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 9 th S. I. MAY 7, '98.]

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eason for it is that the inventor chooses t say so.
 * aid, due to the principle of bluff. The OIL

However, such of your readers as do no mow Anglo-Saxon will probably, at any rat ,010 w Latin. And they will know how t value Mr. Edmunds's explanation of Co iumpton, which he derives from " Lat. collun a, hill." He omits to mention the name o the Latin dictionary where he found thi remarkable form. It is due, of course, t the principle of bluff.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

Since ousel is from A.-S. osle, Goudhurs if pronounced like ousel and transliteratec back into A.-S., might be G6dhyrst, meaning "good wood"; though one would rathe expect the modern name to be Goodhursi But not finding the name in Kemble' 'Codex' or in Birch's ' Cartularium,' ! thought it more prudent not to offer ME JULIAN MARSHALL what can only be a mer guess. This guess, however, is confirmee since in 1291 the name appears as Guthers in Pope Nicholas's * Taxatio.'

ISAAC TAYLOR.

HOGARTH'S * MARCH TO FINCHLEY ' (9 th S i. 244). Apropos of H. E. M.'s note, I may mention that Hogarth's original intention appears to have been to dedicate ' The March of the Guards towards Scotland in the Year 1745 ' (more familiarly known as 'The March to Finchley ') to George II., and a proof was taken to St. James's for his approval. George is reported to have asked, "Who is dis Hogart ? " On being informed he was a painter he promptly expressed his contempl for the fine arts, and asked to have it removed out of his sight.

Hogarth at once sat down to his unlettered plate and dedicated it to the King of Prussia, "an Encourager of Arts and Sciences' (cf. Cornhill, October, 1860, p. 444) by a strange irony, that same Frederick who sub- sequently wrote to Prince Charles Edward that " all Europe was astonished at the great- ness of your enterprise " (against the throne of George II.),

" for though Alexander and other heroes have con- quered Kingdoms with inferior armies, you are the only one who ever engaged in such an attempt

without any However, though Fortune was

your foe, Gz-eat Britain, and not your Royal High- ness, is a loser by it."

F. L. MAWDESLEY.

Delwood Croft, York.

BATH APPLE (9 th S. i. 228, 317). I have pleasure in giving PROF. SKEAT the informa- tion required. The phrase is in the letter

dated 2 November, 1781, in the second volume of the ' Private Letters of Edward Gibbon.' Gibbon states, in reference to Hayley's wife : "She is resolved (the air of Eartham after fifteen years' residence is found to be too cold) to eat another bath apple, which, as you properly appre- hend, will not oe very wholesome either for her fame or his fortune."

BIBLIOPHILE.

GLOVES AT FAIRS (9 th S. i. 188). This sub- ject will be found very fully discussed in the Kentish Note- Book, vol. ii. pp. 138-152, with many examples of gloves and other emblems of authority. BENTICKE FARMILOE.

S. W. Beck, in his ' Gloves, their Annals and Associations,' London, 1883, says :

"It was part of the royal prerogative to set up markets, and fairs were established by virtue of the king's glove, which was the authority under which any free mart or market was held. Thus, says the 'Speculum Saxonicum' (lib. ii.), 'No one is allowed to set up a market or a mint, without the consent of the ordinary or judge of that place; the king, also, ought to send a glove as a sign of his consent to the same.' "

The glove was ordinarily displayed as a token of security under which trade might be carried on uninterrupted, and was emblematic of the power to maintain order of the king who sent it. During the annual fair at Portsmouth, locally known as the "Free Mart," a gilded glove was displayed above the entrance to the White House, or gaol, in the High Street. The fair at Southampton, held on Trinity Monday and two following days, was opened by the mayor erecting a pole with a large glove to it, and he dissolved
 * he fair by taking down the pole and glove.

Correspondents of ' N. & Q.' have given evi- dence of a similar custom being observed at Chester, Newport in the Isle of Wight, Mac- clesfield, Exeter, and Barnstaple. Those correspondents of 'N. & Q.' who may be nterested in the subject or gloves I would refer to * Curious Fair Customs,' in ' Bygone England'; 'Curiosities of Literature,' by saac D'Israeli ; Hone's ' E very-Day Book'; )he Antiquary, ii. 3, 231 ; All the Year Round, ^irst Series, *ix. ; Second Series, xxiii. ; Fair-

viii. ; 3 rd S. i., ii., v., vi. ; 4 th S. iii. ; 5 th S. iv., xi. ; 7 th S. viii., ix. ; 8 th S. i.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"BURIED, A STRANGER" (9 th S. i. 207). Is be small church mentioned on the coast ? "f so, the entries would be innominate as elating to bodies cast up by the sea,