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 9th S. IV. Dec. 23, '99.] 525 NOTES AND QUERIES. Worcester: "Beaganbyrig Burhred cyng gebecte into Wigeraceastre thset is be Culne x hida." Kemble places this document c. 1000, yet even here the river-name survives by the side of the place-name. Of the other two elements which now make up the parish of Bibury, Arlington and Winson, there seems to be no trace before Domesday: they do not appear to have belonged to the bishop. It is very probable that Beaga founded a religious house on her five cassates, and that the beau- tiful church at Bibury, with its Anglo-Saxon remains, stands on the site of her minster. C. S. Taylor. Banwell Vicarage. " Piert " (9th S. iv. 328,461).—Here in Shrop- shire we have an interesting use of this word. Seeing a farmer, for example, going home on market-day, after taking a little more refresh- ment at his inn than a strictly sober person would allow himself, we say he is " market- peart." E. W. Hordon (9th S. iv. 348, 427). — Bishop Horden was the eldest son of a journey- man printer, named William Horden, and was bom in Exeter in 1828. He was educated at St. John's Hospital, a charity the origin of which goes back far into the twelfth century. There is a tablet to his memory upon the wall of the old schoolroom, under the ancient roof of which he first resolved to become a missionary. A memorial brass to him also stands in the north aisle of the nave in Exeter Cathedral, and there is a cenotaph to his perpetual honour in St. Thomas's Church, Exeter. At school the future bishop was deemed a plod- ding rather than a brilliant youngster ; and there was little about him to suggest that, in afterlife, he would face successfully difficulties calculated to daunt the stoutest heart. In his far distant diocese of Rupert's Land not only was he his own tailor and shoemaker, but, in the building of his little cathedral at Moose Fort, he toiled continuously and successively as a working carpenter, mason, bricklayer, and turner. He translated the Book of Common Prayer into the language of the Moose Indians. I possess a copy of the work in question, published by the Church Mis- sionary Society in 1859. Harry Hems. Fair Park, Exeter. In West's ' History of Warwickshire' for 1830, p. 800, which contains a directory of Birmingham, the name George Hordon occurs as resident at 16, George Street. The Rev. Peter Hordern and several others of the same name were resident at Manchester in 1829. The Rev. Peter Hordern was the librarian at Manchester at that time. There are still Horderns in London, also Hordens, and this surname may yet be found in Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham. Charles F. Forshaw, LL.D. Bradford. 'Pickwickian Studies' (9th S. iv. 493).—I notice that the original edition has "Spa- niard," not "Spaniards." My correction of C. 64 is therefore incorrect. But it should e mentioned that the slip has disappeared. George Marshall. Sefton Park, Liverpool. Cure for Warts (9th S. iv. 475).—When I was a boy I lived at Streatham with an aunt, whose lady's-maid was a much-reputed curer or remover of these curious excrescences. She proved her skill upon a wart which existed upon one of my shoulders. Standing at the house-door, which opened upon a wide flight of steps and a large garden—circum- stances which, as I was told, were essential to my cure—the damsel bared my shoulder and commanded me to look steadfastly at the reflected lustre of the moon, then at the full, as it shone in a large white basin she laid upon my naked flesh. I did this, and muttering something that sounded like rimes, but to what effect I know not, she gently rubbed the wart with two of her fingers. I was sent to bed, slept soundly, and in the morning woke without a sign of a wart, nor did anything of the kind return on my shoulder or elsewhere. The method may have been all moonshine, but somehow or other I was cured. O. Cricket between Female Teams (9th S. iv. 474).—The cricket played in 1747 was not identical with the modern game. I appre- hend ladies rarely played this before 1869, and that they were then beginning to do so, since ' Punch's Pocket-Book' for that year contains as its frontispiece ladies playing (at full-sized wickets and with pads on), under the title 'The Ladies'Cricket Club- Matches to Come.' Stapleton Martin. The Firs, Norton, Worcester. [We played cricket with young gentlewomen, privately of course, before 1850.] Trafalgar (9th S. iv. 435).—Allow me to refer your correspondent and your readers in general to a very interesting account of the battle of Trafalgar which appears in ' N. & Q.,' 6th S. ix. 261, 283. It is a ,: Letter " written by William Pryce Cumby, Esq., First Lieutenant, who succeeded to the command of the Bellerophon, early in the