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lore relative to the subject, and embodied the whole in a MS. book which, in the Jubilee year (1887), he deposited at the inn where the annual breakfast is served. From the Rugby Advertiser of 12 Nov., 1887, I quote the fol- lowing lines from a lengthy description of this unique book :

" The writer hopes that any one who may be able to throw any further light on the origin or mean- ing of the wroth silver collection will kindly insert such information in the space left for the purpose. He states that he presents this book to the house where the breakfast is held as a memorial of the Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria. It is to be the property of the house and not the landlord ; and further, should the wroth silver ceremony cease to be carried out, the writer reserves to himself the privilege of reclaiming the book if he desires to do so."

It is further stated that "numerous pen-and- ink sketches are interspersed in the manu- script." The following sentence forms a fitting conclusion to the article :

" Altogether the volume is one that ought to be preserved with the utmost care, and handed down by those to whose charge it is entrusted."

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

THE OLD CHUKCH AT CHINGFORD (9 th S. iv. 537 ; v. 57). Durrant's ' Handbook for Essex '

states :

"It appears to be of E. Eng. origin, though considerable portions are of the Perp. period. In the south aisle is a brass to Robert Rarnpston (1585) and wife (effigies lost), and there are monu- ments in the chancel to the Leigh and Boothby families, Sir J. Sylvester, Recorder of London, and others."

Is not this old church dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, and the new church, built on the village green in 1845, dedicated to All Saints, although the reverse is generally given 1 ? Chingford was a manor that belonged to St. Paul's Cathedral. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Wingham, Kent.

The mass of ivy which clothes so much of the building obscures many architectural features, but it is evident that the larger portion of that which is visible of the exterior must be assigned to the Perpendicular period. Within the ruined church there are traces of Early English work sufficient to show that, though altered in the fifteenth century, the building is at least of the thirteenth. Of anything earlier I do not remember any evidence, though probably a church was here prior to the latter date. I. C. GOULD.

SOUTH AFRICAN NAMES (9 th S. iv. 436, 519 ; v. 49). Since my last communication I have come across a pamphlet upon the Cape Dutch

dialect, published at Strassburg, 1896, by Dr. Viljoen, professor at Victoria College, Stellen- bosch, in which the pronunciations of most of the names now prominently before the public are figured scientifically. I said that in Kriiger the g is hard ; CANON TAYLOR saj;s that it is not hard ; Dr. Viljoen says that it is completely silent. He indicates this by the spelling Krii-er, riming approximately with the place-name Frere. Villiers and Viljoen he figures as Filje and Fijun (not, as one would have expected, Filjun\ and Joubert as JubJr, which means practically the French sound, and shows that in his estimation the final t should be silent, as he says it also is in Du Toit. While on the subject I may point out that for South African names generally, native as well as Dutch, Burchell's ' Travels ' (1824), although an old book, is a more reliable guide than any modern work. Among numer- ous points of interest, he shows that Damara- land and Namaqualand are more correct than the ordinary Damaraland and Namaqualand. JAMES PL ATT, Jun.

"HoYT " (9 th S. iv. 537). According to Mr. Edwin Fresh field's preface in * London Church Staves' (1895), in Lancashire the bang- beggar's (beadle) staff was sometimes styled a " silver-nobbed pow," and in South York- shire he is dubbed a "knock-nobbier." No allusion is made to wands or staves being called "hoyts." Hoyt is a by no means unusual surname. The publisher of Stone, admittedly the finest monthly magazine de- voted to things architectural in the world, is Mr Frank W. Hoyt, of 45, Broadway, New York City, U.S. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

"HOODOCK" (9 th S. iv. 517; v. 35). What is understood on Tyneside by "huddock " is the cabin (a word which can only be applied, in the sense of "cribbed, cabined, and confined," to the limited space) of a " keel." This, however, does not appear to have any connexion with the word in the line quoted. R. B R.

ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, BASSISHAW (9 th S. v. 6). At the Consistory Court of London in December, 1898, the question of the removal of the monuments from the above church was considered. That erected to the memory of Thomas Wharton, M.D., and occupying a position at the south end of the east wall, was specially mentioned as being one of historical interest. It was reported that a descendant of Dr. Wharton and the Royal College of Surgeons had both made application in respect to the removal of this monument, which Chancellor Tristram observed "must be