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 10 s. XIL SEPT. is, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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1. The word found its way into the lan- guages of Europe both from the Turkish and from the Arabic.

2. The English forms (which have strong stress accent on the first syllable) have 6 instead of a, and / instead of h.

3. The foreign forms are accentless and have no h. The / in these = original v or w (or labialized u).

My explanation may or may not be correct, but there can be no doubt whatever that in a very large number of words p, ph, /, and v may be traced to an original guttural gh, ch, or h, and that stress accent has played an important part in modifying velars and gutturals into palatals and fricatives. For the change of h into / I may adduce the instance of hostis changed into fostis in the Italian dialects. I hope shortly to contribute a note on this subject.

V. CHATTOPADHYAYA.

51, Ladbroke Road, W.

RAGOZINE, A PIBATE (10 S. xii. 169). Does not Ragozine simply mean " the man of Ragusa " ? Pirates are notoriously apt to let their real names slide into the back- ground, and are content to be known by some nickname indicating their place of origin or other attribute. Witness the well-known cases, among the later buccaneers, of L'Olonnais and Bartholomew Portuguese. Ragozine I take to be another form of Argosine, both from the Italian Ragusino. The republic of Ragusa, in the words of Prof. Freeman, was the one spot on the eastern Adriatic which was never subject to either Venice or the Turk.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

"FASEOLE " : ITS ETYMOLOGY (10 S. xii. 149). There can be little doubt that the bean origin is the horse in the partnership. Ains worth's ' Lat.-Eng. Dictionary ' quotes from Pliny, 2349, phaselinum oleum, made from fasels, a sort of pulse. For the boat the same authority cites Isidorus to the effect that it is from Phaselis, a small town of Pamphylia, noted as a nest of pirates I fancy that this was to the south, and the river Phasis to the north, of Asia Minor.

H. P. L.

I should like to guard myself from being supposed to mean that faseole is the ordinary French for kidney beans. Happening tc dine lately in company with a French (o rather Belgian) lady, when French bean formed one of the dishes, I asked her wha they were called in French. She answerec

' haricots verts, ' ' and had apparently not eard of faseole. Littre defines it as an ' espece de haricot, ' ' and Fleming and Tibbins ' ' espece de f eves, ' ' but the word s not found in small French dictionaries.

This has, of course, nothing to do with he classical phasqlus or phaseolus. Virgil speaks about a husbandman going round his fields ' ' pictis phaselis. " W. T. LYNN. Blackheath.

COWHOUSE MANOR, MIDDLESEX (10 S. xii, 168). The manors of Hodford and Cow- louse were in Hendon. Lysons gives a hort account of them in his ' Environs of Condon,' 2nd ed., 1811, vol. ii. part i, 3p. 395-6. They are more fully dealt with DyMr. L. T. Evans in his 'History of Hendon, ' 1890, pp. 52-8. According to this writer, the united manor consisted, and still consists though it is understood that the property is a*ll enfranchised), of certain lands south-east of the river Brent and bordering upon Hamp- stead Heath, extending southward so as to include what is now Cowhouse (or Avenue) Farm, Cricklewood Lane, being bounded on the west side by Clitterhouse, north-west by Hendon manor, and north and north-east as far as Golder's Hill Road by property belonging to Eton College. Hodford manor house is supposed to have stood at the ex- treme south-eastern limit of the parish on Golder's Hill. Evans identifies the site as that on which Golder's Hill House stood. The house and grounds, which were for several years in the occupation of the late Sir Spencer Wells, are now public property. Cowhouse or Avenue Farm is still in existence, though the house is comparatively modern. Cowhouse Green, a strip of waste in Crickle- wood Lane, is now built over.

The original manor is presumed to have been a grant made by King Edward I. in 1295 to the monks of Westminster in con- sideration of their praying for the soul of Eleanor, his late beloved consort. In 1312 Richard le Rous exchanged the manor of Hendon for that of Hodford, which soon afterwards passed, with that of Cowhouse, into the Scrope family. Neither Lysons nor Evans gives the exact date of this transfer, but from the calendar of feet of fines for Middlesex, ed. Hardy and Page, vol. i, pp. 95-7, it appears that Richard le Rous and Matilda his wife conveyed the manor to- Henry le Scrop in 11 Edward II., 1318-19, and again three years afterwards, in conse- quence, perhaps, of some irregularity in the first transactions. Sir Henry le Scrope, who held several high judicial offices (' Diet. Nat.