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9 th S. III. JAN. 7, '99.]

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rather than on the banks. It is, of course useless to ask for a specimen just now, but i your correspondent cannot otherwise obtain the information he seeks I fancy the name must be purely local a description might be helpful. There are several other " gilly flowers" besides those I have named, but none of them seems likely to be the one inquired about. C. C. B.

The Hesperis matronalis is called in some places Whitsun gillyflower, and is probably the plant meant by your correspondent al this reference. W. Coles writes ('Art o1 Simpling,' 1656, p. 32), "May brings roses, pinks, Whitsun gillyflowers."

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

Is not this the Dianthus caryophyllus, clove pink, clove carnation, gillyflower ? See Miss Pratt's ' Flowering Plants,' i. 89.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

BRAMPTON FAMILY (9 th S. ii. 427). For a pedigree of the above family see * Visitation of Norfolk,' 1563-80 and 1612, vol. xxxii. pp. 46-53 of the Harleian Society, which gives twelve generations between Botyld and Edward Brampton, of Brampton, 1622.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

BEKESBOURNE, KENT (9 th S. ii. 368, 493). The ruins are those of the Chapel of Well (a strong spring rises there), once in the parish of Littlebourne, but now part of the parish of Ickham. The chapel had nothing to do with Bekesbourne Manor House, in the parish of that name. Well Chapel is probably on the site of a chapel attached to the manor of Garwinton (modern Garrington), the War- minton of the Domesday Survey, for, accord- ing to the author of ' Csesar in Kent,' it was on the rising ground east of this chapel that the extreme right wing of the Roman army was entrenched under Csesar in 54 B.C. As early as 1194 Richard de Garwinton was allowed by the Abbot of St. Augustine's at Canterbury to have service in his chapel three days every week by the priest of Little- bourne Church, which, with Littlebourne Manor, belonged to that abbey. Well Manor afterwards went to the Cornhill family, owners of another small manor called Luke- dale, and the chapel may perhaps be the same as Lukedale Chapel, which Reginald de Corn- hill (second son of Gervase Cornhill) built on his manor in the parish of Littlebourne :

" Roger, by the grace of God Abbot of St. Augustine s at Canterbury, and the monks of the same, grant to Reginald de Cornhill and his heirs

that they may have a chantry in his chapel (capella) which he has built within the bounds of his manor of Lukedale, and have a chapel at his own expense, saving in all rights the mother church of Little- bourne, so that the said Reginald or his heirs at any future time do not oppress (or interfere with) the priest of the church of Littlebourne, or make him officiate in the chapel ...... Also they shall go to

the mother church with their offerings at the four yearly festivals of the Nativity, Purification, Easter, and the Festival of St. Vincent [to whom Little- bourne Church is dedicated], as parishioners of the church of Littlebourne."

The abbot most probably was Roger de Lurdington, 1176-1212.

Well Chapel and Manor eventually became part of Ickham parish, which belonged to Christ Church monastery at Canterbury, and William de Sellindge, prior of that monas- tery, on 6 Aug., 1480, wrote to Archbishop Bourchier that he had viewed the house and grounds which Isaacs (of Howletts) offered to the rector of Ickham in exchange for the house and grounds that belonged to the parsonage of Well, which is a chapel of Ick- fiam. The priest's house at Well is near the new gate of the house of Isaacs, and there- Pore inconvenient to both parties. The ground offered in exchange by Isaacs is quite as much, and rather better than the present ground. The barn also is a better one, and will give one acre more of good ground, and pay all costs and charges. John Franke- in, rector of Ickham, who died in 1535, left i marc for the repair of this chapel. Well Chapel probably ceased to be used for service n 1547. If MR. SHARP will write to me, I shall be pleased to give him further parti- culars. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Wingham, Kent.

"BOUNDER" (9 th S. ii. 388). I suggest a more direct explanation of the term than the ngenipus one offered by NEMO, the last word )f which, " outsider," I would, however, con- ider to the purpose. Whatever difference of >pinion verbal bounders may venture to sxpress on words inside the coyer of vol. i. H.E.D.,' a reference thereto is necessary )efore expressing it, and may often stop all urther expression. In the present instance find, if nothing more, a suggestive clue. After the primary signification of one who marks out bounds, I read, "1.2. One who ccupies a district bounding another, a )orderer, obs," with the informing quotation : 1542, Udall, ' Erasm. Apophth.,' 105 b. The ordreers or bounders inhabityng round bout any place are called in greke Is it

not likely that this meaning as been picked up again ? By an accident bat might easily happen, another obsolete