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the treatment of the oldest stratum of loan- words from the Latin, and its au would have undergone, pari passu with the native English au, the specifically English develop- ment into ea. As MR. ADDY does not pro- duce the slightest proof for his assumed change of meaning from "priest of Augustus" into " monk " or " celibate," we cannot admit the possibility that the name of Hexham was conferred at some later time when augustalis simply meant " monk," and when Latin au (or its Eomanic representative) was otherwise treated in English than it was in the earliest borrowings. It is useless to attempt to found any argument upon the twelfth-century " doc- tored " form Augustaldensis; and similarly the twelfth-century instances of the addition or omission of an initial h, or the addition of final d, are no proof whatever that English- men of the eighth century used the licence of the Anglo-Norman writers of the twelfth. It is therefore impossible to believe that Bede's Hagustald is derived from augustalis. The historical objections to MR. APDY'S theory are to me no less fatal than the philo- logical. In order to accept this theory we must be able to believe that the augustales freedmen who were not priests or celibates or a corporation, whose principal functions were economic, and who could have had no existence outside a municipium gave their name to Hexham, which was certainly not a municipium, through the medium of so entirely dissimilar a body as the brethren of a Christian monastery; that this unrecorded pre-English monastery survived the shock of the English conquest and the long night of paganism;* that here alone in Western Europe monks were called augustales, and that, too, in a district owing its conversion to Scottish missionaries, who knew no such term. The suggestions that the Augustinian canons and the purely manorial privileges quoted by MR. ADDY are connected with or derived from the augustales are equally unacceptable. W. H. STEVENSON.

HIGH COMMISSIONER OF THE CHURCH (9 th S. ii, 149, 276). Let me refer your readers to an interesting description of the meeting of this assemblage in Edinburgh about the year 1818, in vol. iii. of ' Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk,' written by John Gibson Lockhart. The book is most interesting from the graphic sketches it contains of the celebrities who flourished in the Modern Athens about that time.

Wilfrid found no monastery or monastic buildings at Hexham when he built the church there in 672-8.
 * It is evident from the words of Eddi, c. 22, that

The Earl of Morton, who then filled the office of Lord High Commissioner, it is said took up his quarters at the "Royal Hotel," and then went to the Merchants' Hall to hold his levee. A small vignette on the title-page re- presents the earl on his route to St. Giles's Cathedral to open the assembly. Nearly forty pages are occupied with an account of the proceedings and the ministers. The author mentions Sir Henry Moncrieff as present, wearing the " orange tawney ribbon and Nova Scotia badge that decorate the breast of the only man of title in their body," and adds, " Nobody can look upon the baronet without perceiving that nature meant him to be a ruler, not a subject" (vol. iii. p. 467). The book is dedicated to Coleridge, in a postscript to the third edition, by his friend Peter Morris, the pseudonym under which the book was written. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW (9 th S. ii. 262). Owing to the accidental misdirection of proofs, the references belonging to the contribution on the subject of St. Bartholomew were not attached!. By no means the least important of these relate to Dr. Norman Moore's pam- phlets upon the subject, that writer having been the first to adduce the evidence of Eadmer.

' Brief Relation of the Past and Present State, &c., of St. Bartholomew's Hospital,' by Norman Moore, M.D.

Eadmer, 'Historia Novorum in Anglia,' Rolls Series, 1884.

' Storia della Badia de Monte Cassino,' by Luigi Tosti, i. 48.

' Storia della Medicina,' by Puccinotti.

Novaes (F. de), torn. xiii. p. 147.

Knight's ' London,' vol. ii. p. 33 et seq. .

Otho Frisinensis, lib. yi. cap. 25.

Rob. Tuitiensis, lib. ii. cap. 24.

Martinus Polonus, 'Chron.,' lib. iv.

Semo-Sancus had no temple on the island, but an altar. His temple was on Mons Quirinalis. ST. GLAIR BADDELEY.

MARLBOROUGH, WILTS (9 th S. ii. 288). F. E. Hulme, ' The Town, College, and Neighbour- hood of Marlborough,' with illustrations, London, 1881; 'Sketches from Marlborough,' Marlborough, 1888; " Marleborovre's Miseries

a most exact and true relation of the

beseiging, plundering, and burning of part of the said towne," 1643. For further descrip- tion see J. C. Hotten's 'Handbook,' p. 276, No. 5709. ED. MARSHALL.

GENTLEMAN PORTER (8 th S. xii. 187, 237, 337, 438, 478; 9 th S. i. 33, 50, 450; ii. 50). Having lately, and by chance, found in the church of St. Saviour, Southwark, the monu-