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Colombo, which was subsequently called the cathedral. He is mentioned more than once in the * Memorials of Bishop Chapman ' (Skeffington, 1892). He was promoted to sergeant, and served in that rank at the regimental depot in the Isle of Wight in 1857.

W. S.

Mr. Beresford Hope in his book * The Eng lish Cathedral' regretfully refers to the Colombo Cathedral as having been built to the design of a non - professional architect, and I remember reading a description of it in an old number of the Illustrated London Neivs, in which it was stated that the architect was a military man. It is hardly correct to say that " the fittings of the nave and choir- are of ebony." The altar is of ebony, but I think nothing else, certainly not the choir- stalls, pulpit, or lectern. J. P. LEWIS.

WEST-COUNTRYMEN'S TAILS (9 th S. vii. 286, 410; viii. 87, 192, 334). I am not aware whether Mr. Baring - Gould, quoted at the last reference, mentions the fact that the English are alluded to at least three times in the metrical romance of ' Richard Cceur de Lion ' (Weber) as tailed. The King of France calls them " tailed dogs " (1. 1868) ; the King of " Almayn " calls King Richard " taylard " (1. 724) ; the three messengers sent by King Richard from Cyprus to the emperor are thus answered by the latter (1. 2112) :

" Out, tay lards, of my paleys !

Now go and say your tayled king

That I owe him no thing."

H. P. L.

CHOCOLATE (9 th S. viii. 160, 201). M. Piganiol de la Force (' N. D. de la F.,' iv. 527', writing in 1722 of the trade of Bayonrie with Spain, says :

" L'on envoyoit autrefois beaucoup de sucres et castonades dans la haute Navarre, oft 1'usage du chocolat est cause d'une grande consommation mais depuis quelque terns la haute Navarre les fait venir de Saint Sebastien."

THOMAS J. JEAKES.

JAMES THE DEACON AND AYSGARTH (9 th S vm. 359).-Mii. C. S. TAYLOR may like to know that the eminent antiquary lately familiar to us as Canon Raine wrote many years ago of James the Deacon :

"He resided for some time at Akebargh, James' town, near Cattenck in Deira, and was veVy diligent

in teaching and baptizing He is supposed to be

buried m the churchyard at Hauxwe^and to be commemorated by an ancient cross." In a note signed W. H. D. L. (Longstaffe?) it is .suggested 'Possibly the word Hawks- well is Jake's-well, just as Akebargh is Jakes- bargh " (' Fasti Eboracenses,' p 44)

Canon Isaac Taylor believed that Aysgarth, like Asgardby, had reference to Asgard, the home of the gods ('Words and Places/ p. 328). ST. SWITHIN.

DOCKLOW (9 th IS. viii. 384). Low G. dokke= " a bunch, stump, peg " ; see Prof. Skeat's 'Concise Etymological Dictionary.' Dokke is an antecedent of dock, v. = curtail ; there- fore Docklow should mean stumpy hill, or a degree less pronounced than a mamelon. We are told that Docklow is placed on an emi- nence ; if therefore the eminence be stumpy, then the origin herein suggested is satis- factory. ARTHUR MAYALL.

The first syllable may well be the plant- name dock, or common mallow, A.-S. docce. Docking would then be the meadow of docks ; Dockwray the corner of docks. H. P. L.

WILIAM NOYE (9 th S viii. 365). I am inclined to the opinion that the Visitation pedigree is correct, and that it was William Noye the uncle who married Sara Yorke. According to Vivian's 'Visitations of Corn- wall,' the marriage took place at Phillack, 26 November, 1606, their children being born respectively as follows : 1. Barbara, baptized at Phillack 21 August, 1608 ; 2. Humphrey, born in 1609 (aged eleven in 1620) ; 3. Philip, baptized at Phillack in 1612 ; 4. Joseph, born about 1616 (aged four in 1620). On the other hand, Humphrey Noye, eldest son of the Attorney - General, matriculated at Exeter College, Oxon, 2 December, 1631, aged seventeen. The probability therefore is that his parents were married about 1612 or 1613. There was only about thirteen years' difference between the ages of uncle and nephew. W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

The 'Visitations of Cornwall,' by Lieut.- Col. J. L. Vivian, 1887. says that Sara, daughter of Humfrey York, of Phillack, married William Noye of Buryan (uncle to William, the Attorney-General to Charles L). The work is a reliable one, with the pedigrees of vol. ix. of the Harleian Society extended and augmented with verified information. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

Musgrave's 'Obituary,' Harleian Society's Publications, vol. xlvii., 1900, cites various references for consultation. H. J. B.

SORROW'S 'ROMANY RYE' (9 th S. viii. 417). I read this article with the greatest interest, and should like to draw attention to one or two more Hungarian blunders in the book under criticism. Referring to Borrow's " Kiraly or King of the Magyars," p. 225,