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 434 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. NOV. 25, im. 'the County Council have given even a •qualified authority for this preposterous claim. W. PALEY BAILDON. Lincoln's Inn. MR. BUTTON'S interesting contribution unfortunately contains many errors and in- accurate deductions, and one statement in particular is altogether impossible: "At Charing Cross, Old Northumberland House was found an obstacle, and has been cleared away to make avenues to the great Embank- ment," &c. The italics are mine. No further •comment is, I think, necessary. ALECK ABRAHAMS. "BESIDE" (10th S. iv. 306, 375).— There have always been distinguished authors who have used " beside " where the grammarian would prefer the employment of "besides." Sir Thomas Browne, for example, introduces a paragraph in the Epistle Dedicatory to to preserve the living, and make the dead to live. is not impertinent unto our pro- fession." Prof. Dowden shows the same preference in the monograph on Southey which he contributed in 1879 to the "Eng- lish Men of Letters," Series. "Beside the enthusiasm proper in Sou they's nature," he says on p. 26, "there was at this time an enthusiasm prepense." There is no account- ing for these predilections and irregularities. THOMAS BAYNE. RODERIGO LOPEZ (10th S. iv. 306).—It may perhaps be of use to point out that in the 'Calendar of Cecil MSS.,' iv. 438. Dr. Lopez and his son Anthony, a Winchester scholar, appear, possibly by a misprint, with the sur- name "Coppez" (cf. ibid. 501), and that in Mr. Kirby's ' Winchester Scholars,' pp. 155, 157, the son is miscalled Anthony "Leper." This son, who was elected a scholar in 1592, lost his scholarship upon his father's con- viction for treason in 1594, but had it restored to him again next year. His name is there- fore entered twice in the College register, «,nd both entries describe him as Anthony Lopez, of St. Bartholomew's, London. I should welcome information about his sub- •sequent career. H. C. "FAMOUS" CHELSEA (10th S. iv. 366).—I believe MR. LYNN is practically right, in spite of his having followed blind guides. It is impossible that Cealchythe could have •been an old name of Chelsea, for cealc is •chalk, and the modern name of it could never have got nearer than Chalkea. The Cealchyth that is mentioned in the 'A.-S. Chronicle,' anno 785, is only famous for the fact that a contentious synod was held there. It is not the same place as the Ctelic- hyth, Cfelc-hyth, or (usually) Celc-hyth of the A.-S. charters, as is evident from the phonology and pronunciation. Yet even Mr. Plummer has mixed them up ; for he says in his notes to the 'A.-S. Chronicle' (ii. 58) that " in 789 [i.e., in a different year] a synod was held at Cealchythe/' &c.; for which he duly refers us to Kemble and Birch. But I always, when I can do so. verify my references ; and when I turn to Kemble and Birch, it is the same old story. They do not mention Cealchyth at all, but only Celchyth ! And I can well believe that this Celchyth is the same as the later Chelchethe mentioned in the 'Liber Custumarum,' p. 288; which easily may have become Chelchea or Chelsea. Moreover, Celchyth was " famous." I find "in loco famoso qui dicitur Celchyth" in Birch, ' Cart. Saxon..' i. 356 (A.D. 789); and "in loco celebri qui dicitur Celchyth " in the same, i. 374 (A.D. 793). It is spelt Caelic-hyth in A.D. 799-802, id., i. 285 ; Celic-hyth in the same, i. 491 (A.D. 815); Cselc-hyth in the same, i. 538; and Celc-hyth in the same, i. 354, 355, 356, 359, 374, 388, 390, 420. These charters are mostly Mercian. As for caelic, it usually means " a chalice," from Lat. ace. calicem; but it is hard to apply this. In 1. 20 of 'The Traveller's Song,' Crelic is given as the name of a king of the Finns ! WALTER W. SKEAT. Those living and interested in Chelsea are indebted to MR. LYNN for his quotation relating to, and confirming, the ancient fame of Chelsea. Meanwhile, may I correct a small error of detail in MR. LYNN'S letter? Carlyle neither lived nor died at Cheyne Walk, but at Cheyne Row. His statue, a magnificent work of art, is in Cheyne Walk. J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenne, Chelsea, 8.W. I thought Carlyle died in Cheyne Row, not Cheyne Walk. C. A. WAsa Louis XIV.'s HEART (10th S. ii. 346, 496; iii. 336). —It may be well to add to the articles that have appeared in ' N. & Q.' on the fate of Louis XlV.'s heart that Tht Morning Post of 11 November contains, in ' Our Paris Letter,' a sketch of the history of the hearts of several French kings besides Louis XIV. H. T. ARCHBISHOP KEMPE (10th S. iv. 348).—Pro- bably there is no authentic portrait of Cardinal Kempe in existence. In Th» Gentleman's Magazine for November, 1845, there is a memoir of the cardinal by litf
 * Hydriotaphia' with the remark : " Beside,