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tanding to receive him, and the king, supported by two prelates on either side, proceeded to the steps of the altar, and, prostrating himself, remained some time in private prayer.

" When the king had finished his private devo- tions the archbishop proceeded with the corona- tion."

Effigies, it may be remarked, of the kings crowned at Kingston formerly existed in the ancient chapel of St. Mary, which was stand- ing, it is said, late in the last century ; and an illustration of the chapel will be found at p. 120 of Charles Knight's ' The Popular History of England' (London, 1856). For further information vide ' The Environs of London ' and ' Greater London.'

When passing through the market place of Kingston on my way to Hampton Court Palace, I have asked the question, Why is not the coronation stone of the Saxon kings placed beside the coronation chair in West- minster Abbey ? HENRY GERALD HOPE.

Clapham, S.W.

LEIGH: LEA (9 th S. ii. 84, 215). CANON TAYLOR'S differentiation of these two homo- phones is interesting, but his case would be completer, or would at all events carry greater conviction, if he would inform us on what grounds he assigns to the feminine leak the meaning of a thicket, rough woodland pasture, or forest glade (Athenceum, 27 August, p. 291). I presume he chiefly relies on per- sonal knowledge of the places in whose names the compound ledge is found. Toller- Bos- worth merely says, "Ledh, genitive leds, a lea, meadow, open space, untilled land; leak, geni- tive ledge, a lea."

With regard to the name Senlac, I may observe that, whilst the termination ledge may have been written by the Normans lac in such names as Beverlac and Fivelac, it is doubtful if a similar process would have pre- vailed in the south of England. It would, primd facie, seem more probable that the ter- mination of the eleventh-century Santlache was derived from the A.-S. lacu, dative lace, which meant a lake or morass, and sometimes a running stream of water. lam informed by Mr. W. H. Duignan, of Walsall, whose authority i of the first value on questions of local nomen- clature, that in Staffordshire and Cheshire the terminal lack infers a swamp. All place in these counties with that terminal lie extremely low, and in ancient times woulc be very boggy. In mediaeval deeds Lack or Lack-field is often found in Staffordshire as a field-name, and it is invariably wet land. It would, therefore, be worth while to ascertain whether Sandlache was situated on a ruoras; or running stream. The initial syllable woulc

uit a locality of this description as well as, if not better than, a "forest glade" or "rough woodland pasture." As a rule, sand does not Eorm a good soil for woodland or pasture.

I may add that the termination ley does not invariably indicate an original led or ledge. There is, for instance, in Shropshire a place called Shakerley, situated four miles east of Shiffnal. In the thirteenth century this place was called Shakerlawe. The ter- minal is plainly the A.-S. hlcew, hlaw, M.E. lawe, a tumulus. Mr. Duignan derives the prefix from the A.-S. scedcre, a robber, and the place would therefore represent "the robber's burial - mound." Some Shropshire Robin Hood may have found his last home there. Shackerley, in Lancashire, and Shackerstone, in Leicestershire, may have equally romantic orighis.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

45, Pall Mall, S.W.

Near Malvern, in Worcestershire, there is a group of places named Leigh (Leigh Sinton, Brace's Leigh, Pickersleigh, &c.), and these are all sounded as Lie. In the adjoining county, Warwickshire, as in Lord Leigh of Stone- leigh, it becomes Lee, and this is the case with Leigh in Lancashire. W. C. B.

One would like to get a date for this ambigu- ous Santlache, and to know how the d and I became interchanged to form Sandlache. We have all known of the venial transgres- sion by which the Normans' feigned retreat induced unwary Englishmen to quit their zareba, shield wall, or palisade, which strata- gem is termed a "holy sin" or deception. Can Santlache be proved to antedate 1066 ? And where is Santley ? The surname is rare, perhaps alien ; if English, a probable survival of St. Liz; while Sandley and Santley are alike unknown in topography. A. HALL.

13, Paternoster Row, E.G.

MRS. GIBBS (9 th S. ii. 47, 90)." Wanted the burial-place of Mrs. Gibbs." Does DRAMATICUS really wish to rent, purchase, beg, or steal this lady's grave? If he only wishes to find out where she was buried, why does he not say so 1 ? ANDREW W. TUER.

The Leadenhall Press, E.G.

MISTLETOE IN SCOTLAND (9 th S. ii. 329). Reference to Watson's 'Topographical Botany' (Quaritch, 1883) will show that numerous records exist of the occurrence of mistletoe in Yorkshire and Shropshire, but none as to its growth as a wild plant either in Scotland or in Ireland. Its absence is the more re- markable as the plant is recorded by Nyman ('Conspectus,' p. 320) as a native of all