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the solar year : a very appropriate flag for the East. The same thing is seen in the pack of playing-cards, where four suits = quarters or seasons, thirteen cards = weeks in the quarter and months of the year, four court cards = weeks in the month or phases of the moon. The sun-cross is preserved in its most perfect form in that of St. John of Malta. Rings bearing a Maltese cross by way of seal, which had touched a relic of St. John, were distributed as talismans. A figure of St. John was replaced at Mass by a sun- monstrance containing the Real Presence Perpignan, 1722. THOMAS J. JEAKES.

DESIGNATION OF FOREIGNERS IN MEXICO (9 th S. vii. 389, 496 ; viii. 21, 130).-! venture to remark that it is stated at p. 30 of my copy of 'The Complete Works of Robert Burns' (London, Henry G. Bohn, 1860) that " Green grow the rashes, O ! " was inspired by, and was a general tribute paid to, the collective charms of the lasses of Kyle ; but there was another lyric under the same title besides that of Burns. In a foot-note at p. 349 it is mentioned that "the 'Green grow the rashes ' of our ancestors had both spirit and freedom," and the following is quoted :

Green grow the rashes, 0,

Green grow the rashes, ! Nae feather-bed was e'er sae saft As a bed among the rashes, 0. We 're a' dry wi' drinking o 't,

We're a' dry wi' drinking o 't ; The parson kiss'd the fiddler's wife,

And he couldna preach for thinking o't. The down bed, the feather bed, The bed amang the rashes, ! i et a' the beds are nae sae saft As the bosoms of the lasses, 0.

HENRY GERALD HOPE. 119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

CORNISH DAISY NAMES (9 th S. vii. 428) MEGAN has probably seen gajak, meaning V, v y w p T An EnsKslj-Corniah Dictionary/ J>y * W ?. H'' a work which, so to speak turns Wilhams's 'Gorman-English Dictionary' inside out. There does not seem to be any word like it in the cognate Celtic tongues The Castihan and French terms for tS flower mean "pearl" and the Italian g

little pearl, margkeritina. One of the Heuskanan names for it is picki-lorea^iewel flower. e.g M (F)ondarrabia (corrupted into Castihan Fuenterabia) in the extreme north east of Gipuzcoa. It therefore is not taking a great leap to suggest gaudia (whenc! Castihan joya, pronounced hoya = jewel and French jou were formed) as a possible n^me for this harbinger of the spring. I s there

any phonetic obstacle to gaudia becoming gajafi in South Welsh? Another etymology which occurs to me is French. gage. The "day's-eye" is a pledge that the night of winter is over. E. S. DODGSON.

MANOR OF TYBURN (9 th S. vii. 310, 381,402, 489 ; viii. 53). MR. RUTTON in his note on the manor of Tyburn desires (9 th S. vii. 311) proof of the fact that the Abbess of Barking retained the manor until the suppression of that house, and states that the several Inqui- sitiones post mortem mentioning Tyburn do not indicate the fact ; while COL. PRIDE AUX says (9 th S. vii. 382) that he regards it as an undoubted fact that the abbess lost possession of the manor not long after the Conquest, probably in the reign of Henry I. I find that an Inquisition taken at Tyburn upon the death of Alicia de Vere, Countess of Oxford (Chancery Inq. p.m. 6 Edward II., No. 39), contains the following statement : "quod dicta Alicia de Ver tenuit manerium de Tyburn' in comitatu Midd' de Abbatissa de Berkingg' per servicium triginta solidorum solvendum," &c. I find also (Chancery Inq. p.m. 19 Edward II., No. 93) that Ralph de Cobham held for life jointly with his wife the manor of Tyburn of the Earl of Warenne for service unknown, with an annual pay- ment of thirty shillings to the Abbess of Barking.

En Dugdale's 'Monastieon Anglicanum,' second edition, 1682, vol. i. p. 80, is the follow- ing extract from the MS. Cott. Jul. D. viii. :

" This is the charche longynge coO'c] the office of Celeresse of the Monasterye of Barkinge, as here- after followeth. The Arrerages. First she must luke, whanne she commethe into here office, what is owynge to the said office, by divers fermours and rente gederers and see that it be paid as soone as

she may London. And she shuld receive yerly

xxx-s. of the rent of Tyborne ; but it is not paid." '

In the edition of 1817, vol. i. p. 445, is an additional extract from a MS. Roll in the Augmentation Office, giving amongst the possessions of the abbey in the time of Henry VIII. the following: "Redd' assis' in Maribone, ll. 10s."

The Inquisitions above quoted clearly prove that the manor of Tyburn was held of the Abbess of Barking in the reign of Edward II; and the extracts from Dugdale show that it was so held, or considered to be so held, up to the suppression of the house, and thus bear out the statement of Lysons to which exception has been taken. H. A. HARBEN.

^ VERBS FORMED OUT OF PROPER NAMES (9 th b. vn. 182, 263, 393, 493 ; viii. 22). As regards the word " guillotin " MR. LYNN asked for in-