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 9* s. VL DEC. 29,1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 515 village-names is usually nothing more than the A.-S. ryge, "rye." I think it is only fair to ask that any one who writes dogmatically on geographic ety- mology should devote some little time to its study. HY. HARRISON. The pronunciation of Wear at Sunder- I.iiui, and I dare say along the whole course of that river, is Wyre. The name of the village of Witto_n-le-Wear (above Bishop Auckland) is written as a heading to the earliest parish register (beginning in 1558) Wytton upon Wyere. R. B—R. LYME REGIS : RESTORATION OF ECCLESI- ASTICAL FURNITURE (9th S. vi. 387.)—It is due to the good people of Lyme Regis (a little place that always reminds me very much of Jamestown, St. Helena) to record that the old Jacobean oak lectern referred to as having been lately restored to its parish church has really never been out of sight of the sacred edifice. For years it stood dis- used by the south door, but about 1850, being considered lumbersome and in the way. was placed in the adjacent girls'old school. There it remained_ until new schools were built in 1892, when it was transferred to the adjoining infants' school. About three years ago it was, happily, again placed in the church, near the old Norman west-tower arch. There it stands, safe and sound, but it is not used. There are two other (modern) lecterns in the same church. HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. the pots are called "maiden TIIOS. RATCLIFFE. who make makers." Worksop. Apparently this is the washtub. Or. fulSd<a^=to be moist or wet, and L. madeo=: to be wet or moist; with meanings under a third heading "to boil softer thoroughly, to be boiled sodden." Webster gives " Madid. wet, moist," and "Madefy, to make wet or moist." His fourth meaning for "maiden" is "a machine for washing linen." It is not certain that this last is the "clotheshor.se," because the definition under that word is, as is to be expected, "a frame to hang clothes on." ARTHUR MAYALL. "THE MADING TUB" (9th S. vi. 4081—1 imagine this is a provincial name for a washtub, and that it is more or less nearly related to the L. mndeo, to steep. In the north of England, besides the ordinary oblong wooden troughs in which clothes are scrubbed, there are barrels open at one end, in which they are soaked and then brayed by timber pestles, sometimes set with spikes. Such things are called poss, dolly, or peggy tubs. I have reason to believe that they wear out more linen than human beings do. ST. SWITHIN. In four Midland counties at least the com- mon name for the dolly-tub is the " maiden- ing-tub" or "pot." The dolly-peg is the " maiden." Dolly-tubs are of wood or earthen- ware, the washing craft liking the latter best; the wooden one lasts longer. The coopering trade make them of wood, and the potting trade of clay. The " pots " are glazed inside, and that is why washerwomen like them best, for there is less friction in work- ing the dolly-pot than the dolly-tub. Men In Yorkshire Selby district this is used for a washing-tub, not the ordinary peggy or dolly tub, but that particular kind called a "washing-flask." "Maiden" or "maid" (query as to spelling) is also used in Lan- caster district for the familiar winterhorse or winterhedge on which to dry clothes before a fire. LIONEL CRESSWELL. Wood Hall, Calverley, Yorks. GOVERNOR HAYNES'S GRANDFATHER (9th S. vi. 88).—Although I am unable to answer the query raised at the above reference, perhaps the following particulars regarding the Haynes family of Hackney, who are men- tioned by your correspondent MR. PHILIP S. P. CONNER, will be acceptable. A Mr. Richard Haynes was living in "Mayre Streete," Hackney, in 1605, and there was also a Mr. Benedicke Haynes living at the same date in Well Street or Grove Street. They both contributed towards the repairing of the parish church, Hackney, at that date. The first mentioned appears to have been christened at Hackney 18 June, 1565. Ho became churchwarden in 1613-14, and was buried at the same place as "Rich. Haynes gt." on 21 April, 1634. There was also a Henry Haynes who was vestryman in 1013 and churchwarden in 1614. Tho following also occur in the burial register:— Nov., 1619. " Eliza Haynea, filia Henry." 29 April, 1623. "Elizabeth Haynes, wi. Henry 1626. "Mrs Margret Haynes vvy., - 1 March, Benedick." It appears that a legacy of 40J. was left by a Mr. Haynes in 1576. I have a note taken from the original burial registers as follows : 22 Jan., 1593. "Nicholas Haynes, purveyour of Her Majes<>' grayne." This is apparently the Nicholas Haynes who, MR. CONNER states, is generally supposed to be the father of John Haynes of Old Hold, Essex, and thus the grandfather of Governor