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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xn. OCT. 24, 1903.

attempts by Norraans to reproduce Saxor names. The " dry " or " druy " is conjecturec to represent "drei" or " dree " = three; anc the final <% ig," or whatever it represents, a sort of final guttural sound that is even now only dying out of the local dialect, like " Whurkideleia," "Club-ba," &c.

STRACHAN HOLME. Worsley, Manchester.

SHAKESPEARE AND LORD BURLEIGH. Can any of your readers give me information on these two points 1

1. I have heard a tradition that Shake speare was given by Lord Burleigh a tern porary home at a farmhouse in Castle fledingham, Essex, at a time when, by the extravagance of the then Earl of Oxford, the estate of Hedingham Castle passed into the hands of Lord Burleigh, the earl's father- in-law.

2. Is there any detailed record of a visit Queen Elizabeth paid to the earl at Heding- ham Castle 1 S. M.

THE OAK, THE ASH, AND THE IVY. What is the correct form of the well-known lines The oak, the ash, and the bonny ivy tree, They flourish best at home in the North Countree? My recollection had been that it was as above, but J. G. Edgar, in a novel published in 1862, gives it thus :

The oak, the oak, and the bonny ivy tree, &c. I should be glad to know if the ash is properly included in the distich. W. B. H.

ELIZA GRIMWOOD. In an article entitled Bill-Sticking,' by Charles Dickens (origin- ally published in Household Words, 22 March, 1851), some references are made to "the mur- dered Eliza Grimwood," who (as stated in a subsequent paper by Dickens) was "commonly called the Countess, because of her handsome appearance and her proud way of carrying herself." To judge from the allusions, the murder was then fresh in the public mind and must have caused considerable comment

?V l r ie rf > V ne> \ sha11 be lad if a read er of JN. & y. can oblige me with the date of this

notorious crime. F. G. KITTON

St. Albans.

JEWS IN ENGLAND. Can any correspondent g u ve u, r refer to satisfactory disproof of the belief, generally held, that Jews were practically extinct in England for three centuries or more? We know of single instances of Jews living in England In Elizabeth s time, e.y., the notorious Roderi^o Lopez. But can it be shown that during the time from Edward I. to Cromwell there were

any considerable number of Jews in the country 1 Is there any evidence to show that Marlowe and Shakespeare may possibly have come into personal contact with Jews, and that their characters of Barabas and Shylock may have been derived from more than mere literary sources, or that a change of feelings in the direction of greater tolerance towards the Jews took place before Cromwell's time ?

F. J. C.

COL. ROGER MCELLIGOTT. Is anything known of the fate of this officer or of his descendants ? He was Governor of Cork for James II., surrendered that city to Marl- borough, and afterwards commanded the regiment of Clancarty in the Irish Brigade in the service of France. M. G. McE.

FLINT BUILDINGS. Can any reader tell me of authorities bearing upon the flint build- ings of Sussex 1 I mean the period when this style is supposed to have originated. I believe it has been decided that the walls of Chichester are partly R.oman. Also, is it the fact that in some of the Sussex churches (I have recently visited a number near Chichester) the Norman arches are arches cut through walls of a considerably older date ? I have inspected the church of Walberton, where the second church is being, except portions of the walls and the chancel and porch, rebuilt, and was much interested to see the foundations of the first church, rough stones unmortared and only filled in with earth. I was glad to see that it has proved possible to leave one good arch on the south side, and also the fine stone coffin built a few years ago into the west wall. I 'iave no present access to Horsfield's 'Sussex.'

INQ.

STARTIN, Miss OR MRS. This lady is sup- posed to have come to England in the entourage of Queen Charlotte, the wife of 3eorge III. Information regarding her would be esteemed by GEOEGE H. IREDALE.

Torquay.

BOHEMIAN BARDS. I am making a col- ection_of verses dealing with the artistic Bohemia of London, and written by Bohe- nians and others after the manner of the ate Jeffrey Prowse, Henry S. Leigh, Capt. dorris, Mortimer Collins, and others. I hould like a list of publications and volumes >vorth consulting and quoting from.

S. J. A. F.

WILLIAM MUNK, M.D., F.S.A. The above, n the suggestion of the late Rev. George )hver, collected materials for a medical bio-
 * raphy for Devonshire. The Exeter portion