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 9*s.vLAuo.25,i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 153 wells" with which Lancashire former! abounded. J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, O.-on-M., Manchester. SIR OLIVEB CROMWEH, AND HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS (9th S. v. 494).—Under this head ing, I think, the following inscriptions maj fitly find a place. I copied them when passinj through Chipping Ongar, Essex, in August, 1892. They are contained on two large black marble floor slabs within the altar rails of the church :— Hie jacet Jana D Oliveri Cromwell Hinchenbrochiensia e sedibvs hyn tinctionianis KM vitis balneensis filia vxor Tobiffl Pallavicini Armiger ex illvstri noniinis illivs inagro Canta brigiensi Familia orivndi ad quadra gesimvm aitatis annvm et fernie tertivm pertingeng qvod mortale fvit in ilia officio vitaq fvncta (in) hoc pvlvere deposvit XXIIII mart ij annoq Christi MDCXXXVII. Here lyeth the body of that truly noble and religiovs gentleman Horacio Pallavicine esqvire who departed this life on the sixth daye of May in the yesere («'c) of ovr Lord god HH8 being of the age of six ana thirty yeares. Owing to the bad light and the short time at my disposal I was obliged to depart without deciphering the coats of arms which precede both inscriptions. JOHN T. PAGE. WATCH CANDLK (9th S. vi. 48).—A watching candle is described by both Halliwell and Wright in their dictionaries of obsolete words to be a candle used at the watching of a corpse. Wright gives the following example of its use:— " Flor. Why should I twine my arms to cables, sit up all night Uke a leatching earMe, and distil my brains through my eyelids? Your brother loves me, and J love your brother ; and where these two consent. 1 would fain see a third could hinder us." —' Academy of Compliments,' 1714. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. "PASTOPHORIA" (9th S. v. 415 ; vi. 13).—On turning up my Donnegan's ' Lexicon,' I find that_ --.-T-,,,/,,;,,:,,,. is "a 8mall case repre- senting a chapel containing the image of a god." Unfortunately I cannot put my hand on MR. CALDECOTT'S query, so do not know how far this explanation would fit in with the sense in which Josephus used it. Cer- tainly it will not stand upright in any of the places cited by MR. BAILY. I find, how- ever, that. 7rao-Tas=porch or vestibule. Our word nit?1? means porch, vestibule, or court. Buxtorf calls it a " cubiculum." Aquila's ya^ov�LKia is likewise incorrect. Its Hebrew representative is "outsar." Sym- machus approaches the horizon of truth with his i£iSpat. Perhaps the best rendering of "lischcha" into Greek would be (rvveSpiov, from which we derive Sanhedrin. There was the " Lischchath Hanosheem" or women's quarter in the second Temple. In fact, any walled-in space is a "lischcha," whether containing a body of people or not. M. L. R. BRESLAR. CRYPTOGRAPHY (9th S. vi. 48). —If I)R. WILSON will turn to 'N. & Q.,' 9th S iii. 152, he will find some references to recent articles on this subject, and many more to the works, both ancient and modern, previously referred to by correspondents. EVERARD HOHE COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. EDGETT (9th S. iii. 407 ; iv. 177; v. 13,193 ; vi. 49).—It is with reluctance that I return r.-L.•!!.-ally useless to discuss a question with my one who simply argues that black is white, so I will be as brief as possible. MR. STEVENSON says that I have confused the neaningof O.E. geat with that of O.Nor. gata. There is no truth in this assertion j but in any •asc he would be a wise man indeed who ocal names in many parts of England, where he one begins and the other ends. I really
 * ould say with certainty, with respect to
 * innni treat as serious his contention, in

•ffect, that the wholesale influx of Latin imong other races into the United States has HVM without influence upon the personal lomeuclature in regard to, among other hings, the initial h. A glance through an imerican directory would show him at once
 * hat strange pranks have frequently been

layed with good old English names. Only he other day I heard of an American family vho spelt their name Emmingway—a clear case or a lost initial aspirate. If MR. STEVENSON, in the face of the evi- ence of Domesday and Anglo-Saxon history, till believes that Eddiet^'Eadgeat," he is, f course, welcome to his belief. To me it >ems like running one's head against a wall. [e has not succeeded in finding a single in- »nce of the occurrence of " Eadgeat" among le multitude of Anglo-Saxon names recordea,