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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. SEPT. as, 1907.

Now is this a plagiarism? Did, or did not, Mr. Horace Hutchinson, or some other writer of the same school, express a like reflection on revisiting a river-haunt from which he had been long absent?

ST. SWITHIN.

ABMS, 1653. Will some one of your readers learned in heraldry say whose were the following arms in 1653? Argent, on a saltire sable five fleurs-de-lis or. Crest, a bird (? a martin) on an esquire's helmet.

N. PAGET.

DB. WALTEB WADE. Information is wanted in regard to this celebrated Dublin physician. He was practising in that city about 1790, and, amongst other efforts, was largely instrumental in establishing the Botanic Gardens there. I particularly want to know if a portrait of him exists. If so, where can it be seen. E. A. COOKE.

3, Charleston Road, Bathmines, Dublin. [Wade died in 1825. He is included in the ' D.N.B.']

SHEEP FAIB ON AN ANCIENT EARTH-

temp. Edw. I.; while Roger Thawchet was rector of St. Nicholas Coldabbey, London, in the reign of Henry VIII. Thawerham and Thaverham were old forms of the place Taverham. By a simple process, however, a German originally of the name Thau could in America become known as Thaw. The meaning is the same, just as our common word " thaw " agrees with the Teutonic than. W. M. GBAHAM-EASTON.

Liss PLACE. The following is an extract from an advertisement that appeared in a Hampshire newspaper of 1839 :

"Liss Place. Freehold Estate to be Sold by Auction, July 26th, 1839, comprehending Liss Place, Sparthows and part of Little Pople farms, consist- ing of a family residence erected about 14 years since (1825), on the site of an ancient mansion, of which a portion, heretofore a chapel, still remains."

Kelly's 'Directory ' of 1875 also speaks of Liss Place being anciently a religious establish- ment. Can any reader say what this relig- ious establishment was, by whom it was founded, and what was the owner's name at the time of sale? Was the ancient man- sion referred to a fortified mansion? and

WOBK. In chap. 1. of 'Far from the Madding was it defended during the Civil War in Crowd,' a sheep fair at a place the novelist Hampshire? If I remember rightly, T.

calls Greenhill is thus described

Shore says the meaning of the word Liss or

from the Saxon F. K. P.

" This yearly gathering was upon the summit of a hill which retained in good preservation the remains of an ancient earthwork, consisting of a

huge rampart and entrenchment of an oval form, _-

encircling the top of the hill, though somewhat a gentleman of Marshalltown, Iowa, some broken down here and there. To each of the two years ago issued a ' List of Works on China. ' chief openings on opposite sides a winding road Is the real name known?

" TANK KEE." Under this pseudonym

ascended, and the level green space of twenty or thirty acres enclosed by the bank was the site of the fair."

WM. E. A. AXON. Manchester.

EFFIGIES OF HEBOIC SIZE IN CHURCHES.

Mr. Hardy has here given an accurate In Whitwick Church, Leicestershire, is

description of a typical English earthwork of one of these, which a local history thus

prehistoric times, and I should like to know describes :

whether in Dorset or elsewhere sheep fairs A tomb withoitt an inscription bears the mailed

have been held in modern times on such and much mutilated effigy of a man of gigantic

earthworks. There is a prehistoric circle stature. The figure is seven feet in length, which

near Penistone called Shepherds' Castle, and \ s much too short for the current traditions respect-

)ossiblv the name Harrfrntlft mnv mpan in " the size and strength of the redoubtable knight

L^o' n ^ -H-ardcastle may mean gi John Talbot f Swannington to whose meraor y

^hepherds Castle. S. O. ADDY. it is believed to have been erected. Sir John Talbot

[The fair referred to took place last Tuesday on died in 1365 ' in his fortieth y^ r " the top of Woodbury Hill near Bere Regis.] Are similar instances known elsewhere?

W. B. H.

FORBES OF CTJLLODEN. Was not Dun- can Forbes of Culloden, Provost of Inver-

THAW AS SUBNAME. Is the surname Thaw an English name? or is it in America an anglicized form of the Teutonic thau=

thaw? In old English records Thaw does I ness by his marriage with his cousin not seem to occur, but there was John Thewe Janet Forbes of Corsindae father of two of Kinnardferry, Lincolnshire, in 1429; daughters, one of whom married Sir Alex- and Walter Thoche held lands in the Isle ander Monro I. of Bearcrofts, M.P., co. of Wight in Edwardian times. Simon de Stirling (1690-1702), and ancestor of the Thawmill ( = Twamhull), Essex, flourished 1 Monros of Edmondsham, Dorset, and the