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 9th S. IV. Dec. 2, '99.] 465 NOTES AND QUERIES. and another, and this, there can be little doubt, is the origin of the name in the above instance, for Merehole not only was on the boundary line between two townships, but also separated the manor of Kirton from that of Bottesford. It may be useful to point out that a road dividing the parish of Winterton from that of Winteringhani is called the Mere. Edward Peacock. Dunatan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey. Mr. Boyle raises an interesting question about the holy wells of Lancashire. His suggestion that the well was dedicated to St. Mary, on the face of it, seems probable. The 1848 six-inch Ordnance maps of Lanca- shire (one hundred and eighteen in number) record the existence of a considerable number of these holy wells. Some are dedicated to men, as St. Oswald's Well, near Winwick ; St. Thomas's Well, near Windlesham Abbey ; St. Patrick's Well, two miles north of Lan- caster ; St. John's Well, near Ribchester; and Monk's Well, Wavertree. Many are dedicated to female saints. Thus we have St. Mary's and St. Anne's Wells, Pen- wortham ; St. Katherine's Well, three miles west of Preston, on the north bank of the Ribble ; St. Ann's Well, one and a half miles north of Goosnargh; another St. Anne's Well is near Rainhill; and we have St. Mary's Well at Fernyhalgh. Then there is the Maudlin Well (probably a corruption of Magdalen), just outside Lathom Park. St. Helen (or St. Ellen) was a favourite saint with well-worshippers, for several instances occur in this part of England, where the custom of throwing in pins is even now in one or two cases still maintained. Henry Taylor. Birklands, Southport. Bowyer (9th S. iv. 418).—A John Bowyer, son of John Bowyer, of " Camerwell," Surrey, by Elizabeth,daughter and coheiress of Robert Draper, died in 1623 s.p. His wife was Emma, daughter of Will. Bynd,of Wakebridge. He had a nephew of the same name, son of his brother Gregory, but this John's elder brother Edmund was only nineteen in 1623, and John himself must have been too young. The pedigree is given in 'Surrey Visitation, 1623/ T. W. Aston Clinton. Portrait of Speaker Sir Edward Tur- nour (9th S. iv. 249, 333).—I have now ascer- tained that Sir Edward Tumour's daughter Sarah married George Clarke? of Watford, co. Northampton, and died, a widow, 30 Octo- ber, 1733, She was buried at Little Pamdon, Essex, where Sir Edward possessed a family estate. The maiden name of my great-great- grandmother, the wife of Scarlet Browne, whose daughter, Elizabeth Browne, married Henry Bell, of Wallington Hall, was Mary Clarke. This, I think, gives a reasonable clue to the origin of the ownership of the portrait by the Bell family, through whom it lias come to me. Can any of your readers help me to a pedigree of descent of Mary Clarke, afterwards wife of Scarlet Browne, from George and Sarah above named 1 John H. Josselyn. Ipswich. "Outlander" (9th S. iv. 396).—The equi- valent word iti-lenda occurs in Anglo- Saxon. Thus, in Wright's 'Vocab.,' 233,39, we find the gloss : " Exul, i. pereyrinus, alknus, utlenda"; and just above (1. 17) wo find the plural form : " Extorres,i.ejiiies, jjere- grini, utlendan." We also find the adj. utlende, foreign, and the adj. vtlendisc, outlandish. See the new edition, by Toller, of Bosworth's 'A.-S. Dictionary.' Walter W. Skeat. Mr. Hicham will find the adjective "out- landish " in a far more widely known work than the one he mentions, viz., in the A.V. of the Old Testament: " Nevertheless even him [Solomon] did outlandish women cause to sin" (Nehemiah xiii. 26). Also in all the editions of Coles's ' English - Latin Dictionary' from 1667 onwards will be found "Outlandish, extemus," and " An outlandish man or woman, alienir/ena." The words are, in fact, more frequently to be met with than the now usual terms " foreign" and "foreigner" in the literature of the seven- teenth and earlv eighteenth centuries. W. R. Tate. Walpole Vicarage, Haleaworth. See * N. & 9-,' lrt S. i. 315. Anthony Wood, in his ' Diary,' records, under the year 1654, that " coffey, whichj had l>een drank by some persons in Oxo'n, 1650, was this yeare publickly sold at or ncare the Angel, within the Kaste Gate of Oxon, as also chocolate, by an oultaiider or Jew." R. J. Fynmore. Sandgate. Reid of Hailles (9th S. iv. 348).—This name does not occur in the retours of heirs in the Sheriff Court of Haddington, ante- cedent to those, printed by Government, which I published in the Genealogist a few- years ago. The birth and marriage registers of Prestonkirk parish, in which Hailes is situated, exist from 1658, those of Athel- staneford parish from 1664, They are in the