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At the time of actual battle he put on, in addition, his "pot-helm," or heaume.
Besides MSS. there are, belonging to the first half of the thirteenth century, a number of effigies showing the shape of the "pot-de-fer," and at least four others with the head and face covered by the "heaume." Ida M. Roper.
In the Middle Ages the close-fitting cap worn underneath the helmet of a knight when engaged in actual combat was termed a "basinet" or "bacinet," and was composed of steel. Elsie Oliver.
Carnwath House (11 S. viii. 327).—Mr. J. Ardagh's note on the coming demolition of Carnwath House (Lonsdale House) is of decided interest. Mr. Feret in his 'History of Fulham' gives a number of details. What is more interesting than the episode in the life of Gladstone is the fact that Lintot the second, whose firm published Pope's works, owned the lease of the original house. The Countess of Lonsdale, daughter of John, Earl of Bute, and widow of the first Earl of Lonsdale, died there in 1824. Sir John Shelley lived there from 1842, and died there on 28 March, 1852. W. H. Quarrell.
History of Co. Down (11 S. viii. 310).—The only work on this subject that I know of is 'The Antient and Present State of the County of Down, containing a Chorographical Description, with Natural and Civil History of the same, &c., and a Correct Map,' 1744. Possibly there may be some information of the period mentioned in 'Hamilton MSS., containing some Account of the Settlement of the. . . .Co. Down,' &c., edited by T. K. Lowry (Belfast, 1867). W. Roberts Crow.
Major Adam will find information in 'History of Down,' by Knox, 1875; 'History of Down,' by Phillips, 1874; 'Down and Connor' (O'Laverty), Dublin, 1875; 'Down, Connor, and Dromore' (Bishop Reeves), Dublin, 1847; also embodied in 'History of Ulster' (Mac Knight), 1896; 'History of Ulster' (Doyle), 1854; and 'Plantation of Ulster' (Hill). William MacArthur.
Whichcote in Wilts (11 S. viii. 209. 254, 316).—On looking at the Map of Wiltshire in Pigot & Co.'s 'British Atlas' I accidentally discovered Whichbury on a part of Wilts poking itself into Hampshire. No mention of this name is in Leonard's 'Gazetteer of England and Wales," but it is in Spelman's 'Villare Anglicum.'
I take it that "bury" and "cote" might be interchanged, and that Whichbury, Wilts, Cawden Hundred, would be the place inquired for, although possibly in the document in which the name occurred the termination "cote" might have been used.
In Lewis's 'Topographical Dictionary' the place is fully described under the name of Whitsbury or Whitchbury, and although small, it seems to have been of some importance. In Bartholomew's 'Gazetteer of the British Isles' (1893) it is "Whitsbury, 3½ miles N.W. of Fordingbridge." W. J. Gadsden.
English Regiments in Canada, 1837 (11 S. viii. 331).—The most easily available list of Regimental Histories is, I think, to be found in 'The Subject Index of the London Library,' pp. 927-8. Messrs. Hugh Rees, Ltd., military booksellers, 5, Regent Street, S.W., might also be able to supply a list of books in print. Wm. H. Peet.
ROBIN HOOD ROMANCES (11 S. viii. 203'.
297, 313). I thank MR. McGovERN for
directing my attention to his list of Robin
Hood works at 9 S. viii. 263, and also for his
new list ; but it does not appear to me that
he has any real " Robin Hood Romances"'
which I do not possess. For, as I said, I do>
not require any more books which are only
the ballads turned into prose ; and such, I
believe, is ' Stories of Robin Hood,' by
H. E. Marshall. There are at least two>
other works which I believe to be of the
same kind by Heaton and Lucy F. Perkins.
I have a copy of Hall's ' Forester's Offering.'
but I did not include it in my list as it is
not a romance. W. A. FROST.
"GAS" AS A STREET-NAME (11 S. viii.. 290, 337, 356). There is a Gas Street in Oxford, near the Gasworks, in Holy Trinity parish. They abut on the River Thames where it makes a curve to the south-west between Oseiiey and Folly Bridges.
JOHN R. MAGRATH.
Queen's College, Oxford.
"MARRIAGE" AS SURNAME (11 S. viii. 287, 336). Between 1880 and 1887 I was in the neighbourhood of Chelmsford, and in that town there were many bearing that surname. A considerable number of thenx were Friends, or Quakers. M.A.
