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NOTES -AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIIL NOV. 2, 1901.

Launceston. Sir Nicholas was knighted at Whitehall 23 July, 1603. He had one son, at whose death the Larkbeare property passed into the hands of the Eastehurch family. His sister Grace married Sir Bevil Grenvill, and his half-sister Elizabeth Sir Thomas Monk, Knt., the father of General Monk, Earl of Albemarle.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

I think he was M.P. for Truro in 1593, was knighted at Whitehall on 23 July, 1603, and sat in Parliament for St. Mawes in 1614.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

The following letter appeared in the Western Times during September last :

Will any of your learned readers assist me to find out who this person was and to what family he belonged for a few generations ? He was of Exeter College, Oxford, in 1590, and of Lincoln's Inn in 1599. I am assured that I am descended from his

Saungest son, Sir James, an ardent loyalist ^in romwell's time, who married a daughter of Sir Reginald Mohun, of Boconnoc, Cornwall, and who also purchased Canonsleigh, parish of Burlescombe, in North Devon. Any particulars by our new penny post will be most acceptable. I remain,

DOMIKICK BROWNE. Christohurch, New Zealand.

W. CURZON YEO. Richmond, Surrey.

ANCIENT BEACONS (9 th S. viii. 305). MR. CANN HUGHES will find an account of seventy-four beacons in Nicholson's 'Beacon of East Yorkshire,' with illustrations by George Meek (Driffield, 1887). This book, having been published by subscription, is possibly not on sale, or even in the British Museum. ' Britannia Depicta,' 1736, may also be consulted. ISAAC TAYLOR.

For some administrative purposes the East Biding of Yorkshire still consists of certain "divisions" which take their names from the ancient beacons. An account of them, under the title of 'Beacons of East Yorkshire, 1 was published in 1887 in a small volume by Mr. John Nicholson, of Hull.

W. C. B.

There is an article on the ' Sites of Local Beacons' (Cumberland and Westmoreland, in the Transactions of the Cumberland Anti- quarian Society, vol. xiv. A. 11. C.

"KELL" OR "KELD" = A SPRING of WATER (9 th S. viii. 305). These names mostly occur in the Scandinavian districts of England, as is the case with Halikeld in Yorkshire, citec by your correspondent. This is due to theii being usually derived from the O.N. kelda, modern Danish kilde. In Northern English

it means a gathering of water bursting forth in a strong stream from a hillside. If it occurs in the south, we may refer it to the A.-S. celd, dative celde, as in the case of Bap- hild, near Sittingbourne, a curious corrup- tion of a name appearing in a charter of 697 as Baccancelde, which means a " beck source." We have a similar corruption in Kildwick in Yorkshire, D.B. Childewc, the " village at the source," with which we may compare Child's Wickham in Gloucestershire ; or the d may be intrusive, as is the case with Kild- wick Percy in the East Riding, D.B. Chilwio, which is from the A.-S. cyle, a " well " ; whence also Yarkhill in Herefordshire, a curious corruption of the A.-S. Geard-cylle. Kilham in the East Riding, where the river Hull rises from springs in the chalk wolds, is D.B. Chillun, afterwards Kyllum y apparently the dative plural cylum, " at the springs."

Also there are about 2,700 names in Ire- land, and many in Scotland, where kil means "cell" or " church," as Kildare, the "cell by the oak." There are many where it means a wood, as Killiecrankie, the "wood of the Picts." ISAAC TAYLOR.

As regards Yealand - Conyers, Whitaker says the three villages of Yealand "are eminently dry, and at a distance even from a diminutive brook." I find no mention of any well there, but in the parish of Grinton in Swaledale (where, by the way, one of the Conyers family was buried in 1698) there is a hamlet called Keld, which was called, says Whitaker, "no doubt from some cold spring by which it was watered " ; and in the churchyard there is an epitaph which begins with these lines :

Near Keld's cold stream I drew my infant breath. There toiled through life, there closed my eyes in death.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield, Reading.

By consulting a good Ordnance map it will be seen that the word kell or keld frequently occurs in North and East York- shire. The entry under keld in 'N.E.D.'is well worth looking at. W. C. B.

SHODDY CLOTH BINDINGS (9 th S. yi. 226 ; viii. 270). AYEAHR'S criticism is amusing ; at the same time I think what the three depart- ments referred to do is quite the right thing. If the volumes are not stitched in cloth for issuing to the several departments, they must be stitched in paper. To bind them within a year of being printed is to risk the print being transferred in binding, especially with the English binder's habit of over-press- ing books. Some good is gained by a volume