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 9"-S. IV. Oct. 21,'99.] 331 NOTES AND QUERIES. for insertion in the notes of " Memories and Traditions. Recorded by L. C. Boswell-SUme," a privately printed volume, now in the British Museum:— " In September, 1880, I sketched tlio chancel [of Fleet Church]. It now serves as a chapel at burials, for which the churchyard is still used. The new church is half a mile or more away Well, while sketching I made the acquaintance of the old sexton—(Jarland I think his name was. From one thing to another it came out that he remembered the frightful morning of Nov. 23, 1824. He told his tale in this wise, as nearly as I can recall it: 'Most so soon as 'twas light a lot of us l>oys was out where we bo a' standing, for to look at the seas what was coming clean over ridge [the Chesil Beach]. Then after we d been a' looking a goodish bit a thing happened differ'nt altogether. 'Twer'n't a sea—not a bit of it—'twer the great sea hisself rose up level like, and come on right over ridge and all, like nothing in this wordle. ' Then you saw the church destroyed?' I said. 'Can't justly say that neither—we was that scared—and good cause —that we runned like mad and never so much as looked over shoulder till we was nigh up to Chickerell. When we corned back, where was church?—all but this firm little chancel—all sucked away by that terr'ble rise of sea—went up to that there linchct, he did.'" W. G. Boswell-Stone. 47, Wickham Road, Beckenham. Villages have been washed away by the sea on the coasts of Yorkshire, Lincoln- shire, Norfolk, Essex, Sussex, Hampshire, and Dorset. In Holderness, at Ravenser and Raveneserodd, tradition tells how the bells of buried churches may be heard on the site, and the following places are known to have perished : Redniare, Tharosthorpe, Fries werk, Potterfleet, and Upsal. In Lincolnshire, Saltfleet and Mablethorpe St. Peter have lost their churches. Wilgripe was four miles from Skegness, and, according to Holinshed, Selbie, Snepe, Turnbrige, Rodiffe, Cateby, Stock with, Torkseie, Gains- borow, Southferebie, Barton, Barrow Skater- mill, Penningham, Stalingborow, Guimshie, Clie, March Choppel, Wilgape Mapleford, Saint Clements, Wenfleete Friscon, Toft, Skerbike, Frorapton Wolverton, and Fosse- dike were seaports, several of which are now lost. A storm in 1287 destroyed many places in Norfolk. Two churches have disappeared at Walton - on - the - Naze in Essex. I myself remember seeing coffins sticking out of the cliff. In 1599 the greater part of Brighton was swept away by the sea. West of Christ- church the Hampshire coast is going rapidly. See the county histories, such as Poulson's ' Holderness,' Streatfield's ' Lincolnshire,' or Wright's ' Essex.' Isaac Taylor. Settrington Rectory. A Cyclopedia of British Domestic Arch.eoi.ocy (9th S. iv. 206,292).—Your corre- spondent W. C. B. is very severe on Murray's handbooks : " In these cycling times there ought to be a new set of county handbooks. ' Murray,' with his old-fashioned routes, is most one-sided and provoking." It is, I am sorry to say, a very common experience to find critics condemning our handbooks on the strength of old editions which have long ago been out of print and superseded ; but I can hardly believe this of a correspondent of ' N. &, O.,' even though he or she chooses to conceal his or her identity under initials. What a "one-sided and provoking" hand- book may be I do not pretend to know ; but a little inquiry would have enabled W. C. B. to le<irn that the whole series of our English, as well as the foreign, handbooks are being constantly and thoroughly revisedand brought up to date ; that they are being furnished with an entirely new set of maps, the best that can be procured ; and that since cycling became popular, information for cyclists is being inserted in all new editions. I send herewith a copy of a special cyclist's guide for the Southern Counties in case you may care to send it to W. C. B. John Murray. 50, Albemarle Street. Bibury (9th S. iv. 108, 172, 295).- Is the name of Bibury known before Beage gave it his name? Was it a Coin, like Coin Rogers, Coin St. Denis, and Coin St. Aldwyn's, villages still existing on its banks ? The powerful spring which rises near the "Swan Inn" must always have marked it out as a fitting spot for human habitations, and, indeed, the rude remains of some Roman dwelling have been dug up in a picturesque bend of the stream lower down. Earl Leppa and Beage only got five of the fifteen cassates belonging to the see of Worcester according to the charter 'C. S.' 166. Sherborne. Dacsburg (9th S. iv. 289).—If Mr. Fowler will refer to maps 40 and 41 in Spruner- Menke (1880) he will see that the county of Dagsburg (one piece near Zabern, another near Egesheim) is distinguished from adjoin- ing possessions of the see of Strassburg both at the beginning of the thirteenth century, and from 1273 downwards. Map 41 is, however, on so small a scale that I may have misread it in regard to the Egesheim portion. If the maps are correct they limit the thirteenth-century ownership of Dagsburg by "the bishops" of Strassburg to 1201-72, but the following, from ' L'Art de Verifier les Dates,' reduces the interval, and suggests ,-