks, and a Mount Ephraim at Nonnington, Kent. Those in my own list are field-names, unless otherwise stated. A. RHODES.

The REV. J. B. McGovERN doubtless knows of the two under-mentioned places, but, with a view to making his list as com- plete as possible, I here place them upon record. Belonging to Westminster Abbey are two chambers having sacred place-names, viz., the celebrated Jerusalem Chamber and the Antioch Parlour. The first is well known, but the second has not so often been heard of. Stanley's * Memorials of Westminster Abbey ' treats of them both fully.

W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

"SWEET LAVENDER" (10 S. x. 146). It is pleasant to record that this old London cry still survives. The refrain " Buy my sweet la-ven-der " has been much in evi- dence of late in suburban streets, the plant being seasonably offered at a time when the careful housewife is wont to place a few fragrant bunches in her linen cupboard, or in the family trunk as she departs upon her annual outing. Recently, in salubrious Hamp stead, I came across a cartload of itinerant vendors, presumably from the grounds at Mitcham, on business bent. Their stock-in-trade consisted of many sheaves, which, let us hope, found a ready market. It was thought that the " chick- weed and groundsell " merchant was extinct. But I have seen him about as well.

CECIL CLARKE.

' THE OERA LINDA BOOK ' (10 S. xii. 88, 133). Would PROF. SKEAT kindly say where I may find an account of the exposure of the worthlessness of this chronicle T Is the name of the forger known ?

HUGH S. GLADSTONE. Thornhill, Dumfriesshire