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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. v. SEPT., 1919.

'Norsk. Hist. Tidskrt.,' 1, and also J. Nordlander, ' Norrlandska Ortnam,' 1881, f. 25. I would submit that Norse, and not Anglo-Saxon, accounts for Alkelda. In ' Northern Folk -Lore on Wells and Water,' by Alex. Fraser, Inverness, 1878, reference is made to a spring in Burgie-Forres : Tubernacrumkel, no doubt a composite word, which the author says should be Gaelic . tobar nan crum ghiall !

ALEX. G. MOFFAT. Swansea.

'THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH' (12 S. v. 211). The original blacksmith's shop is generally supposed to have been situated in the village of Edgware, Middlesex, and to have been visited by Handel, while staying at Canon's Park with the Duke of Chandos. But a monument was put up at a com- paratively recent date in the church at Little Stanmore or Whit-church, which is scarcely a mile from Edgware, to the memory of "William Powell, the Harmonious Black- smith," which would seem to indicate that he at least lived at Whitchurch for some period -of his life though his shop may not have been there. F. DE H. L.

' The Poetical Works of Longfellow,' pub- lished by Cassell & Co. about 1886, has on p. 58 the words of this well-known poem, with a wood-engraving of the smithy. Re- ferring to this in the ' Notes on Illustra- tions ' is the following:

"From fa water -color painting, in Mr. Long- fellow's possession, of the blacksmith shop and chestnut tree, which stood for many years, on Brattle Street in Cambridge, not far from the poet's house. The smithy was subsequently removed to make place for a dwelling-house, and the tree has since been cut down upon the plea that its low-hanging branches rendered passage dangerous."

W. S. P.

" ABGYLES " OR GRAVY-POTS : ".TEA KITCHENS" (12 S. v. 154, 219). John,' 5th Duke of Argyle, was born in 1823, so if " Argyles " were his invention the period of their introduction was probably early George III. It would be of interest to hear further from LADY CONSTANCE RUSSELL on this subiect. Can she tell us how it came about that her great -great -grandfather invented " Argyles," whilst apparently her great grandfather was the first to use them. Are the articles she mentions silver or Old Sheffield plate ? and will she be good enough to let us know the date of their manufacture, or any other interesting particulars in con- nection with them ? Having discovered the

inventor of " Argyles," can any of your readers throw light on the origin and exact meaning of "Tea Kitchens," found so de- scribed in Old Silver Assay Office books and lists of plate about 150 years since. In all probability they were what are to-day known as Tea Kettles. Matthew Boulton, writing to his wife from London in 1767, says : " I am to wait upon their majesties again as soon as our tripod Tea Kitchen arrives." FREDK. BRADBURY. Sheffield.

REV. THOMAS HUGO (12 S. v. 207). This celebrated cleric, scholar and anti- quary was the son of Dr. Charles Hugo and was born at Taunton in 1820 ; he died at his rectory of West Hackney, in the north- east of London in 1876. He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1842, and M.A. in 1850. Having been ordained by Dr. Sumner, after- wards Archbishop of Canterbury, he served several curacies in the North of England ; for a very short time he was vicar of Halli- well, near Bolton-le-Moors. In 1851 he came to London, as senior curate of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, a church which is still connected with the Honourable Artillery Company of which ancient military body he subsequently became chaplain. In 1858 he was appointed to the living of All Saints, Bishopsgate Street, which he exchanged for the rectory of West Hackney in 1868, and here he remained for the rest of his life. He was a member of a large number of learned societies, amongst others : The Royal Society of Literature, The Society of Antiquaries, The London and Middlesex Archaeological Society and the Genealogical Society of Great Britain. He was a voluminous author, and wrote on a number of subjects : theological, archaeological, liter- ary, Church government, &c., also many hymns, forming a supplement to ' Hymns Ancient and Modern,' as well as numerous articles in the Transactions of learned societies, and in various magazines, &c.

" Our author published in 1866 ' A critical and descriptive catalogue of the works of the Brothers Thomas and John Bewick ' (the celebrated wood engravers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne), of which Mr. Hugo possessed the finest collection ever formed, including many of the original wood blocks. This was followed in 1868 b> ' The Bewick Collector,' a supplement to the foregoing, and two years later appeared a volume of ' Bewick's Woodcuts,' with an introduction, a descriptive catalogue of the blocks, and a list of books and pamphlets illus- trated."

This last paragraph I take from an Intro- duction to a most interesting book, entitled