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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9* s. i. APRIL 9,

Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England,' chap. iv. ; Hardwick's * Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-lore,' chap, ix.; Hunt's

Whitcombe's ' Bygone Days in Devon and Cornwall,' pp. 49, 50, 1 57 ; ' Spectre Dogs,' in Chambers's 'Book of Days,' vol. ii. pp. 433-6;
 * Popular Romances of the West of England ';

Phrase and Fable.' H. ANDREWS.
 * Yeth-hounds,' Dr. Brewer's ' Dictionary of

' THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL' (9 th S. i. 208). The People's Journal,vo\s. i.-iv., appeared in 1846-7. Whether anything was published in 1848 is not clear, but in 1849 was published vol. i. of People's and Hewitt's Journal (incorporated). Some information will be found in ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' See also British Museum 'Cata- logue of Printed Books.' JAMES DALLAS.

According to Allibone, John Saunders was editor of the People's Journal, London, 1846-8, 4 vols. 8vo., and co-editor with West- land Marston of the National Magazine, 1840 et seq. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

It appeared 1846-8; four octavo volumes in all were published.

OSWALD HUNTER BLAIR, O.S.B. Fort Augustus, N.B.

ACKERLEY (9 th S. i. 109, 176). In the light of the replies to the question concerning this surname, is it not germane to the subject to inquire, In what relation to Ackerley does the not uncommon sur- name Ackernley stand ? It is a North- Country surname. W. H N B Y.

"ON" OR "UPON" (9 th S. i. 205). It will be found, I think, that the legal style of such places as Kingston-uppn-Hull, derived from ancient charters of incorporation, Parlia- mentary and other writs, official seals, <fec., is always written, when in English, " upon." I had some legal experiences in Hull, 1864-70, and I cannot remember the name of the town (now a city) being ever otherwise written officially. In the Hull daily paper of 10 March (itself bearing the imprint " Kingston-upon- Hull") I find two notices, one from the Charity Commissioners touching " the Trinity House in Kingston-upon-Hull," the other from the Clerk of the Peace concerning the Quarter Sessions "for the City and County of Kingston- upon-Hull." I believe the Newcastle people also prefer to have the name at full, Newcastle- upon-Tyne. It is always so printed in the

Clerical Directory ' styles the Northumbrian bishop as of " Newcastle-on-Tyne," the Aus- tralian bishop being of "Newcastle"; but both sign themselves " Newcastle" only, which is
 * Durham University Calendar. * Crockf ord's

sometimes confusing. The 'Official Year- Book of the Church of England' states that Dr. Wilberforce was consecrated Bishop of "Newcastle-on-Tyne," but ever afterwards uses "Newcastle" only. I incline to think that the substitution of " on " for " upon " is a modernism, due to telegrams, newspapers, and shorthand, and is not to be com- mended.

While I am upon this subject I may notice how singular it is that Hull should be popu- larly known by the name of the river. How strange if Kingston-upon-Thames should be called Thames ! Perhaps the existence of another Kingston upon a river led to the difference. Which is the earlier Kingston of the two? Is there another instance like Hull ? W. C. B.

May not the word " upon " suggest height or off the ground, as in " How beautiful upon the mountains," and " Their idols were upon the beasts and upon the cattle" the word "on": "Birds hop on the ground and sing upon the branches"? T. HUNTLEY.

29, Tonbridge Street, Leeds.

PECKHAM RYE (8 th S. xii. 304, 450; 9 th S. i. 33). Down to the time of the Enclosure Act the open fields around towns and villages were tilled on a kind of co-operative system by the community. For this purpose the fields were divided into strips of a furlong in length and containing about one acre. Between these strips a grass border was left called balks, on which cattle grazed. It was upon one of these green balks that Shakespeare's " lover and his lass with a heigh-ho, heigh- nonny-ho," were sitting " betwixt the acres of the rye." JOHN HEBB.

2, Canonbury Mansions, N.

It may be useful to notice, in confirmation of the opinion expressed by PROF. SKEAT at the last reference, that the Yorkshire royd, a clearing, is sometimes written roy and roi, the d in fact being omitted. Inus in a terrier relating to Hunshelf, near Penistone, I find a number of fields called " The North Near Roe Rois, the South Near Roe Rois, the Middle Near Roe Rois, the Far Nearj Roe Rois, and Allotment." S. O. ADDY.

CROMWELL (8 th S. xii. 408, 491 ; 9 th S. i. 135, 177). The Protector's son Oliver mentioned, in the letter to Col. Valentine Walton, quoted by MR. BOUCHIER, died of small-pox at New- port Pagnell, in Buckinghamshire, just before the battle of Marston Moor. I believe Mr. Frederic Harrison was the first to unearth this fact from a contemporary newspaper. Carlyle was evidently not aware of it, and