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of the llth Light Dragoons, and charged the French cavalry ten times, having two horses shot under him, and only escaping unhurt owing to the course of a bullet being turned by the Bible he carried in his valise. Capt. C. G. Ridout was in the 2nd Life Guards from 181 9 to 1825, when he retired from the service ; he died at Brighton on 3 June, 1881, in his ninety-sixth year, and was buried in Bang- hurst churchyard. I do not know the maiden name of Lieut.-General Jordan Wren's wife, and presume that a sister of his and also Sir Christopher Wren's must have been mother to Capt. John Christopher Ridout, 47th Regiment. W. C. L. FLOYD.

HENCHMAN (7 th S. ii. 246, 298, 336, 469 ; iii. 31, 150, 211, 310, 482; iv. 116, 318 ; 8 th S. iii. 194, 389, 478; iv. 16; v. 172; vi. 245; vii. 110; viii. 335 ; ix. 249). The Deputy Keeper of Public Records has very kindly made extracts from the documents referred to in HERMEN- TRUDE'S note (8 th S. iii. 478), adding an earlier instance that had escaped that lady's in- dustry, and has given the present (and per- manent) references, which I think ought to be recorded in ' N. & Q.' I arrange them in order of date, along with a later one, which has since reached me.

1360, Issue Roll No. 224 (34 Edward III., Easter), m. 20 :

' ' Hengestmanni domini Regis. Mustardo, Garlek' et duobus sociis suis hengestmannis domini Regis ; in denariis eis liberatis de dono Regis videlicet cuilibet eorum vjs. viijrf. per breve de private sigillo inter mandata de hoc termino, xxvjs. viijrf."

1377-80, Roll of Liveries by Alan de Stokes, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe (Accounts, &c., Exchequer, Q.R., Bundle 400, No. 4, m. 23):

"Hans Wynsele, henxtman domini regis pro vestura et apparat' suis."

1402, Roll of Expenses incurred on behalf of Blanche, daughter of Henry IV., in the year of her marriage (Accounts, &c., Ex- chequer, Q.R., Bundle 404, No. 11):

"Alberto Blike et Petro Stake, henxtmen domine euntibus cum domina de Colonia versus partes Alman', utrique eorum ad diversas vices xxxjs. viijd. de dono domine, Ixiijs. iiijc?."

1420-2, Account of Robert Rolleston, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, June, 8 Henry V., to August, 10 Henry V. (Enrolled Accounts, Exchequer, L.T.R., Wardrobe, No. 6, m. 11):

"Ad iij lintheamina facta de telo lini Braban, ad intrussandum robas et hernes dicte regine et henx- men suorum erga dictam coronationem.

1445-6, Account of John Norreys, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Michaelmas, 24 Henry VI., to Michaelmas, 25 Henry VI. (ibid.) :

" Liberavit domine Margarite regine Anglie ut

in diversis robis eidem regine ac dominabus

domicellis et henx 3 suis necessariis."

1463, in ' Manners and Household Expenses of England ' (Roxburghe Club), 157 :

"Item, payd for iij bowis more ffor the hynsmen [sum wanting]."

J. A. H. MURRAY.

GOUDHURST, IN KENT (9 th S. i. 87). In the reign of Edward I. a dispute occurred between the vicar of this parisn and the prior and canons of Leeds, to whom the living had been appropriated. The name of the village is there spelt Gutherst, and I presume there is no reason to doubt that the signification is the same as that of the famous park near Chichester, which is so well known in con- nexion with the Goodwood races. There is a village called Gayhurst or Gothurst in Buck- inghamshire. W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

Without venturing on an opinion, I may mention that Flavell Edmunds, in ' Traces of History in the Names of Places,' has (' Voca- bulary,' p. 217, Lond., 1872): " Goud, E., perhaps from the woad, a plant used by the Briton in the production of the blue dye wherewith they stained their bodies. Ex., Goudhurst (Kent), woad wood."

ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

BAYSWATER (8 th S. xii. 405 ; 9 th S. i. 13, 55). Why did Bayard become " a proverbial name for a horse,' quite irrespective of colour"? Was it because bay was by far the most usual colour met with amongst horse-flesh 1 ? Are bays the most abundant at the present day? I think, according to common sense, that, however greatly the sense of Bayard was subsequently expanded, the name must originally have been given to bays only. In the Greek-English lexicon of Liddell and Scott, Bayard glosses &dv6os, one of Achilles' horses. Is there any example in classical literature of the sense of &dv6os having become expanded in the same way as that of Bayard? The name of the other horse, BaAios=Pyeball, would seem to show that both of them were named from their colour. In the ballad 'Richard of Almaigne,' to be found in Percy's 'Reliques,' 1. 45 runs as follows: "Thou shalt ride sporeles o' thy lyard." And in the glossary appended there- unto lyard is stated to signify grey, "a name given a horse from its colour, as Bayard from bay."

S. A. D'ARCY, L.R.C.P. and S.I.

Rosslea, Clones, co. Fermanagh.

It may be worth while to mention that the name of "Bayard's Watering Place "remained