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 io* s. iv. DEC. 23,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 517 Majesty's Treasury, for the service of the army in Germany, under the command of Prince Ferdinand, where he BO prudently ordered the multiplicity of affairs under his direction that he acquired 1 Ice regard and esteem of the army and a large fortune to his family. — 'Peerage of England,' 181'J, vol. viii. p. 384." He was created a baronet 16 November, 1762, and died 21 September, 1781, when he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only son Thomas, afterwards created Baron Duudas of Aske, in the county of York. G. F. E. B. FEMALE CRUCIFIXES (10th S. iv. 230, 395).— I have lighted on the following passage in the late Augustus J. C. Hare's ' Walks in London.' In Henry VII.'s Chapel, West- minster Abbey, "seventy-three statues, whose 'natural simplicity and grandeur of character and drapery' are greatly •commended by Flaxman, surround the walls. The fifth figure from the east in the south aisle repre- sents a bearded woman leaning on a cross. It is St. Wilgefortis, also called St. Uncumber and St. Liberada, and was honoured by those who wished to be set free from an unhappy marriage. •She prayed for release from a compulsory mar- riage, and her prayer was granted, through the beard which grew in one night."—Vol. ii. p. 194. ST. SWITHIN. SIR WILLIAM H. DE LANCEY (10th S. iv. 409). — Lady De Lancey's narrative was printed in 1888 in the eighth volume of The Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine. It appears that the original, in Lady De Lancey's faded hand writing, was found among the papers of her nephew, the late Major- Oeneral E. W. De Lancey Lowe. This printed .account is more condensed, and diners in some particulars from another, a written •account which I saw some years ago, and which, I believe, formerly belonged to the poet Rogers. I think I was told that it was in Lady De Lancey's handwriting. There are probably several written copies in existence. The late Earl Stanhope tells us that Earl Bathurst lent a copy to the Duke of Wellington. Tom Moore, in his ' Diary,' 29 August, 1824, states that Capt. Basil Hall, brother of Lady De Lancey, gave him his sister's narrative, and he took it home, intending to read a page or two, but he found it so deeply interesting that he read till nearly two o'clock, and finished it, having made himself cry miserably over it. May i here point out a slight mistake that occurs in Siborne's famous history of the Waterloo campaign. It is there stated that late in the day Sir Hussey Vivian, whose cavalry brigade was posted at the extreme left of the British line, was informed by Sir William De Lancey that fresh cavalry was much wanted in the centre. It was not De Lancey —De Lancey at that time had been carried off the field in a blanket mortally wounded —it was his cousin. Sir William De Lancey Barclay, a staff officer. We know from Sir A. S. F razor's letters that the cannon ball which struck De Lancey on the back forced eight ribs from the spine, breaking one rib to pieces and pressing part of it into the lungs. Will one of your correspondents kindly inform us what relation De Lancey's grand- father (whose Christian name, I think, was Peter) was to James De Lancey, who was Lieut.-Governor of New York and brother of the General Oliver De Lancey who died in 17851 The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' does not give the information. WATERLOOENSIS. "FAMOUS" CHELSEA (10th S. iv. 366, 434, 470).—I think the case of Kelso is not to the point. It is quite misleading to mix up Northumbrian with Southern English. Else I might reply : If Kelsoe comes from chalk, why is it never called Chelsoef What is true for one place may not be true for another. I do not understand why COL. PEIDEAUX repeats what I have said as if it were new. The two charters given by Thorpe are two which I have quoted already from Birch. And 1 quoted eleven more. And why does he ask where the spelling Cealchythe occurs "in any authentic MS."? I have already given the reference to the best MS. of the ' A.-S. Chronicle,' anno 785.* I doubt if any advance whatever has been made beyond what I have said already. WALTER W. SKEAT. Would it not be safer to derive Chelsea from the man's name Ceol (Chel), of which three instances are given in Mr. Searle's ' Onomasticon,' and the A.-S. leg (ea), an island ' Such a derivation would do no violence to language, and, moreover, the word ea, or ey, is often compounded with personal names. Examples are Oseney, near Oxford, Ramsey, and Abney, iu Derbyshire, written Albeney in the fifteenth century. I have often noticed that in such cases the " island " is not a piece of land surrounded by water, but an intake or enclosure cut out from the waste laud of a district. The Derbyshire village of Eyam, near Abney, written Eyum in the Hundred Rolls, is the dative plural of ey, and means "islands.' side by side. They all have the same spelling of this name. Then why are they all to be dis- credited ?
 * Thorpe prints six MSS. of the ' A.-S. Chronicle'