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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. MAY 14, '98.

lytell by the manassyng of the sonne of a tryer of hony " (id.,L 283, col. 2). " Tryer of hony " is rendered " brewer of mead " in other editions. Brewing of anything to drink seems always to have been a popular and lucrative business. R. R.

Boston, Lincolnshire.

"Welsh ale," sometimes called "fighting ale," still has a reputation for superior strength. Twenty-five years ago there was (and pro- bably there still is) a public-house in a lane off South Castle Street, Liverpool, celebrated for this beverage. It was served in long tapering glasses, at twopence-halfpenny per glass. George Borrow knew the charms of "Welsh ale." C. C. B.

Beer corresponds in sound to an old Keltic word meaning water. May its name, there- fore, be an old bit of playful euphemism taken by Saxons from Welsh? Ale is made from

grain. In Basque ale means grain. That inguage may perhaps have been spoken by some tribes who had dealings with the pre- historic English. The word explains the name of the once cathedral town of Alet, in the Southern Pyrenees, for aleta means granary in Basque, and no other language furnishes a better etymology : it also occurs in the form of are at the end of one of the commonest words in Basque, saldare, literally horse - grain, i. e., oats, from zaldi = horse (Pliny's celdi-on = good horse). This com- pound, oddly enough, does not appear in the printed dictionaries. PALAMEDES.

LAW TERMS (9 th S. i. 268). In the extract given by your correspondent, Q. means querens, or complainant, and deforc., deforciant, i. e.. the holder of the lands or tenements to which the complainant has (or claims) a right, and therefore the defendant in the suit.

W. I. R. V.

Q. = querentibus, deforc. = deforciantem.

F. ADAMS.

ANCHORITES : Low SIDE WINDOWS (9 th S. i. 186). It is to be hoped that some one possess- ing a view or photograph of the old church of Tarrant Kayneston, in Dorset (which is probably the place called Kingston Tarrant at the above reference), will be able to identify the low window referred to. The present church was built in 1853. No mention is made of such a window in Hutchins's History of Dorset,' vol. i. p. 322 (third edition).

Perhaps, on the other hand, Kingston Tarrant refers to Tarrant Rushton, where there still exists a small low window. An account of the church, including this inter-

esting portion of it, is given by Rev. J. Penny, the rector, in the Proceedings^ of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, vol. xviii. p. 61, for 1897. There is a view of the chancel archway and three hagioscopes, but not of the low window. I shall be happy to lend the volume to MR. MARSHALL.

Whilst on this subject, there is in the Somersetshire Archaeological Society's Traris- actions for 1897, p. 48, a view of a low side window at Othery in Somerset, concerning which the diocesan architect, Mr. Edmund Buckle, and Lieut.-Col. Bramble make some remarks too long to be inserted here.

There is a good deal of information respect- ing lychnoscopes, &c., in the .Ecclesiologist, vols. vii. and viii. EDW. ALEX. FRY.

172, Edmund Street, Birmingham.

I have heard the late Rev. J. H. Austen, rector of Tarrant Keynston (Tarent Kaynes- ton), say there was formerly an anchorite's cell on the south side of the church ; but as the church was rebuilt in 1853, all trace of such cell was destroyed, as well as any low window, if such existed. G. GALPIN.

The object for which low side windows were constructed is as yet by no means certain. The following references to the literature of the subject may be of service to MR. MARSHALL :

Archaeological Journal (Institute), vol. iv. p. 314.

Elvin, ' Records of Walmer,' 97 n.

" Gentleman's Magazine Library," ' Ecclesiology,' pp. 71, 89, 285.

Rock, ' Church of our Fathers,' vol. iii. part i. p. 118.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

BOULTER SURNAME (9 th S. i. 306). It does not appear to have occurred to MR. BOULTER that the Boulter coat of three garbs is just as plain a cant on the name as the bird bolts. No doubt the three garbs are intended for three " boultings " of straw. G. W. M.

PORTRAIT OF SERJEANT JOHN GLYNN (9 th S. ( i. 268). Bromley, who should always be con- sulted in such cases as this, mentions three portraits of this worthy: (1) anonymous, without details ; (2) by J. Spilsbury ; and I (3) in the same print with Wilkes and Home, by T. Worlidge (?). MR. GLYNN might find the Spilsbury print at Mr. Noseda's, ^109, Strand ; but there is nowadays no certainty of finding a desired portrait anywhere.

JULIAN MARSHALL.

MRS. JOHN DREW (9 th S. i. 288). A full account of the long career of this excellent actress appeared in the New York Dramatic Mirror for 11 September, 1897. It is accom-