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 9-s. vi. SEW. 22,1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 231 pretty spot near Poquessing Creek. None of the name is now in Bibury, but any information concerning this family would be acceptable. B. B. BERNERS FAMILY.—Sir Kalph de Berners, died 1227/8, is said to have married Maud, daughter of Walter Barrow, of Fitz-Walter Park, Essex, otherwise styled Maud Fitz- i Oil IV, l-^^l A, UU11OL «1OD 31/J1CV4 'I'd Hi i• li/j- Walter, of Brentwood ; no doubt the same lady. Did the manor of Iseldon-Berners, now Barnsbury in Islington, held by a later Sir Ralph de Berners, who was Custos of London in 1289, pass under the marriage; and what was its previous designation ] A. H. LINES ON EATING.—Will any one kindly fill up the gaps in the following?— On Sunday, being a feast day boasted, We have a leg of mutton roasted. On Monday next, our taste to tickle, We eat it cold with Indian pickle. Tuesday hash it, gravy made, With sippets round the dish first laid. Wednesday Thursday On Friday I proclaim a fast. On Saturday, when cash runs narrow, We crack the bone and eat the marrow. KUSKIN'S ROAD.—The Bishop of London in a recent speech suggested "digging" as a valuable daily addition to the education of the modern boy, manual labour being a wholesome discipline and a probable stimulus to brain power. The Daily News, commenting on this speech, said—as an example, pre- sumably, of the non-effect of brain power on manual labour— "Mr. Ruskin's experiment with the Oxford undergraduates was in road making, and it is said that to this day there is no worse road in the three kingdoms. Now, my impression is that I read in Prof. Max Miiller s ' Literary Recollections ' that Ruskin's road was afterwards washed away. Can any one verify my impression 1 B. SOURCES OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— Its ruins ruin'd, as its place no more. [Pope has Their ruins perish'd and their place no more. ' Moral Essays,' v. 22.] To have contending queens at dead of night Forsake their down. They pierce our [my] thicket, through our groves [my grot] they glide. [The last is from Pope's ' Prologue to Satires,' or ' Epistle to Arbuthnot,' 1. 8.] H. T. B. H U I S H. (9th S. v. 475; vi. 95, 154.) I HAD not seen CANON TAYLOR'S first note on the above when I sent mine or I should have referred to it. I was attracted by the same remark in the review to which he refers, and wrote upon it on 18 June, iust one week before ' N. & Q.' of 16 June reached me. I make no pretence to any such "scientific " knowledge, whether "pre or "post," as to entitle me to deliver judgments ex cathedra, but venture to adduce such evidence as appears to me, at least, to be worth considera- tion. I cannot see that I stated the word to be from Irish uisge, and I distinctly did not say it was from Gaelic uisge, but your corre- spondent does not tell us what those Celtic words once were which he admits have now become Exe, Usk, <fec. The "phonetic diffi- culties " alluded to may, perhaps, be removable if we are told the root-word, but if he will kindly read what I wrote he will see that I did give a reason why it is probable that the old Irish form of the word might be found here in Somerset That Huish Episcopi means Bishop's Hide is an obvious explana- tion, just as certain as that it means Bishop's House (from Dutch Aww). The " hide " theory is rather upset by the fact that Huish Epis- copi contained five hides. What has become of the other four1? In this county a number of hides in one manor has usually been so expressed, as in Fivehead, Fitzhead, Nyne- head, <fec. Huish is surely an older word than any equivalent for hide. I never ventured to say, shortly, of my explanation, "This is conclusive," but I adduced such facts as seemed to support it; and with all deference to high authority, and without asserting that I am right, I shall continue to hold my pre- sent opinion until it is proved to be wrong. If the word is Saxon, as is so "conclusive," it is strange that it occurs only in these Celtic districts, for no parish of Huish is to be found out of the western end of this diocese of Bath and Wells, according to Ecton. If, then, Huish Episcopi is the Bishop's Hide, of course Huish Cnampflower is the Hide of Champfleur ! Of course, the name is common enough, and your correspondent H. mentions an estate in Kilmersdpn, but that proves no more than Hardhuish in Wilts, which is, I presume, but a manor or estate. The Huish family was an important one, and gave its name to many estates in the West, just as many other families have done whose original