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were certainly tiuaint, and some people say ' peculiar ' to Ventnor."

" Jingles " I have often, ridden in at Newquay (Cornwall) and surroundings. I take it they flourish still.

CECIL CLABKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

THORNE'S ' LONDON ' (v. sub ' Harlington, Middlesex,' 12 S. i. 512). I cordially endorse MR. A. L. HUMPHREYS'S dictum that this book should be reprinted. I would also suggest that Thome's ' Rambles by Rivers ' might well be added to the list of the cheap reprints of the present day. These articles first appeared anonymously in The Penny Magazine in the early forties under the title ' Rambles from Railways.'

JOHN T. PAGE.

HENLEY, HERTS (12 S. i. 489). Pre- sumably, the first letter is missing, and the reference is to Shenley, near Barnet.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

HEART BURIAL (11 S. x. 431 ; 12 S. i. 73, 132, 194, and earlier references). A writer signing himself "Wayfarer," who is respon- sible for an article on this subject in The Autocar of June 17, 1916, mentions some instances which may be new to ' N. & Q.' He tells of John Balliol's heart, removed from Sweetheart Abbey, at Brabourne Church, Kent ; of the curious shrine to that of Sir Roger de Leybourne, at Leybourne in the same county ; and of the deposit of that of William, Earl of Warrenne, at Lewes Priory. Tenbury, near Ludlow, stores the heart of Sir John Sturmy, a contemporary of Richard Cceur de Lion, whose once valiant organ is, I think, among the archaeo- logical exhibits of Rouen. At Ludlow too was once the casket, now in the British Museum, which held the heart of Sir Henry Sidney (1586) ; and at St. Lawrence's in the same place lay that of Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of Henry VII., which is reported to have been " double."

Burford has a heart which beat bravely in the reign of Henry VI., a relic of Edmund Cornwall ; and Gilling in Yorkshire I know not which of the Gillings has a singular memorial to the heart of a knight whose name is forgotten. Bishop Ethelmar de Valence's is strikingly commemorated in Winchester Cathedral ; his body was buried in Paris in the thirteenth century.

A modern instance of heart burial was the placing of Lord Byron's heart, encased in silver, underground in the church of

Hucknall Torkard. " Wayfarer " says that an annoying odour at Clifton-on-l)unsmore was traced to a heart that was lying beneath the chancel flooring.

At Chichester Cathedral, in the Chapel of St. John the Baptist, is a twelfth-century " heart monument paid to be that of Maud. Countess- of Arundel, in which two clasped hands bear a heart with the inscription, 'Icy git le coeur de Maude.' "

This is stated in Miss Pratt's ' Cathedral Churches of England,' p. 171.

ST. SWITHIN.

" HAVE " : COLLOQUIAL USE (12 S. i. 409 r 477). Does MR. C. L. DAVIES really think that it is modern, and indeed scarcely standard English, to say " I had a chop and a glass of sherry " ? How would be more IV fittingly convey the information ? Would he prefer : " I ate [consumed, masticated,, devoured, toyed-with] a chop, and drank [imbibed, sipped, emptied] a glass of sherry " ? To me, who am, to the best of my belief, purely English from time im- memorial, it seems quite accurate to " have " my dinner, and I should suspect myself of being pedantic and alien if I had to cast about for any other verb.

ST. SWITHIN.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN TRAVEL: WUNDERER (12 i. 301, 470). It may be worth remarking with regard to the traveller's reflection on the storm, " He who cannot pray, let him go to sea," of which proverbial phrase PROF. BENSLY notes two Latin versions, that in Dekker's curious tract ' The Double PP. : a Papist in Arms,' the following line occurs : If thou wouldst know thy maker, search the seas. MONTAGUE SUMMERS.

COVERLO (12 S. i. 328). This place i* marked as Covolo in Mercator s Atlas Minor,' 1628 (Plate Tirolensis), p. Leaving Trent, Chiswell passed through Levico, Borgo, Grignio, Coverlo, and Carpane on his way to Venice, a route which n followed on any modern map. In Warcupp a ' Italy ' (1660), p. 3, is the following descrip- tion of the place, which may help to locate itthe author is describing the route f Trent to Bassano :

" At the Head of the Valley, near Primolano, are the confines between the Venetians and Germans. iCn the high Mountain of Pnmolano is there built a most strong Bulwark o Venetians called Strada, where a ***** repel the Dutch, when ever they offer J by "o or force to advance forwards. At twehe n