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of their subjects, "save what they have gleaned in the most careless and indis- criminate manner from others." After this is "see 'Sir Oscar Oliphant's China Re- viewed,' by R. W. Williams, 1857, 8vo," about which Allibone, under Williams, R. W., merely refers to Oliphant. Kirk's ' Supplement to Allibone ' adds ' Collected Poems,' London, 1857,

Sir Oscar Oliphant does not appear in the Index of Shaw's ' Knights of England ' in 'which is incorporated ' A Complete List of Knights Bachelors dubbed in Ireland.' Perhaps there was a change of surname.

ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

MBS. O. F. WALTON (12 S. vi. 336; vii. 317, 358). Your correspondent at the last reference was mistaken as to i>he Rev. John Beck, the father of Mrs. Walton. He was Incumbent of St. Stephen's, Hull, not of Christ's Church. J. T. F.

ETYMOLOGY XF "LIVERPOOL " (12 S- vii. 68, 96, 188, 254, 313, 373). With reference to my note on p. 96, careful examination of the original shows the render- ing of Livermead in Cockington, circa 1200, to have been " Lefremede," and not " Lafre- .mede," in the cartulary of Torre Abbey.

Apropos of MB. HABBISON'S contention that the word hliff, only meant "protection " ih a strictly military sense, we have recently discovered, from the evidence of place- names on an old map in the Cockington Estate Office, " Castle Lane," "Castle Lane Fields," and "Warborough Park," and the finding of three large neolithic tools in the garden of the villa Chelsfon Tower, which are preserved in the museum of the Torquay Natural History Society, shows that un- doubtedly an ancient British camp, hitherto tinrecorded, formerly surmounted Thornhill, which is at the head of the Livermead valley. We have another instance in Devon illus- trating the meaning of the word. On the road from Stover to Ilsington and Hey Tor is the little secluded village Liverton, lying in a gorge, worn by the Liverton brook ibetween Tipley Hill, 240 feet, on the north, and'Rora Down (or Mount Ararat as it is called locally),, 330 feet above the village, on the south. Liverton is further protected by the cone known as Penn-wood which .rises 240 feet above the level of the village to the east of Rora Down. None of these .heights is known to have been a camp or " castle " as the fortified hill-tops of the were called in Devon. The case

of Liverton rather discounts MB. HABBI- SON'S contention, and I suggest that as "pol" "mede" and "ton" are A.S., so hleo, hleow is A.S. for a sheltered spot (our word "lew "), from which Levermede, &c., may easily be derived. There is a Liverton and also a Liversedge in Yorkshire but I am unacquainted with the topographical con- ditions of the site of these place-names.

HUGH R. WATKHST.

COBBY (12 S. vii. 350). The following inscription is on a magnificent monument to Isaac Corry's memory in St. Mary's Church, Newry. It is on the base of the monument, added some years after the main inscription :

" This Tablet is | to the Memory of | HENRY PERY CORRY \ Son of the Right Honorable ISAAC CORRY | Born July 179 | Beloved. Admired and Regretted | He died December 1825 | at Edinburgh just entered | Have erected a Tribute to his Memory | In Record | of a Mind, too Brilliant and too Good | to be Forgotten.' 1
 * Where the Officers of the Regiment he had but

The Neivry Telegraph for Jan. 6, 1826, announces his death :

"On the 28 th Dec., at Peirs Hill Barracks, Edinburgh, in consequence of a kick from a horse, Henry Pery Corry, Esq., 6 th Dragoon Guards, aged 28."

HENRY B. SWANZY.

MBS. E. B. MAWB (12 S. vi. 251). This lady was, I believe, the Mrs. Emma Mawr whom I had the pleasure of meeting in Bucarest a score of years ago.

She was the widow of a Dr. Mawr who occupied with her a leading position in the British Colony in Romania towards the end of the last century. Dr. Mawr died leaving her a widow with two sons. The eldest > Frederick G., was in the British Military Service and attained the rank of Captain in the 2nd Battalion of the Welsh Regt., while his brother Frank entered the 7th Regiment of Cavalry called Calarashi in the Romanian Army. Both married. Frede- rick died, a few years after I met him in Cork, but when I left Romania Frank, who was a widower, was residing at Kalarashi on the Danube. He had one charming little daughter whom I used to meet when she was on a visit to her grandmother at 87 Calea Zadurilor in Bucarest.

Mrs. Emma Mawr followed her husband on Dec. 2, 1901 and was buried a couple of days afterwards in the Bellio Cemetery. Before she died she entrusted me with a letter addressed to the then Lord Bishop of