whom I surmise to have been the "colemen "-probably held high position, and exercised much power over the people, from whom there is reason to think their methods were kept secret. It is a natural surmise that on the decay and disuse of their occupation they degenerated into sorcerers and diviners. I do not expect such a derivation of the place-name element "cole " to be accepted, until the fact of the straightsighted ley is confirmed by observers in other districts than my own. Fortunately this is already being done, particularly in East Anglia by Mr. W. A. Dutt. But the conclusion that "cold" in place names is a corruption of cole" is not affected by а doubt on this point. I should mention another meaning of "cole " given in the N. E. D.,' a slang phrase for money payments, perhaps toll or tax. It might be a by product of the larger meaning, and explain the cole-free fields which were the subject of a query in N & Q.' ALFRED WATKINS. THE MILTON-OVID SCRIPT.-XI. 38. The battaile of Cadmus with the Cadmus assolts the dragon who before With's greedy chopps, his men did soone deuoure A massy stone against him he doth fling Which made his scaly back againe to ring Then on the back of this same monster he With's dart a wound did make immediatly At last with's speare him through the chopps he thrust And pin'd him to a tree untill he burst The last two lines interpret most faithfully the engraved scene which is reproduced above. Spenser's The weake, that hath the strong so oft forlorne! 'Visions of the World's vanitie,' 6, (1611) If burst and trust may rhyme, we must pass burst and thrust. 1. 3. cf. Yet charge of elastic use of hight. them was to a porter hight, cald Malveňú, .. 'F. Q.' I. iv. 6. The word has already been intelligently used in the Script (25.2). 1. 2. on hunting: cf. hee rode on huntThree Norman Kings' 1. 2. The word chopps (chops, chaps) was ing. Hayward's used by Shakespeare and other good (1613), p. 309. writers of the day; cf. Open mouth open your chaps again," 'Tempest,' Act ii, Sc. 2. You will, chops?" H. IV.' (1st pt.), Act i, Sc. 2. -"“I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps," Ib. (2nd pt.), Act ii. Sc. 4. The crocodile.. closeth her chaps, intending to swallow her," Webster, The White Devil,' your Act. iv. Sc. 1.-".. as he rode in chase, hee was hanged upon the bow of a tree by the chaps:" Hayward, Lives of 3 Norman Kings,' (1613), p. 127. 1. 3. massy: cf. Two massy keys he bore of metals twain. Lyc.,' 110. 1. 4. scaly back: cf. the "skaly rind" of the Leviathan, ‘P. L.' i. 206. 1. 5. Another example of the familiar Milton rhythm noted before (p. 205). 39. Men out of the teeth of ye Dragon Men all in armour who immediatly I once again Diana faire the common Miltonic inversion, cf. the following, all line-endings: a daughter fair," L'AI.,' 23;" his image faire," P. L.,' viii, 221;—" thy Maker faire," Ib. ix. 538. 1. 6. verbs. besprinkeled: another of the beSee note on 34, 8 (p. 388), and cf. the Soil Bedropt with blood of Gorgon, P. L.' x. 526/7. eury part: cf. Vital in every part, She all in every part; . . 1. 7. 1..8. Transformed: cf. all my nether shape thus grew Transform'd: ... 'P. L., ii. 784/5. 41. Actoon torne in peeces by his dogs Actœon's hounds scenting their masters feete With open mouthes where he had trod doe be[at] He frighted runns, they swiftly him persue Feare makes him still his faileing strength renu[e] At last quite tyerd and spent, he faintly falls Whilest that his men for him their master The rhythm and sense keep time in lines 3, 4, 5. 1. 1. cf. So sented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His Nostril. . . P.L.' x. 279/80. 1. 2. cf. Com, knit hands, and beat the ground, 3 Com.' 143. 1. 3. cf. 1. 4. . . . the frighted deep 'P L.' ii, 994. once more I will renew His lapsed powers, 'P.L.' iii, 175/6. 1. 8... to tear thee joint by joint. 42. The accompaning of Jupiter with Semel deceate Of Juno wrought her owne death and defeate Makeing him sware to come in that same sort As when with Juno he us'd VENUS's sport: He coming then in lightning fire and flames Consum'd his paramour t'ashes in his armes, But for the seed which in her womb did lye He sowed, ripened, and brought forth of his thygh In the use of the variant Semel, we have another instance of the Milton characteristic already noted (p. 346). The full form Semele is used in the Latin quatrain and also in the German quatrain in the text; the full form is also used in P. R., ii, 186/7. Some beauty rare, Calisto, Clymene, In rhythm, diction, and curious directness of statement, this stanza is typically Miltonic. We may notice among verbal points: 1. 2. cf. wrought their own captivity. 'P.R., iii. 415. 1. 3. cf. . . . But to Adam in what sort Shall I appeer? . 'P.L.' ix. 816/7. 1. 2. cf. Nocturnal sport. Comus,' 128; and see ante p. 206. .. It started back, but pleasd I soon returnd, Pleas'd it returnd as soon with answering looks Of sympathie and love,there I had fixt Mine eyes till now, and pin'd with vain desire, Had not a voice thus warnd me, What thou seest, What there thou seest fair Creature is thy self, With thee it came and goes: but follow me, P. L.' iv. 460 471. (To be continued). SIR JOHN WOOD, TREASURER. (See 12 S. viii. 206). A good deal of additional information has come to hand concerning Sir John Wood. Treasurer of England and Speaker of the House of Commons. I am, therefore, offering further notes to round off the subject. Descent. Thanks to the will of John Wode the Younger (15 Logge), there is now ne longer much doubt as to their origin. They belonged to the Wodes of West Wittering in the Hundred of Manwood in the Rape 1. 7. seed is much more common than of Chichester in the County of Sussex, the child in Milton. 43. Narcissus. Narcissus drinkeing at a faire cleare Spring Sees his owne shape a faire and comlye thing On which he dotes and so much falls in Loue That from the place he hath no power to Moue But with his Shaddow, talkes, woes. kisses, playes, And pineing in that manner ends his dayes His body did consume, and from the same A flower sprong which beareth still his Name. cf. That likest thy Narcissus are. Comus,' 237. Cleer spring,. . 'P.L.,' iii. 28. Drink the clear stream,. 'Comus,' 722. This Narcissus scene was evidently in Milton's mind when he makes Eve confess to a similar experience when she looked into the cleer smooth Lake." As I bent down to look, just opposite Wodes of Manwood, as they were fond of calling themselves, whose descent may be briefly sketched as follows: : from A certain John de Bosco settled in West Wittering (to the usual accompaniment of law-suits) about the year 1275. He is likely enough to have been a nephew of Adam de Bosco of Felpham, but can hardly have been a descendant. He left a son, Simon de Bosco, who came of age in 1296-9, married one Emma, and died in 1332-4. The Johr Boys of West Wittering who occurs time to time between 1334 and 1345, wa doubtless their son. Another John Boys c West Wittering figures in the Poll Tax of 1378-9, and brings us within fifty years c' the John atte Wode who is mentioned in the Feudal Aid of 1428 as resident at Brackle sham in West Wittering. Simon de Bose: is called atte Wode" in the Subsidy of 1327. John Wode of Midhurst. John Wode, sen and heir, as I suppose, of John atte Wode o Bracklesham, married Joan, daughter an^ heiress of one Thomas Sarteler, of an ancient of Sussex family found in the thirteenth cen- Rivershall in Essex. It was, then, Elizatury in the Hundred of Avisford, and M.P. beth who brought Rivershall into the family. for Midhurst in 1382 and 1397. Sarteler, She died in 1466 (I.P.M.). In 1469 John before his death enfeoffed Michael Baggele, Wode the Elder became Member for MidMichael Maunser and Thomas Wartur of his hurst, thus beginning his parliamentary estates in Midhurst, Westdene and Ease- career where his father began before him. bourne, at the same time entailing them on His second marriage and later life were his daughter, Joan, and her heirs in fixed sufficiently handled in the previous article. succession. In 1427-8, the very years of the An 1.P.M., dealing with the Molesey proAid mentioned above, this property was perty that had come to him by way released to the young couple by the feoffees Elizabeth from her mother, Margaret, (Fine, Sussex, 85: 38), the succession being daughter and co-heiress of Hamelin de duly secured to the heirs of the wife, who Mathan of Molesey, was taken in 1484-5. was, presumably, still under age. We can Letters of administration of his estate were now see clearly enough how it came about granted to Thomas Garth, 15 Nov., 1488 that this John Wode was elected in 1435 as (Lambeth). Garth, who, as has been Member for Midhurst. He continued to stated, married the widow, was an active and represent the borough for several years in distinguished soldier, and died, Marshal of succession, during which period he is Berwick-on-Tweed, in 1505 (Will, 35 Holdescribed as Johannes atte Wode, junior," which seems to prove that his father was still alive. In 1449 he was Knight of the Shire for Sussex, by the name of "Johannes atte Wode," without addition, which goes to show that John atte Wode of Bracklesham was then dead. John Wode of Midhurst, as we have called him to distinguish him from his father and his sons, died before 1469. Besides John the Elder, Thomas and John the Younger, he left a daughter, Alice, who married Reyman, and a daughter, Agnes, who married Sympkin. His will, quoted in that of John the Younger, was not proved. The entailed estates descended to his eldest son in fee-tail. Certain lands in Lancing, Burpham and Midhurst he left to John the Younger, with remainder for life to his widow, if she survived him. grave). John Wode the Younger. John Wode the Younger lived at Chichester, where he was for many years in the service of John Arundell, the Bishop. He married Margaret, who, since she was sister of Thomas Druell, is not likely to have been a great heiress. Nevertheless, her husband con trived to invest large sums of money in land. In 1470-1 he bought an estate in Bracklesham and Chichester, one of his trustees being John Arundell (Fine, Diverse Counties, 75:6). In 1476-7 he bought the Manor of Bodyton, associating with himself, among others, William Druell, one of his wife's kinsmen, and his friend and executor, John Kebowe, or Kybowe, a priest and, perhaps, a foreigner (Fines, Sussex, 93: 17). He also acquired lands in Cocking, Bosham, John Wode the Elder. Early in life John Midhurst and Chichester, besides an interest Wode the Elder entered the service of the in the advowson of the Church of PulCity of London, of which in 1452 he was borough and leases of Kempsland and of already Sub-Treasurer. His rise had been a farm at Cakeham in West Wittering. accelerated by a judicious marriage. Eliza- On the death of Sir John the entailed lands beth, his first wife, was daughter and descended to him in fee-tail, with remainder, co-heiress of one John Michell, citizen and strange to say, to his sisters, Alice Reyman stockfishmonger, twice Mayor of London and and Agnes Sympkin, to the exclusion of several times M. P. for the City. When Thomas Wode's three daughters. For a time John Wode married her she was widow of he resided at the " great house" in MidThomas Morested, who had been surgeon to hurst, but returned to Chichester, where he Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI. He, died in 1485. The "John atte Wode of therefore, in contrast to his successor in the Woodmancote, the younger,' " mentioned in lady's affections, was Lancastrian in his the previous article, must have been another sympathies. Dying in 1450 (Will, 12 John; so Woodmancote may be eliminated. Rous), he left to his wife the Manor of To Bishop Arundell, his master," he was, apparently, much attached; for by his will he directed that he should be buried in the Cathedral next that prelate's tomb. This will is packed with family information, most of which has been turned to account above. For directing my attention thereto and to the other wills and administrations mentioned, I am indebted to an article by Mr. J. Challoner Smith that I discovered last March in The Genealogist (New Series, Vol. xxxvi, pp. 57-61). The testator has a good deal to say about his cousins, Edward Bartlot and John Ernley, to the latter of whom, afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, he leaves the reversion of a farm in Cocking on condition of his marrying nepotem meam Margaretam. I think he must have had in mind Margaret, the only unmarried daughter of his brother, Thomas. Ernley, however, seems to have married Margaret, daughter of Edmund Dawtrey. She, too, was, of course, nepotem meam, and had the advantage of her aunt in point of age. Queries. F. L. WOOD. LETTERS OF GEORGE HAMMOND, FIRST BRITISH MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES.In 1885 a volume of 'Selections from the Letters and Correspondence of Sir James Bland Burges, Bart., sometime UnderSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs,' edited by the late James Hutton, was published by Mr. John Murray. The preface indicates that the materials from which the volume was compiled included "a large collection of letters, from which only a few have been selected." Can anyone tell me what has become of this collection? From 1860 till nearly the time of publication, it was in the possession of Lady Lamb, widow (second wife) of Sir James Bland Burges's grandson, Sir Charles Lamb. He died in 1860, she in 1884. Both of her executors have been dead for many years, and the firm of solicitors who acted in the matter of her will no longer exists. She did not by or her will appoint any literary executor trustee of her papers, and the descendants of her husband have no knowledge of their whereabouts. As a part of the work of the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution of Washington, I am preparing the first of a series of volumes of the Correspondence of the British Ministers to the United States. This first volume contains the correspondence of the first such minister, George Hammond. During the period of 1791-1795, Sir J. B. Burges his legation was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and it seems certain that he must have received from Hammond other letters besides the two or three which are printed in the volume mentioned. If I could learn anything regarding the unprinted portions of the collection I should be very greatly obliged. Address, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1140 Woodward Building, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. J. F. JAMESON. SMOGLANDS (ISLE OF WIGHT).-Can any authority on place-names suggest an origin for this, the name of a property near Bembridge, Isle of Wight? I have heard of a vague tradition as to a Saint "Mog" who compelled the devil to build a bridge over the River Bem-hence the name Bembridge. As there was never a river "Bem," nor (as far as I can ascertain) a Saint " Mog," this attempt to account for the name can, no doubt, be dismissed. C. S. THE ANGEL NADIR.--We read in Lamb's essay, The Child Angel' how By the banks of the river Pison is seen, lone-sitting by the grave of the terrestrial Adah, whom the angel Nadir loved, a Child. And in the archives of heaven I had grace to read, how that once the angel Nadir a brief instant in his appeared for station; and, depositing a wondrous Birth, straightway disappeared, and the palaces knew him no more. And this charge was the selfsame Babe, who goeth lame and lovely-but Adah sleepeth by the river Pison. Is this other than Lamb's fantasy? The "Adah" is not the one in Byron's 'Cain,' nor the wife of Lamech or Esau. Nor is "Nadir " one of the angels in Moore's Loves of the Angels.' The Babe (named Ge-Urania in the essay) "went with a lame gait;" but Adah and Nadir may originate |