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therefore the reason for the suffix in this instance is not obvious.

Walter de Laci, one of the companions of the Conqueror, had possessions in Worces- tershire. Roger de Laci, his son, owned five manors in Worcestershire, as recorded in Domesday Book. Ilbert and Roger de Laci both held land in capite in England. But in Worcestershire the Lacy manors are not differentiated, though in Herefordshire we still have Holm-, Stoke-, and Mansel-.

One of the best examples of this kind of place-name is to be found in Warwickshire, not far from Hampton-Lucy, where there are two Wellesbournes Wellesbourne Hast- ings and Wellesbourne Mountford parted by a small stream, the Wellesbourne brook. After the Conquest Henry de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, owned both places, and he or his successors gave the one to Robert le Hastings, and the other to Thurston de Mountford, and since that time the two Wellesbournes have been distinguished by the names of their Norman owners.

W. S. BBASSINGTON.

Stratford-upon-Avon.

Most of the many names of places (if not all of them) including Lacy such as Stanton-Lacy, Holm-Lacy, Ewyas-Laci owe their peculiarity to former ownership (1) on the part of Walter de Laci (d. 1085) and Hugh his son, or (2) of their collaterals in Yorkshire ; and (3) of the respective descendants of both branches of this illus- trious Norman family. Their name was taken from Lasci, a fief of the Bishops of Bayeux (cf. Lib. Rubeus, p. 646, R.S.). ST. CLAIB BADDELEY.

If the annals of the various places having Lacy as the second part of their name are looked into it will be found that the lords of the manors at some period belonged to some branch of the Lacy family. Thus Hutchins, the historian of Dorset, says of the manor of Kingston Lacy in that county that "' it takes its additional name from Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, once lord of it."

This mode of identificatior is frequently employed in Devonshire, more than 40 parishes being named on this principle. Thus we have Aveton Giffard, Compton Giffard, and Were Giffard ; Bere Ferrers anc Bere Alston ; Berry Narbert or Narbor and Berry Pomeroy ; Stoke Rivers, Stoke Fleming, Stoke Damarel and Sydenham Damarel ; Bovey Tracey and Newton Tracey ; Colaton Raleigh and Withycombe Raleigh, &c. THOS. WAINWBIGHT.

Barristaple.

The title of the query should have been ' Lacy in a Place-Name " ; for Lacy is not a place-name at all, but the name of a amily. In double names of this character Vilton Lacy means that a place called /Vilton was distinguished from other Wiltons >y connexion with the family of Lacy or ^acey. Nearly all such family names are Gorman. WALTER W. SKEAT.

[MR. N. W. HILL, MB. TOM JONES, MB. HOLDEN VlAcMicHAEL, OLD SABUM, and ST. SWITHIN also hanked for replies.]

OUNDLE (US. iii. 9). Speltf Undale in

Birch, ' Cart. Saxon.,' i. 36, iii. 579, both

imes in late copies of doubtful charters ;

mt the spelling appears to be correct. The

suffix seems to be the modern E. " dale."

The prefix can hardly be English, and is more

ikely Norse ; cf. Ouneby in ' Inquis. post

Mortem,' vol. i. I guess Un- (or Oune-)


 * o represent Una, gen. of Uni, a. Norse name

n Egilsson. If so. it means " Uni's dale."

WALTEB W. SKEAT.

The early form was Uridela. It occurs, as far back as anno 664, in a Peterborough harter (' Cart. Sax.,' 22).

Mr. M'Clure, in his new book of * British Place-Names,' p. 23, suggests that it is " a worn form " of Avondael, situated near the confluence of the little river Avon with the Nene. EDWABD SMITH.

Putney.

Oundle appears originally to have been, according to Domesday Book, Undele, and over the door of the Grammar School House was formerly the following inscription :

Uudellse natus, Londini parta labore Laxtonus posuit, senibus puerisq ; levaraen,

which is thus rendered by Fuller : At Oundle born, what he did get

In London with great pain, Laxton to old and young hath set,

A comfort to remain.

Sir William Laxton was the founder of the school. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

[MB. TOM JONES, O., and MK. T. SHEI-HEBD also thanked for replies.]

DBYDEN AS A PLACE-NAME (US. iii. 68). Dryden is a farm five miles south from Selkirk, on the main road between Edin- burgh and Carlisle. There is a dry dean, or small deep valley, on the farm, devoid of water, which probably accounts for the name, as in ancient times, when the district was all forest, and even at a somewhat later period when cattle-lifting went on exten- sively by raiders from both sides of the