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 9 th S. II. JULY 2, '98.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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to the name itself, the correct A.-S. form is Ealdreed, and the correct Old Mercian form is Aldrsed. The suffix -reed became -red at a very early period, owing to the lack of stress on the second syllable. It is perhaps worth saying that one mark of a Norman scribe is that he usually changes every A.-S. o>, whether long or short, into a or e, symbols with which he was more familiar.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

" SNY " (8 th S. xii. 447 ; 9 th S. i. 17). Is there any relation between this word and sni, dealt with at the references given? In looking through the glossary appended to Bam- f ord's ' Tim Bobbin,' I found my = to indicate dislike or indifference by look or manner ; to be squeamish or delicate in food :

" Thus a good dame would say to her young and over-indulged boy, or to her tea-loving daughter, ' Come, getthe brekfust ettn, an dunno sit snyin theer. Thoose porritch, awn sure, ar good enoof for ony lady or gentlemen i'th lond, and iv the arno' good enoof for thee, theaw mun goo beawt, that 's

C. P. HALE.

THE SHIP OXFORD (9 th S. i. 307). See Mill's ' British India,' iii. 204.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

"BUNDLING" (8 th S. xii. 128, 194). The authorities cited in the 'H. E. D.' merely make incidental allusions to this custom. The authoritative work on the subject is ' Bund- ling: its Origin, Progress, and Decline in America,' by Henry R. Stiles (Albany, 1871). GASTON DE BERNEVAL.

Philadelphia.

CANALETTO IN LONDON (8 th S. xii. 324, 411 ; 9 th S. i. 373). I would refer MR. HEBB to 8 th S. ix. 15. C. LEESON PRINCE.

HARE PROVERB (9 th S. i. 468). An article on ' Sarcasm and Humour in the Sanctuary,' in the Antiquary for June, says, p. 183, col. 1: "Among the grotesque carvings upon the arches of the north choir aisle of Bristol Cathedral we have ...... a goat blowing a horn,

and carrying a hare slung over its back." The article opens with the explanation that many of the carvings were allegories at the expense of the friars. Is it possible that the folk-tale is the perpetuation of an old con- fusion between hare-^>e = hare-snare and ARTHUR MAYALL.

"THE CALLING OF THE SEA" (7 th S. ix. 149,

213 ; xi. 151, 372).

" About the line [in ' Enoch Arden '], ' There came so loud a calling of the sea,' he [Tennyson] ob- served : ' The calling of the sea is a term used, I believe, chiefly in the Western parts of England to

signify a ground swell. When this occurs on 9, windless night the echo of it rings thro' the timbers of the old houses in a haven. "From ' Alfred, Lord Tennyson : a Memoir/ by his son, 1897, vol. ii. p. 8.

JONATHAN BOUCHIER. Ropley, Hampshire.

"FOOL'S PLOUGH" (9 th S. i. 348). T Perhaps the following from l A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases ' will explain the mean- ing of the phrase in question :

" Plufe Stot* or Plonyh Stotx.On Plough Monday, the first Monday after Twelfth Day, and the days following, there is a procession of rustic youths dragging a plough, who, ' as they officiate for oxen,' says Dr. Young, ' are called Plough Stods [xtot=a, steer, a young ox]. They are dressed with their shirts over the outsides of their jackets, with sashes of ribbons fixed across their breasts and backs, and knots or roses of the same fastened on to their shirts and hats.' They are generally accompanied with a band of sword-dancers, while one or more musicians play the fiddle or flute. When the dancers perform their evolutions, the Madgies or Madgy Pegs, grotesquely attired, and oft with their faces blacked and heads horned, go about for contribu- tions, rattling their tin canisters as money boxes. In this way they proceed from place to place for miles around ; and afterwards the money collected is spent in festivities with their friends and sweet- hearts."

In the instance quoted by Mackenzie the money thus collected would seem to have been given towards building the bridge which he mentions. C. P. HALE.

This was the plough that was taken in procession on " Plough Monday "; see Bohn's ed. of Brand's 'Popular Antiquities,' 1849, i. 505. W. C. B.

CHARLES SHERBORN, ENGR AVER (8 th S.iv. 307, 358). Charles Sherborn was the son of Thomas

Sherborn (d. 1731) and Hannah. Thomas

was the son of Henry Sherborn (d. 1705) and

Mary (d. 1707). Charles was born 1716,

married Elizabeth - - (d. 1787), and died 1786 '(Gent. Mag., 1786, p. 719). He was succeeded in his Gutter Lane business by his son H. The plates engraved in 1789, 1791, and 1792, mentioned by MR. HODGKIN, were by the son. Charles was one of the Bedfont Sherborns. His father had three brothers Francis, whose descendants still live at Bedfont ; William, who died young ; and Henry, who married Kachel Elford. This Henry had many children, of whom one, Henry (1711-84), went to Windsor, and also had a large family, of which one, William, went to Newbury, in Berkshire, and his descendant still lives in the person of Charles William Sherborn, the line engraver, my father.

I have during the last five years gone very