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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9> s. x. JULY 19, 1902.

(1895 I believe) bronze medals embossed with a calendar for the year and an advertisement of a type-writing machine (if I remember rightly) were sold in the streets of London at a penny each. I bought one of these, but lost it by tendering it in mistake for a penny piece. F. ADAMS.

TENNIS : OKIGIN OF THE NAME (9 th S. ix. 27, 75, 153, 238, 272, 418, 454 ; x. 11). I quite see the difficulty, and fear it is impossible to find evidence as to all the conditions of the game in the fourteenth century in Eng- land. Perhaps we might, however, recover some of the uses of the verb tenir, and I write this merely to record that there is an interesting example in 1. 387 of the celebrated ' Chanson du Roland,' where Ganelon says of Roland : " En sa main tint une vermeille pume . Tenez, bels sire, dist Rollanz a sun uncle," i.e., "He held in his hand a red apple ; 'Receive it, fair sir,' said Roland to his uncle." WALTER W. SKEAT.

JEWS' WAY : JEWS' GATE : JEWS' LANE, *fec. (9 th S. ix. 508). Jewbury still figures as a local name just outside the walls of York. There was the Jewish cemetery in the Middle Ages :

"By the Inquisition taken upon the expulsion of the Jews from England by King Edward I. in the eighteenth year of his reign, it is found that the place called ' Le Jewbiry,' which consisted of eight seliona or one acre of land, on part of which a house was built, was held by the community of the Jews of York and Lincoln, ' ubi sepultura eorum erat.' The words of the record do not enable us to determine positively whether the community of Jews to which it refers was confined to the cities or extended to the counties of York and Lincoln ; but the quantity of the ground would appear to be disproportionately large for the purpose intended, when compared with the amount of Hebrew popu- lation in the cities, so far as that can be inferred from our knowledge of the number of Jews in York at the period of their expulsion, and therefore the

Erobability is that Jewbury was the common urying-place for the Jews in the counties of York and Lincoln, or at least was held by the whole community of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Jews for that purpose. If any proof were wanting of the identity of the place we now call Jewbury with that mentioned in the Inquisition of the 18th Ed- ward L, it is afforded by an entry on the Patent Rolls in the first year of Henry IV. of a grant by the King to Robert de Gare of two messuages, two cottages, and one croft called Jewbury in Monkgate, within the suburbs of the city of York." ' Walks through the City of York,' by Robert Davies, F.S.A., pp. 40, 41.

gp O y.k.et Street, which runs from Coney Street, h ea( jtension of the ancient Conyng Street, the "dtefflL 81 *^, w . as formerly Jubber- one. Mrs. Pott ^Vo ^ ^ ritl, n * s , as , unveracious supporter of k anon Rame < Yor)j >

p. 59) asserted that there was the Jewish quarter or Jewry, and he thus endorsed the opinion of Drake, which Mr. Davies seemed inclined to discredit, that the name "carries some memorial of the Jews residing formerly in this street." Drake adds, " Tradition tells us that their synagogue was here " (' History of York,' p. 322). I may fitly mention in connexion with this subject that of late years Jews have again found their way to York. In 1892 Dr. Adler presented their community with a scroll of the law, &c., and, says the Yorkshire Herald (8 Oct., 1892), "Divine service was, therefore, held at the beginning of their New Year (3 Oct.) in York, for the first time, in all probability, since the expulsion in 1290."

At Lincoln there is a narrow entry called St. Dunstan's Lock. "This," says Sir C. H. J. Anderson, in his 'Lincoln Pocket Guide,' p. 69,

"is near the Jew's House and the locality occupied by the Jews in the Middle Ages, and no doubt is a corruption of ' Dernestall,' the place where little

St. Hugh was born The Lock possibly refers to

a barrier placed across the entrance of the Strait, and secured at night. It might be to shut in the

Jews We find no St. Dunstan's in Lincoln, so

that the St. must have been a modern addition."

ST. SWITHIN.

"HEROINA" (9 th S. ix. 509).-Coles's Latin- English dictionary (1677) enters this word as follows : " Herolna, se, /. and herois, fdis, a Noble Woman, Lady, Princess"; while Du Cange quotes " Herois, La baronissa," from a MS. Latin-Italian glossary. 'Hpuun? occurs in a Greek inscription (No. 2259), with the meaning, according to Liddell and Scott, of " a deceased female," but of what rank is not stated. If your correspondent has access to the ' Corpus Inscriptionum,' he may ascer- tain this for himself. F. ADAMS.

THE METRICAL PSALTER (9 th S. ix. 509). In reply to MR. H. DAVEY, the Chapel Royal at Whitehall was the last place where the new version (Tate and Brady's) pure and simple was sung in my recollection ; after- wards superseded by the S.P.C.K. book, until that building was secularized by becoming the United Service Museum, on which occa- sion his present Majesty, I believe, presided.

BRUTUS.

"YCLEPING" THE CHUR6H (9 th S. Vlii.

420, 486 ; ix. 55, 216, 394).^ Reading pro- miscuously in Gerald Massey's ' Book of the Beginnings,' I have happened on a reference to the subject which may be interesting. He is dealing with the influences of Egyptian mythology received by us through the Druid, s,