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LONDON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER SI, 190S.

CONTENTS. No. 305.

NOTES : Tideswell and Tideslow,341 -Cowley's 'Davideis' Jonson and Gabriel Harvey, 342 Want of Uniformity in Early Measures, 344 Tax on Bricks Wykehamical Word " Toys "Fictitious Latin Plurals, 345-Last Sur- vivor of Waterloo St. Andrews and Balcarres St. ValSry- sur-Somme Definition of Pleasure Cushions on the Altar, 346 Celsus First Christmas Card, 347.

QUEEIBS : " Lord Palatine "Lady Arabella Stuart : Dr. Fulton, 347 Macaroni : Harp in Southern Italy: the Olive Will read in Parish Church Lieut.-Col. Henry Osborn Eighteenth- Century Characters Children's Carols Charles Ward, 348 Dr. Parkins Charles Kemble " Serendipity"" Avary " House of Lords and Queen Caroline Lorenzo da Pavia Pronunciation Play at Trin. Coll., Camb. " Our apprehensions mar our days " Sir Walter Raleigh Frances Jennings, 349 -W. Ware, Bellfounder "C'est que 1'enfant" Four Marks T. Young, Secretary to Lord Melbourne, 350.

EEPLIBS : Salop, 350 St. Mary Axe: St. Michael le Querne Borrowing Days Geology of Kurland-Tea as a Meal, 351" Panier "" Macaroni tools"" Crying down credit" De Mesmes Family Priory of Austin Friars, Standon French Phrase, 352 Origin of the Turnbulls, 353 More Church, Shropshire Overstrand Church MS. Journal of a London Citizen Souvenir Normand Gott, 354 Fees for searching Parish Registers, 355 Paint- brush Panjandrum Evil Spirits and Inkbottles Duchess of Marlborough "Honest" Bpitaphs Rebellion of 1745 Donhead St. Mary. 356 Duncalfe Thackeray's Moustache "Jeer" Was Marat a Jew ? Daughters of Boadicea Farthings, 357.

NOTES ON BOOKS: Col. Prideaux's Bibliography of Stevenson ' Gossip from Paris 'Bishop Earle's 'Micro- cosmographie' Walker's Life of Lord de Tabley Cup- Marks Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondents.

TIDESWELL AND TIDESLOW.

THEKB are moors near some of the villages in the High Peak of Derbyshire which are called by names which suggest that they once belonged, as common property, to the land- owners of those villages. Thus we have Abney and Abney Moor, Brad well and Brad- well Moor, Hucklow and Hucklow Moor. These moors once provided herbage for the cattle of the adjoining landowners, and the heath which grows on some of them is still used for fuel. But the moors were used for another purpose : they were the burial-places of the dead.

On the highest point of Tideswell Moor is a large barrow or tomb called Tideslow. It has been made a trigonometrical station of the Ordnance Survey, and under " Tideslow " on the twenty-five-inch map are the words "human remains found." The barrow has been dug into in several places, perhaps by lead-miners, as it is near a rake where lead has been worked. It is circular, and there are remains of the ditch from which the mound was thrown up. The diameter is about 120 feet, and the height about fifteen. As you

stand on the mound and look to the south Tideswell Church is before your eyes, and on every side you see a wide expanse of moors with webs, as it were, of limestone walls enclosing the green fields on the lower ground. I have met with only one man who can re- member the discovery of human remains on this spot, and he can give me no particulars.

The -low in Tideslow is, of course, a " tomb," and I need not refer to the ancient forms of the word. In this part of Derbyshire there are hundreds of place-names containing this suffix, and each of them marks the site of a tomb. I need hardly say that in many cases the tombs have been opened, and stone chambers, with urns and burnt human re- mains, as well as inhumated bodies, found in them. One can hardly doubt that Tideslow is the sepulchre of Tid, or whatever the right form of the personal name may have been. One thinks of Ted, a pet form of Edward.

Now if Tideslow is Tid's grave, Tideswell is Tides well or wall. This word has nothing to do with a brook or spring of water, and it occurs in many places where there is neither brook nor spring. Thus on the edge of the moors near JBradwell is a farm called New Wall Nook. This New Wall occurs in the surname Newell, and we may compare with it such local names as Newlands and Newton. The word which we are considering is the O.N. vo'll-r, and here it had some such mean- ing as farm or enclosure. Although the polite now speak of Tideswell, drawling out the i, the people call it Tidsa', with short i t and they speak of Tidslow, not Tideslow. The present pronunciation of Tideswell is owing to a false etymology which has been circulated in guide-books. It has been connected with the tide of an ebbing well.

These words Tideswell and Tideslow are English, and as Tideslow con tains an English- man's name, it would be of great interest to know what were the contents of the tomb. Flints, bronze weapons, and cinerary urns would point to an early date, and Tid must have " died into the hill " long before a church at Tideswell was thought of. Was English spoken here before the sixth century, or do the rude cinerary urns of Derbyshire belong to a later date than that? Some of these lows may have been family tombs. Thus we have Abney Albanei in the fifteenth century and Abney Low, as if that were once the

giblic tomb or cemetery of that hamlet, ucklow may contain a tribal or family name. Some lows took their names from their position, or from the materials of which they were made. Thus, within half a mile from the place where I am now writing is