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 108 NOTES AND QUERIES. i»* a. vi. AUG. 11, im 'Fair Maid of Perth' (I forget the exact reference). "To take heart of grace" seems to be equivalent, or nearly so, to "pluck up one's courage." Is the phrase still in use? JONATHAN BOUCHIER. ( fit was used in the Times so late as 1900. See ' 11. K D. 'j EAHLY EDUCATIONAL BOOKS.—In the Anti- quary for July is Mr. W. U. Hazlitt's con- cluding article of his interesting and valuable contributions towards ' A History of Earlier Education in Great Britain.' Whilst many towns are represented in the Addenda, Northampton is not mentioned. In ray collection of Northamptonshire bibliography I have a copy of a unique little volume of twelve pages in the coloured floral Dutch wrapper of the period heightened in gold. The following copy of the title-page gives a very good idea of the contents :— " The Careless Child's Alphabet. Designed to fix the Learner's Attention to the Shape of the Letters. Containing i. The Roman small Letters twelve Times repeated, and placed promiscuously. ii. A large Collection of those Pairs of Letters that are nearly alike in Form, iii. The Roman Capitals repeated twelve Times, and placed promiscuously. iv. To which is added, the joined Letters, repeated as often as the Capitals, and placed pro- miscuously. Northampton, Printed for William Adam. M.DCC.LXX.VI." I shall be exceedingly obliged for any note about William Adam, for whom the little volume was printed. JOHN TAYLOR. Northampton. AUTHOR OF POEM WANTED.— A smile of last year's sun strayed down the hills. And lost its way within yon windy wood, Lost through the months of snow, but not for good, I found it in a clump of daffodils. Wanted the author of above lines, said to be Wordsworth, but not to be found amongst his poems. J. F. FRY. "Di8-siGHT" = EYESORE.—I have alighted on this curious word in Manning and Bray's ' History of Surrey,' in a paragraph dealing with the old Market House of Chertsey, which was pulled down because it was a "dis-sight" to the town. Are there any other instances of this word so used ? JOHN A. RANDOLPH. [Dinxight, dinsighled, dimtiyhtli/, all appear in 'H.E.D.,' which should always be consulted.] FAMILY OF COLBY.—Can any one give me information concerning either the parents or the wife of Lawrence Colby, of Bletherstone. in the county of Pembroke, who died in 1699 f He is presumed to have been related to the Colbys, baronets, of Beccles in Suffolk ; if so, what was his relationship to them ? H. VAUGHAN. Llangoedmore, Cardigan. RECORD OF CHURCH LANDS IN KIRKBY KENDAL. — In 1649 the Long Parliament appointed commissioners to make a survey of Church lands. These commissioners held Inquisitions throughout England, and several volumes of their reports are contained in the Lambeth Palace Library and in the Record Office. I have been seeking for some time for the volume containing their report on the parish of Kirkby Kendal. The Record Office con- tains a volume with the opening of their commission for the county of Westmoreland, but there is nothing in it referring to Kondal. Lambeth Palace Library has not got this particular volume, and I have inquired for it without success at the registries of York, Richmond, and Chester. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' give me a hint or direction as to where I may further make search ? J. A. M. THE PLACE-NAME OXFORD. (9th S. iii. 44, 309, 389 ; iv. 70, 130, 382, 479 ; v. 69, 249, 517.) MR. STEVENSON'S last reply is chiefly remarkable for his labour in raising a cloud of verbiage in order to obscure the issue. At the last reference he occupies more than a column and a quarter in proving that deaf- ling lacu was not in the delta of the Cher- well. I never said it was. I locate it in the Thames west of Oxford, as he well knows or ought to know, where the forked-shaped island is, north of the railway bridge over the river close to the gasworks. This is a bogie raised by himself, with a long bogus argument to demolish it. This procedure on his nart may be literary method, but as long as 'N. >fe Q. exists, readers of this discussion will be able to see that it is based on an untrue or inaccurate quotation of my words. My object is to place on record, in the interests of truth, the evidence against this historical error in etymology, and to show that the earliest form of the name Eoccen- ford was derived from " eoccen " or " occenes." How unreliable MR. STEVENSON'S other statements are may be seen by what he says of the Berkshire boundary line on the east of