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 48cS

NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s.vi. DEC. 21, 1912.

cesc (an ash) and heale, the locative form of O.E. healh, a word of frequent occurrence in place-names in the sense of a piece of flat alluvial land by the dde of a river. See ' E.D.D.' under the words ' Haugh,' ' Hale,' and ' Bale.' The word haugh repre- sents the nominative form healh, and is found in the names of places in the North of England, where it is of common occurrence as an appellative. The locative forms hale and eale are met with in local names in the South as well as in the North. See Skeat's ' Place-Names of Herts ' (p. 29), and also his ' Berkshire Place-Names ' (p. 52).

Ashele, which is doubtless the same word as the Domesday Aissele, is not an un- common place-name in the East and South of England, as one may see from the Indexes of the ' Calendarium Inquisitionum post Mortem ' (Edward III., Richard II.), ed. Cayley (1821). The name is found in Norfolk, Essex, Northamptonshire, Wilts, and Hants.

In the reign of Henry III. Esher is entered in the form Assere in the ' Testa de Nevill ' (fol. 221 b), ed. 1807. Robert de Watevile is stated to have held (under the Abbot of Chertsey) one-fourth of a knight's fee in Assere (see Index).

My query is, Can this Assere (of which Esher is a later spelling) be the same word as the Domesday Aissele ?

A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford

ANALYZING THE WATER OP THE DEAD SEA. Chateaubriand notes in his ' Travels to Jerusalem and the Holy Land ' (trans- lated by Frederic Shoberl, 1835), i. 344, that an analysis of the water of the Dead Sea " has recently been made in London by Mr. Gordon." He also notes (ii. 116) that thirteen pilgrims inscribed their names on the inside of the door of the Pilgrims' Great Room in the Convent of the Latin Fathers :

" The first was Charles Lombard, who was at Jerusalem in 1669, and the last John Gordon, the date of whose visit is 1804."

Shoberl suggests in a note that this Gordon is probably identical with the analyzer aforesaid. What is known of this traveller and his analysis ? J. M. BULLOCH.

123. Pall Mall.

FRENCH : O'CONNOB. Francis French (vide Sir Bernard Burke's ' Peerage,' s. De Freyne) of Gortrassy and Sessurman Castle, co. Sligo, married Una O'Connor, of the ancient race of O'Connor, Sligo. She was descended from Turlough O'Connor, King of Ireland,

through Cathal Red-Hand O'Connor, King: of Connaught, and Odo O'Connor, King of Connaught. Will some one oblige me with the missing links of the genealogical chain t

J. P. STILWELI* Hilfleld, Yateley.

VARIANTS IN THE TEXT or ' KENIL- WORTH.' In the edition of 'Kenilworth* published by Thomas Nelson & Sons in their "New Century Library" (1905) I find this sentence about the middle of chap. xiv. :

" ' And is this all of you, my mates,' inquired Tressilian, ' that arc about my lord in his utmost straits ? ' '

In the popular edition published by Adam & Charles Black in 1891, however, the sentence runs :

" ' And is this all that are of you, my mates * said Tressilian, ' that are aboxit my lord in his utmost straits ? ' '

This reading has got into an abbreviated edition for German schools published by Velhagen & Klasing of Bielefeld.

Will some one who has access to the original editions kindly tell me the degree of authority attaching to these two readings ? L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg.

DESCENT OF DARNLEY. I have.

stated that the Earl of Lennox, father of Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, was descended in direct male legitimate line from Robert II., first Stewart King of Scotland. Can any of your readers state the names of the persons through whom Lennox was so descended ?

C. SOMERS COCKS.

CHRISTIE OF BABERTON. Information i desired regarding this family. Rear- Admiral Christie of Baberton seems to have owned property (Belmont) near Bath, and married into the family of Braithwaite. Other members of the family seem to have linked themselves with members of the families of Reeves of Langley and of Wilmer.

R, B. L.

ARKINSTALL : BONIFACE. I am desirous of learning whether there is to be seen any- where a pedigree, complete down to the last century, (1) of the Arkinstalls of Ely, the family' mentioned in the Heralds' Visitation of Cambridge, 1619. Arms, Ermine, a fesse sable between three martlets of the second. Crest, On a mount vert a greyhound sejant ermine. (2) Of the Bonifaces of Arundel, Sussex. Crest, A talbot passant sable.

G. A. WOODROFFE PHILLIPS.