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after S. Hollands, representing a sepia drawing under glass, the latter being " starred " by a blow in the centre of the print, the ground exposed by (supposed) breaking away of portions of the glass showing sepia, and that still covered with glass a light bluish - green, the effect at a distance being very deceptive. Informa- tion on the subject or reference to its men- tion elsewhere will confer a favour.

W. B. H.

T. TAYLER, MODELLER IN WAX. En- trusted to me for safe keeping during the lifetime of the present owner who is a namesake of my own, and has willed it to me is a finely modelled, seated figure in alto-relievo of one Peter Cotterell of Bilston, Staffs, and Handsworth, Birmingham, on the base of which appears " T. Tayler. Fct."

The subject of the figure was born in 1779, and would be about 50 when it was modelled, so that c. 1830 may be a rough date for the work. Can any reader say who T. Tayler was ? He was evidently a man of some ability as a modeller.

HOWARD H. COTTERELL, F.R.H.S. Foden Road, Walsall.

" DOWLE " CHAMBER. By his will, proved P.C.C. 1546, William Gower of Boulton St. John, co. Wore., bequeathed to his son Harry

" my rhalice and all that doth belong to a priest and all things standing holy in the dowle chamber of Bulton."

What was a " dowle " chamber ? Was the term " dowle " used to indicate the position of the room ? R. VAUGHAN GOWER.

Ferndale Lodge, Tunbridge Wells.

DAMANT. What is the derivation of this name ? It is rather uncommon in England, although in Holland and Flanders there are numbers of families bearing similar ones Damen, Damman, Dammen, Van Dammen, all of which appear in Rietstap's 'Armorial General,' 1884. The family about which I am inquiring is supposed to have come from the Continent via Kent, and settled in Suf- folk, around Saxmundham, in Friston and Dallingho; but not even an approximate date has been given for this change of country.

Several similar names Dammant, Di- ment, Dement, &c. are to be found in England without difficulty, but no relation- ship is known between these and the family in question. This is now in quite poor cir- cumstances, but there is reason to believe that it was originally better placed.

If the name is a Dutch one, there is a town, formerly of some importance, outside Bruges, named Damme, which may offer a derivation. Another suggested derivation is from a root represented in English by our word " dam," an embankment.

F. H. R.

AUTHOR WANTED. Can any correspond- ent tell me where the following verses are to be found ? I give the first stanza out of a poem of five :

CREDO. I believe in dreams of duty,

Warning where they can't control ; Fragments of the glorious beauty

That once filled the unf alien soul. In the godlike wreck of nature

Sin did in the sinner leave That may still regain the stature It has fallen from, I believe.

F. HOGARTH. Durbans, Romsey, Hants.

BUCKERIDGE STREET AND ALLEY.

Buckeridge Alley, George Street, Spital- fields, and Buckeridge Street, Mile End, near Bancroft Road. After whom were these places named ? There was a Bucke- ridge Street close to Tottenham Court Road many years ago, named after Nicholas Buckeridge, who married Sarah, daughter of William Bainbrigge ; another daughter mar- ried Symon Dyott ; and another Sir William Maynard, who all had property in this neighbourhood ; but this Nicholas could not be he after whom the East-End places are named. A. STEPHENS DYER.

207, Kingston Road, Teddington.

ILFRACOMBE = ALFRED'S COMBE ? - In some local correspondence a writer points out that in a document dated 12 Nov., 1283 (Feet of Fines, co. Devon), this place is referred to by the name of " Alf redescumbe. " '

On referring to the ' Exeter Registers ' (Preb. Hingeston - Randolph) I find it is mentioned in the Taxatio of Pope Nicholas (1288 to 1291) as " Auf ridy combe"; in the Register of Bishop Bronescumbe as " Aufricumbe," " Aufricum,'' once as " Hil- frincombe," and once as " Ilfredecombe." It seems as if in the following century the A was generally changed into I at the begin- ning of the name. Bishop Grandisson uses the initial I in, I believe, every case but one, and then in the margin (to "Aufricum") adds " Ilfridecombe."" Other spellings of his are Ilfherdecome (1328), Ilferdicombe (1329), Ilfardecombe, Ilferdecombe, and Ilferdicombe (1333), and Ilfredecombe in 1354/5.