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NOTES AND QUERIES. to* s. n. NOV. 12,
the treatment of the oldest stratum of loan-
words from the Latin, and its au would have
undergone, pari passu with the native
English au, the specifically English develop-
ment into ea. As MR. ADDY does not pro-
duce the slightest proof for his assumed
change of meaning from "priest of Augustus"
into " monk " or " celibate," we cannot admit
the possibility that the name of Hexham was
conferred at some later time when augustalis
simply meant " monk," and when Latin au (or
its Eomanic representative) was otherwise
treated in English than it was in the earliest
borrowings. It is useless to attempt to found
any argument upon the twelfth-century " doc-
tored " form Augustaldensis; and similarly
the twelfth-century instances of the addition
or omission of an initial h, or the addition of
final d, are no proof whatever that English-
men of the eighth century used the licence of
the Anglo-Norman writers of the twelfth.
It is therefore impossible to believe that
Bede's Hagustald is derived from augustalis.
The historical objections to MR. APDY'S
theory are to me no less fatal than the philo-
logical. In order to accept this theory we
must be able to believe that the augustales
freedmen who were not priests or celibates
or a corporation, whose principal functions
were economic, and who could have had no
existence outside a municipium gave their
name to Hexham, which was certainly not
a municipium, through the medium of so
entirely dissimilar a body as the brethren of
a Christian monastery; that this unrecorded
pre-English monastery survived the shock of
the English conquest and the long night of
paganism;* that here alone in Western
Europe monks were called augustales, and
that, too, in a district owing its conversion
to Scottish missionaries, who knew no such
term. The suggestions that the Augustinian
canons and the purely manorial privileges
quoted by MR. ADDY are connected with or
derived from the augustales are equally
unacceptable. W. H. STEVENSON.
HIGH COMMISSIONER OF THE CHURCH (9 th S. ii, 149, 276). Let me refer your readers to an interesting description of the meeting of this assemblage in Edinburgh about the year 1818, in vol. iii. of ' Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk,' written by John Gibson Lockhart. The book is most interesting from the graphic sketches it contains of the celebrities who flourished in the Modern Athens about that time.
- It is evident from the words of Eddi, c. 22, that
Wilfrid found no monastery or monastic buildings at Hexham when he built the church there in 672-8.
The Earl of Morton, who then filled the
office of Lord High Commissioner, it is said
took up his quarters at the "Royal Hotel," and
then went to the Merchants' Hall to hold his
levee. A small vignette on the title-page re-
presents the earl on his route to St. Giles's
Cathedral to open the assembly. Nearly forty
pages are occupied with an account of the
proceedings and the ministers. The author
mentions Sir Henry Moncrieff as present,
wearing the " orange tawney ribbon and Nova
Scotia badge that decorate the breast of the
only man of title in their body," and adds,
" Nobody can look upon the baronet without
perceiving that nature meant him to be a
ruler, not a subject" (vol. iii. p. 467). The
book is dedicated to Coleridge, in a postscript
to the third edition, by his friend Peter Morris,
the pseudonym under which the book was
written. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.
Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW (9 th S. ii. 262). Owing to the accidental misdirection of proofs, the references belonging to the contribution on the subject of St. Bartholomew were not attached!. By no means the least important of these relate to Dr. Norman Moore's pam- phlets upon the subject, that writer having been the first to adduce the evidence of Eadmer.
' Brief Relation of the Past and Present State, &c., of St. Bartholomew's Hospital,' by Norman Moore, M.D.
Eadmer, 'Historia Novorum in Anglia,' Rolls Series, 1884.
' Storia della Badia de Monte Cassino,' by Luigi Tosti, i. 48.
' Storia della Medicina,' by Puccinotti.
Novaes (F. de), torn. xiii. p. 147.
Knight's ' London,' vol. ii. p. 33 et seq. .
Otho Frisinensis, lib. yi. cap. 25.
Rob. Tuitiensis, lib. ii. cap. 24.
Martinus Polonus, 'Chron.,' lib. iv.
Semo-Sancus had no temple on the island, but an altar. His temple was on Mons Quirinalis. ST. GLAIR BADDELEY.
MARLBOROUGH, WILTS (9 th S. ii. 288). F. E. Hulme, ' The Town, College, and Neighbour- hood of Marlborough,' with illustrations, London, 1881; 'Sketches from Marlborough,' Marlborough, 1888; " Marleborovre's Miseries
a most exact and true relation of the
beseiging, plundering, and burning of part of the said towne," 1643. For further descrip- tion see J. C. Hotten's 'Handbook,' p. 276, No. 5709. ED. MARSHALL.
GENTLEMAN PORTER (8 th S. xii. 187, 237, 337, 438, 478; 9 th S. i. 33, 50, 450; ii. 50). Having lately, and by chance, found in the church of St. Saviour, Southwark, the monu-
