io" S.V.MAY 26,1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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- The Padstow May Songs," which will be
found described by the late Mr. G. C. Boase on p. 5 of vol. vii. of The Western Antiquary. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.'
Lancaster.
KIPLING OBSCURITIES (10 th S. v. 389).!.
- Mandalay ':
And the dawn comes up like thunder. In the tropics the dawn comes up suddenly. At that instant, Turks greet it with the bugle-call from which their hours count at Mocha or Jedda, for example and British with " gun-fire," as at Aden. Is the reference to the heavy and reverberating daylight shot ? Compare * Greater Britain ':
The fragrant, dewy grove
We'll wander through, till gun-fire bids us part.
"Gun-fire" is used also for the evening gun, but in the " serenade " the reference is to a meeting of lovers by night. K. O. M.
HOLY BRITONS (10 th S. v. 308). A note of mine in a paper published in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, about 1890, on 'Marriage in Celtic Britain,' may be of some contributory interest apropos of this query :
"Britain seems to have become the 'heavenly Island,' and the Paradise of the Celts, simply because it was the safest place to guard their religion, their greatest treasure ; just as in the case of a siege, valuables would be placed in the remotest place of safety, or where it would the least occur to the besiegers to look for them. Hence the Holy Island appears to have been shifted from one place to another : first Britain, then Mona, then Ireland, according to the encroachments of ' the stranger ' upon their territory. This doubtless accounts for the preservation in such numbers of the Irish M8S. ; and would not this also explain the unaccounted- for circumstance of the Gauls sending their children to Britain forDruidic education?"
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
SIXTEEN BISHOPS CONSECRATED AT ONE TIME (10 th S. v. 347). In all other accounts of the ceremony recorded by MR. HIBGAME the number of the bishops is given as fourteen. Perhaps there is a misprint here.
E. S. DODGSON.
SAMUEL WILLIAMS, DRAUGHTSMAN (10 th S. v, 109, 312). This artist, on the authority of Ottley's 'Dictionary of Recent and Living Painters,' 1875, was born at Colchester in 1798, died in 1853, and was skilled both in drawing and engraving on wood. He illus- trated Howitt's ' Visits to Remarkable Places,' published originally in 1839, and The Parterre, a sixpenny monthly magazine, started in 1836 It was issued by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, ran for two years, and contained many interesting narratives
by an author whose pseudonym was Horace
Guilford, as 'Manorial Archives' and
' Legends of the Wards of London.' The
four volumes were reissued by Thomas
Tegg & Son, Cheapside, in 1840, the title-
pages bearing the words, "Illustrated by
numerous engravings by Mr. S. Williams,
&c." JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.
Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.
ABBEY OR PRIORY (10 th S. v. 327, 378). The correspondents who have taken pains to rectify the status of particular priories appear to be unaware, not only that the error is very widespread, if not, indeed, general, but also that it is not by any means a merely modern lapse. Strange to say, it was very common even before the Reforma- tion. Mr. W. Stevenson, the high authority on Notts history, in 'Bygone Nottingham- shire,' 1893, p. 184, truthfully says :
." It is a curious fact that for some hundreds of years nearly every allusion to the old priory appears as Lenton Abbey. This was the case all over the county. Newstead Abbey, Worksop Abbey, and Blyth Abbey were and are everyday terms, but the fact remains they were merely priories."
A. STAPLETON. 158, Noel Street, Nottingham.
HAWTREY (10 th S. v. 348). A good account of this name is given in Lower's ' Patro- nymica Britannica,' 1860. The family were in Sussex in Norman times, and their name was derived from their residence on a high bank or shore, Norman- French haulte-rive t and hence the Latinization De Alta Ripa, modified on the one hand to Dawtrey, Daughtry, Daltree, Daltry, Daltrey, on the other hand to Hawtrey and Haultrey. Compare Leland's 'Itinerary,' edition of 1744, vol. vi. p. 28 : "There be buried also yn Petworth Chyrch certein of the Dautereis, whos Names in Latine ba there wryten de alia ripa." JAS. PLATT, Jun.
In a review of 'The History of the Hawtrey Family,' by Miss F. M. Hawtrey (1903), The Ancestor (xii. 99) says :
" They seem to have brought their name from
'Dauterive' in Switzerland, from Brabant and
from Normandy These are origins enough, and
we cannot wonder that Miss Hawtrey considers a fourth derivation of the name 'from the river Arun* a superfluity."
And in The Ancestor (xi. 191) reference is made to a seventeenth-century pedigree :
"The Genealogie and Pedigree of the auncient familie of Hawtrey (written in latine de Alltaripa, and in some Records called Dawtrey) was of noble estimation in Normandie before the Norman Con- quest, as appeareth in the History of Normandy written by Ordericus Vitalis, a Monke of Roan, and
