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ARUNDEL : WALDEN (9 th S. vii. 28, 155). MR. RADCLIFFE says, at the last reference that the derivation of Arun, the name of the river which runs through Arundel, is obscure That it should be obscure is no wonder, as it is probably nothing but a mere antiquarian figment, invented to account for the name oj Arundel. On old maps the river is called the Tarant, which is a corruption of the name given it by Ptolemy. Other river-names are also antiquarian figments ; among them is the Kentish Eden, invented to explain the name of Edenbridge, really a corruption of Eadhelm's Bridge, which crosses a river pro- bably called the Avon. The Penk in Stafford- shire is also a ghost-name, invented to account for the name of Penkridge, which is the Gel to- Latin penno-crucium (Cymric, Pen-y-crug, the " head of the mount "). The Rom is a name invented to explain the name of Romford, which probably means the " wide " or "roomy" ford. Better-known instances are the Cam and the Isis, on which our two ancient universities stand. The Cam was a name given to the Granta so as to explain the name of Cambridge, and the Isis became a ghost-name for the Upper Thames, obtained by the erroneous conjecture that Thamesis was a river formed by the junction of the Thames with an imaginary stream called the Isis. Verily the antiquaries are as guilty as the genealogists. Sham names are as bad as the sham pedigrees which Mr. Round exposes.

ISAAC TAYLOR.

SUWARROFF AND MASSENA (9 th S. vii. 108,

193, 213). M. N. G. quotes (ante, p. 194) some words from my mother's book, * Rome in the Nineteenth Century.' The quotation is correct, but M. N. G. goes on to say that " Mrs. Eaton was a niece of Sir Walter Scott." This is not the fact. My mother was a great friend of Sir Walter Scott, and I have many letters from him addressed to her. If M. N. G. has any desire to know who she was, he can inform himself by obtaining a copy of 'Water- loo Days,' published by Bell & Sons, Co vent Garden. . CHARLES O. EATON.

Tolethorpe Hall, Stamford.

I Francesci son tutti ladri ; Non tutti ma buona parte,

is a familiar story, and occurs in many forms. H. T.

MRS. ARBUTHNOT (9 th S. vii. 187). The Mrs. Arbuthnot inquired about was the wife of Mr. Charles Arbuthnot, who is referred to in the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' vol. ii., and in Sir i Herbert Maxwell's 'Life of the Duke of Wellington,' vol. ii. pp. 296, 375. R. B.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S FUNERAL (9 th S. vii. 89, 154). With reference to this query, Fosbroke in his work on British monachieni depicts from a Saxon MS., circa 1066, the figure of a bishop holding a crosier ; also another figure of a bishop, painted on the walls of the chapter-house of York Cathedral, is portrayed holding his crosier in the act of benediction. Again, there was a figure of a bishop in the east window of Trinity Hall Chapel, Aldersgate, of " St. Basil the Great," holding a crosier while in the act of giving the benediction. In Paul Lacroix's 'Vie Militaire et Religieuse ' is a plate, engraved in 1522, representing Pope Urban II. presiding at the Council of Clermont, in 1095, holding the crosier while giving the benediction. Another instance appears therein in a minia- ture from the 'Chants Royaux' by " Maistre Jehan Marot" in a MS. of the sixteenth cen- tury. This figure appears again to portray a Pope. Of course, in the great majority of representations of this subject bishops are generally depicted holding the pastoral staff or crook, but there are not wanting, apparently, instances where the crosier is to be found. It would almost appear, from the instances here quoted, that the use of the crosier on certain occasions is principally associated with the highest ecclesiastical dignitaries.

MELVILLE.

I did not say " of myself " that the arch- bishop had held his cross, but quoted from the Pall Mall Gazette as to this. Though 1 was present, I could not see the archbishop when the blessing was given, and hoped some other reader of ' N. & Q.' might have done so. What I saw was what FATHER ANGUS de- scribes as being correct, viz., his being pre- ceded, both coming and going, by his cross- bearer, who carried the cross -staff. The archbishop himself certainly held nothing of the sort then, nor did I see any other attend- ant with the crosier. But there might have 3een a crosier in the choir ; if not, he must lave taken the cross-staff in his hand when blessing. Would not the Archbishop of Canterbury be right in using his crosier in the diocese of London whilst the see was vacant? As to the stained -glass and other epresentations of archbishops holding crosses including the archbishop blessing a bell- founder in the York window see remarks by J. T. F. and others in 6 th S. xi. 6, 96, 192.

IBAGUK.

On the first day of this year a special ser- vice for beginning the new century was held in Canterbury Cathedral, at which the Arch- bishop of Canterbury was present and gave