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 92 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9"‘ S- VL AUG. 4.1900- transplanted from Holborn to the riverside, south of Ludgate Hill. The substance of the correspondence in ‘N _ & Q.,’ which forms the subject of MR. HEBB’S inquiry, is, however, °ven with a fair amount of accuracy. It will his found at 4°" S. viii. 178, 292. At the first reference a uotation is given from a letter of Canon Venables to the Guardian, in which the piece of mediaeval walling and the fragment of a buttress were described as lying among the débris of demolished houses on thc left- hand side of ueen Victoria Street oin up from Bridge `treet, just before the Sible Society’s house is reached. As this house is beyond the church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, which is not, strictly speaking, within the precinct of Blackfriars, the remains could hardly have formed part of the Domi- nican premises; but a correspondent at the second reference, with the familiar initials of A. H., located themas standing at the foot of the Times offices. I agree with MR. HEBB in thinking that in that case they probably formed a portion of the Dominican buildings, as the castle of Montfichet was robably nearer to the river, but it is impossible to be certain on the point. I may add that the terms “ monastery ” and “ monastic,” which I have frequent] seen used in connexion with the remains that have recently been brought to light in Ireland Yard, are not correct. The Dominicans were not monks, but friars, and the ollicial designation of the building which they` occupied seems tohave been the ‘House of t e Friars Preachers.” W. F. PRIDEAUX. If MR. HEBB will turn to ‘N. & Q.,’ 4*" S' viii. 178, 292, he will find all the information he requires, in an article entitled ‘ Fragment of Blackfriars Monaster '.’ I would also draw his attention to the Atievweum of 14 July for an interesting pa r by Col. Prideaux. g)?ERARD Homs COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. BOUNDARY STONES IN OPEN FIELDS 39” S. iv. 476, 542 ; v. 297, 441 ° vi. 10).-Whi e col- lecting materials for a history of the town- ship of Northscale, in the Isle of Walney, recently published, I found the following extract from an agreement entered into on 16 Dec., 1778, by the “ Tenants of the several Tenaments at Northscale in the Isle of Walney and County of Lancaster.” It shows the use to which such stones were then put. After reciting “the disadvantages they and the former Tenants have long laboured under by having their lands laying in sundry very smal detached parcels in their several large open Townfields, to the dis- couragement of good husbandry ...... did therefore unanimously reso ve ...... to divide into larger shares and inclose the several open Towniields and parcells of improvable ground ...... and such parts of the Newlands as shall be judged proper to be converted into arable ground. “ And in regard that a 8art of the ancient Toppin ground, on the said Idle ‘oat Moor, will thereby be taken in and made arable it is hereby agreed that the remainder of the said moot that shall be un- inclosed shall be redivided into Toppin dales and meerstones placed in groportion to each person’s proper share of the lan s in the Township o N orth- scale aforesaid ...... lt is also agreed that_the Whin- dales and Tangledales wit- in the liberties of Northscale shall be anew regulated, properly ad- justed, and meerstones set to ascertain each per- son’s ro r share ...... “ The Tbppin Dales were stxggs of ground from which coarse herbage was par to be afterwards dried and used as fuel.” The Whin Dales still exist. Owing? to the difficulty in getting coal until the urness Railway was made (about fifty years ago), and as peats had to be carted from Angerton Moss along the shore, about twelve miles distant, the whins were then an important item of fuel. At one or two houses in Biggar whins are still used as fuel ilocally “eldin )on an open hearth along witi tangle gathered from the shore. “ The Tangle Dales were portions of the foreshore at high-water mark where drift tangle or seaweed was collected for manure or drie and used as fuel,” being formerly gathered and used in the making of kelp. HARPER GAYTHORPE. Barrow-in-Furness. “ LAKO0 ” (9"‘ S. v. 435).-If Galiu/m a rine is identical with Galiu/rn verum, its I'zi°aench equivalent appears to be caillet, or caflle- lait (1f.e., a pant which coagulates milk). The Latin Galium, having its origin in the Greek and Latin stem-word gala,-lac, evi- dently owes this name to its use for the coagulation of milk. H. KREBS. Oxford. “ IvERs ” (9"" S. v. 188, 291).-The inquirers should ascertain and report if the trees of the coppices they mention are ivy clad. Compare A.-S. 'ijig bearo, “ivy-grove,” and, as to the substitution of a fleeting r for y (due to ignorant carelessness), the forms “collar” and “coller” found in some of our dialects for “colley ”=soot; also the vulgar pronunciation of “fellow” as £ella(r). If the ivy theory will not apply, t en it must, I think, have been original y intended to call the covers in question “ H ivers,” in the sense of shelters or hiding-places. “Hive” was formerl used in connexion with animals generally as well as bees. Hxj. HARRISON.