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 9* 8. VL JULY 14,1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 33 •' Cleves, et se regaloient i frais contmuns. La >i>i-h'-i i; e'appliquoit ensuite 4 terminer Ics differends survenus entre lea Confreres. Get Ordre ne subsiste plus depuis long terns." Whatever the badge of the Order was, it was, I fancy, not a "fool," and the associa- tion with St. Cunibert points to a white dove, which would fitly be displayed "en argent." The saint is said to have discovered the grave of St. Ursula by seeing a white dove perch on a stone (Baring-Gould, 'Saints,' 12 Nov.). Littre does not, however, give this meaning of "fou," but points to some kind of web- footed bird. Perhaps some reader of this note will kindly clear this detail. C. S. WARD. Wootton St. Lawrence, Basingstoke. "COLLY" (9th S. v. 208, 421). — Colli/, or collie = "coaly," "black" (A.-S. col, "coal," •" charcoal"). The Colly river, in Devon, is another name for Black water; Colliford = Jllackford ; Colly beer and Collibear (A.-S. f*earo, "wood," "grove") = Blackwood : so does Collishaw (A.-S. sceaya). In the West "colly " is the dialectal name of the black- bird. In the North the vowel, as usual, is lengthened ; the collie (dark-coloured) dog there becomes the " coley " or coaly dog. At the last reference a correspondent asks the meaning of the surname Collishaw. If all or roost of our surnames were as easily explained as this one, the task upon which I have been engaged for some time of compiling a dic- tionary of them would be much lighter than it is. HY. HARRISON. Your correspondents will find some in- teresting information concerning this word in Miss Baker's 'Dictionary of Northampton- shire Words and Phrases,' vol. i. pp. 135-7. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. A LINEAL DESCENDANT OF JOHN WICK- LIFFB (9th S. v. 412).—If MR. CROUCH wil refer to 'N. & Q.,' 5th S. ix. 343, he.will find a communication from MR. H. E. WILKINSON that fully confirms the extract from ' Our Protestant Forefathers' that he has sent you CLIFFORD DUNN. I believe Harvey Goodwin, late Bishop o: Carlisle, claimed to be lineally descendec from the great reformer. His daughter Frances WyckliSe, married the Rev. vV. A Spooner, Fellow and Tutor of New College Oxford. ALFRED F. CURWEN. WOORE, IN SALOP (9th S. v. 128, 236).— think MR. GJSORGE MARSHALL is wrong whei he affirms that the pronunciation Wartree i unknown in Liverpool. I am told that a fev ecades ago all the inhabitants of Wavertree o pronounced it. The encroachment of averpool, however, and the consequent in- ux of a large alien population with phonetic endencies, has caused the original pronun- iation to be more or less lost sight of. But he old inhabitants cling, I believe, to the old orm. I certainly know of one gentleman, who has lived there sixty years, who still Dronounces it Wartree or Wau-ertree. ALEYN LYELL KEADE. Park Corner, Blundellsands, near Liverpool. MR. MARSHALL is mistaken in supposing hat Wartree, for Wavertree, is unknown in iverpool. Several old friends of my family, among them a former rector of Wavertree, till pronounce the name as if written War- ree. E. MEIN. Blundellsands. There is no difficulty now about the Waver names. Waver refers chiefly to the aspen or wavering poplar; also to the quaking or wavering grass. The weakening of Domes- day Wavre to Woore follows a linguistic jrinciple — the vocalization of v — which is
 * ommon and quite regular; compare Lat.

nauta, sailor, from navita. TheFlemish place-name Wavre is recognized ay the new school of Belgian philologists— Prof. Kurth, of Liege, to mention one of them—as being allied to our Waver names, and connected with plant-life. It is perhaps worth noting that, as in the case of Liver- pool, Maidenhead, &c., the arms of the little Brabant town, carrying a water-plant, lend a Factitious support to the popular association of the name with the Fr. vivier (Lat. vivarium), a fishpond. HY. HARRISON. IDENTIFYING JUNIUS (9th S. iv. 202; v. 609). — (Eoipusi has endeavoured to identify Lord Temple with Junius. Mr. W. J. Smith, who edited 'The Grenville Papers,' tried to do the same thing forty-seven years ago. The thirty-three paragraphs by CEoiPUs contain few if any facts of note which are wanting in Mr. Smith's elaborate, but inconclusive essay, which Mr. Dilke reviewed in the Athenaeum for 11 June, 1853. His critique is reprinted on p. 203 of the second volume of 'Papers of a Critic.' Reference is made by (Enipus to "War Office paper"; other writers also appear to think that in the days when Junius wrote a special kind of paper was prepared for, and was in use at, the VVar Office. The truth is that a similar kind of paper was then supplied to all the Govern- ment offices. In paragraph 24 CEoirus follows others in writing about Francis being " supplanted " as a War Office clerk.