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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. vm. NOV. 29, 1913.
Henry Coningsby, made his will in 1636
This Henry Coningsby married Elizabeth
daughter and heir of Leonard Benett o:
Stoke Prior (will pr. P.C.C. 1642) ; she re
married John Flackett, who survived her
until 1657.
Could your correspondent in return en- lighten me as to the parentage of Leonarc Benet of Shelwick Court, who died 12 Nov. 1650, and was buried at Holmer, co. Here- ford ? One of his daughters, Dorothy, is buried in Hereford Cathedral. G. R. B.
YORKSHIRE PLACE-NAMES (11 S. viii. 370). Darley. The derivation of this is thus given in Mr. Armitage Goodall's recently published book on the ' Place- Namesof South-West Yorkshire,' pp. 115-16 " Of Darley in Worsborough there are no early
records The most likely etymology, indeed,
would derive [the first syllable] from O.E. deor,
M.E. der, derc, an animal, a wild beast Darley
is probably from Deorleah, ' deer lea.' "
Wreaks. I suggest that this may be related to the first syllable of " Wors- borough " (ibid., p. 306). It is stated that " obviously Worsborough has for its first element a personal name, and Domesday Book gives the one required, Wirce. Corresponding to this we find the earlier form Weorc, as in Birch's * Cartularium Saxon icum ' Weorces-mere ; compare also the Frisian name Wirke (Brons)."
W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.
Much information will be found in Moor- man's ' West Riding Place-Names ' (vol. xviii., Thoresby Society). F. B. M.
- THE SILVER DOMINO '(US. viii. 86, 133,
174). I have been hoping that some one would take up the point incidentally raised by MR. McGovERN at the first reference, and fix the date of the first edition of this book. By an unusual piece of luck I have found a battered copy of what appears to be the first edition in the South African Public Library ; the title-page reads :
"The | Silver Domino; | or | Side Whispers, Social and Literary. | London : | Lamley and Co., Exhibition Road. | 1892. | [All rights reserved.] "
It is a crown 8vo, and consists of pp. viii + 368, the last blank, and the last three unnumbered, p. 367 bearing the imprint " The Gresham Press, | Unwin Brothers, | Chilworth and London," in the centre.
The " Author's Note to the Second Edi- tion " is, as MR. McGovERN points out, dated 9 Nov., 1892, and it begins : " Since the first edition of this book was published, some three weeks ago, a grave event has occurred." The grave event referred to |
was the death of Tennyson, which took place
on 6 Oct., 1892, so that while a very fair
margin for the "some three weeks" i&
allowed by the author, we are able to place
the date of the publication of the first edition
before 6 Oct., 1892, but certainly not as
early as 1891.
I have before me a copy of the " twelfth edition with Author's Note to this issue " (1893) ; like the twentieth edition, the only- note it contains is the " Author's Note to the Second Edition."
The Library Association Record of August, 1899, is not available to me, and I cannot therefore look up the note by your corre- spondent A. R. C. I think, however, that the prominent personage he refers to in that note must be Tennyson, not Gladstone. There is no letter from Mr. Gladstone in the chapter devoted to the Grand Old Man, but in the Author's Note there is a letter from Lord Tennyson, " received from the great poet not long before his death," which should certainly serve to identify the author of ' The Silver Domino.' It was written at Aldworth, and it runs as follows :
MY DEAR , I thank you heartily for your kind
letter and welcome gift. You do well not to care for fame. Modern fame is too often a mere crown of thorns, and brings all the vulgarity of the world upon you. I sometimes wish I had never written a line. Your friend, TENNYSON.
MAURICE BTJXTON FORMAN.
Cape Town.
[" The Silver Domino ' is included in the ' List of New Books ' in The Athenceum of 8 Oct., 1892, p. 481, ndicating that it had been published a few days previously.]
ORIGINAL OF TRANSLATION WANTED (11 S. riii. 389).
" Accipe saphirum ac viride vitrum quod a calore lammse levissime liquefiat."
Thus ed. Hendrio, 1847, p. 156. But
F. A. K.'s difficulty is, perhaps, due to
he transcriber having " diphthonged ' the
final letter of " flamme " ; and Theophilus
robably meant " by the warmth of a very
gentle flame " (flamme leuissime], not " very
lightly by the heat of the fire."
G. H. F.
A NEW "CIRCUS" FOR LONDON (11 S.
dii. 7). The tiny " Circus " which has for
some time been under formation in the
Vlarylebone Road, at the top of Baker
Street, is now completed. With its pave-
nent rounded off, it gives valuable addition
to the roadway at a point where an increase
of space was much needed to cope with a
heavy traffic. It makes an elegant little
