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 9*S. IV. Oct. U,'99.] 315 NOTES AND QUERIES. there is not the slightest authority for sup- posing that hoof (with h) was ever used with the sense of "money "; and the fact that hoof cannot take the suffix -t-ish settles that question at once. Walter W. Skeat. One of Blake's Flao-Captains (9th S. iv. 249).—Some additional particulars respecting Capt. Lionel Lane will be found in 'N. & Q.,' 4th S. vii. 76, a copy of which will be sent to your correspondent on receipt of a line from him. Everard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. Matthew Arnold (9th S. iv. 249).—In the 'Letters' of Matthew Arnold, published 1895, the following references are made to three letters which appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, signed 'An Old Playgoer," on the following dates, viz., 16 Nov., 1882 : 25 May, 1883; 30 May, 1883. J. F. Fry. Upton, Didcot. Reference should be made to his published ' Letters.' Edward H. Marshall, M.A. Hastings. The Antiquities and Topography of East London (9th S. iv. 145, 215).- The Mr. Tudor mentioned was my father (who, by-the-by, was not a copper and brass worker), and the house in High Street, Bromley, which he purchased was a large one, containing about twenty bedrooms, and I remember, hfty-six years ago, picking grapes from a vine growing in the open in the largo garden attached to the house. The house was said to have been the residence of the Master of the Horse of King James I. O. S. T. If I mistake not, good work has been done by an East-End Antiquarian Society at Toynbee Hall, and enshrined from time to time in their organ the Toynbee Record. T. Cann Hughes, M.A. Lancaster. Harley Family (9th S. iv. 209).—Further particulars respecting Thomas Harley (who died in the year 1670, aged fifty-six), the estates held by him, his benefactions, his wife, his daughter (sole heiress) and her marriage, are given in ' N. <fc Q.' (1" S. vii. 255), 7 May, 1853, of which I will furnish Mr. Hind with a copy should he require it. Everard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. Black Images of the Madonna (9th S. ii. 367, 397, 449, 475, 537; iii. 190,376, 452 ; iv. 77, 135, 177J.—There is a celebrated black image of our Lady (Nuestra Seiiora de Montserrat) in Spain. Montserrat in Catalonian signifies the Sawn Mount. The wood sculpture repre- sents draped figures of the Blessed Virgin and Holy Child, but it is the usual custom to put real clothes over all. This statue the Benedictine monks resident there affirm to have been the handiwork of St. Luke, who died at the age of eighty-four, a.d. 63, and to have been brought to Barcelona by St. Peter. There, in the church of Saniusto, it remained for some six centuries. When the Moors threatened Barcelona (a.d. 708) it was taken, for better security and protection, into the mountains. There it remained, and after a long series of adventures — which have been duly recorded—during the middle of this century, it was finally removed to its present position above the high altar in the monastery's chapel. The image is jet black and wears a golden crown. Its exterior garments are of silk. Harry Hems. Fair Park, Exeter. "Glewed" (9th S. iv. 166).—The word is in constant use as showing tenacity of purpose, and I have heard a lass say of her lad, on his showing signs of unfaithfulness, "Ah'11 not let him gow. Ah '11 stick tow him like glew!" Others are ''glewed to the spot "on account of something unusual seen or heard, which is equivalent to saying they were so "struck" as to be powerless to move. Many examples in regular use might be given. Thos. Ratcliffe. Worksop. This word " glewed," or " glued," seems to me a very good one. We read in Acts xvii. 34, Tivts 8t avSpa KokKrjdevTK avT(S evitrreva-nv, "Howbeit certain men clave unto him," A.V. This seems to me a very forcible word, de- rived from the soldering or sodering of metals. John Pickford, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. "To Hele" (9th S. iv. 47, 92, 174).—The word hele occurs in the ' Book of Ritual of the Freemasons as used under the Grand Lodge of Scotland.' The meaning is "to conceal," but the word has to be explained to the initiates, as it is unknown to them, at least in this part of the country. The same word occurs in the burgess oath of Reading, and in a copy of about the date 1430 a gloss has been inserted in the margin, explaining the word as to " kepe close." J. G. Wallace-James, M.B. Haddington, N.B. Mr. Elworthy, who, I think, is some- what hard upon Mr. Davy, is evidently in in a churcn on the mountain of Montserrat | error himself. I have never heard the word