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world first stirs, when she will be knowing that the Ebb is not any more moving at all, she sends out

nine long waves The ninth wave goes through the

water on the forehead of the tide. An' wherever it will be going it calls. An' the call of it is, "Come away, come away, the sea waits ! Follow ! Come away, come away, the sea waits ! Follow ! " An' whoever hears that must arise and go, whether he be fish or pollack, or seal or otter, or great skua or small tern, or bird or beast of the shore, or bird or beast of the sea, or whether it be man or woman

or child, or any of the others That calling of

the ninth wave of the Tide is what Ian-M6r of the hills speaks of as " the whisper of the snow that falls on the hair, the whisper of the frost that lies on the cold face of him that will never be waking again."' "Death?'

"' It is you that will be saying it A man may

live by the sea for five score years and never hear

that ninth wave call in any Struth-mara; but

whoever hears that Voice, he for sure will be the burden in the Ebb.' "

M. C. L. New York City.

ALUBED OR AVERAY CORNBURGH (9 th S. ii. 423). Ala red or A very Cornburgh was a con- siderable landed proprietor in Romford, and he probably made it his residence, at least during the latter portion of his life. He died 2 February, I486, and some years before his decease he founded and endowed a chantry in Romford Chapel, where masses were to be said for the souls of himself, his wife Beatrice, his sister, and others ; he also built a chantry house in the south-east angle of the churchyard as a i-esidence for the officiat- ing priest. This is now the "Cock and Bell" inn. He also erected in Romford Church a large altar tomb in memory of himself, his wife Beatrice, his sister Elizabeth Hanys, and Dr. John Crowland, upon which were the effigies of himself in armour between his wife and sister. On the monument were inscribed nine stanzas of verse containing an abstract of the foundation deed of the chantry, with the duties of the chantry priest and the mode of his election. This inscription is given in full in Weever's 'Ancient Funeral Monuments.' At the visitation in 1634 a description of the tomb was made by the Heralds, which is preserved in the College of Arms, by which it appears that on the verge of the tomb there was an inscription in brass recording the burials of Avery Cornburgh, his wife, sister, and Dr. Crowland, with blank spaces left for the insertion of the dates of their deaths ; but this, it seems, the executors neglected to attend to, as at the visitation of the Heralds 170 years after the inscription was still incomplete. There appears to be no record of the date of the removal or destruction

of the tomb. Neither Salmon nor Morant notices it. Avery Cornburgh died possessed of the manor of Gooshays, Romford, which, Morant says, contained 6 messuages, 20 cot- tages, 40 tofts, 500 acres of arable, 100 acres of meadow, 500 of wood, and 10 marks rent of the king in socage as of his manor of Havering. Salmon says :

"He also held the third part of the manor of .Dovers (in Hornchurch), with the appurtenances in Havering, and in the parishes of Hornchurch, Bowers Giffbrd, Reynam, and Alyethley (Aveley). Agnes Chamber, sister of the said Alured, sixty years old, and John Crafford, son of the Lady Alice Crafford, another sister of the said Alured, forty years old, are his heirs. Thomas Urswick, who died 19 Ed. IV., held lands here of Alured."

In the Transactions of the Essex Archaeo- logical Society, old series, vol. iv., there is a long account of Avery Cornburgh, with a full transcript of his will. The transcript was made by Mr. E. J. Sage, of Stoke Newington, who also contributed from his valuable Rom- ford collections other notes which are in- cluded in the article. THOMAS BIRD.

Romford.

WITHIN THE FOUR SEAS (9 th S. ii. 421). John Selden has gathered much learning on this subject in his ' Mare Clausum, seu de Dominio Maris,' 1635. So far as I understand him, his opening definition seems to be that the ocean which surrounds Great Britain is divided fourfold (quadrifariam) : (1) the West, including both sides of Ireland ; (2) the North, above the Orkneys and Shetland ; (3) the East, the German Ocean ; (4) the South, including the sea between England and France and the north coast of Spain (lib. ii. cap. i.). His conclusion is :

"Certe est ipsa vicinorum principum (qui

trausinariui sunt) litora seu ]K>rtus Britannici imperii, quod mariuum est, metas esse, sive aus- trales sive orientales ; in aperto autem et vasto septentrionis atque occidentis oceano, post diffusis- sima jequora qua? Anglo, Scoto, Hiberno occupata sunt, eas esse constituendas." P. 304.

Other treatises which might be consulted are : Sir John Boroughs, ' Soveraignty of the British Seas,' 1651 ; Guy Miege, 'Ancient Sea Laws' ; possibly some of the works of Gerard de Malynes ; Charles Molloy, ' De Jure Mari- tirao et Navali,' 1676 ; Richard Zouch, 'Jurisdiction of the Admiralty.' W. C. B.

LONDON AND ESSEX CLERGY (9 th S. ii. 208, 297). Newcourt's 'Repertorium' does not mention the name Pontifex, but this gentle- man was buried in the churchyard at East Ham, as appears from some additions to the 'Repertorium' recently made by Mr. J. C. Challoner Smith. The entry in Mr. Smith's