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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io- s. v. FEB. 17, im

GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE : GEORGE JULIAN HARNEY. Perusal of the many tributes paid by the press to the worth of the late Mr. Holyoake prompts me to point out the curious agreement in the initials of this re- markable man and those of that other well- known Chartist whose name I have linked with his. Both also, as we know, were doughty champions of the cause they es- poused, both scholars and journalists of repute, and both were permitted to live to a ripe old age far beyond the allotted span. Then they were both contributors to the pages of * N. & Q.' Mr. Harney died on 9 December, 1897, and displayed to the last a keen interest in the methods for perpe- tuating the memory of Lord Byron, by com- memorative tablet or otherwise, as your columns bear testimony. Of the poet's works he was a great student and admirer.

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club, W.

G. J. HOLYOAKE: CHARTISTS AND SPECIAL CONSTABLES. In the interesting article on George Jacob Holyoake in The Athenaeum for 27 January reference is made to his recol- lections of old Chartists.

I have often wondered how many of the army of special constables sworn in in 1848 in London, at the suggestion of the Duke of Wellington, to fight the Chartists, are now living. My brother (the late Canon Isaac Taylor) was one of them when a student at King's College, and had his baton.

In conversation, shortly before his death, with Dean Farrar (who was a friend of my brother and at college with him), I reminded him of the circumstance, and asked him if he still had his baton. His reply was that, unfortunately, he was only seventeen at that time, and so below the legal age, my brother being eighteen. HENRY TAYLOR.

Birklands, Southport.

G. J. HOLYOAKE : HIS NAME. The form of this patronymic is peculiar, and one asks, Is it named from the holm-oak (Quercus ilex), or from the mallow (Althaea), called the holly- hock or holyhoke, with endless variants 1 The latter plant has been popularly canon- ized in connexion with St. Cuthbert as caul-is Sancti Cuthberti. It appears that Dr. Murray calls the suffix hoc of unknown origin ; I would suggest a reference to the Celtic ock for water, Latin aqua, as in "aqui-folium," or hoc leaf. True, the "aqui" is for acutus, or sharp, pointed, as with the holly, the scarlet holm ; but borrowed words are freely distorted. A. HALL.

" BOWET," AN ARCHITECTURAL LANTERN. The word " bowet " is defined in the 'N.E.D.' as " a small lantern," and from the 'Prompt. Parv.' (1440) is cited " Boivett, a lantern." In an Assize Roll, Ump. Henry III. (Bucks, 62, m. 7) I find the same word applied to an architectural lantern or louvre, thus :

" Quida' Joh's de Hertford qui portavit aq'm benedictam ap'd Denham cum vellet extrahere calumbellos : de quoda' Buwetto ad ecclesiam de Denham extra eandem ecclesiam cecidit q u da' lapis de Boicttto illp sup' capud Agn' ux' Rob'ti de Denham q' sedit in ecclesia ita q'd t'cio die obiit."

I do not know how early the term lantern was used architecturally in England. The 'NE.D.' quotes from Boorde (1547), "The spyre of the churche is a curyous and a right goodly lantren."

A foot-note in the Camden Society's edition of the 'Prompt. Parv.' under " Bowett or lanterne, lucerna lanterna," cites among appliances for sacred uses mentioned in the 'Lat-Kng. Vocab.,' Roy MS. 17c. xvii. fo. 46, *' ventifuga = bowyt."

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

THE ISLE OF MAN BLOWN ABOUT BY THE WINDS. Martin Csombor, a Hungarian traveller, who visited England in 1618, states in his book 'Europica Varietas ' (Kassa, 1620) that among the many small islands round the coast of England one, the Isle of Man (Monia), is very celebrated, be- cause it has no foundation, and is blown hither and thither by the winds, and thus changes its position as much as 60 (Hun- garian = about 300 English) miles.

L. L. K.

DYERS IN WANDSWORTH. It may interest some of your readers to know that Chancery suit Hodgson v. Morley (series 1714-58, bundle 1432) is a dispute about this old Wands worth trade. GERALD FOTHERGILL.

11, Brussels Road, New Wandsworth, S.W.

SHEEP IN CHURCH IN WESTMORLAND. Dr. Crawford Burkitt, when giving rule 38 of the canons of Rabbula, viz.,

" Let all the Priests take care for the service of the House of God, and let them be doing what- ever is necessary for the ordering of the House, and let them not feed beasts in the Church that the House of God be not brought into contempt,"

observes in a foot-note :

"It is perhaps not out of place to mention that not a hundred years ago there was a Westmoreland


 * ' Cath. Anglicon' has "a dowfe columbulos

columbula."