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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. FEB. 19, 1010.
In Cornish Celtic s often stands for an
original d, and cos, coose, or cowse is equiva-
lent to the Welsh coed (a wood).
It seems rather strange for the word to be used by itself as a place-name ; but it may be worth noting in this connexion that Quat as well as ths neighbouring parish of Quatford (both near Bridgnorth in Salop) have been equated with the Welsh coed. Whether this theory will bear investiga- tion I cannot say.
In the name " Carac lowse in Cowse " lowse, grey, represents Welsh llwyd and Irish liath. W. J. P.
I have before me a map by John Speed, 1610, taken from an atlas, and on the west entrance of Newport Haven is marked " Westcowe Cast " (i.e., Westcowe Castle), but not Cowes. If Y. T. does not possess this map (original) I shall be pleased to send it to him to look at, if he will kindly return it. I have another map from the same atlas, and it has the date 1610 printed on it. HAWKES STRUGNELL,
Commander R.N.
The Royal, 68 and 69, Lancaster Gate, W.
The Cornish word for a wood, cowse, is identical with Welsh coed, as in the place- name Bettws-y-Coed. From the same root comes the English heath, with a slight change of sense. The divergency in the last consonant of Cornish cowse and Welsh coed is due to the Cornish habit of softening final t to s. Compare, for example, the Cornish nance, so common in place-names, with the corresponding Welsh nant. We thus know all about the Cornish cowse, but whether Cowes in the Isle of Wight is derived from it or not " God bless us all ! that 's quite another thing," which I prefer to leave to others to decide. JAS. PLATT, Jun.
[We are glad to be able to print one more com- munication from MR. PLATT'S pen. See ante, pp. 134, 140.]
ROCHECHOUART (11 S. i. 108). The ' Dic- tionnaire de Noblesse,' quoting ' Les Grands Officiers de la Couronne,' t. iv. p. 649, says : -
"Ainiery, seventh of the name, Vicomte de Rochechouart (son of Aimerythe sixth Vicomte by Luce, Dame de Perasse), married Alix de Morte- mart, and had Aimery the eighth Vicomte, who married Marguerite de Limoges, and carried on the line.
" Aimery the seventh Vicomte by Alix de Mortemart had a second son Foucault, Seigneur de Saint Germain ('suivant un memoire'). He was father of a son Gui de Rochechouart, who married Sibilla de Vivonne, and had William and Simon, Seigneur d'Availles."
H. S. V.-W.
' ECCLESTA MlLITANS ' : MlCHAEL HlLT-
PBAND (10 S. xi. 370). The family von liltbrand is included among " Hoch-Ade- iche Geschlechter " in Johann Sinapius's
Schlesische Curiositaten,' Part II., Leipzig and Breslau, 1728. On p. 688 mention is nade of a Michael Hiltbrand, J.U.D., who died on 12 April, 1590. He is described as
' des hohen Dom-Stiffts S. Joh. zu Breszlau 3anonicus, und beym H. Creutz daselbst
ustos, wie auch Bischoffl. Breszlauischer Vicarius und Officialis Generalis." Sinapius adds that his monument is in the church of St. John, and by it a picture of the Descent >om the Cross with the distich,
Ne morerer, pro me Vitse Rex occubuisti ;
Heu servo mdigno sis ibi Vita Tuo ! One is referred to Sinapius's book by that useful work Zedler's ' Universal Lexicon.' EDWARD BENSLY.
Aberystwyth.
"EARTH GOETH UPON EARTH" (11 S. i, 48, 1 16). This is the opening line of the fourth of seven verses of an early English poem attached to a scroll in one of the sixteenth - century fresco paintings in the Chapel of the Holy Cross at Stratford-on-Avon, com- monly known as the Guild Chapel. (It is printed at length in Wheler's ' History of Stratford,' 1806, pp. 98-9.) The original, written in a neat Gothic letter, appears in a scene representing the martyrdom of Thomas a Becket, discovered during repairs to the chapel in 1804. Traces still remain, though most of the curious paintings there have since crumbled away. As the verse varies from those given by other correspondents, Miss MURRAY may like to have the render- ing. It runs :
Erth goth upon erth as man upon mowld, Lyke as erth upon erth never goo schold, Erth goth upon erth as glesteryng gold And ytt schall erth unto erth rather then he- wold.
WM. JAGGARD.
ALVARY OR ALVERY : ALVEREDUS (10 S^ xii. 309,397,416). Alveredus and Alvredus were certainly the Latinized forms of the A.-S. Alfred or Alfred, as suggested by B. B. at the second reference ; but Alfred was by no means exclusively an Anglo-Saxon name. Dr. Round has pointed out that it was a favourite name in Brittany, and that after the Conquest it was borne in England by Bretons. Thus Juhel, the Domesday Lord of Totnes, was son of Alfred, and was suc- ceeded by another Alfred ('Feudal England,' p. 327). Juhel, by the way, notwithstanding his distinctive Breton name, has been turned
