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 218 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. vi. SEPT. 15,1900. are derived. Quashee (from which comes the planting of yew trees in churchyards for botanical term quassia) means a Sunday the manufacture of bows. There can be little doubt that the sister counties of Hampshire and Surrey contributed largely to the yews child. Cuddjo means the Monday born. Cobena belongs to Tuesday. Mr. Jingle's Quanko (' Pickwick,' chap, vii.) belongs to Wednesday. Quow (well known to folk- lorists as the pseudonym of Mr. Michael McTurk, a writer of negro stories) belongs to Thursday. Mrs. Beecher Stowe's Cuffey means Friday child. Quamina (which in a recent novel, called ' When the Birds begin to Sing,' is incorrectly used as a female name) belongs to Saturday. JAS. PLATT, Jun. "INUNDATE" (9th S. v. 395, 497; vi. 52, 112, 192).—In reply to Q. V., the House of Com- mons pronounces revenue both ways, and never, in the time of the oldest living mem- ber, has said dpponent. M.P. TWYFOED YEW TREE (9th S. vi. 29, 154).— ME. WM. ANDREWS'S query seems to have been rendered obscure by the abbreviation of Winchester to " Wincher." The Twyford referred to is obviously the village a few miles from Winchester—the village where traces of a British settlement and most in- teresting remains of a Eoman villa have been found, and where the poet Pope went to school. In 1897 an illustration of the Twyford yew was published in the Hamp- shire Observer, of which I was then the editor, and the same block has been utilized by the Messrs. Warren, the proprietors of the journal named, in their ' Guide to Winchester." There are some doggerel verses extant in regard to this tree, which is one of the oldest and best-shaped yews in Hampshire, a county celebrated for its yews. There is an avenue of them, estimated at from 500 to 700 years old, at Chilton Candover ; and there are famous specimens at Boarhunt (estimated at over 1,000 years old), Wootton, Prior's an appropriate symbol of QEO. DENNIFORD GOMAN. „ !y for the crossbows used with such good effect by English archers at Agincourt. On the Merrow Downs, near Guildford, Surrey, are many fine yews of great antiquity. Li not the yew eternity 1 AN ABBOT OF FURNESS (9th S. v. 396; vi. 51).—The foundation of the story referred to rests upon a statement in Beck's 'Annales Furnesienses,' 1844, p. 324, the authority for which is queried by the author in a foot-note, and still remains unverified :— " The result of their survey of this house stands thus, as to the incontinence of the brethren, the name of the founder, and their annual rental and estate; for on the other heads of superstitions, debts, and detention of persons desirous of being absolved from their rashly taken vows, nothing ap- pears to have been elicited with which the com- munity could be justly charged. "Furness.—Incontinentia: Kogerus Pele abbas duabus golutis, Johannes Groyn cum soluta, Thomas Horneby cum quinque femims, Thomas Settle cum soluta. Fundator Dominus Rex. Redditu* annuus IX- li."* To which Dodsworth adds "debet domus 140 li."t " What credit may be afforded to this statement of breaches of celibacy in those who so solemnly professed it at their initiation to a conventual life, cannot at this remote period from the transaction be ascertained." If there was any foundation for these state- ments, the King's Commissioners would have been only too glad to have inserted them in Dene, Slodon, and Colmer, all in the county of Hants. The average growth of a young yew is believed to be about 1 ft in seventy- five years. Older trees grow more rapidly, owing to a process similar to pollarding, by which the old and new woods become welded. The Twyford yew is acknowledged to be one of the most symmetrical and vigorous of clipped yews. Shaped like a huge open umbrella or sugarloaf, it is in a remarkably healthy state. Mr. T. W. Shore, one of the best informed of Hampshire archseologists and a well-known contributor to ' N. <fe *"* ' some time ago estimated the age of Twyford yew to be six or seven hundred g»rs. It probably dates from the time of enry III. of Winchester, who ordained the the deed of surrender. Barrow-in-Furness. 11 AKi'Ki: GAYTHOBPB. WOORE, IN SALOP (9th S. v. 128, 236 ; vi. 33, &Q-, of th< 157).—I suppose MB, MARSHALL means that to the present generation of Liverpudlians Wartree is virtually unknown, and in this he is right. But forty years ago, as my own memory testifies, this pronunciation was common enough among all classes. A friend who has known Liverpool intimately all his life long tells me that he has frequently- heard Wartree from the late Sir James Pic- ton and other leading men of Wavertree, and my own impression is that it was the usual pronunciation among the older resi- dents of a humbler class. Certainly I have heard it very frequently, both in Liverpool and Wavertree itself. C. C. B. t Vol. cxxix. fol. 178 b.
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