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this derivation is impossible, and the first element of the word is the rareA.-S. man's name Wig. Wigtwizzle, therefore, is the " twizzle" whatever that may be of a man called Wig. We may compare Oswald twistle, in Lancashire (which contains the man's name Osweald), and Entwistle, Extwistle, Birtwistle, and Tintwistle, which also appear to contain men's names. The A.-S. twisla is the fork of a river; the cognate O.H.G. zwisila is simply a fork. What the "fork" in these place-names was is uncertain, but it may refer to a fork- shaped piece of land, like the f/ores, pikes, and nooks so often occurring in field-names. We may also compare the A.-S. healh, a corner or nook, of which the place-name Halum, now Hallam, is the dative plural. This word is often com- pounded with personal names, as Scottes healh, Scott's nook. The nominative plural is also found in Alias, near Bradfield and Wigtwizzle, representing A.-S. halas, nooks. It occurs again in The Hallowes, near Dronfield. The dative singular appears in Ecclesall, formerly Eccleshale, near Shef- field; and in Pitwineshale, mentioned in 1181, the first element of which is the man's name Pitwine. The other element, hale, a nook, is found in the opening lines of 'The Owl and Nightingale ' :

Ich was in one sumere dale,

In one suthe disele hale.

It is possible that twisla and healh were different names for the same thing.

S. O. ADDY.

Tivistle is a fairly common termination for place-names in Lancashire; e.g., Oswald- twistle, Entwistle, Extwistle, Boitwistle, Tintwistle. Cf. Haltwistle in Northumber- land ; also Twistleton, nowTwiston (all these in Lanes.). See Whitaker's * History of Whalley, 1 vol. ii. p. 225, where this word is discussed. K. TRAPPER LOMAX.

Chatburn.

"JAMES" UNIVERSITY (10 th S. v. 47). Possibly the reference MR. HUTTON is in search of is to " King James his Academe or College of Honour," consisting of " Tutelaries " (Lord Chancellor, Knights of the Garter, &c.), "Auxiliaries" (of the House of Lords and members of Government), and "Essentials" (the most famous lay gentlemen of England). The death of James I. in 1G25 prevented the completion of this scheme, the initiation of which was due to Edmund Bolton. R. B.

Upton.

"SJAMBOK": ITS PRONUNCIATION (10 th S. iv. 204, 332, 512 ; v. 35). The pronunciation of this word by South Africans is correctly

given at the penultimate reference by MR. SCHLOESSER as " shambuck." Its etymology is from Hottentot samba, a buffalo, from the skin of which animal the whip is supposed to be made : more often it is cut from that of the rhinoceros or hippopotamus. See Keane's ' Boer States ' (under * Terminology '), a little book from which much valuable information not found in recent African works may be gleaned. N. W. HILL.

722, Spence Street, Philadelphia. /

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 th S. iv. 529). I am able, after much research, to answer my own query. The lines, Still like the hindmost chariot wheel is cursed, Ever to be near, but never to be first,

are probably misquoted from

Why like the* hindmost chariot wheels are curst, Still to be near, but ne'er to reach the first, in Dryden's translation of the fifth satire of Persius. See Dryden's ' Works,' 1821, vol. xiii. p. 255 ; and Persius, * Satires,' v. 72, where one reads

Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo, &c. Mr. T. G. Bowles appears to have quoted the lines in a recent speech at Lynn.

A. B. B.-J. The lines,

Whose part in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the summer hills Is that their grave is green,

are from * June,' by William Cullen Bryant ; but " their " in the last line should be his.

G. F. CORLISS.

SHEFFIELD PLATE (10 th S. v. 27). Would not the following be found of use 1 ?

' Old English Plate,' by W. J. Cripps, 1903, pp. 148 and 152.

April, 1876.
 * Plate and Plate Buyers,' Quarterly Review,

'Illustrated Handbook of Information on Old Pewter and Sheffield Plate,' by Wm. Redman.

'Plate and its Hall-Marks,' by Mary H. O'Connor, in Munsey's Magazine, March, 1900

'A List of Books, &c., illustrating Metal Work,' 1883, by R. H. Soden Smith (B. Mus. Lib. BB.E. a28).

For Newcastle plate see a report of the exhibition of Newcastle plate which appeared in The Newcastle Chronicle, reproduced ver- batim in The Antiquary, vol. xxiii.

There was also an excellent article entitled 'Old Sheffield Plate' in The Daily Telegraph of some time ago, but unfortunately, although it was preserved, it is without date.

On the north side of the Hammersmith Road, a little east of St. Paul's School, I