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 12 s. ix. DEC. si, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 527 all the same be held, at any rate nominally, j " as of the Honour of Berkeley," and that the j lords of Berkeley would retain a more or less shadowy mesne tenancy there. It is, however, impossible to dogmatize in the absence of exact proof. It should be noted that the third portion of Bitton mentioned in Domesday was, and continued to be, Church land. CHARLES SWYNNERTON. GRIFFITH WILLIAMS, WINCHESTER SCHOLAR, entered the College in 1541, aged 15, from Fullerton. The Rev. H. de Vocht (English Historical Review, vol. xxxi., p. 234) includes him among the New College , Fellows " who were to be amongst the most learned of the Romanists under Mary and Elizabeth," but though he became Chan- cellor of Worcester under Mary, he obtained I prebends at Worcester, Hereford, and Wells tinder Elizabeth and died in possession of them in 1573 (see Wood. 'Fasti,' i., 134; Gee, 'Elizabethan Clergy,' p. 271). Father de Vocht has also fallen into error in describing John Boxall as Dean of Winchester (at p. 234), and Thomas Harding as Warden of New College (at p. 242) ; but the wonder is that a Belgian writing about English ecclesiastics of this confused period should be able to do so without making more slips. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. " JOURNEY." It may be of interest to draw attention to the word " journey " in the following paragraph from The Morning Post of Nov. 29, as meaning, apparently, a row or line of loaded trams. The ' Concise Oxford Dictionary ' does not give this specialized meaning of the word : While miners were driving a new heading at the Prince of Wales Colliery, Abercarn, near Newport, they broke through to an old working, where they found a journey of loaded trams, which, it is said, were filled just before an explosion i which took place 43 years ago. J. R. H. THE WOODMONGERS' COMPANY. As long ago as 6 S. xii. (1885), somebody inquired what had become of the Woodmongers' records. As far as I know, they have not yet been discovered. Mr. Hylton B. Dale last Midsummer Day gave a most interesting sketch of the history of the Fellowship of Woodmongers before the committee of the Society of Coal Merchants. He has since then considerably expanded his paper, the first instalment of which is pub- lished in The Coal Merchant and Shipper (Dec. 10). The series is to be illustrated. L. L. K. "A WALKING DICTIONARY." The ' N.E.D.' has " a living dictionary" (Mac- aulay, 1849) and "a walking dictionary" (Selous, 1893). The phrase in question is much older. George Chapman (1609) in his ' Euthymiae Raptus ' has these lines : Skill, that doth produce But tearmes and tongues, and parroting of arte, Without that powre to rule the errant part, Is that which some call learned ignorance, A serious trifle, error in a trance ; And let a scholar all earthly volumes carrie, He will be but a walking dictionarie, A mere articulate clocke, that doth but speake By others arts. The reader who, like myself, cannot turn to the original may find the passage in Edward Farr's ' Select Poetry ' (Cambridge, 1847), at p. 253. RICHARD H. THORNTON. Portland, Oregon. SOUTH. This word appears to be derived from an original sn-ter (Welsh, hanner, " half," Bret., hanter). South would then mean "half (day), noon." Cf. W., hanner dydd, "noon" (lit. "half day"), and Fr, midi, " noon, south." E. SIBREE. Bristol. NELSON'S DAUGHTER : DATE OF BIRTH. As the date of the birth of Nelson's daughter is usually given as having occurred in 1801, a copy of enclosed will, I feel sure, be of interest to your readers : Baptisms in the Year of Our Lord 1800. May 13, Horatia Xelson Thompson. Born 29th Oct., 1800. The above is a true copy out of the Register. Book of Baptisms belonging to the Parish of St. Marylebone, in the County of Middlesex, ex- tracted this Twenty-first day of December, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Five. As witness my hand. BEXJ. LAURENCE, Curate. E. E. LEGGATT. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct. " MATA HARI'S " YOUTH. Though con- temporary history does not seem to have been sensibly affected by the death, at Vin- cennes in 1917, of the spy generally known under the nom de guerre of " Mata Hari," it would not be without interest to try and clear up the obscure past of this infamous