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dividuality of expression? If John Lyly, Johnson, or K. L. Stevenson be taken as a true model, then Coleridge, Macaulay, Mat- thew Arnold, or Mr. Ruskin might fairly be said to have " no style." What is the criterion of style ? The question seems to be one well worth ventilating in the columns of 'N. & Q.'

X. L. S.

THOMAS TAYLOR, CLOCKMAKER. I shall be grateful if any reader can inform me whether a clockmaker named Thomas Taylor carried on business in London in the early part of the eighteenth century. Also I should like to know, if possible, about what date he nourished. HERBERT W. REYNOLDS.

35, Bath Road, Swindon, Wilts.

LADY BAB FRIGHTFUL. In some old family correspondence of 1763 I find an allusion to Lady Bab Frightful apparently a character in some play or novel of the period. In what play or novel does this character occur ? C. L. S.

JEAN F. DE WALDECK. One of the most remarkable instances of longevity, if authen- tic, is that of Jean F. de Waldeck, b. March, 1766, d. April, 1875. He spent some years in personally exploring the antiquities of Mexico. Can the figures, as here stated, be verified 1 RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Portland, Oregon.

CROMWELL'S FOLLOWERS. Is there any obtainable record of the names of those of Oliver Cromwell's followers who settled in Ireland and founded families in that country ? Many obviously English surnames of appa- rently thoroughly Irish people are said to be traceable to this origin. W. S. L.

" HOYLE " IN ARCHERY. In a will of 1590, in ' Lane, and Chesh. Wills ' (Chetham Soc.), iii. 68, is the bequest " to James Lancashire my yewe bowe with the redd handle and all my hoy ling arrowes." Dray ton, 'Polyolbion,' song 26, says of Robin Hood and his merry men at Sherwood Forest :

Of archery they had the very perfect craft

At long-buts, short, and hoyles, each one could cleave the pin.

What do hoyle, hoyling mean? I do not find the words anywhere explained ; appa- rently they are not in Ascham's ' Toxophilus.' I assume that the knowledge is not forgotten. In the Cornhill Magazine of October, 1891 (p. 438), a character (temp. Edw. III.) is repre- sented as saying, "I am better at rovers than at long-butts or hoyles."

J. A. H. MURRAY.

Oxford.

"COLL. REG. OXON."

(9 th S. ii. 187.)

THE subject of the inscription referred to by V. H. R. was probably, as you suggest, a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. If V. H. R. had sent me the name I could have informed him for certain. In that case Reg. stands not for Regale, Royal, but for Reginse, Queen's. In earlier documents, however, a Collegium Regale at Oxford is referred to, and this is often not Queen's, but Oriel, the College of King Edward II. In Wykeham's ' Register ' at least one of the references to a person ordained e Collegia Regali is to an Oriel, not to a Queen's man. I do not know whether a Brasenose man is ever so described, though the full name of this college is the King's Hall and College of Brasenose, and a large royal arms is over the south gate of the college. J. L. MAGRATH.

Queen's College.

HAMLAKE = HELMSLEY, co. YORK (9 th S. ii. 67, 118). CANON TAYLOR elucidates this local synonym or alias, and I am grateful to him. It appears that in "Helmsley" the place has kept its original A.-S. designation with some modification, and that "Hamlake" has resulted from the mistake of the Norman scribes in writing it " Elmeslac " or "Helmes- lac." It was rather a bad blunder, for to the termination which originally implied land in a certain condition was given the significance of water, and hence the puzzle presented to myself and probably to others. In "Ham- lake " (the Anglicism of " Helmeslac ") the name, though corrupted in the second syllable, has reverted to its pristine form in the first syllable, which I presume was ham, meaning an enclosed site. Ham would easily become Hem, but there is an I in " Helmsley " as to which, if it has any value or significance, I should still like to have a word from DR. TAYLOR.

As in my query I made reference to the ancient barony of Ros or Roos connected with bhe place (which connexion led to the mis- nomer "Hamlake" although the place re- tained its original name " Helmsley "), I should like to note that Dugdale, in his 'Baronage,'

kas "Ros or Roos of Helmesley, alias Harn-

^ake," and that throughout his account of the family he writes it " Ros." Burke also, in Extinct Peerage,' has " Ros or Roos, Barons

Ros, of Helmesley, sometimes called

Helmeslac, but oftener Hamlake." Sir N. Harris Nicolas, in his ' Synopsis of the Peer age ' (1825), gives the name as "Roos" through-