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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. i. JUNE 4, 1910.

THE YEW IN PLACE-NAMES. I should be most grateful if any of your etymological readers would inform me if I am correct in supposing that the following place-names are derived from the yew, and would kindly add to my list, which I am anxious to make fuller, though of course not exhaustive. I have obtained these names from various writers, who do not always agree among themselves :

Ballynure, Ben Urie (Beinn inbrhraigh).

Cis, Cisserwie, Cissewo, Ziesbusch (or Cisbusch).

Eden (Castle Eden Dene, still called and spelt Yoden), Eibenschiitz, Eibenstock, Eibendamm, Eibenhorst, Eucross, Ewe-tree Wood, Ewhurst, Ewerby, Ewloe, Ewshot.

Ibenwerder, Ibo, Ido, Idehult, Idehund, Idskar, Idmyren, Iffley (spelt in the past in a variety of ways Iveteley, Yvetele, Iftele, Ziftele, Eiffley, Ifley), Inwade, Ivorne (Eburodauren), Yverdun (Eburodunum), Yiewsley, Iver, Iwitz, Iwina, Iwerne, Iwitzo, Iwenholtz, Ifield (Domesday Ifeld), Iford, Iden (Domesday Idene).

Tisnitz, Tiss, Tissa, Tisza, Tisma.

Newry, Negnoi.

Uford, Uton.

Replies direct are requested.

ISABEL M. LOWE (Mrs. John Lowe).

29, Palace Gate, Kensington, W.

LADY WILLIAM STANHOPE : CAPT. CHARLES MORRIS.

(11 S, i. 348, 392.)

THE possession of a large collection of notes relating to the Delavals of Seaton Delaval, with which family I am, in several ways, connected, enabled me, the day after his inquiry appeared in the columns of your valuable paper, to furnish MB. R. BOLTON with the information he sought, viz., that the maiden name of Lady William Stanhope, who married secondly Capt. Charles Morris, the song-writer, was Anne Hussey Delaval, daughter of Francis Blake Delaval (by his wife Rhoda, daughter of Robert Ap Reece, and granddaughter of Sir Thomas Hussey, Bt.), and sister to Sir Francis Blake Delaval, M.P., reported to have been one of the wild spirits of Medmenham notoriety.

The marriage of Lady William Stanhope with Capt. Morris brought blood royal to their descendants, as Anne had, through

the marriage of her great-great-great-great- great-grandfather, Sir John Delaval, Kt., with Mary, daughter of Thomas Carey, a double royal descent : one through the said Thomas Carey, who was sixth in direct descent from Edward I. through the marriage of his grandfather Sir Robert Carey with Margaret, daughter of my direct ancestor Sir Philip Courtenay of Powder- ham ; and the second through Margaret, wife of the said Thomas Carey, and daughter of Sir Robert Spencer, who, through her mother, was fifth in direct descent from Edward III. A pedigree of the Delavals is given in Betham, ed. 1795, Table DCLXXXIX., but Anne's name is not recorded in it.

As stated by MB. W. P. COTJBTNEY in his reply, the Hon. Sir William Stanhope, K.B., M.P., was thrice married. His first wife was Susanna, daughter of my great-great- great-great-uncle John Rudge, M.P., Gover- nor of the Bank of England, and was, like her husband, of royal blood. She married Sir William 27 Aug., 1721, and died 7 Oct., 1740, being buried at Shelf ord on the 12th of the same month (Glover'-s ' Derbyshire,' ii. 193). By her Sir William had an only child Elizabeth, who married, 1747, the Right Hon. Welbore Ellis, M.P. (afterwards created Baron Mendip, son of the Right Rev. Welbore Ellis, Bishop of Meath), and died s.p. v.p. 1 Aug., 1761, and was buried at Shelford on the 8th. Sir William's second wife was Mary, daughter of John Crowley of Barking, Suffolk, Alderman of London, and granddaughter of Sir Ambrose Crowley, Kt. She died s.p. 15 Feb., 1745, and was buried at Shelford on the 7th of the follow- ing month (Glover's 'Derbyshire, 1 ib.).

Whilst MB. COTJBTNEY has correctly given the dates of the birth, marriages, and death of Anne Hussey Delaval, Sir William's third wife, his statement regarding her parentage is less accurate, as John Hussey, Lord Delaval, was her brother and not her father.

One or two quotations will, I think, suffice to prove that, as I have above stated, she was the daughter of Francis Blake Delaval.

In the ' Life of Lord Chesterfield ' by W. Ernst (ed. 1893), p. 515, we read :

"In a letter dated 28 September, 1759, to his kinsman Arthur Charles Stanhope, Lord Chester- field informed him of his brother Sir William Stan- hope's resolution to marry Miss Delaval, sister of Sir Francis Blake Delaval."

In the ' Letters of Horace Walpole * by Mrs. Toynbee, v. 368, there is a note to a letter from Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, dated 1 Sept., 1763, announcing the