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HEREDITY : LONG HAIR (12 S. v. 177). [y grandmother often, spoke of my great - reat -grandmother (Hutton of Lanarkshire), ^ho at the age of 96 had snow-white hair, ?aching the ground when seated on an rdinary chair. Two of my aunts in the ame line had long heads of hair at the age f 79. My sister's hair reached her ankles, nd my own hair laid a good inch on the round when standing, enormously thick, so nuch so that friends used to spin me round nd bet whether I was facing them or other- wise. My height was 5 ft. 4 in. My hair LOW is over 3 ft. long, nearly white ; my ,ge 77. Headache has been unknown to me.

was born in India, and lived some time in Queensland, thermometer often 117 in hade. E. C. WIENHOLT.

7 Shooter's Hill Road, Blackheath, S.E.3.

MRS. ANNE DUTTON (12 S. ii. 147, 197, 515, 275, 338, 471 ; iii. 78, 136). Hearing hat the identical Bible used by her was still n existence and preserved in the Baptist Library, Broughton, Hants, I wrote making nquiries, when I received a photograph of it, vith the following particulars. Size 6^ in. jy 3^ in. by If in., bound in leather, with }wo metal clasps, one of which is broken. Eitle-page :

" The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Festament. * Newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations dili- gently compared and revised. | With Marginal aotes | shewing | The Scripture to (be) the best Interpreter of Scripture | London. | Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd. | Printers to the King and Most Excellent Majesty Anno Dom. 1698."

After the names and order of the Books there is an address, " To the Reader, on the Scripture being the best Interpreter o^ Scripture," signed " John Canne." On one of the fly -leaves (in very minute writing) if a copy of an address :

" To the right honourable Lords and Commons assembled in the high Court of PARLIAMENT Great Reformers, &c., also signed ' John Canne.' | ' Extracted from ye Amsterdam Edition o Canne's Bible. 12mo, 1647.' "

" Inscriptions | Ann Button or One who hath tasted that the ' Lord ' is gracious. [ Grea Gransden | Huntingdonshire."

Inserted in another hand :

" Died 1765, November 17 | Anne Steele, Junr j Broughton, Hampshire."

Also in another hand :

" Theodosia died 1778, Nov. llth, aged 61 yrs.'

The first inscription is in Mrs. Dutton's

own unmistakable minute hand, with

" Lord " as always by her in capitals, anc

nost probably the above extract from anne's is hers also, as her husband visited lolland, and preached at Rotterdam in 735.

My kind correspondent at Broughton asks the usual question : " Who was VErs. Dutton ? " The unique library at Broughton was collected by John Collins of Devizes, a former deacon at Broughton, and bequeathed to the church there at his leath. Diligent search has been made, but no work of Mrs. Dutton's can be found among its treasures, and how or when the Bible came into the possession of the afflicted but gifted hymn-writer Anne Steele yet remains to be known. Neither ladies it any time travelled far from their homes, but might have known each other by corre- spondence, and similarity of sentiment. Mrs. Dutton's correspondence was very xtensive. R. H.

COWAP (12 S. v. 206). As a Cumberland or Westmorland name the suffix is probably -hope, common in place-names, but of very vague meaning. Thus, cow-hope. This -hope becomes in compounds -ap, -ip, -ep, -op, -up. - With Cowap cf. Harrap (hare-hope).

ERNEST WEEKLEY.

University College, Nottingham.

In Harrison's ' Surnames of the United " Kingdom ' (Eaton Press, 1912), the deriva- tion of the above name is given as " Dweller at the cow-hope," the cow-hope being a shelter in some hollow valley, or hill-recess. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

ST. ALKELDA (12 S. v. 152, 190). MR. SELF WEEKS and MR. ARMSTRONG would derive kelda from Anglo - Saxon, but no such word is to be found in Bosworth and Toller's Dictionary, either under C or K. Cleasby and Vigfusson's ' Icelandic Dictionary,' however, gives kelda =well or spring ; and keld is noted in the ' E.D.D.' as a North- Country word for well. Kelda enters into the composition of place- names in Denmark (Roeskilde) and Iceland (Keldin). Bjorkman (f. 141) gives it as an old West Scandinavian word. Consult ' Handbook of Lancashire Place-Names,' by J. Sephton, 1913, and ' Place-Names in Lancashire,' by Wyld and Hirst, 1911 ; as also ' Norske Gaardnavne,' O. Rygh, 1898 (the Introduction), and ' Northmen in Cumberland,' Ferguson, 1856, f. 119. The Norse for " holy " would be heilagr, which, according to Munch, gives Heiligstadir, now Heilstad, pronounced Helstad. See K. Rygh, ' Helgoland's Stednavne,' f. 65, in