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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL JAN. 26, 1907.

George Booth, Roundell Palmer, Goldwin Smith (all Magdalen Coll.), John Conington <University Coll.), Henry Holden, James Gylby Lonsdale, Edwin Palmer, James Biddell, Edward Walford (all Balliol Coll.).

The only single initials are W. (for Wel- lesley), G. (for Grenville), and B. (for Booth).

B H. K. represents Benjaminus Hall Kennedy, S.T.P., Coll. D. Johannis (see 'Arundines Cami,' sixth edit., 1865).

ROBEBT PlERPOINT.

B. H. K., of ' Arundines Cami,' stands for Benjaminus Hall Kennedy, S.T.P., Scholse Salopiensis Archididascalus. My copy of ' Sabrinse Corolla ' (fourth edition) contains but one rendering of Moore by Kennedy, but includes selections from the poet's best-known work translated into Latin by Francis Kewley, John [?] Gylby Lonsdale, Charles Granville Gepp, Edwin Hamilton Gifford, Vanden Bempde John- stone, William George Clark, and George A. Chichester May.

It is possible the G. B. of MB. MCGOVEBN'S book may be George Booth, Fellow of Magdalen, who also contributed several translations of Moore to the ' Anthologia Oxoniensis,' which are signed B. to dis- tinguish them from those of George Butler.

CHAS. GILLMAN. Church Fields, Salisbury.

SCOTT ILLUSTBATOBS (10 S. vii. 10).

Sir David Wilkie was one of the first, if not the very first, to illustrate the Waverley Novels. Information on this head is to be obtained in Scott's * Journal,' and in Allan Cunningham's * Life of Sir David Wilkie.' Some reference is also made to the subject in the volume on Wilkie in

The Makers of British Art." W. B.

DOBOTHY PASTON OB BEDINGFELD OF YOBK (10 S. vi. 509). MB. HANSOM'S query interests me, as Vicar of Osbaldwick. Ac- cording to my parish register, "Mrs Dorothy Paston, f ye Nunnery-w"t Mickle- gate Barre, York, buried Octob r y 1511. 1734." Her will, proved at York same year, is registered as the will of Mrs. Dorothv Paston. The registers also record " Eliza- beth Tasker, Cook at y Nunnery out of Micklegate Bar, York, bur: 7 10* ; and Ann Mason, fro' r Nunnery, Mickle- gate Bar, York, B. 9 1>el 20 th, 1748 "

The first entry seems to point to the name

bong Paston, but the tradition of the convent

sin favour of Bedingfield. Anyhow, the

.burial of the three in this churchyard seems

conclusive against the story of Mother Mary Ward's remains having been secretly removed. If this had taken place, it must have been in the reign of James II. At any other time it would have been impossible, and it is most unlikely that the first Superior of the Bar Convent, who died in York, would not have known of it, and, if she knew of it, would have wished to be buried near an empty grave. The inscription on Mary Ward's stone is :

To loue the poore

perse ver in the same

Hue dy and Rise with

them was all the ayme of

Mary Ward who

Hailing lived 60 year 8

and 8 days dyed the

20 of Jan 1645.

Mary Ward was niece to John and Chris- topher Wright, of Plowland, the conspirators- W. BALL WBIGHT.

" KING COPIN " : " ST. COPPIN " (10 S. vii. 29). Copin is the early French dimi- nutive of Jacob, formed on the same lines as Colin for Nicholas. That it was once very common and thoroughly well under- stood here is clear from the numerous English surnames derived from it, such as Coppin, Coppen, Copping, Coppins, Cop- pens, &c. " St. Coppin " is no doubt merely a familiar name for St. James.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

TOWNS UNLUCKY FOB KINGS (10 S. vii. 29). Mr. P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton, F.S.A., President of the British Numismatic Society, in that Society's Journal, First Series, vol. ii. p. 27, says :

"Mr. W. J. Andrew, F.S.A. (in ' A Numismatic History of the Reign of Henry I.,' p. 267), has shown that when the Normans settled in England they found that the Saxon name of Lincoln was pronounced Linceul, which meant in their own tongue ' the shroud of death,' and as Huntingdon tells us, although he does not give the reason, their kings refused to visit the city. As this was a serious loss to the citizens, the name was promptly changed to Nicol, though it gradually drifted hack to its old form. Surely it is more than a coinci- dence that Roger of Wendover should tell us of Oxford, that in consequence of the legend of St. Frideswide (which dated from about 727) ' the kings of England have always been afraid to enter that city, for it is said to be fatal to them, and they are unwilling to test the truth of it at their own peril.' This alone, in the superstitious days of King Alfred, would be reason enough to induce him to alter its old name of Ouseford, and thus break the letter, if not the spirit, of the fatal tradition. The change to Isisford (Isis=Latin for Ouse) is therefore reasonable; but within fifty years it became Oxford."

Henry I.'s palace of Beaumont, where