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12 S. I. JUNE 24, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

517 The name Bevere has generally been regarded as a corruption of Beaver "eye" or Beaver Island. There is an island in the Severn at Bevere, to which the inhabitants of Worcester fled when the Danish forces of Hardicanute plundered the city.

In an alms record in Claines Church, in which parish Bevere is situated, the place is called Beverley, which, if the original name for Bevere, would mean Beaver Meadow.

(12 S. i. 388, 438).—It is interesting to note that this line, which has been the subject of much inquiry in 'N. & Q.,' occurs in James Williams's 'Ethandune,' in the sonnet on 'Hoorn'—interesting inasmuch as Hoorn (or Horn) has just received a new importance from the great sea fight, which (The Times tells us) will be hereafter known as the Battle of Horn Reef.

Here are the closing lines of the sonnet:—

Horn witnesses to-day, in view of such a success against such odds, that the fame of the power and heroism of the British navy is "immortal" and will be so "till its work is done," and the "house of freedom" upbuilt.

ANNE CLIFFORD, COUNTESS OF DORSET, PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY (12 S. i. 310, '356, 431). To the bibliography of records of this lady should be added the ' Northern Worthies ' of Hartley Coleridge, which includes a life of the Countess among other -famous persons of Yorkshire and Lancashire, written, too, in the best taste.

EDWARD SMITH.

Wandsworth, S.W.

WELLINGTON AT BRIGHTON AND ROTTLNG- DEAN (12 S. i. 389, 476). The Wellington monument in St. Nicholas's, Brighton, has "been removed from the chancel to the west door. The inscription is : In Memoriam Maximi Ducis Wellington Hasc domus sacrosancta Qua ipse adolescens Deum colebat

Resedificatur.

Full details of the monument and its erection, are given in Erredge's * History of Brighthelmstone,' pp. 85-7. Directly after

Wellington's death, H. M. Wagner, the Vicar of Brighton, called a public meeting and proposed the restoration of the church as a memorial. The vicar claimed that his grand- father's pupils included the young Arthur Wellesley. Obviously, a Vicar of Rotting- dean, first appointed there in 1792, could not have taught the Duke, who entered the army in 1787. H. DAVEY.

Montpelier Road, Brighton.

The Wellington monument which now stands in the extreme south-east corner of the north aisle of St. Nicholas's Church, Brighton, is not a cross, but a structure something like a wedding-cake, 18 ft. high, surmounted by a four-cornered canopy containing an image of St. George. The base is hexagonal and has the inscription :

"In Memoriam | hsec sacrosancta domus | Maximi Ducis Wellington | qua ipse adolescens J Deum colebat | resedificatur."

There is no date. There is some sort of inscription on a bronze scroll running round the marble pillar that supports the upper portion on the inside, but owing to the bad lijght and the cramped space it is im- possible to read it without a ladder.

Henry Michell, M.A., was Vicar of Brighton from 1744 to 1789. In spite of B. B.'s dogmatic denial it is, I think, obvious that the statements quoted by me refer to the Iron Duke. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

[According to Erredge the inscription round the shaft is " Assaye. J Torres Vedras. j Vittoria. | Waterloo."]

"HONEST INJUN" (12 S. i. 389, 458). That the vulgar pronunciation " Injun " is not recognized in the ' N.E.D. ' is, I suppose, the fault of the present writer. It has been known for generations, perhaps since the earliest days in this country ; but my notes run it back only a century. Here are a few examples :

" I take this opportunity of informin you the business of this county (.Montgomery, Tennessee]. The people of Tenessee is antious to have orders commanded out for us to march against the injuns on the Wabash." Letter of Col. John Cocke, in Salem Gazette, Aug. 28, 1812, p. 1/2.

"Old Major Bridger, in his peculiarly quaint and sensible way, dropped the sentiment : ' Better not go /Mr. There is Injuns enough lying under wolf skins, or skulking on them cliffs, I warrant ! '

Circling and intermingling to confuse all aim,

affecting retreat seemingly to break up their array, and by some ravine, gulch, canon, or thicket to appear on fresh and better vantage-ground, they approximate ubiquity, and fill the terse descrip- tion of the veteran Bridger, * Where there ain't no Injuns, you'll find 'em thickest.'" Mrs. M. J. Carrington, ' Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka,' 1868, pp. 83, 183.