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does not give the passage quite in full, and where he writes, " Nous voila tombes dans la fosse " (italics mine), I have it in my copy of the ' Vie Devote ' : " Nous voila tombes dans la faute laquelle nous avions tant resolu d'echapper." M. HAULTMONT.

FEBRUARY 30 (10 S. vii. 146). For other instances see 10 S. i. 166, 233. R. B.

Upton.

REV. R. GRANT (10 S. vii. 88, 155). See Foster, ' Alumni Oxon., 1715-1886,' p. 550 : Welch, ' Alumni Westmon.,' 1852, pp. 366, 377. W. C. B.

HORNSEY WOOD HOUSE : HARRINGAY HOUSE (10 S. vii. 106, 157). If I may be permitted to say so, PROF. SKEAT'S com- munication on this subject is not quite so clear as usual. Hering is either a personal or a tribal name. From the passage in the seem to be a personal name, possibly of Scandinavian origin, and allied to Haering, which is found in runes on a comb in the Copenhagen Museum. But if a personal name, the -inga would not be a genitive plural. The genitive singular -es is, how- ever, constantly slurred over in place-names. We find a similar instance in the neighbour- ing parish of Hackney, the eg of Hacun or Hakon. It may be noted that in two fines, dated respectively 1350 and 1357, the word is spelt Haryngeseye, from which the modern Hornsey is of course derived (Middlesex ' Feet of Fines,' ed. Hardy and Page, i. 145, 152).
 * A.-S. Chronicle,' sub anno 603, it would

There is a pretty accurate account of Hornsey Wood House in ' Old and New London,' v. 430, 431. The map on p. 432 shows that " Haringay " House and Hornsey Wood House were quite distinct, and situ- ated at some distance from each other.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

I knew Hornsey Wood House (or Tavern) very well when I was a lad in the early fifties of the last century. It was pleasantly situated on rising ground which afforded a fine view of the surrounding country, and was a favourite resort for schoolchildren coming out in summer-time in vans, &c., from London, or robust pedestrians taking footpaths through what were called " South- gate fields," and crossing the (then) rural track known as the Seven Sisters Road. The wood was a small one, and composed (if I rightly remember) of white-barked birch trees.

Beyond the wood, to the north, the clear and gentle New River wound its course

through green meadows. It abounded in; crayfish, living in holes in the banks below the surface of the water. These we used to- catch by means of a baited fish-hook fixed to the end of a stout bit of wire, five or six inches long, the other end of the wire fastened to a short stick of eighteen inches or so. The modus operandi was to lie on the bank, find a hole, and insert the baited wire, moving it gently about. The crayfish (crablike) would seize the bait with its claws, and hold on tenaciously enough to enable it to be drawn out of its hole and landed safely on the bank.

In recent years I have tried in vain to locate the old place miles of houses have- supplanted what were once miles of fields and open country. D. D.

MEAUX ABBEY (10 S. vi. 248, 290, 354, 397 ; vii. 134). On what is generally known as " Lord Burghley's Chart of the Holder- ness Coast " the "name of the abbey is written " Mewes," which leaves no doubt as to the pronunciation of the name in Queen Elizabeth's time. The chart is in the British Museum. L. L. K.

' PENROSE'S JOURNAL ' : TURTLE-RIDINGS (10 S. vii. 148). Admiral Sir Harry Keppel's ' A Sailor's Life under Four Sovereigns ' has- several references to turtle-riding (see vol. i. 79, 90 ; ii. 173 ; iii. 51). At the first reference is a picture of six men mounted on a tortoise ! R. B.

Upton.

In ' Scenes from the Life of Edward' Lascelles,' 2 vols., 12mo, each containing a frontispiece and vignette by George Cruik- shank a book I have not seen for fifty years a vignette represents the hero riding on the back of a turtle in the sea. The book was really written by Clinton Wyn- yard, once Consul at Riga.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

On referring to the ' D.N.B.,' vol. xvi.. p. 313,1 find it stated that John Eagles edited man,' 4 vols., 8vo, London, 1815, one edition of which he sold to Murray for two hundred guineas. Another edition was published by Taylor & Hessey, 8vo, London, 1825. It is a narrative partly founded upon in- cidents in the life of the author, one Williams, whom Thomas Eagles (father of John Eagles) had rescued from destitution. Williams bequeathed the manuscript to his bene- factor. Nearly half a century afterwards John Eagles told the tale in one of his latest
 * The Journal of Llewellin Penrose, a Sea-