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 g»s.VL SEPT. 15, woo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 211 100 years old. The name Forster, London. There is a clock almost exactly like it at South Kensington. QEOHOE H. COURTENAY. [There are four Forstera mentioned by Mr. Britten: William, admitted a member of the Clockniakers' Company, 1681: Clement, admitted 1682; John, apprenticed to 1). Quare, admitted 1689; John, admitted 1726. la there no initial of Christian name in the case you mention ?] THE ELEANOR CROSS, WALTHAM.—What has become of the original Eleanor Cross at Waltham t According to an interview de- scribed in the Licensed Victuallers' Gizette of 8 September, 1899, it is said to be lying in the garden of the "Four Swans" public-house, Waltham Cross. Perhaps some correspondent of *N. «& Q.' may be able to disprove or verify this statement. JOHN HEBB. HERALDIC.—I have a silver salver in my possession, on which are engraved the follow- ing arms, viz.: On a fess sable a fess argent, and upon the latter three hearts sable, im- paling three lions rampant, two in chief and one in base. I take it that the fields of both the dexter and sinister sides of the shield (which is that of a maiden lady) are argent, as they are left plain ; nor is the proper tinc- ture of the lions rampant to be arrived at, as they are merely outlined and shaded. The letter-date on the salver is 1782. I shall be very grateful to any one who can give me the name of the family which bore these arms, as I am quite unable to find it in Pap- worth. D. K. T. HADON OR HADEN FAMILY.—William Nash and Diana Hadon were married by licence at Oodderhill Church, near Droitwich, on 13 November, 1737. Wanted the date of birth or baptism of Diana Uadon, names of her parents, &c. ; also any information about her family before 1750. WILLIAM BRADBROOK. Bletchley, Bucks. HONGUN.—In the Domesday Survey, fol. 301 b-2, it is recorded that Earl Tostig had one manor in "Hongun." Then follow the names of its members, lying in the modern parishes of Harrow-in-Furness, Urswick, pal- ton, Kirkby Irleth, and Broughton - in - Furness. The last four places named in the Survey are in .Copeland, and of these the last is " Hongenai. Is the correct etymology of these two names hangr, a hill (Norse), and the locative suffix en, at:' And in the latter name may it be safely assumed that the termination ai is a, water (Norse), ea (A.-S.) 1 1 shall be glad to receive an authoritative opinion upon the derivation of these two place-names, which occur only in the Domes- day Survey, but probably represented the two townships of Millum and Ulpha. W. F. "SEEK" OR "SEEKE." (9th S. v. 26.) THE query relating to this word has not yet elicited a reply. 1 do not understand the querist when he speaks of four quotations in the 'H.E.D.,' "all of them being from Bishop Richard Mountagu," in which "the context throws no light on the meaning of seek." Only two from this author appear in the ' Dictionary ' under the verb blow. In the first of these—"Wee must goe blow the Seeke and cast about againe"—"blow the Seeke" is obviously identical with the French corner requite or corner a requete, to sound the horn for a renewed quest of the game by houndsat fault, and thereforesynonymous with " blow a rechase,"of which an early fifteenth- century example is given in the ' H.E.D.' This is clear from the words that follow, "and cast about againe"—"to cast about'' meaning " to go this way and that in search for game, a lost scent, <fec." (' H.E.D.,' s.v. ' Cast,' 70 c.). Another word for seek in this meaning is recbeat,* of which there is an example in ' Much Ado about Nothing' (I. i. 242) that is interesting in regard to a recent discussion in 'N. & Q.' (9th S. v. passim), be- cause of the participle winded joined thereto. The bishop uses the phrase in a figurative sense. F. ADAMS. THE REV. HENRY ROWE, LL.D. (9th S. vi. 149).—Mr. Rowe was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and is said to have been nearly related to Samuel Rogers, the poet and banker. He is also stated to have been a descendant of Nicholas Rowe, the dramatic poet. He published in 1799 ' Poems,' in 2 vols. 12mo., in which, in the 'Poet's Lamentation,' he feelingly and pathetically describes his own melancholy situation. He was also the author of ' The MiMIII-III, a Musical Entertainment,'8vo., 1808, and of ' Fables in Verse,' 8vo., 1810. Mr. Rowe died, presumably at Riugshall, on 2 Sept., 1819, in his sixty-sixth year. For authorities compare Gent. Mag. and I'pcott's'Biographical Dictionary.' Lowndes's • A corruption of rtgufte. A notice of rttheat, with a wrong etymology, may be found in Nares's 'Glossary.'