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and is frequently mentioned in the life of Johnson, who corresponded with him, and wrote the dedication for his dictionary.

Baretti, noticing Galileo's famous 'Dialogo,' the immediate cause of his prosecution by the Inquisition, says :

" The moment he was set at liberty, he looked up to the sky and down to the ground, and, stamping with his foot, in a contemplative mood, said Eppur si muove : that is, still it moves, meaning the earth."

Even this date, four years earlier than Abbe Irailh's, is, as Prof. Miiller remarks, 154 years after Galileo's abjuration, and the phrase was probably put forth (as I suggested in my note above referred to) as a graphic representation of what was supposed to be passing through Galileo's mind, not as a statement of what actually occurred. Baretti does not say whence he obtained the story. There is a difference in the form of the phrase, some giving it as E pur si muove.

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

' CARTULARIUM SAXONICUM.' (See 10 S. vii. 185, 287, 466 ; viii. 204.) Herewith I submit some further notes and queries relative to the titles of the charters.

Charter 764. Wudutun is Wotton-under - Edge, Glouc.

772. Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire.

773. Croxall, Derbyshire.

774. Southrey, Lincolnshire.

788, 983, 1093. Moredon, in Rodborne Cheney (Wilts), appears to be the place indicated.

798. Lyford, Berks (cf. " Linfordinga gemaer," 761).

830. Brightwell, Berks.

840. Laughterton, in Kettlewell, Lines.

853. Linsore, in Upper Hardres, Kent.

865. Alverstoke. The boundaries include the Solent and the sea.

888. Not Winkfield ( Wine canf eld), but probably Wangfield in Bishop's Waltham, Hants.

889. Buckland, Berks.

895. ? Bramcote, near Nottingham.

986. Stow-Nine-Churches, Northants, on the Watling Street.

1000. ? Heaton, three miles S.W. from Lancaster.

1027. May be Exford, Devon ; and Bye Hill adjacent.

1028. Long worth in Faringdon.

1054. Should be Itchenstoke, near Win- chester. r*\

1031. There is nothing to show that this placets jfcKemsing, as in 370. Another cymesing occurs in Sibertswold parish (797).

1125, 1131. Washington, Sussex.

1189. Cannot possibly refer to Lechlade, which owes its name to the river Lech. Lhincgelade is perhaps referable to Lynwood, an old estate at the N.E. corner of the New Forest. The boundary Yttingaforda (ytene-ford) is still known as Wittenford, by Cadenham in Eling parish.

1197. Pennare is on the Cornish coast.

1299. This place is Cutsdean, in a de- tached part of Worcestershire near the source of the Guiting river.

EDWARD SMITH. 58, MexfieldRoad, S.W.

REV. WILLIAM BLOW. (See ante, p. 145.) The Rev. E. P. Blow, Rector of Stretton- on-Fosse, whose aunt married the late Rev. Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth, informs me that his grandfather the Rev. William Blow, Rector of Goodmanham, East Yorkshire, was a lineal descendant of Dr. John Blow, who succeeded Purcell as organist of West- minster Abbey. The sons of the Rector of Goodmanham, the Rev. John Blow and the Rev. William Blow, were both accom- plished musicians. The latter, the father of the Rev. E. P. Blow, \^as educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary and friend of the late Lord Kelvin. He became Rector of Layer Breton, Kelvedon, Essex, and was said to be the best amateur violinist in England. At one time he possessed valuable speci- mens of the art of Stradivarius, Amati, and Joseph Guarnerius, some of which he exhibited at the Inventions Exhibition. JOHN C. FRANCIS.

TRAVELLING PONTIFFS. In view of the belief that Pope Pius X. favours a reversal of tradition in respect to continuous resi- dence at the Vatican, the following, from The Observer of 13 Aug., 1809, as quoted in a recent issue of that paper, may prove of interest :

" Florence, July 15. Yesterday the Pope passed through Pisa on his way from Florence. He proceeded under an escort without any public ceremony. It is understood that he is to go to Avignon, in France."

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

SPITE-FENCE. This word occurs in an article by Mr. F. P. Walton of McGill Uni- versity, Montreal, on ' Motive as an Element in Torts in the Common and in the Civil Law,' reproduced from The Harvard Law Review in The Law Times of 7 August at p. 351. It appears to mean a screen erected on a boundary with the sole motive of annoying the adjoining owner. E. S. B.