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to the same to Thomas Bendish ; this family
enjoyed it for many generations, making
it their seat and residence. It has or had,
a Park round it, and stands a little way
south from the Church."
ARCHIBALD SPABKE.
This place is certainly Steeple Bumpstead' near the northern boundary of the county' with memories of the Bendish family and t heir seat at Bower Hall.
, EDWARD SMITH.
[A. E. S. thanked for reply.]
BATH FORUM (12 S. ii. 429). Forum is derived by a scribal error from the contracted form of jorinseca, or foreign. The word was always contracted to /o in documents ( being intended to represent in type the peculiar r with a crossed tail which generally stood for -rum,, but occasionally represented other r- terminations), and the reader, whose knowledge of Latin was often superficial, extended it as forum, on the analogy of such words as 6ono (bonorum). A similar process has given the word Sarum for Saresberia. Bath Foreign is the hundred outside the city jurisdiction. A. E. S.
FOREIGN GRAVES OF BRITISH AUTHORS, &c. : CHURCHILL AND CAMPBELL (12 S. ii. 172, 254, 292, 395). It is stated that Charles Churchill's friends placed a stone over his grave in the churchyard of St. Martin's, Dover, containing the line :
Life to the last enjoyed, here Churchill lies. It will be recalled that Hogarth made use of this line as an epitaph for his dog Pompey , buried at Chiswick.
Does any memorial to Churchill now exist at Dover ?
With respect to the Boulogne memorial to Thomas Campbell, see 9 S. iv. 304.
JOHN T. PAGE.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes died at Bale, Jan. 26, 1849, and was buried in the ceme- tery of the hospital there.
SUSANNA CORNER.
Lenton Hall, Nottingham.
Philip Thicknesse was buried at Boulogne, where he died 1792. See 9 S. ii. 341.
R. J. FYNMORE.
A LOST POEM BY KIPLING (12 S. ii. 409, 475). In The Century for January, 1909, is .a full account of the circumstances relating to the lost poem.
W. Arthur Young's ' A Dictionary of the Characters and Scenes in the Stories and Poems of R. Kipling, 1886-1911 ' (Routledge, n.d., but without doubt 1911), says the verses
were published in The Daily Telegraph of
Jan. 1, 1909. These were quoted, according
to that newspaper, by Prof. F. Jackson
Turner in an essay on ' The Influence of the
Frontier on History,' and they go on to give
the same account of reference to Kipling as
given in The Century.
THOMAS JESSON. 31 Parkside, Cambridge.
AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ii. 348). 1. The text of the quotation asked for by Tertium Q., with other entertaining matter, is to be found in Lecture I. Book II. of ' The Pleader's Guide,' which appears as an. Appendix to my copy of ' The Comic Black- stone.' JOHN E. NORCROSS.
Brooklyn, U.S.
OFFICERS' " BATMEN " (12 S. ii. 409). In J. H. Stocqueler's ' Military Encyclopaedia,' 1853, I find :
" Bat, a pack saddle ; Bat- horse, a baggage horse, which bears the bat or pack ; Bat-man, a servant in charge of the bat-horses. At present it usually means a soldier from the ranks allowed to act as servant to an officer."
The Rev. H. Percy Smith in his ' Glossary of Terms and Phrases,' 1883, gives :
"Bat-man [Fr. bat, pack-saddle, L. bastum.] Soldier-servant of a non-commissioned officer; also one who attends an officer's horse, or the bat- horses provided with pack-saddles for carrying the tents and light luggage of the troops."
" Bastum " for Clitellce is among the Greek- Latin, Barbarous, &c., words in the second volume of Bailey's ' Facciolati's Lexicon.'
Napoleon Landais in his ' Grand Dic- tionnaire,' 14th edition, 1862, derives the French Bat from the Greek pd/crpov, which he interprets as a staff with which one carries burdens. The meaning which he gives to bat is a sort of wooden saddle which is placed on asses, mules, and horses, for the fitting of the panniers on it.
I doubt the derivation from pdicrpov, although I remember the staff, which used to be carried by pedlars, a hook at one end and a flattened part to lie on the shoulder.
In Italian and Spanish basto means a " pack-saddle," and bastone and baston respectively a " staff " or " stick."
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
" Batman," pronounced " borman," is the name in our army for an officer's servant provided from the ranks ; one for valeting and a second for the stable in cavalry. A bat animal carries your equipment.
HAROLD MALET, CoL
