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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIL APRIL 6, 1901.

By way of parenthesis I may mention the fact that the further evidence which was* to give the coup de grace to the said strange theory, and was then "shortly" to be pub- lished, is still coming, though seven years have elapsed.

I know of other three towns that have changed their sites, namely, Thorn, Elbing, and Marien werder all three in Prussia (cf. Zeitschrift des westpreussischen Ge- schichtsvereins, xxviii. 2) ; and I remember having read of the same kind of strange behaviour of a sixth town somewhere in India. L. L. K.

JESSE AND SELWYN (9 th S. vii. 122, 178). On the title-page of his ' Summer's Day at Hampton Court ' (Murray, 1840) Jesse is described as "Surveyor of Her Majesty's Parks and Palaces." The preface is dated "Hampton Court, July 25, 1839," and at the end of the book is a note stating that " Persons may obtain permission to copy the pictures on application to the Chief Com- missioner of Her Majesty's Woods, or to the Author of this Volume at Hampton Court."

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

STANBURY OF DEVON AND CORNWALL (9 th S. vii. 128). In Lieut.-Col. Vivian's 'Visita- tions of Cornwall,' at pp. 443 and 444, there is a pedigree of Stanbury

JAMES PEACOCK. Sunderland.

MADAME BONTEMPS (9 th S. vii. 169). The French^ translation of Thomson's ' Seasons ' (' Les Saisons ') by Madame Bontemps, with plates, was published in Paris, 1759, and may possibly be seen in the library of the South Kensington Museum.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road,

^ THE REV. JAMES HALDANE STEWART (9 th S. vii. 88). This gentleman was B.A. Exeter Coll. Oxon. 1843, M.A. 1846. He was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Oxford in 1847, and priest by the Bishop of Winchester in 1848. He was perpetual curate of Crowhurst Surrey, from 1850 to 1855, when he was ap- pointed rector of Millbrook, Southampton CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Bradford.

LAY CANON (9 Ul S. vii. 148, 197). My thoughts wore fixed too exclusively on the post-Reformation 'English Church. Earlier than that a layman, even as a child, some- times enjoyed the income of a canonry, and therefore had some claim to the title of lay

canon, though he did not keep the rule. Examples of this will occur to others, but just now they do not to me. ST. SWITHIN.

"MANURANCE" (9 th S. vii. 125). It would be interesting to have more details such as the contexts showing your esteemed con- tributor's reason for the sense he attaches to this word. It occurs in the dictionaries with the meaning "cultivation," which is the natural outcome of the plain and direct, though perhaps not well-known, etymology of the word " manure." ARTHUR MAYALL.

ST. CLEMENT DANES (9 th S. vii. 64, 173). I am sure your old arid valued correspondent MR. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN will forgive me for pointing out that the quotation which he gives from Dr. Worsaae's book has no bearing whatever on the question of " our Danish in- vaders and their connexion with the foun- dation of the church of St. Clement Danes." Dr. Worsaae's theory, which he puts as a matter admitting of no doubt, is that the church was called after the Danes, not only because so many Danes were buried in it, but because the Danish merchants and mariners who, for the sake of trade, were at that time established in or near London, had there a place of their own in which they dwelt to- gether as fellow-countrymen. Dr. Worsaae does not specify the exact period which answers to " that time," but it must have been long after the time of Canute, when the Danish invasions came to an end. That the Danish colony in London had a settlement in the vicinity of St. Clement's Church may be taken for granted, but this fact does not answer the question which was asked regard- ing the dedication of the church. The corre- spondent of the Morning Post whom I quoted stated that the church was dedicated during the pontificate of Pope Clement II., A.D. 1046-7, and was named, in compliment to him, after his patron Pope, St. Clement I. If this theory is correct, and the church was not in existence till 1046, the corpse of Harold Harefoot cannot have been buried in the churchyard in 1040. It seems to me more probable that the dedication was originally a Roman one, like those of St. Paul and St. Gregory, and that the church received its specific designation from the Danes when a settlement of that people was formed in its neighbourhood. Scandinavian dedications exist in London, as the churches of St. Magnus and St. Olave remain to tell us, but St. Cle- ment was not distinctively a Scandinavian saint. I am abroad at present, and cannot look up my references, but perhaps one of your correspondents may be able to say