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wel. Hane is the weakened form of Hana, the elided possessive case of Hana, an O.E. masculine ppr. name in which a is long : so. Hanan, i.e., Hana's. The second element " wel" is a late form corresponding to West Saxon ivielle ( < *wielli < *wealli < *wnlli ; <cp. 2sTew High Dutch wallan, to bubble, to boil). W.S. wielle became wylle, and, in Kentish, welle. The locative case in Kentish was welle, and that is represented by wel. " Hanewel," therefore, stands for cet Hane welle, which postulates W.S. cet Hdnan wielle, and means " at Hana's well."

A Hana occurs c. 940 as the name of a Tnoneyer, and a Hangrim c. 985 in the same capacity. The word is found also in " Hananwel " and " Hananwur<5 " in Wilt- shire.

O.E. a postulates High Duteh ei ; cp. O.E. Hdn-, dn, ban our hone, one(ly), and bone with High Dutch Hein(rich), ein, and bein. Hein rimed in Old High Dutch/ with our word " rein," and " Heanri " is the form used in the O.E. Chronicles for the name of King Henry I., the Emperor Henry V., and sundry abbots and bishops. In MS. D we may read of Heinric se casere, the second of the name, who died in 1054. The digraph ea in Heinri is the diphthong la, and in the -course of time it was displaced by e, and then .? followed. ALFRED ANSCOMBE.

LATIN INSCRIPTION : " CERUS " (US. xii. -339, 408). The meaning of this is given in Foreellini's Lexicon as " creator" ; though Jie states that another interpretation is '" holy." On the other hand, Mr. W. W. 3?owler, in the ' Companion to Latin Studies,' edited by Sir John Sandys, 215, takes the meaning to be something of the same kind as "genius." GRODNO.

JOHN DALTON MSS. (US. xii. 320;. Mr. Henry Upton, Coolatore, Moate, co. West- meath, writes to me :

"In ' The History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries,' by Wrn. Fitzpatrick, continued by son, published at the offices, 4 Rutland Square, 1900, on p. 102, there is the following :

' . . . .Dalton. . . .had compiled 200 volumes^ still unpublished, embodying extracts from MSS. rare of access historical, topographical, and genealogical. He omitted to bequeath them to .any public library. . . .but happily they still exist, fully indexed, and it is hoped may yet be exhumed from the dust and darkness in which they lie.' "

From this it w r ould appear that as late as 1900 all these volumes were complete, and where they were was known to Mr. Fitz- patrick.

Mr. P. J. Lynch, M.R.I.A., Northbrook Road, Dublin, informs me that a few years ago, at a sale of the effects of the late Mr. John Moreton in Dublin, he bought a collection of MSS., and found amongst them a MS. of John Dalton containing notes for a history of the city of Cashel. Mr. Lynch presented these materials to the Rev. P. Power, M.R.I. A., Professor, University College, Cork, who informed the donor that he bought a companion MS. some time pre- viou4y in London. Mr. Lynch writes to me :

" I believe my MS. may have been at one tune in the collection of Dr. Graves, Bishop of Limerick, or, more likely, the late Maurice Lenihan, as Mr. Moreton lived ha Limerick for many years."

WILLIAM MAC ARTHUR.

AUTHOR WANTED (11 S. xi. 168). A correspondent asked who it was w r ho said that no woman over 30 was worth looking at, and that no woman under 30 was worth talking to.

Thirty or more years ago there was a drawing-room scene of George du Maurier's in Punch. A girl of 18 was seated in the foreground ; further back a group of men were standing about the chair of an older woman. The girl remarks to a middle-aged man that no woman over 30 is worth looking at, and hears in reply the other half of the aphorism given above.

Was Du Maurier inventing or borrowing ? EDWARD BENSLY.

HERALDIC QUERY (11 S. xii. 29, 110, 249). Having been away, I have only recently seen the reply to my query. I have now the pleasure to enclose a drawing of the seal mentioned in my query at the first reference. I believe that it belongs to some very ancient house. It is noteworthy that it shows a shield of which the form is per- fectly round, and the cross pattee being on the left corner of the third quarter would suggest that there were two or three similar crosses in the same quartering. Unfortun- ately the wax did not take the full impression (as shown by the part I have shaded). In the fourth quarter a small ring appears, which may have been accompanied by other annulets, or may be the handle of a key. I think it could not have been a horseshoe. This seal was found on a document signed by Ellinor Pic, whose maiden name was Vezian, a family or families connected (so far as I can discover) with Languedoc in France. ARMIGER.

[Drawing forwarded to Leo C. in accordance with P. H.'s kind suggestion.]