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COLD HARBOUR (8 th S. xii. 482 ; 9 th S. i. 17, 73, 373). Now that Cold harbour is duly explained in the ' H. E. D.,' s.v. harbour, it is really time to consider this question as closed. There never was, at any time, the slightest doubt amongst scholars who are acquainted with the history of our language that Cold harbour is compounded of cold and harbour. Nothing but the love of paradox stands in the way. It is the old story ; it took years to explain to people that beef -eater was a compound of beef and eater.

Dr. Murray gives no clear example. But in Hoccleve's 'Regement of Princes,' now being edited by Dr. Furnivall, at p. xiv of the

Ereface, is a quotation from Ewald, 'Stories x>m the State Papers,' i. 42-3: "1410, March 18. Grant to Henry, Prince of Wales, of the house called Coldherbergh in the City of London." Seeing that herbergh is the old spelling of harbour, no further proof is required.

Another old spelling of harbour is har- brough, and this we find in Stowe's ' Survey of London,' ed. Thorns, p. 88, col. 2 : " A great house called Cold Harbrough. Touching this Cold Harbrough, I find that, in the 13th of Edward II., Sir John Abel, Knight, demised or let unto Henry Stow, draper, all that his capital messuage called the Cold Harbrough, in the parish of All Saints ad foenum," &c. Of course, there is not the slightest pretence for supposing that this large house stood on an old Roman road.

If cold harbour is derived from caldarium, whence came the b ? And are we to suppose that Market Harborough is derived from mercatarium ? We shall be told next that the A.-S. herebeorga, the German Herberge, and the French auberge all grew out of the Latin suffix -arium ! It is so very likely. WALTER W. SKEAT.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (9 th S. i. 388). Pro- bably your correspondent would find the information he requires in 'Musical Facts and Myths,' by Carl Engel, 2 vols., London, 1876, which he may consult in the Corpora- tion Library, Guildhall, E.C. Dr. E. Cutts, in his ' Scenes and Character of the Middle Ages,' in the account of the feast given by the Corporation of Lynn to King Edward III., names trumpets, shalms, violin, and cittern, while Froissart, in his 'Chronicles,' gives trumpets only. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

ROLLS IN AUGMENTATION OFFICE (9 th S. i. 368). The Augmentation Office was the place where the records of the Augmentation Court were kept after its dissolution by

1 Mary, sess. 2, c. 10. This court, established by 27 Hen. VIII., c. 27, for determining suits and controversies in respect of monasteries and abbey lands, took its name from the large augmentation of the revenues of the Crown resulting from the suppression of monasteries. (See ' Les Termes de la Ley,' or Co well's 'Interpreter.') The Augmentation Office was in New Palace Yard, Westminster, until it was abolished by the Public Records Act, 1838, and the documents therein preserved transferred to the care of the Master of the Rolls. (See Walcott's 'Memorials of West- minster,' 1851, pp. 203-4.) Among keepers of the Augmentation records may be mentioned John Caley (see his life, ' D. N. B.').

MR. DUNNING'S second query is a hard nut to crack. The " 17th of Queen Mary " cannot possibly refer to a regnal year, and the only statute of Mary's brief reign affecting the Court of Augmentation was apparently that mentioned above. Nor do I understand how any possessions of a Stafford Duke of Buck- ingham could come under consideration in her reign, seeing that the last duke (Edward) of that house was beheaded under attainder in 1521, thirty-two years before her accession to the throne. The only way, perhaps, of solving the puzzle is to consult the roll.

F. ADAMS.

The office would be connected with the Court of Augmentation, instituted by Henry VIII. for determining suits relating to monastic lands. The office, as a deposit of documents, long survived the court. If "17th of Queen Mary " means the regnal year, and not the number of a bookcase, it is obviously in- correct, and Sir Harris Nicolas knows nothing of it. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

For a description of the Augmentation Office and its contents when held in the Rolls Chapel, Chancery Lane, subsequently removed to the Public Record Office, see 'N. & Q.,' I 8fc S. v. 201 ; 3 rd S. vi. 346, 427.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

THE GLACIAL EPOCH AND THE EARTH'S ROTATION (8 th S. xii. 429, 494 ; 9 th S. i. 291, 335, 417). I have felt all along that this is a subject scarcely suited to your columns. But as a charge of misrepresentation has been made, I must crave space for a few lines to show how groundless this is, and I have done. When I spoke of GENERAL DRAYSON'S denial of the proper motions of the stars, of course I meant those which astronomers have de- duced from repeated observations of stars after allowing for all known causes of their