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 10 S. III. APRIL 29, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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much fought in Saxton Paroch, as in Towton yet it berith the name of Towton."

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

AINSTY (10 th S. ii. 25, 97, 455, 516 ; iii. 133 256). Everything that ME. A. HALL say about OH, am, and me may be quite true though I am not going to vouch for it ; bu I must demur to his treating the sundr; Ansties he enumerates as if they were s many examples of Ainsty, which, so far a anybody has hitherto shown, is unique ir local nomenclature. This has helped tx divert the attention of readers from or inquiry as to the reasonableness of a gues" recently published that Ainsty is an attrite form of the latter part of the word Chris tianity. I have naturally formed my own opinion on the question, but should like tc hear what wiser brethren think.

ST. SWITHIN.

WARLOW, GERMAN PLACE-NAME (10 th S. iii 249). Similar inquiries appeared in 2 nd S. iv and 9 th S. ix. To the latter, two replies were received, but they referred to the family name. The name does not appear in ' Index Geographicus of the Principal Places of the Globe,' 1864. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

CON- CONTRACTION (10 th S. ii. 427 ; iii. lib 152, 250). I am not able to answer QUIRI- NUS'S question whether the con- contraction sign was known in printers' jargon as the horn, but this may throw some light on the subject. Section 132 of Bacon's 'Sylva Sylvarum ; or, Natural History,' is as follows :

" It would be tried, how, and with what pro- portion of disadvantage, the voice will be carried in an horn, which is a line arched," &c.

This shows that one contemporary at least used the word "horn" as synonymous with an arched line, which the con- contraction sign certainly was. HASTA VIBRANS.

Philadelphia.

"RAVISON": u SCRIVELLOES " (10 th S. ii.

227, 292, 452). Through the kindness of a friend, I am now able to answer my original query, "What is ravison?" In reply to my inquiries, Mr. van Lessen (Corn Exchange Chambers, E.C.) writes :

"Ravison is a variety of rapeseed, botanical family Brassica, but is inferior to rapeseed inas- much as the oil therefrom ia darker in colour and bitter in taste, while its cake has this bitterness in even a stronger degree. It is shipped mainly from South Russia, and is used as an adulterant. When mixed into rapeseed to a large extent the oil should be used for lubricating purposes only, and the cake

for manure. The derivation of the word 1 do not know ; I believe it to be a trade term taken over from the French."

Mr. van Lessen's suggestion is of course right : it must be from the Fr. rave, Lat. ra)ta. W. F. ROSE.

Hutton Rectory.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 th S- iii. 148, 197). 2. " Leurs ecrits sont des vols qu'ils nous ont faits d'avance," is from Piron, 'La Metromanie' (1738), iii. 6. See King's ' Foreign and Classical Quotations,' the edition of 1904, where there is further interesting information about this quotation.

I cannot find " Thanks are lost by promises delayed " in Abbott's ' Concordance to Pope's Works.' HARRY B. POLAND.

Inner Temple.

GEORGE BORROW: 'THE TURKISH JESTER* (10 th S. iii. 229). I find the following in the supplement to Allibone's ' Dictionary of English Literature,' 1892, under the head of ' George Borrow,' and it may suit BORROVIAN:

"Several works left in MS. were advertised in 1857 as ready for the press, including ' Penquite and Pentyre ; or, the Head of the Forest and the Headland : a Book on Cornwall,' 2 vols. But none of them appear to have been published except an early production, entitled ' The Turkish Jester ; or, the Pleasantries of CojiaNasrEddin Effendi, trang- lated from the Turkish,' Lond., 1884, p. 8vo. Printed on hand-made paper, 150 copies only."

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

VERSCHOYLE : FOLDEN (lO^ 1 S. iii. 69, 115). The name Verschoyle is essentially a surname. I quote below from The Irish Builder of 15 December, 1887 :

'The ancestor of this family migrated to Ireland
 * rom Utrecht in Holland to escape the persecutions

of Philip II. [He reigned from 1555 to 1598.] The 'amily were resident in St. Catherine's parish, Dublin. It is mentioned in Mason's 'History of St. Patrick's Cathedral' that a member of the Verschoyle family presented a brass chandelier to St. Catherine's Church in the year 1637 (removed some years before 1819)."

Then follows an almost unbroken history of .he family down to the present date.

VERSCHOYLE. Glasgow.

When I entered Pembroke College, Cam-

nidge, as an undergraduate in 1879 there

was an undergraduate named John Stuart

Verschoyle. He is now rector of Huish-

ihampflower, in Somerset.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.

The Rev. James Verschoyle, LL.D., was a ninor canon of St. Patrick's, Dublin; assistant ibrarian of the Public Library, 1780; Arch-