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NOTES AND QUERIES, no s. vii. MARCH 23, 1907.

THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS (10 S. ii. 441, 516 ; iii. 18, 114). At the third of the above references MR. FRANCIS G. HALEY gives as the name of an authoritative work on the subject 'The Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds,' by F. S. Parry, C.B., published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1893. I have failed to find this book at either the British Museum or the Guildhall ; it does not appear in Fortescue's catalogue ; and in reply to an inquiry Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode state that they do not publish it. I shall therefore be grateful for further information as to this book.

The interesting article on the word " Chiltern " in the ' N.E.D.' gives no ex- planation of the origin of the word ; and as its list of early references is not exhaustive, I venture to set down here all those known to me, in the hope that I may be referred to others, and that possibly some explanation of the name may be forthcoming.

The earliest use of the word seems to be in the ancient document conveniently named by the late Prof. Maitland ' The Tribal Hidage,' for the original of which Mr. Corbett has on good grounds claimed a seventh- century date. This document attributes 4,000 hides to the " Cilternsoetna."

Two references to the Chiltern Forest are found in Kemble's * Codex Diplomaticus.' The first dates from 1006, but is asterisked as a possible forgery : it refers to Risborough as " Hrisebeorgam margine luci Cilterni villula secclesise Christe rite pertinens Hrisebyrgan be Cilternes efese to Cristes cyrceantun rihte togelicgende.' The later one is of Edward the Confessor s reign, and

speaks of the same place as cinghamscire be Cilternes efese.

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The ' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, under date 1009, speaks of the Danes as going through " Ciltern."

The chronicles of St. Alban's Abbey record that Abbot Leofstan, contemporary to Edward the Confessor, cleared away the trees on either side of Watling Street, which ran through dark woods " a limbo Ciltrise usque fere Londoniam."

The name Chiltern does not appear any- where in the Buckinghamshire section of Domesday Book. A. MORLEY DAVIES.

Winchmore Hill, Amersham.

' THE KINGDOM'S INTELLIGENCER,' 1660- 1663 (10 S. vii. 148). Will the following answer W. J. C.'s inquiry with reference to why The Kingdom's Intelligencer was dis- continued in 1663 ?

On 31 Aug., 1663, Roger L'Estrange was

appointed "Surveyor of the Printing Presses" and " Licenser of the Press." The liberty of the press was virtually destroyed by Roger's appointment, and no new paper could appear without a licence. In January, 1664, L'Estrange started a paper which was published twice a week. The Monday edition was called The Intelligencer, and the Thursday edition was named The News. This paper was published " with priviledge " ;. but towards the close of 1665 Roger was out of favour ; he lost his appointment and The London Gazette took the place of his paper. JOHN PETHERICK.

Torquay.

LORD HALIFAX (10 S. vii. 188). M. MARTEL trouvera un peu de details de cet homme d'etat-ci a ' L'Histoire de la Place S. Jacques ' (a Londres), par A. I. Dasent, 1895, pp. 11, 18, 21, 24, 29, 31, 43, 44, 94, 95. II etait des partis Fun et 1'autre,. " a Trimmer." II y a un sarcophage de George Savile, Marquis d'Halifax, avec buste-medaillon, dans 1'aile nord de 1'Abbaye a Ouestminster.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

JKisallattmts.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Generall Historic, of Virginia, JYew England, and the Summer Isles: together with the True Travels, Adventures, and Observations, and a Sea Grammar. By Capt. John Smith. 2 vols. (Glasgow, MacLehose & Sons.)

AMONG the additions to the great records of Hakluyt and Purchas, ' The General History' and other works of Capt. John Smith are intrinsically the most interesting and bibliographically the scarcest. Their inclusion in the "Library of Travels of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Cen- turies," into which the important undertaking of Messrs. MacLehose has developed, is thus a matter for congratulation to the scholar and a notable addition to the value of the series. Almost alone among these records, the travels of John Smith have something of the flavour of romance, and even of sentiment a fact which may perhaps be held to' account for the species of opposition they have encountered. All we know concerning Capt. Smith is told us in ' The True Relation,' and nothing in his European adventures is more remarkable or harder of acceptance than Coryat's 'Crudities,' ' ' hastilylgobled up in five moneths' tra veils in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, Switzerland, High Germany, and the Netherlands," or the 'Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations ' of William Lithgow. Quite astonishing is, how- ever, the opposition begotten by the statement (in which, nevertheless, there seems to be nothing inherently improbable, when her subsequent career is remembered) concerning the protection accorded Capt. Smith by the young Princess Pocahontas,.