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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io i s. in. MARCH n, 1905.

St. Christopher-le-Stocks parish, City of London, population 0. No church.

Golding-on-the-Dee parish, population 2. Remains of a church, two cottages.

Northolme parish, Lincolnshire, popula- tion 201. Area only 25 acres 20 perches.

Upper Eldon parish, Hants, population 10.

Haccomb parish, Devonshire, population 7.

St. Bartholomew's parish, Suffolk, popula- tion 7. Church, farmhouse, and cottage; extent half an acre.

Martinsthorpe parish, Rutland, popula- tion 4.

Creslow parish, Bucks. One dwelling- house ; church used as a harness-room.

Grove parish, Bucks. Farmhouse, two cottages, and tiny church.

With respect to the parish of Upper Eldon, mentioned above, the Daily Mail of 27 April, 1901, quoted the following paragraph from The Councillor and Guardian :

" The parish of Upper Eldon in Hants is situated about five miles from Romsey, and boasts a popula- tion of ten. The village church stands in the centre of the farmyard of one of the two houses in the parish, and the farmyard is also the village cemetery. The building dates from the eleventh century, and con- tains a reading desk, communion table and rails, and five pews, but does not boast a pulpit. The living is of the annual value of 45., but there is not at present an incumbent. Occasionally a clergyman will visit the district. The bell is then rung and the parishioners attend an impromptu service."

At a meeting of the Boston Board of Guardians, held in February, 1904, the clerk reported that the overseer appointed for the parish of Seven Acres was dead, and he did not think there was a resident left. A member of the board stated that the late overseer had occupied the only house in the parish. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

Among small parishes, Creslow, Bucking- hamshire, should be noted. It contains only one dwelling-house, and, according to Kelly's ' Directory,' it had in 1901 only five inhabi- tants. LLEWELYN LLOYD.

FRANCISCUS DE PL ATE A (10 th S. iii. 108). As the book is perhaps on some religious subject, the initials on the shields may be simply those of Christ and the Virgin Mary. I.H.C. is a well-known variant of I.H.S., the abbreviation of Jesus. J. DORMER.

I would suggest that the I.H.C. and M. referred to must necessarily stand for, respectively, the sacred name Jesus (the I.H.C. representing either the first three, or the first two and last, letters of the name in the Greek form), and the initial letter of Mariathe reference, of course, being to the

" Sancta Maria Deipara." But if MR. ALDRICH will look up 10 th S. ii. 190, under I.H.S., he will find much more upon this subject.

B. W.

Fort Augustus.

"ALGARVA" (10 th S. iii. 127). Can this refer to the ancient Moorish kingdom or emirate of Alfayhar or Algarve, now the southern province of Portugal ] The word is of a pronounced Moorish type, and is very like the Portuguese word "Algaravia," de- fined by Valdez as: "The Arabic tongue, gibberish, a confused noise of several persons speaking at once." The Spanish word is " Algarabia," which in pronunciation is prac- tically the same. E. E. STREET.

Chichester.

On the site of the house No. 115 in Chancery Lane was the residence of Sir Richard Fanshawe, knight and baronet, and ambassador to the Crowns of Spain and Portugal. King Charles had great confi- dence in his integrity, and he was taken prisoner at Worcester, being afterwards sent to London by the rebels. He went to Portugal to arrange the marriage of King Charles II. and Catherine of Braganza. During his embassy he died at Madrid, 16 June, 1666. He translated Camoens's ' Lusiad ' out of the Portuguese, &c. Algarva is the southernmost province in Portugal ; the word is a corruption of the Arabic El Gharo, meaning the west. Why this word was used to commemorate his living there I cannot ascertain. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

Algarva is the name of the most southerly province of Portugal. It is called in Portu- guese Algarve. H. A. STRONG.

See that most up-to-date and useful of encyclopaedias Charnbers's under 'Algarve.'

Q. V.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S 'HISTORIE OF THE WORLD ' (10 th S. iii. 127). My edition of Sir Walter Raleigh's 'History of the World,' which I believe to be the first one, was printed in 1614, "At London for Walter Burre." Besides Elstrack's fine frontispiece it has the verses 'The Minde of the Front,' and the autograph of "Ri Evelyn, An 1664." Richard Evelyn was brother of John Evelyn, the author of ' Silva.'

CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield.

Editions of Raleigh's ' Historie of the World ' were printed in 1614, 1628, 1650, 1666, 1670, with life and trial in 1677, 1687, all folio ; also others by William Oldys, the one