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NOTES AND QUERIES. uo* s. 11. AUG. e, MM.

The chronological question is now shifted into finding earlier examples of "pike" to fill up the gap between 1400 and 1550, as there is no longer any doubt of the name being in common local use from the latter date. Light upon the Wiltshire "pikes or vulcanos" of Aubrey is much to be desired. J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.

Bateman, in his * Ten Years' Diggings,' 1861,

LI 57, says, "We examined a tumulus at Pike w, between the villages of Waterhouse and Waterfall, which had likewise been destroyed by lime burning." This was in Staffordshire. There is another Pike Low on the summit of a moor about a mile to the north of Derwent Chapel, in Derbyshire. These are certainly old names. The pinnacles on Castleton Church, in that county, are called pikes; see my account of * Garland Day at Castleton ' in Folk-lore, xii. 410, and the photograph there showing the garland fixed on one of the pikes. My acquaintance with the topography of Derbyshire is extensive, but I cannot remem- ber a single local name ending in -pike. There is a place called Pig-tor, near Buxton. Two large fields in South Leverton, Notts, are known as Top Pikesnipe and Low Pike- snipe, reminding us of Mr. Pecksniff in ' Martin Chuzzlewit.' Possibly pikemipe is equivalent in meaning to gore, a pointed or triangular piece of land. There is a field called Peck Nooking at Holbeck, in the parish of Cuckney, Notts. Lists of field -names from deeds and other sources would show an abundance of pikes and pecks. S. O. ADDY.

" Cam's Pike " is no doubt what is locally known as Cam Peak : a remarkable conical hill, terminating a detached spur of the Cotswolds, in the parish of Cam, adjoining Dursley, Gloucestershire.

R. E. FRANCILLON.

The Cam's Pike about which DR. MURRAY inquires (if in Gloucestershire, as he sur- mises) is, no doubt, Cam Peak, which is a perfectly conical hill about one mile from Dursley and half a mile from the village of Cam, taking its name from the latter. Both on the old and the new Ordnance Survey maps it appears as Peaked Down, but is better known locally as Cam Peak or Picky Down.

If the Editor is in an indulgent mood, and will allow me to be discursive, I should much like to add that the hill is peculiar in de- parting from the long, flat-topped, limestone formation of its numerous neighbours which contribute to the lovely scenery of this out- lying district of the Cotswolds, being but a

huge heap of sandy soil, apparently deposited by a swirling eddy of waters. An old legend explains its presence otherwise, relating now the Devil, on his way to dam the Severn, found the distance trying, and, tipping up his load in a fit of disgust, formed the hill. CHAS. GILLMAN. Church Fields, Salisbury.

In Major's prettily illustrated edition of Walton's ' Complete Angler,' dated 1824, are three engravings depicting Pike Pool on the river Dove, of which it is said :

" Pise. Why, sir, from that Pike, that you see standing up there distant from the rock, this is called Pike Pool."-P. 312.

An incut note on the same page observes : " 'Tis a rock in the fashion of a spire-steeple, and almost as big. It stands in the midst of the river Dove ; and not far from Mr. Cotton's house, below which place this delicate river takes a swift career betwixt many mighty rocks, much higher and bigger than St. Paul's church before 'twas burnt. And this Dove, being opposed by one of the highest of them, has, at last, forced itself a way through it ; and after a mile's concealment appears again with more glory and beauty than before that opposition ; running through the most pleasant valleys and most fruitful meadows that this nation can justly boast of."

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

DISRAELI ON GLADSTONE (10 th S. ii. 67). My memory brings back clearly the occasion on which Disraeli (then Earl of Beaconsfield) made the utterance concerning Gladstone. It was at the banquet at the Riding-School given to Disraeli on 27 July, 1878. An account will be found in the 'Annual Register ' of that year, p. 96. AILID.

1878 was certainly the year in which the words you quote were used by Lord Beacons- field at a banquet given to him and Lord Salisbury on their return from Berlin. The late Duke of Buccleuch presided at it. A picture of it appeared in the Graphic, show- ing Lord Beaconsfield in the act of speaking, and the words in question below.

F. E. R. POLLARD-URQUHART.

Craigston Castle, Turriff, N.B.

See the Illustrated London News dated Saturday, 3 August, 1878, p. 99. H. J. B. [Other replies acknowledged.]

LATIN QUOTATIONS (10 th S. i. 188, 297, 437). 4. "Sentis ut sapiens, loqueris ut vulgus (Aristotle)." Cf. Ascham, * The Scholemaster,' p. 155 (Arber), " folowine carefullie that good councell of Aristotle, loquendum vt multi, sapiendum vt pand? Ascham gives the words as Sir John Cheke's. PROF. J. E. B. MAYOR asked for the source of "loquendum pauci"