so wrote their name? Surely, Miners is clause " et concedo eis escambium de horto monachorum in quo turris mea sedet, sicut Walterus Vicecomos de Gloucestria eis liberavit," it has " teste Girmundo abbate Winchelcumbæ et Rogerio de Gloecestra et Hugone Parvo." Matildis Regine+ Cancellar'+(made Bishop of Laon, Nov. 1106, killed Ap. 25, 1112). Episcopi Dunelmensis+(i.e., R. Flambard). Roberti Episcopi Lincol' + Ricardi de Reveis+(i.e., R. de Reviers, ancestor of the Courtneys). Da+vid. Roberti Comitis de Mellent+ "Con Mr. Round has shown ('Feudal England,' Now this important change, I hold, at 481) that the last known appearance of once affects the date of this charter like- Waldric the Chancellor occurs in a Rouen wise; for here we have Roger (doubtless charter of November, 1106. The above, dying) signing his gift near Falaise (1106) in unfortunately, is not from the original deed the presence of two important witnesses: itself. It is sufficient, however, to bring the Abbot of Winchcombe (1095-1122), Roger's decease and the King's and Hugh Little, one of his superior Norman firmatio very close together. tenants in Gloucestershire-about whom I Roger de Gloucester was brother to could say more. Herbert (who predeceased him), and cousin to Walter the Sheriff. His transactions include one with Serlo (d. 1104), the Abbot of St. Peter's (Glos.), by which he took over certain land in Westbury-on-Severn in fee (but without tithe of water or woodland) from the monks, and gave in exchange (in alms) Sandhurst and Atteley (i.e., Hatherley), and land belonging to Ulfketil. Further, the MS. cited gives the following interesting passage: "Is, in obsidione Fallesi telo arcubalista graviter vulneratus in capite, donavit ecclesiae 8. Petri de Gloecestra manerium quod appellatur Cuina S. Andreae, et in hoc assensum et concessionem Regis, qui statim ad se videndum venerat, impetravit, ita quod manum ipsius cum eam hujus rei gratia deoscularetur, frontis sanguine cruentavit." With the claim of De Miners, with the Editor's leave, I will deal under a fresh ST. CLAIR BADDELEY. These authorities were duly cited by Bishop I shall now produce the "Confirmatio by the King of Roger's gift of the manor of Coln with its highly important array of witnesses--by which I venture to date it 1106-7, probably at Gloucester: Henricus, dux Anglie, Sampsoni episcopo Wigorniensi et Waltero Vicecomiti de Glocestra, &c., salutem. Notum sit vobis quod dedi et concessi manerium de Culna ecclesiæ S. Petri de Glocestra ad communem victum monachorum sicut Rogerius de Glocestra eis dedit et concessit et sicut melius tenuit pro anima mea et uxoris me et pro animabus antecessorum meorum et concedo eis escambium orti monachorum in quo turris * Called Coln Rogers to-day. The full text of the notification ('Gloucester Cartulary,' Rolls Ser., No. CXLII.), printed by MR. SwYNNERTON at iv. 280, shows, I think, that he has misunderstood this document. The Cartulary heading-" Culna Rogerii"-is misleading, as it applies only to the first part; the second part, beginning "et concedo," is the confirmation of a different transaction. Thus the King confirms: 1. The grant of Coln by Roger de Gloucester. Walter de Gloucester in exchange for the 2. The grant (of land unspecified) by monks' garden in which the King's tower stands. It is recorded in the List of Donations MR. SWYNNERTON is very likely right in (i. 59): De Ablode et Paygrave. Henricus rex senior dedit Deo et Sancto Petro Gloucestriæ et monachis ejusdem loci Ablode, et gravam de Bertona quæ vocatur Paygrave in escambium pro placea ubi nunc turris stat Gloucestriæ, ubi quondam fuit hortus monachorum anno regni regis Henrici ejusdem nono, tempore domni Petri abbatis.. (It holding that No. CXLII. passed at the same The printed text puts a comma after abbatis, How untrustworthy is the Cartulary text, and continues, "de sex sellionibus retro as printed, may be seen by comparing the ouriam de Ablode," which is unintelligible. following charter, No. CXLIII., with the text I have no doubt that this clause was intended printed by MR. SWYNNERTON from the as a heading for the remainder of the original charter (12 S. iv. 149). In the paragraph, which records the gift of " sex Cartulary this valuable record is rendered selliones terræ retro curiam de Ablode by unintelligible by reading Willelmus inRalf de Wylintone and his wife. stead of Gislebertus where the original has eccentric eos & Abbate' suum q'd Gis't' versus clamabat." Angl' is extended as "Angliæ instead of Anglorum; monachis is given as monachos ; and there are minor errors. G. H. WHITE. Although the punctuation appears to connect the date with the existence of the garden, we may assume that it was the grant in exchange therefor which took place in 9 Hen. I.; yet the editor (i. 318) assigns the wide date-limits 11001112 to the corresponding writ (No. ccxcI.): Præcipio quod monachi de Gloucestria habeant gravam in bertona mea cum terra quam dedi eis pro escambio terræ ubi turris mea sedet, et volo ut bene et honorifice teneant. 23 Weighton Road, Anerley, S.E. WAR SLANG : De Grava quæ dicitur Peygrave. REGIMENTAL NICKNAMES Henricus, rex Angliæ [sic], Sampsoni [Wigorni- (12 S. iv. 271, 306, 333).-As explained in a ensi] episcopo, et Waltero vicecomiti de Gloucestria, et baronibus Francis et Anglis de Glouces-recently published book entitled 'Behind tresyra, salutem. the Barrage,' by Mr. George Goodchild, scrounge appears to be used in a much broader sense than that conveyed by my friend MR. SPARKE'S explanation (iv. 307). Mr. Goodchild, in the book referred to, deals with the life and work of a gunner, and as an officer in a heavy battery he had ample opportunity of acquiring first-hand knowledge. His book is one of the most realistic specimens of war literature that it has been my pleasure to read. Mr. Goodchild, on p. 94, writing of the various duties performed by the signalling party of which he was in charge, says : The succeeding charter (CCXCI.) is wrongly headed "Confirmatio ejusdem.' It has nothing to do with the King's grant, being a confirmation by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, of a grant by Richard fitz Neel, and is a duplicate of No. DLXXII., confirming DLXXI. (ii. 89). To revert to the List of Donations: the grant of Coln is recorded thus (i. 69): De Culna Rogeri. Anno Domini millesimo centesimo quinto, Rogerus de Gloucestria miles, apud Waleyson graviter vulneratus, dedit monachis Gloucestria pro anima sua in montanis Culnam quæ vocatur Culna Rogeri, rege Henrico confirmante, abbatia vacante per mortem Serlonis abbatis. What is the meaning of "in montanis Can montanis be a wrong extension of some part of morior ? ? "In the category of odd jobs' came scrounging.' Scrounging is eloquent armyese-it covers pilfering, commandeering, 'pinching,' and many other familiar terms. You may scrounge for rations, kit, pay, or leave. Signallers are experts at it, and they usually scrounge for wire. Scrounging for wire is legitimized by the War Office,, and called by the gentler name of 'salving.' We were informed it was our duty to economize in the cost of the war by salving the wire that was disconnected by shell fire, or which We appeared to be serving no useful purpose. In the List of Donors we have consecutive had first to tap it' on the line with a field teleentries (i. 123):— phone, and if we got no response the wire was ours.. ....We made 'scrounging a daily affair, and not infrequently 'scrounged' wire that was not disconnected and belonged to other batteries." It is quite clear that Roger's gift of Coln Further on he writes: 'They [the men] had nothing to do with the monks' gurden. scrounged round for a nice shell-hole, rigged On the other hand, if the grant of Ablode a bit of tarpaulin over it, and called it and Paygrave Wood were made in 1109,' billets." " In sending another list of war words may I be permitted to point out that the spelling of the words in this and the first list is that given by the Tommies in France, and not mine? I hope that SIR RICHARD TEMPLE will continue to give derivations of any Indian words in this list, and that other correspondents will add to it and explain any obscure words therein. Though some of the words may not be new, as clink and " chink," they have lain in obscurity, and have only come into common usage during the War and where soldiers do congregate. 66 No bonne.-No good; useless. Windy.-Frightened; nervous. Drum-up.-"I've some sugar. If you get tea and hot water we'll have a drum-up.' Put your skates on. - Get clear, to evade duty. Crawling, creeping, squaring.-Buying favours. Chewing the fat.-Fault-finding. Sweating. Getting warm, probably from the game of hide-and-seek. Getting excited. Shot up the back.-Put hors de combat by some sally. Found out. Put dots on one.-To bore or tire. A man working a searchlight is said to be on great deal, or playing a losing hazard, is chancing his mit.' the " pictures or "movies " ; one risking a 66 ARCHIBALD SPARKE. As some old regimental nicknames are printed by MR. SPARKE at the second reference, it is worth while to draw attention to 9 S. v. 104, 161, 224, 263, 377, 438. For mottoes see ibid., p. 389. Nicknames and mottoes are given in John S. Farmer's Regimental Records of the British Army,' 1901; and in 'Regimental Nicknames and Traditions of the British Army,' published by Gale & Polden, 3rd ed., 1891; 4th ed., 1915. Care should, I think, be taken to distinguish the battalions in linked-battalion regiments. Notably nicknames derived from regimental numbers are not applicable to both battalions; e.g., The Three Tens (30th Regiment) is not applicable to The Lily-Whites" (59th Regiment), though these two regiments are the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the East Lancashire Regiment. Although the Territorial titles were given as long ago as 1881, I believe that many of the regiofficially, to their old numbers. battalions cling to-day, ments or ROBERT PIERPOINT. un LINES UNDER A CRUCIFIX (12 S. iv. 297).There seems to be little doubt, from the respective passages transcribed from Weever and Fynes Moryson by PROF. BENSLY, that the two seventeenth-century writers had, consciously or unconsciously, a common original. The date of that (obviously preReformation) is not determined. There is a rare old book in Scots orthography-published in English seventeen years earlier than Moryson's and thirty-one years earlier than Weever's-which it will not be uninteresting to cite here for the sake of some verses which it contains, in the nature of a doctrinal descant. The stout little volume in question (444 pp. plus 20) is entitled ane "A Facile Traictise | Contenand first infallible reul | to discerne trew from fals religion Nixt, a declaration of the Nature, Number, Vertew & effects of the Sacraments | togider with certaine Prayers of deuotion. | Dedicat to his soverain Prince the Kings Maiestie | of Scotland, King James the Saxt. | Be Maister Jhone Hamil-screen inscriptions cited by PROF. BENSLY. ton Doctor in Theologic. At Louvan | Im: The eight lines with which the Scotsman printed be Laurence Kellam | Anno Dom. MDC.' leads off are to all intents and purposes a This is the priest and scholar John Hamilton, close translation of active in the cause of Queen Mary Stuart and in the opposition to Henry of Navarre, who lived the hunted life usual to recusants, and died in prison in 1609. Following the last section of the book, entitled 'A Čatalogue of Heresies,' we come upon a poem Composit be L.F.S.E.B.C.P.," and therefore not Hamilton's own. It is headed : 86 . In passing be the Crucifix Nocht it, bot Christ whome it presents, For God is he whome it raports; No image God can be! Adore what thow beholdis in it: Caluin dou say that we transgres We do confirme what he dois say, What difference is of God aboue In hymnes and cantiques ay), His woundis, his forme, his passion, So it ends, though there is more of it than is here given. At the bottom are the string of difficult initials already quoted, and a charming colophon: Excuse, guid reider, the erreurs committit in ye prêting: Considder the difficultie to prent our langage in a strage countrey. God Keip 30w!" Effigiem Christi dum transis semper honora, The vernacular muse had a hard time of it, DESSIN'S HOTEL, CALAIS (12 S. iv. 187, 248). The following extracts from old guide-books, &c., give some information : "The most superb inn is the hotel formerly the celebrated Dessin's, Rue Royale. The apartments are elegant and the accommodation every thing that can be wished; but the charge is proportionable, and will not suit every pocket."A New Picture of Paris,' by Edward Planta, 15th ed., London, 1827, p. 24, s.v. Calais Inns. refers to Dessin, (Apparently "formerly " the original innkeeper.) "At Dessin's Hotel, is still shown a room in which it is said Sterne wrote part of his 'Sentimental Journey.' Over the door is the following inscription, This is Sterne's Room.'"-Ibid., p. 30. "The inns of Calais are excellent. The Hôtel Dessin is mentioned by Sterne in his Sentimental Journey.' King George IV slept here on his way to Hanover, in 1823, as did the Duke of Northumberland, when proceeding to Rheims as the representative of his Britannic Majesty at the Coronation of King Charles X. It is the finest house in Calais, and presents every comfort that travellers can desire, including baths, a theatre, music, and a fine garden."- Galignani's Traveller's Guide through France,' 9th ed., Paris, 1828, p. 631. "The far-famed inn, Desseins, still exists, and with very superior accommodations [sic], for which the guests must pay, but the charges are not unreasonable. It is situated in the Rue Royale, where, in imitation of Dover, a small foot-path of flat stones is placed, to the astonishment of all France, such a phenomenon having scarcely elsewhere obtruded itself.". The New Picture of Paris,' by Peter Hervé, Esq., and M. Galignani, 4th ed., London, 1829, p. 25. In 'Bradshaw's.... Continental Railway Guide of November, 1864, p. 562, among the advertisements is one of the .... "Hotel Dessein.-L. Dessein, the Proprietor, has the honour to inform his numerous patrons, No one can reasonably doubt that the and travellers in general, that since the 1st of maker of this rough serviceable rhyme, ferred to the Hotel Quillac, which has been entirely January, 1861, his establishment has been transpossibly a fellow exile of Hamilton's at newly done-up, and which has taken the name of Louvain, was familiar with the old rood-Hotel Dessein.' The premises of the old Hotel The replies to my query give all the information one could wish for. It is, however, curious that none of your correspondents give the name of the house, of which I was ignorant. I find that it is mentioned by William Hickey, who writes :"On the 12th of October [1776] we reached Calais, putting up at the far-famed Lion d'Argent, of which hotel the voluble Monsieur Dessein was the proprietor." - Memoirs of William Hickey,' edited by Alfred Spencer, ii. 94 (Hurst & Blackett, 1918). For the spelling of the name as Sterne is, of course, responsible. Dessein " T. F. D. Wissowa 'Realencyclopädie' under ' Aquæ," No. 31, and the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum,' vol. vii., edited by Hübner, pp. 24 sqq. It may be added that a goddess Sol (ZA) is mentioned on a Greek inscription from the Bosphorus, of 152 A.D. An attempt was made at one time to connect her name with that of the British deity. See Roscher's 'Lexicon,' part 66, col. 1153. EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth. RICHARD I. IN CAPTIVITY (12 S. iv. 303). – Lingard in his "History of England,' ii. 268-70, says that Richard was driven by a storm to the coast of Istria, between Aquileia and Venice, and proceeded towards Goritz (Gorizia), the residence of Maynard, a nephew of Conrad." He got as far as Erperg, a suburb of Vienna, where he was captured and imprisoned by the Duke of Austria. Later he was delivered over to the Emperor Henry VI., who confined him in a castle in the Tyrol till Queen Eleanor, his mother, obtained his release through the mediation of the Pope. N. W. HILL. W. E. Flaherty in the 'Annals of England (1858), vol. i. pp. 275-6, writes: : "A.D. 1192....The king's fleet reaches Sicily, but his own vessel is driven to Corfu, Nov. 11: he is soon after shipwrecked in the upper part of the Adriatic, and attempts to make his way in disguise as Hugh the merchant. He at length reaches Erperg, near Vienna, where, being recognized, he is seized by Leopold, duke of Austria, Dec. 20. The emperor (Henry VI.) claims the custody of Richard, Dec. 28, and confines him in a castle in the Tyrol. "" A.D. 1193. Richard's prison is discovered by Longchamp; the queen-mother appeals to the pope (Celestine III.), who excommunicates his oppressors, but fails to obtain his freedom. Richard is brought before the diet at Hagenau, about Easter (Mar. 28), when he clears himself by oath from the murder of Conrad; a heavy sum is settled for his ransom, June 28.... A.D. 1194....The German princes compel the emperor, against his will, to release Richard, who is set at liberty, Feb. 4." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. SOL AS A WOMAN'S NAME IN ENGLAND "One (12 S. iv. 133).-W. J. B. writes: instance is believed to be an abbess, or daughter of some pre-Norman, Saxon, or British queen in Somerset or thereabouts." This is not a very definite clue, but the geographical indication makes it, perhaps, CRAGGS AND NICHOLSON FAMILIES (12 S. worth suggesting that the instance is the iv. 220, 310).-There is a pedigree of the British goddess Sul or Sulis, after whom | Craggs and Eliot family in Hasted's ' History the Roman city of Bath was named Aquæ of Kent,' i. 138, which was communicated. Sulis. The Romans identified her with by the Earl of St. Germains. This shows Minerva, and her name is found in several no connexion between the Craggs and dedicatory inscriptions at Eath. An error Nicholson families. I have a pedigree of which affected some manuscripts of the the Craggs family, much fuller than the 'Antonine Itinerary' gave rise to the mis- above, from local (Durham) records and spelling" Aqua Solis." See the Pauly-registers, and it has no connexions with the |