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 10- 8. IV. JULY 29, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. tnen Duke of Newcastle, "together with the timber, splendid library of books, furniture aad cellar of wines," for62,000i. Is any thin; kiown of this "splendid library of books'" D»es the present Duke own Hafod ? T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster. DORSET PLACE-NAME : RYME INTRINSECA —"Vill you kindly allow me to inquire through ymr columns whether any one can enlighten me as to the meaning of the name of this Dosetahire parish, Byrne Intrinseca? There are'.wo manors in this county, some distance apat, each called Ryme, but one is Intrinseca tne'ther Extrinseca. The Rev. A. L. Mayhew chajain of Wadham College, Oxford, has beei good enough to suggest the following to me :- '"he Latin Intrinseca shows that the name pi the arish is the official Latin name as used in charirs and legal instruments. I daresay ' Rima Inlriseca' could be found. 1 would suggest thai this atin ' Rima' is identical with an O.E. ri/nn nieaing verge, border, rim. This word rima if fonn in Kemble'a 'Codex Diploniaticus," 550, in the escriptien of land boundaries. The cognate words used in Icelandic for a strip of land. Prob- ably here was a /•/';//". or strip of land, inside and outsle a defined area." I lay add the lord of both manors of Ryme is tb Duke of Cornwall. Intrinseca is one imii fnmi Yetrainster, and was once, accord- ingto Hutching, a chapelry dependent on thaplace. Extrinseca, according to the same autority, is in Long Bredy, although I have a Irter before me from the present rector of Lo< Bredy, saying that he " never heard tit of such a manor, although he has been ttliong Bredy for nearly forty years. .'he earliest spelling in the register (1630) isUme. H. M. BAKRON. -ectory, Kyme Intrinseca. CHKVY CHASE.' — Froude, in his essay on 'n gland's Forgotten Worthies,' quotes'the flowing stanza from 'The Modern Ballad cChevy Chase,' viz.:— For Widdrington I needs must wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps ; id goes on to say that this was composed the eclipse of art and taste, on the resto- •tion of trie Stuarts. In Percy's 'Reliques,' however, no such ate is assigned to the ballad, and it is simply .ate-] that, if one may judge from the style, C cannot be older than the time of Elizabeth. I should be much obliged, therefore, if you JOuld inform me whether Fronde's statement is correct, or what is now actually known with regard to the date, or approximate date, of the production of the 'Modern Ballad.' F. R. CAVE. "CLOSE."— I have lately met with "close" as a French noun, but cannot find it again. The meaning attached to it was that of a concession (territorial or mining), and I should like to know whether its use (in this sense or at all) is justified. Apparently it is a neologism ; as a noun it is not even in the new Larousse. EDWARD LATHAM. SHEPHERD'S BUSH.— Being led by F. W. A.'s reply (10"1 S. iii. 337) to read Mr. C.G. Harper's remarks upon Shot/over in his ' Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road,' 1905, I came upon Mr. Harper's stimulating and curious disquisition (vol. i. pp. 53-7) upon the name of Shepherd's Bush. Therein he tells us that the place-name derives from an ancient thorn-tree, used by shepherds for reclining upon while watching their flocks, and adduces examples said to exist to this day on East Anglian commons, and known as " shepherds' bushes." Does any East Anglian or other reader of 'N. it Q.' know of existent bushes of this character, so named ? H. ERSKINE HUNTER. BODDINGTON FAMILY.— I should be very grateful if any of your learned readers could give me any information with regard to the family of Boddington, or, as it was, I believe, anciently written, Botenton. Was the family ever in possession of the manor of Bodding- ton, in Gloucestershire ? and is any member of the family mentioned in any of the historic rolls of English families 1 Had the family any connexion with the villages of Upper and Lower Boddington, in North- ampton ? I should also be very grateful for any information about the crest, arms, or colours (if any) of the family. II. S. B., CREATOR." — Who was the author or the translator of the hymn beginning 'nun-. Holy Ghost, eternal God, proceeding from above, which is offered as a substitute for Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, n the Form of Ordering of Priests used in the English Church? It is painfully like dog- "t ever takes the place of the simpler and nore impressive verses which stand before it. These are allied to an easy, familiar air, which the mention of them at once evokes ; and I am left wondering with what tune the alternative hymn could be associated. ST. SWITHIN.
 * erel, and I have grave doubts as to whether