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 9">S. IV. Dec. 23,*99.] 519 NOTES AND QUERIES. ones) in which a violin is left overnight in a sitting-room by the owner, who hears it played during the small hours'! He comes down and locks the case. B. S. T. Anker-holds or Anchorites' Cells.— Are there any other instances of these being excavated through the thickness of the chancel wall, beside that of St. Leonard's Church, Bengeo, Hertford 1 Where can a fairly complete list of these cells be found ; also details of the existence of the ancho- rites? W. B. Gerish. Cardinal Easton.—Will some reader in Rome be so good as to give a blazon of the arms of this prelate (d. 1397), from the escutcheon on his tomb in the church of St. Cecilia in that city ? I have an unreliable (apparently deficient) note of them. Walter M. Graham Easton. Robert Henley.—I find some notice, in December, 1646, of this gentleman as con- cerned in some scheme for draining the East Anglian Fens. In March previous he seems to have been heavily fined—whether for " delinquency" I know not. I should be glad of further information about him and his reclamation schemes. Lobuo. _' Wayside Posies.' — About thirty years since Mr. Robert Buchanan edited a volume of ' Wayside Posies,' specially praising one entitled ' Reaping,' by a new singer, the first lines of which are annexed and form one- third of the poem :— Up ! mortal, and act while the Angel of Light Melts the shadows before and behind thee; .. Shake off the soft dreams that encumber thy "might, And Durst the fool's fetters that bind thee. Soars the skylark, soar thou; leaps the stream, do thou leap; Learn from nature the splendour of action; Plough, harrow, and sow, or thou never shalt reap; Faithful deed brings divine benefaction. I should like to know if the poet has attained the eminence foreshadowed by the editor— it has fixed its imagery in my mind—and shall be pleased if by your courtesy I may elicit some information. W. H. Peers. Blakemore, near Crewkerne.—I find from the ' Calendar of State Papers : Com- mittee for Compounding,' &c, that the estate of Blakemore belonged to Robert Ford, Royalist, and was sequestrated in 1654. How can I ascertain whether Blake- more estate in former times belonged to Ford Abbey 1 Is there any record of the names of the purchasers of Ford Abbey lands at the dissolution of the monastery 1 I know from Pulman's ' Book of the Axe' that the abbey and some lands in the vicinity were given to Richard Pollard, Esq., but the abbey also had land at Broad Winsor, Crewkerne, and other places. I am trying to trace a Royalist of the name of Fora who is said to have owned Ford Abbey land, and went to Barbados in the time of the Commonwealth. K. St. C. F. Italics. SOUTH AFRICAN NAMES. (9th S. iv. 436.) Canon Taylor's article on the origin of some names which are now in everybody's mouth is as interesting as it is timely. I venture to add, by way of supplement to it, a few notes on the pronunciation of South African names, a subject bristling with difficulties. Take Joubert for example. The Daily Hail tells its readers to call it Choo-barey but Household Words gives it as Yowbert. The former is a somewhat ineffectual attempt to indicate the French pronunciation; the latter is Dutch. We read about Viljoen, but few pronounce it properly, with the ending -joen like the -yune in picayune, Fill-yune. One often, pernaps generally, hears President Kruger and the Tugela River pronounced incorrectly with soft g instead of hard. There are two ways of mispronouncing Mafeking, which are both commonly heard : one is in two syllables (riming with " safe king "), the other has the correct number of syllables (three), but is falsely accented Mafeking. The consonantal termination ruf, frequent in Bechuanaland names, invariably draws the accent to the last syllable; thus the names of two powerful tribes, Batlaping and Barolong, as well as the towns Mafeking, Shoshong, and others of like ending, should all be stressed on the final. In Zulu names the consonants c and x repre- sent clicks impossible to any one but a native; names like Cetywayo and the tribal name Xosa are, however, generally called Ketsh- wayo ana Kosa by the whites. Ekowe, the capital of Zululand, is pronounced, and lat- terly often written, Etshowe. The k in this name is a solitary relic of the orthography invented for the Zulu language by the Nor- wegian missionary Schreuder. Ogilvie wrongly accents the first syllable instoaa of the second in the appendix to his Dictionary. All Zulu words ending in a vowel have penultimate stress. James Platt, Jun. The original Kaffir name for Pietermaritz- burg is Ungungunhlovu (signifying " the con-