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NOTES AND QUERIES.

I wonder, is there a list of the Abbots of Conway to be found anywhere ?

If "Deen" = Dean, then in this case it must be equivalent to our modern " rural dean," because Lleyn is the southern portion of the present county of Carnarvon.

T. LLECHID JONES.

Yspytty Vicarage, Bettws-y-Coed.

COMPANIONS OF GEORGE I. (11 S. vii. 268, 334). Tindal in his continuation (1744-7) of Rapin's ' History of England,' vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 401, foot-note, gives a list of those of the Household who were to attend the King to Great Britain :

The Baron de Kilmanseck, Master of the Horse.

Baron Bernsdorf, First Minister of State.

Baron de Goritz, President of the Finances, and Minister of State.

Monsieur de Bobethon, Privy-Counsellor to the King.

Count Platen, Great Chamberlain.

Baron de Rhede, Great Chamberlain.

The Marquiss de la Foret, Chamberlain.

Baron Schutz and his two brothers, one Gentle- man of the Bed-chamber to the King, the other to the Prince.

Monsieur Reiche, Privy-Counsellor, and Secre- tary to his Majesty.

Baron de Hartoff, Counsellor of War.

Monsieur Schraden, Secretary of Ambassies.

Monsieur Hammerstein, Gentleman of the King's Bed-chamber.

Monsieur Kempe, Gentleman of the Bed- chamber to the Prince.

Two Physicians, Dr. Steigerthal and Dr. Chappuzeau.

Two Surgeons, and two Valets de Chambre.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

INVERNESS BURGESS ACT: W. CURTIS (11 S. viii. 128). The subject of L. A. W.'s engraving is probably a relation perhaps an uncle of Sir William Curtis, Bt. (1752- 1829), who was Lord Mayor of London in 1796, and represented the City in Parlia- ment for thirty -five years. In 1822 he accompanied George IV. to Edinburgh, and appeared in a kilt. L. A. W. might receive accurate information by applying to two obvious sources : the present Sir William Curtis (great - great - grandson of the first baronet), and the Town Clerk of Inverness. HERBERT MAXWELL.

CROMARTY (11 S. viii. 130). See Old- Lore Miscellany of Orkney, &c. (Viking Society), v. 14, where the meaning is given as Little Place of the Bend ; old form Crum'bauchtyn (accent on first syllable) crom, bent, developed b, terminations -ach, place of, and -dan or -tan, diminutive. The second r was developed at an early stage through sympathy with the first r.

As a person-name this occurs in Orkney as Cromate and Cromadie in the sixteenth century, but now spelt Cromarty. Curiously- enough, Orkney appears to be the only place where this name occurs as a person-name. The founder of this family may have come from Cromarty, or may have been a returned Orkney sojourner in that place. In 1420, 1442, persons called Krummedike were in Norway : a name which looks like a corrup- tion of Cromade, or vice versa, through the influence of the Scottish place-name.

Cromar is one division of Marr, viz., Braigh Mharr (Braemar). Cro' Mharr (Cro- mar), and Mig Mharr (Midmar). See Old- Lore Miscellany, vi. 67.

ALFRED W. JOHNSTON.

29, Ashburnham Mansions, Chelsea, S.W.

According to J. B. Johnston (' Place- Names of Scotland ') Cromar means " circle or enclosure of Mar, from Gaelic crd, ' circle.' '

Cromarty may be crom-adha, " crooked bay," or crom-arde, " bend between the heights," referring to the two cliffs, called the Sutors, on either side of the firth near its mouth. I myself am inclined to prefer the latter derivation. C. S. JERRAM.

Oxford.

[MB. TOM JONES also thanked for reply.]

" HOLLO!" (11 S. vii. 489; viii. 55, 95.) In South Lancashire, of which I am a native and where I have lived for forty years, I have always heard this word pronounced " Hello ! " At the Manchester Hippodrome there has been performed recently a " play- let " by Edgar Jephson entitled ' Hello ! Exchange.' It is, I suppose, being given at other music-halls. It would be interesting to know if the name of the piece is spelt in this way when given in the South of Eng- land. F. H. C.

HARVEST CUSTOM : ALSACE AND LOR- RAINE (11 S. viii. 130). I have never been able to ascertain for certain why sticks are placed in the field after harvest, but I have been told that it is like the bouquet placed on the roof after building, and the sheaf of corn is offered after harvest in order to receive a gift from the proprietor or his friends. S. M.

Boulogne-sur-Mer.

RUXTON (11 S. viii. 109). Try Broadoak,. Brenchley, Kent. The brother of G. F. Ruxton was for many years Chief Constable of Kent. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.