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 12 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. vi. JULY 7, im According to Mr. Larking ('Domesday of Kent') the name, which he there gives as Elwerton, in Stone next Faversham, was, in the time of the Domesday survey, Ernoltun. The translation reads (in Favreshant Hundred) :— " The same Anefrid holds, of the Bishop [of Baieux], Krnoltun. It answers for one saline. There is the arable land of three teams. In demesne there is one. And eight villans, with two teams and a half. Two Saltworks there. And in the City of Canterbury one messuage of twenty- one pence. In the time of King Edward it was worth four pounds. And afterwards, forty shillings. Now, one hundred shillings. Burnod held this Manor of King Edward. Of that Manor Rannulf holds ten acres, which lie next the City. He rendered forty-two pence in the time of King Edward." It is a curious coincidence, if nothing more, that in 1753 one Ann Tenison, a widow, who is described as of the manor of Elverton, by powers obtained under a private Act of Parliament, vested a lease granted by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury for certain lands or tenements in the parish of Peter St. Eloy in that city, in trust for Thomas Tenison, an infant. Brayley, in his ' Delinea- tions in Kent' (1808), says that the posses- sions of the ancient hospital at Ospringe became escheated to the Crown in the reign of Edward III., "and were finally granted to St. John's College, Cambridge, by Henry VIII., through the interest of Fisher, Bishop of Rochester." Under the heading 'Ospringe,' Philipott (p. 262) writes : " Elverland in this Parisli is a Manner which for many Generations hath been annexed to the Demesne of St. John's Col ledge in Cambridge." Elverton may be found on the county maps about one mile north-east of Ospringe, and much about the same distance east of Faversham. WM. NORMAN. Plumstead. PETITION AGAINST TKE USB OF HOPS (9th S. v. 376, 483).—If J. P. is investigating the date of the introduction of hops he may be referred to the General Index to the Eighth Series of ' N. & Q.,' to 9th S. i. 507 and especially to 'A New English Diction ary on Historical Principles.' He will pro bably find the petition of 4 Hen. VI. is a myth. All the same, it would be as well tc have the particulars given in Harleian MS 980 recorded in ' N. & Q.' Q. V. " LATA" (9th S. v. 455).—Is this not loyalty written " leaute " by Chaucer and Langlano and "lawtie" by Gavin Douglas and Si David Lyndsay 1 In 'The Palice of Honour )ouglas describes a potent "garitour," whose lear, stern voice thrills through false and reasonable hearts and checks the progress f injustice :— That garitour tho, my nimphe vnto me tald, Was clepit Lawtie, keipir of that bald Of hie honour. telly, it will be noted, defines "late" as lonesty in giving the illustrative aphorism 'Scottish Proverbs,' p. 230). THOMAS BAYNE. CAMPLIN FAMILY (9th S. v. 396).-The Rev. )r. Thos. Camplin, J.P. for Somersetshire, Archdeacon of Taunton, died at Bath in 1780. a the under-mentioned books X. will find the names of fourteen Camplins who graduated at Oxford between 1620 and 1805, and four at Cambridge, 1677-1809 ('A Catalogue of Oxford Graduates,' 1851; Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses,'1891; 'CantabrigiensesGraduatL' .787 ; and Luard's ' Graduati Cantab.'). A Camplin pedigree does not, I believe, exist, although of the somewhat similar name atnplin eight have been published, but all American. HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane. THE PIGEON CURE (9th S. y. 226, 343).— Within the last few weeks this remedy was applied by a lady in Deptford to her infant son. The medical attendant did not argue very strongly, seeing the faith of the anxious mother; but the remedy did not succeed. The infant died of pneumonia the next night. AYEAHR. GOREY OR GOUREY (9tb S. v. 209).—This name is probably a voiced form of Corey, Cory, Corrie, Corry, Currie, Curry = Gaelic wire, " cauldron " ; in local names '' hollow," "whirlpool." For voicing compare Gaw- thorpe = Cawthorpe = Hawthorpe. HY. HARRISON. ' THE SALE OF AUTHORS ' (9th S. v. 376). —Campbell's 'Sale of Authors,' 1767, says that " Mr. G ... the great poet, in tne watchman's coat, must have apricot marma- lade, and a pair of silver tea-tongs." Pp. 21 and 22 explain Gray's leaving Peterhouse. Apollo asks why so eminent a poet is wrapt up in a watchman's coat. Mercury replies : " You must know, having made many unsuccess- ful attempts to catch this great poet, I was at last obliged to have recourse to stratagem. Though he has a great deal of poetical tire, nobody indeed more, yet is he extremely afraid of culinary tire, and keeps constantly by him a ladder of roi>os to guard against all accidents of that sort. Knowing this, I hired some watchmen to raise the alarm of tire below his windows. Immediately the windows were seen to open, and the Poet descending in his shirt by his