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long for insertion in C N. & Q.,' and of no especial interest, but I could send a copy direct to MR. COURTNEY if he wishes.

Elizabeth Master was the only daughter of Richard Oxenden (fifth son of Sir Henry Oxenden, Bt., of Dean, or Dene, in Wing ham); and she also placed a tablet in the same church to her aunt Mary (Oxenden), who died in 1741, and was the second wife of Archdeacon John Battely.

ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

SUPPRESSION OF DUELLING IN ENGLAND <10 th 8. ii. 367, 435; iii. 16). I venture to point out that the ridiculous nature of the duel between the Hon. G. C. F. Grantley Berkeley, M.P., and Dr. Maginn, author and journalist, and its bloodless termination, helped to seal the doom of the once fashion- able practice of duelling. As a matter of course, there was a lady in the case. Mr. Berkeley wrote and published a novel, which Dr. Maginn reviewed in Fraser's Magazine, not, however, confining himself to fair criticism, but using insinuations against a female relative of the author. In consequence a meeting took place, and three shots were fired, but without effect. The publicity gained for the transaction, to use the words of The Times,

"put a wholesome restraint upon the herd of libellers who, in The Age and The Satirist news- papers, and in Fraser's Magazine, had been for years recklessly trading upon scandals affecting families of distinction."

For a list of memorable duels from 1712 to 1870 see 'Haydn's Dictionary of Dates,' in which it is mentioned that Don Enrique de Bourbon was killed by the Due de Mont- pensier, near Mad rid. after much provocation, on 12 March, 1870. HENRY GERALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

The following may be added to the biblio- graphy already given : 'The Field of Honor: being a Complete and Comprehensive History of Duelling in all Countries,' by Major Ben O. Truman (New York, Fords, Howard & Hulbert), 1884. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Some interesting information on duelling -may be found in Sir Jonah Barrington's 'Personal Sketches of his Own Times' (Lon- don, 1830), containing reminiscences of Ireland

" GOYLE" (10 th S. iii. 429). The Southern goyle, a watercourse, answers to the Nor- thern r/owl, a hollow passage, defile between mountains, spelt goole in 1542; see 'Eng. Dial. Diet.' It also appears in 'N.E.D.' as gool, f/oule, a small stream ; gull, a mouth, orifice, a gully^ breach or fissure made by a stream. It is, like many other dialectal words, of Norman origin ; from O.F. gole, goule, mod. F. gueule, orig. " throat," from L. gula. The same F. or L. word has found its way into Dutch in the form geul. a gully, trench, inlet, cove ; and into E. Friesic as ffdle, a hollow depression, rill, watercourse. Of. also Swed. <j'6l, a mere, a pool, where the idea of "depression" alone occurs, without any notion of " passage." The modern E. gully represents the senses of it fairly well. WALTER W. SKEAT.

Goyle seems merely a dialectic form of gull;/, from gueule, Lat. gula. Cf. toil from toui'llcr, and boil from bouillir, Lat. bullire and bullare. H. A. STRONG.

The University, Liverpool.

MR. SATTERTHWAITE is not quite correct in assuming that goyle or goyal, in West-Country lingo, means a watercourse. It is a ravine. There is Smalacombe Goya], for instance, near Dawlish. Mrs. Hewett in her ' Peasant Speech of Devon ' (1892) gives an illustration of the use of this word, culled from The Tiverton Gazette for 13 September, 1889 : "It is reported that a man at Clayhanger, near Bampton (Devon), went scaring rooks, and ' zeed a deyd sheep down the goyle pin tap is back.'" HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

[W. C. B., MR. E. H. COLEMAN, H. K., and MR, J. H. MAcMiciiAEL also thanked for replies.]

TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND DISTRICT (10 th S. ii. 429). I have pleasure in mentioning _a ! ew places of antiquarian interest within easy reach of Tuubridge Wells.

St. Mary's Abbey, Mailing, about ten miles ellent Norman work in good preservation, and the remains of the Pilgrims' Bath still exist in the grounds.
 * o the east of the Wells, contains some ex-

Quite near the abbey is St. Leonard's Dower, the oldest Norman building we pos- sess. There is some doubt as to whether this was originally part of a monastery or

about the date of the Union, and, if I mistake i keep. Personally I favour the latter theory.

aiot, a code of duelling is inserted. But whether all his reminiscences are true is doubtful. A Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, told me once "not more than half were." JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge,

Lisbourne Castle, on the Rochester road, is a fine Edwardian ruin, and well worthy a visit.

About the most interesting object, how- ever, in the neighbourhood is Offham Church, one mile to the west of Mailing. Small an 1