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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vn. APRIL is, 1907.

shorter arm being 2 in. deep, and the longer 4| in. The Tewin niche is supposed to have held a figure, and the hole below most probably contained a support for the light which would burn before this figure.

MATILDA POLLARD. Belle Vue, Bengeo.

LEGENDS ON ENGLISH GOLD AND SILVER COINS (10 S. vii. 183, 237). Much of the information given in your columns under this heading will be found recorded in ' English Coins and Tokens,' by Llewellynn Jewitt and Barclay V. Head (1890), pub- lished at one shilling. JOHN T. PAGE.

"FORWHY" (10 S. vii. 185, 237). " Forwhy " was one of E. A. Freeman's pet archaisms. I think I heard him use it, and it occurs frequently in his letters ; e.g., in one to Boyd Dawkins, dated 1 Sept., 1878 (' Life and Letters,' vol. ii. p. 165) :

"We spake lately of lyons ; have you any view about libbards ? Did they retreat also ? Have they left any signs by the banks of either Axios, Wookey Hole, or Macedonia? Forwhy there are some casual allusions to them in Homer, and one I think only one long simile." Other instances occur on pp. 251, 256, 439, 456 of the same volume, and careful search would no doubt result in the yield of many more examples. ST. SWITHIN.

BELLS MENTIONED BY HOOD (10 S. vi. 266). May I point out one slight misprint in the quotation as given, as it makes non- sense of the first two of the pretty lines. In the first should be read sounds, not " sound " ; or else we have an image only to be compared with the delightful phrase used ^in a boy's examination paper, describ- ing " an Interdict " as "a time when the people lost all benefits of clergy, and church bells no longer floated in the air." Hood also wrote a parody of ' Those Evening Bells.' On the other side in this matter there is something to be said. I wonder whether Dr. Raven (10 S. vi. 219) had the impartiality to quote Keats's sonnet ' Written in Disgust at Vulgar Superstition.' H. K. ST. J. S.

LATIN PRONUNCIATION IN ENGLAND (10 S. vii. 108, 170). Even if we could only conjecture the ancient pronunciation of Latin, it would be foolish to adhere to a method utterly absurd and impossible ; how much more, therefore, when the original sounds can be ascertained with almost perfect exactitude ! So far from following the more or less erroneous practices of the continental nations, we shall, if the xecorn-

mendations of the Classical Association are adopted, be able to pride ourselves on a more correct pronunciation than that of any of them. And the exercise it will afford to our youth in the distinct utterance of standard vowel-sounds, and the consequent facility in the acquirement of other foreign languages, will be a further inestimable resulting ad- vantage. As for the numerous Latin words common in English parlance, it must largely be a matter of individual opinion whether they are sufficiently naturalized to be pro- nounced in the English fashion or not, precisely as in the case of those from French or other sources. People who sound prestige, massage, fracas, tiara, armada, as if they were foreign words certainly have no right to cavil at plus, minus, via, bona fides, modus vivendi, et ccetera, if spoken in the Roman manner.

EVACUSTES A. PHIPSON.

RELIGIOUS HOUSES or SUSSEX (10 S. vi. 449 ; vii. 134). The following list of places in which were religious houses is taken from ' Index Villaris,' 1751. I have retained the spelling of the names as given there, although in some cases it differs from that used at the present day. The list is interesting, as I find some of the names even have been omitted from recent gazetteers.

Appledrum, between Chichester and Thorney Island, had formerly a chantry.

Bayham, near Tunbridge Wells, had formerly a nunnery.

Bosgrave, a little N.E. of Chichester, had a monastery.

Hardham, on the Arun, N.W. of Parham, had a monastery.

Michelham, near Haylsham, had a priory, the site of which at the Dissolution was con- veyed to the Earl of Arundel.

Pynham was a priory near Arundel.

Rotherbridge, on the Rother, N. of Battel, had an abbey.

Seal, near Stening, had a priory.

Torton, between Tortington and Arundel, had a priory.

I do not imagine this list to be anything like complete, but it may include some of the smaller foundations which may possibly be overlooked in an ordinary account of Sussex religious houses. WM. NORMAN.

"KINGSLEY'S STAND" (10 S. vii. 109, 158). The following is taken from ' Nick- names and Traditions in the Army,' third ed., 1891 (Chatham, Gale & Polden), p. 63 :

"20th Foot enjoyed the sobriouets of the 'Two Tens' from its number, also 'The Minden Boys,' and 'Kingsley's Stand.' The last honourable title