was still defying the elements with impunity, and there may be still a few hale greybeards haunting the scene of their life's

IRISH FAMILY HISTORIES
(ADDITIONAL).

403; ix. 24, 66, 223.)

activities who could, with fair coherency, (See 11 S. vii. 483; viii. 124, 173, 213, 335, relate to the interested stranger their boyish remembrances of the old house. It was a roomy, timbered structure, with gables and quaint carvings, very like the picturesque old house in Canterbury in which David Copperfield first found Mr. Wickfield. It was, to repeat David's description,

"a very old house, bulging out over the road: a house with long, low lattice windows bulging out still farther, and beams with carved heads on the ends bulging out too, so that the whole house was leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below."

was

MacCarthy. Memoir of Michael Stephen Joseph
MacCarthy (of Whitchurch, co. Cork), by
his Grandson, C. Desmond MacCarthy, M.A.,
with a Pedigree, showing his Descendants,
compiled and verified by Constance Harts-
horne (born MacCarthy). 1885.
MacNamara.-The Story of an Irish Sept, by
N. C. MacNamara. 1896.
Martin.-Genealogy of the Family of Martin, of
Ballinahinch Castle, in co. Galway, Ireland,
by Archer S. Martin. Winnipeg, 1890.
Massy-A Genealogical Account of the Massy
Family. Dublin, 1890.

Mathew.-Genealogy of the Earls of Llandaff, of Thomastown, co. Tipperary, Ireland. [1904.] Mercer. The Mercer Chronicle (an Epitome of Family History), by an Irish Sennachy (Edwd. S. Mercer), &c. 1866. Molyneux. History, Genealogical and Biographical, of the Molyneux Families, by Nellie Z. R. Molyneux. Syracuse, N.Y., 1904. Molyneux.-An Account of the Family and Descendants of Sir Thomas Molyneux, Kt., Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland to Queen Elizabeth. Evesham, 1820. (Chapel Montgomery.-A Genealogical History of the Molyneux.) Family of Montgomery, of Mount Alexander and Grey Abbey, by Mrs. E. G. S. O'Reilly. 1842. 1603-1706, Montgomery.-Montgomery MSS., were &c., by Wm. Montgomery of Rosemount, with Notes by Rev. Geo. Hill. Belfast, 1869. Montgomery.-A Family History of Montgomery,

were

We have seen that the earliest parchment
of the public records relating to this parcel
of the manor of Poplar, save the Domesday
Survey, carries us back only to the fourteenth
century, when Sir John de Pulteney was
the owner, two years before the Black Death
swept heavily over the land. At the time when
Domesday was made the "herberger
reckoned with the inferior class of trades-
men, and doubtless held his "inn" under
the laws governing the system of villeinage;
by and by his status became improved, and
he was able to acquire a small parcel of
land on terms of free tenure. In some cases,
however, the harbours
the direct
property of the manor lord, and
managed by his bailiff.
Which of these
conditions prevailed at the Cold Harbour at
Blackwall it is wholly impossible to say, but
we do know that by the time Pulteney
figures as the lord of the manor of Poplar
harbours had become appreciably more
comfortable places, with large, cheerful
hearths fenced round by benches long enough
to seat well "fifteen or sixteen persons on
a cold evening." The bedchambers were
yet common, unscreened dormitories, where
travellers slept at a penny a night along
with the host and hostess, the Englishmen
of those days being uneducated in the
comforts, not to say the decencies, of
life. Is there room for wonder, then, at
any lewd drama such as Chaucer narrates
in The Reeve's Tale' ?

Besides the better-known Cold Harbours
of Dowgate, Camberwell, Hatcham, and
Blackwall, others were to be met with in
Hackney, Finchley, the Tower, Erith, and
Hayes (Middlesex). To the last two Wal-
ford has some slight references in Greater
London.'
R. A. H. UNTHANK.

of Ballylech, co. Monaghan, now of Beaulieu,
co. Louth, and Conway, co. Donegal ;
Montgomery-Moore of Garvey, co. Tyrone;
Leslie Montgomery of Ballyconnell, co.
Cavan; Maxwell of Falkland, co. Monaghan ;
Fraser of Cuba, King's Co.; Tichbourne,
Baron Ferrard, of Beaulieu, Aston, and
Tipping, also of Beaulieu, co. Louth; Sir
Henry Tichbourne's Letter to his Lady, &c.;
Montgomery, Counts de Lorge; Historical
Notice of the Family of Montgomerie, Mont-
gomery, Earl of Mount Alexander, Antient
History of Montgomery. (No date.)
Montmorency.-Les Montmorency de France, et
les M. d'Irlande, ou Précis Historique des
Démarches faites à l'Occasion de la Reprise
du Nom de ses Ancêtres par la Branche de
Montmorency-Marisco-Morres, par le Chef
de cette dernière Maison, avec la Généalogie
complète et détaillée des Montmorency
d'Irlande. Paris, 1828.
O'Brien.-Genealogical Notes of the O'Briens of
Kilcor, co. Cork. 1887.

O'Brien.-The O'Briens, by W. A. Lindsay.
I ondon, 1876

O'Byrne. Historical Reminiscences of the
O'Byrnes, O'Tooles, O'Kavanaghs, and Other
Irish Chieftains, by O'Byrne. 1843.
O'Byrne.-History of the Clan O'Byrne, by Rev
P. L. O'Toole. Dublin, 1890.

A strong inducement would be the reward of

1007. offered by the Royal Society of Arts for the production of County Surveys, which offer Isaac Taylor was the first to accept for a map of Dorsetshire. Taylor's maps are all signed at Ross, and do not bear a publisher's name. The second edition of Herefordshire, however, bears the imprint of W. Faden, who was Thomas Jeffery's successor."

conflagration," and adds: "This is an unsuitable sense and does not apply." With great respect to the memory of the learned and lovable Professor, I submit it exactly applies. The word is in Domesday Book as Bernetebi, representing Barnetby, a village in N. Lincolnshire, four miles from GlanfordBrigg. Surely this means "the village of the burning, or conflagration." In primitive times, we must remember, the country was mostly wild land, heath, marsh, moor, woodland, or underwood, and as population increased new settlements and enclosures were made in the wastes, and names given to them. The mode of clearing was just as it is now in new countries. In the United States and Canada fire and the axe play the principal part. A recent traveller in Siberia

writes:

"It was a mild evening, and a beautiful sunset splashed the heavens with salmon and green. As the after-glow faded into dusk we ran into a zone of cleared forest where they were burning out stumps, firing the ground in great half-moons that cast a lurid glow across the sky for miles around. When the walls of fire had swept on, pine stumps here and there remained flaring as though bands of lirkmen were passing through the hills."— Through Siberia,' Wright and Digby. "Another copy of Isaac Taylor's map of 1777. New settlements or enclosures are a fertile A label is pasted under the dedication, containing source of place-names: hence our numerous the following: London. Printed for Wm." Newland," "Newton," "Newnham," &c., Faden....Augt. 21st, 1786.' A copy of this is in the University Library, Cambridge."

In Mr. Chubb's Descriptive Catalogue of Gloucestershire maps the following entry

occurs under 1786 :

William Faden published a second edition of Isaac Taylor's Map of Gloucestershire on 24 Nov., 1800, and another, on the reduced scale of 2 miles to an inch, on 1 Feb., 1800. It would seem, then, that Isaac Taylor was a surveyor who published maps of six different counties at Ross between 1750 and 1777, but that his maps were republished by Wm. Faden in 1786, and it would seem also that this is all that can be gathered about him with certainty. Yet his work was so excellent that it would be well if something more could be learned and placed on record concerning him. The surname Taylor is a common one in the Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley. C. S. TAYLOR.

Banwell Vicarage, Somerset.

THE PLACE NAME "BARNET."-Prof. Skeat in his Place-Names of Hertfordshire,' p. 60, contends that this word is of French origin, and after a somewhat long article leaves the meaning unsettled and the reader unsatisfied. It is true that the place is not mentioned in Domesday Book, and all the forms given by the Professor are post-Conquest. Then he goes straight to the truth: "Anglo-Saxon barnet, a burning

which give their own interpretation. "The
Riddings," "Ridding Lane," are common
names (Mid. Eng. Ridding, Riddance), “a
clearing"; in Lancashire and Yorkshire
the word is royd (from the Norse), and forms
the terminal of hundreds of place-names.
"The Stockings," "Stocking Lane," are
also common, and refer to the stocking-up
of old stubs or roots; "Stubby Lane,
Stubby Green," belong to the same order.
Common names are
"The Breaches,"
"Breach Farm,' "The Bratch," "The
Braches," "Britch Lane," &c., meaning “a
breaking up" (of the ground); "breach
and “break "have the same root, from Old
English bryce and broc. In Middle English
many of these latter forms become bruche
and, later, birch, so that such names as

"Long Birch," “ Strangelford Birch,” “Gor-
sty Birch," "The Birches," "Birchills," &c.,
have frequently no reference to the birch
tree. This is especially the case in the
neighbourhood of Brewood, in Staffordshire,
on the ancient confines of Cannock Forest,
where enclosures were numerous in mediæval
times.
W. H. DUIGNAN, F.S.A.
[This proof was returned to us by the son of the
writer, whose death, we regret to say, took place on
27 March.]

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NAPOLEON AND A SEA CAPTAIN AT ST. HELENA.-I have temporary possession of a very interesting letter, lent by a friend, concerning Napoleon. It was written on 3 May, 1817, by a Capt. Thos. Cook, master of a storeship," from St. Helena when Napoleon was resident there. The postagemark on the cover shows that the letter was charged 12d., being "1 oz. at 14/ per oz." [? lb.]. It was addressed to Messrs. Cook, Son & Leopard, Navy Agents, No. 1 James-st., Adelphi, London."

"When I see you I shall have a long account to give you about Bonaparte. I was more fortunate than most part of the people that visits St. Helena, for it is very few indeed that the Great Man will see.

"I was introduced to him by Marshall Bertrand, and was in conversation with him for about three quarters of an hour. He asked many questions, which is too numerous to mention in this letter. They will afford us a little amusement when we meet.

man.

He

"One of the questions was, if I was a married I said I had been married twenty years. He asked if I had any children. I said no. then asked what I had been about all that time not to get any. I said I could not tell as I had done my best endeavours; but perhaps it was the same with me as it was with him and his first wife. He laughed very heartily at my reply. You may put that in the papers if you please, as I was very proud at seeing the Great Man." WILLIAM CUBBON.

Douglas Public Library.

REV. THOMAS GALE: HURRICANE AT HORNSEA, 1732. (See ante, p. 188.)-In compliance with the wish expressed in the editorial note at the above reference, I send the following account, entered in the Parish Register, under 1787, by the Rev. W. Whytehead, then curate, with some slight additions given in Poulson's "History of Holderness.'

The storm, which occurred on 23 Dec., 1732,

were blown from the Church, and wrapped round two sycamore trees now standing in Hall Garth. A woman and child, who were in bed together in a chamber of one of the unroofed houses, were blown into the street with the bed under them, and received little, if any, bodily harm; a beam was blown from a house on the west side of the street into the garret window of a house on the child) is now living here; the old woman, her other side of the street. Mrs. Moore (the then aunt, she says, did not live many weeks, but whether her death was accelerated by the fright, she could not say. I was then here with my grandfather Ogle (in my fourth year), who lived in Eastgate; he did not perceive there was any violent wind, nor was there any damage done in all that street."

The hurricane lasted only three minutes, and must have pursued a very narrow course. Hornsea Mere, covering between 400 and 500 acres, is about half a mile from the sea, the town lying between the two.

The writer of the above account says that the parish clerk was hiding smuggled goods in the crypt of the church, and that the fright brought on a paralytic stroke. He (Mr. Whytehead) was Vicar of Atwick and Mapleton, villages north and south of Hornsea, of which last place he was at the same time curate-in-charge, 1756-1803. He was a great antiquary, and has been compared to Gilbert White of Selborne. Many interesting particulars respecting him and Yorkshire people and customs are contained in a book, 'Records of an Old Vicarage (John Long), written by his great-grandson, ford, Essex. the Rev. R. Y. Whytehead, Rector of Law E. L. H. TEW,

Vicar of Hornsea 1872-97.

Upham Rectory, Hants.

THE ADVENT OF SCOTSMEN IN ENGLAND. All Scots genealogists are familiar with a type of family bearing a Scots surname, long resident in England, and unable to account for its presence on this side of the Border. May I suggest that some of these arose from the Mere in a direction towards the families are to be accounted for by soldiers sea, destroying and unroofing 24 houses, 14 barns, in Scots regiments which were disbanded and other outhouses standing near the market during the end of the eighteenth century, cross, or within 150 yards on each side of it, besides and which dropped batches of the men on the damage which the Church sustained; it the march back to Scotland, where the regi blew down the east end of the vicarage house and took off its roof; and though Mr. Gale, the ment was formally and finally reduced? curate, and his numerous small family were then Two sets of papers at the Public Record in their beds, not one received the least injury; Office may be consulted on this point: one of my neighbours tells me that, immediately the Pay Rolls (W.O. 12 and 13) and the after the storm, he, the curate, went running over to their house with a young child in his shirt-Marching Orders (W.O. 5). The final paylap, saying, 'This is all I have left!' supposing the sheets often give the dates when men were others to have been killed. The hurricane, in its discharged, and the marching orders show progress towards the sea, overturned the windmill where the regiment was at this particular in the field called the Dales, not far from the foot-time. For instance, the 81st Regiment, path leading from the Church to the Beck, and, raised in Aberdeenshire, left Hillsea Barracks what was very extraordinary, the millstones were 19, 20, and 21 Feb., 1783, and reached

carried 150 yards from the mill. Sheets of lead

ENGLISH CANONIZED SAINTS. (See 10 S. iii. 25; vii. 497.)-It is stated that St. Bathilda was canonized by St. Nicholas the Great (Pope 858-67); St. John of Beverley by Benedict IX. in 1037; St. William of Rochester or of Perth by Alexander IV. in 1256; and St. Richard of Andria by Boniface VIII. at Anagni about 1300.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

WILLIAM MAVOR AND THOMAS WARTON. -In reading through a number of contributions to 'N. & Q.' about the Rev. William Mavor, I find no reference to his connexion with the Rev. Thomas Warton, the Poet Laureate and historian of English poetry, and Warton's biographers seem to have been equally unaware or neglectful of their relations. I have before me, however, copies of two letters from Warton to Mavor which show that when Warton yielded to the temptation to relinquish his clerical duties in favour of his literary pursuits (he had never served his charges during the Long Vacations, which he habitually spent with his brother at Winchester), and availed himself of the customary help of a curate, he selected Mavor for that position at Kiddington. Mavor was at that time not yet 30; he had entered Holy Orders in 1781, and had not yet received any Church preferment, but was an assistant in the Academy at Woodstock, not far from Warton's living at Kiddington.

The first letter is dated 26 Nov., 1787, and is addressed to Mavor " at the Academy at Woodstock." It begs the continuance of his services at Kiddington until the "second Sunday of February next inclusive," with

"perpetual

the promise that, should a curate" be needed there, he was to have the appointment. There is nothing in the letter to indicate the length of Mavor's previous services, beyond what is contained in the implication that he would be an acceptable substitute to the "Family at Kiddington," and that an account for services had accumulated. The second letter, written 28 Jan., 1788, renews the engagement for the next twelve-months," with every probability of a "much longer time, as I have no thought of ever serving it myself." Probably Mavor acted as curate until Warton's death in 1790. The terms of the engagement are specified also in this second letter: "Half a Guinea a Sunday," and a crown “for case of a Burial on weekdays (a very rare case) "-settlement to be made at Mavor's pleasure.

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another interesting point of contact between Besides this obvious connexion, there is Mavor and Warton-their interest in local antiquities. In 'A New Description of Blenheim,' 1789, Mavor announced that he had been for some time collecting material for a history of Woodstock (which never appeared) an interest that one cannot but suspect was more or less directly prompted by Warton's 'Specimen of a History of ton),' privately printed in 1782, and pubOxfordshire (being an account of Kiddinglished the following year. In the Preface to this little volume Warton suggested the desirability of making a number of such local histories from which county histories might be subsequently compiled, and Mavor seems here to have followed the hintreinforced, no doubt, by personal suggestion as well.

are in the Bodleian Library (Montague, d 18,
The originals of the letters quoted above
f. 135, 136), where I made my copies of them
in 1912.
CLARISSA RINAKER.

University of Illinois.

A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY LENTEN RECIPE -The occasional intrusion among more formal documents of inconsequent entries and purposeless scribblings goes some way to brighten the labours of the student when toiling through a volume of records on a definite search of quite another nature, but, so far as I know, the following quaint vol. i. of the Oxford Archdeaconry Will recipe, written on the last page of Series I. Registers, has not before found its way into print. There is nothing to indicate the date, but from comparison with the writing of the wills on the pages near I should say 1544