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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vn. SEPT. 4,1920.

HUGH DAVIS (OB DAVYS), WINCHESTER SCHOLAR. Foster's ' Alumni Oxoniensis ' has this entry :

" Davis, Hugh, pleb., Wadham Coll. matric., 12 Nov., 1651 ; fellow New Coll. by visitors 1654 ; B.C.L., 15 Dec., 1659 ; rector of Dummer, Hants, 1856 and 1661, chaplain to George, Duke of Buckingham. See Ath. iv. 545 ; Fasti II., 200 ; Burrows ; and Fosters' Index Ecclesiaslicus."

Kirby's ' Winchester Scholars,' p. 181, under the year 1644, has :

"Davys, Hugh (11), St. Swithun, Winchester Sch. N.C. Fell. 1654. B. of Dummer."

Wood's Athence Oxonienses (ed. Bliss) iv. 545 saya that he was son of the cook at Winchester College and \vas elected Fellow of New College in 1651, aged 19 years or thereabouts. I have not been able to con- salt Burrows' ' Register of the Visitors of the University of Oxford, 1647-58.'

Davis's book " De Jure Uniformitatis Ecclesiasticse : or Three Books of the Rights Belonging to an Uniformity in Churches .... By Hugh Davis., LL.B., Late Fellow of New Colledge in Oxford, and now Chaplain to the Lord Duke of Buckingham," is a folio published in London in 1669 with the Im- primatur of Tho. Tomkins, a Domestic Chaplain of the Archbishop of Canterbury dated Jan. 17, 1667. What was the reason for the delay in publication ?

The Dedication to Charles II. informs the monarch :

" What the Church Historian tells the Excellent Emperour Theodosius, That it was said of him, that he spent the day and night in Councels and Causes, in looking after his E-eligioxis and Civil and Military Affairs : The like is said of Your Majesty, that You are at all times ready at Your Councels and Deliberations ; That You go abroad to Visit Your Garrisons and Navies ; and that You spend your time in looking after the setting the Church and State, the Charge committed to you by God."

Further particulars about Hugh Davis would be welcome.

JOHN B. WAINEWKIGHT.

TOLERANCE or ALCOHOLIC INFLUENCE. The immunity of some Moslems to the effects of alcohol, according to Sir Edwin Pears, strikes me as being worthy of remark. At Nicea a mollah

" took rather more than two-thirds of a tumbler of cognac, and _ without adding any water drank the whole of without a squirm.

" We remarked to each other, with the con- sciousness that we should not be understood, that there was not one amongst us who could have done anything of the kind. I do not believe that the Turks of any class are heavy drinkers, though I have often heard of their being able to

take a'great quantity of alcohol without its having:. apparently any ill-effect " ('Forty Years in Constantinople '), p. 68.

ST. SWITHIN.

ETYMOLOGY OF "LIVERPOOL." (See 12 S. vii. 68.) The following is a strong con- firmation of my view that " Liverpool '* (Livtherpool) is a Scandinavian word meaning "Shelter Pool." I quote from a printed foolscap sheet* (double), probably unique, dated "Liverpool, 2nd May, 1826," and headed "Recollections of Liverpool," but bearing no indication of its author's name. Judging by the written address on the back, it evidently was sent out as a circular, and in it the author pleads for the retention of the wide " gut " leading to the Old Dock, which, as is well known, stood in the bed of the Pool exactly where the Custom House now is. He says :

"It is now above thirty years since I was witness to the great utility of this wide gut. It was in October, a high spring tide, the wind north-west, a severe gale ; a signal of distress was hoisted at the Lighthouse ; the gale was so severe that rfo assistance could be given. Some hun- dreds waited with anxiety on the George's Pier looking out ; about half past 1 P.M. a brig was seen coming round the rock, with a close-reefed main and fore top-sails ; with these she stemmed a raging tide, the waves making a clear way over her. Many anxious glasses were turned towards her. At last a master pilot said : ' Whoever he is, he conducts his vessel like a good seaman,, I hope in God he will not attempt this basin (George's), for if he does, destruction is sure to him (the vessel then luffed up a little). Thank God he is steering for the right place, the Old Dock : there she will be safe. Now, my lads, you that are young, go and assist them, for they are lashed to her, and will not be able to assist themselves.' About sixty of them sprang at the call, arid ran for the Old Dock gut, and saw the mate cut the lashing of the shank painter,, the anchor took the ground, a range of cable had been prepared, and the stoppers made fast"; she rounded, and came stern first into the Dock,, her larboard quarter came to the south wall, when thirty sailors jumped on board, cut the lashings, and conveyed the poor fellows (five in number) to warm beds, where they recovered. Were such a circumstance to happen now, what would be the consequence ? destruction to the vessel, and a watery grave to her fine fellows. I appeal to the noble feelings of the Mayor and Council, for God's sake let not this place of safety be done away with, and you will receive the blessings of the wives and children of your fellow townsmen."

What remained of the Pool, even at the end of the eighteenth century, evidently was still of great value to navigators as a "Shelter Pool."

ROBERT GLADSTONE.

The Athenaeum, Liverpool.