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regarded as a solecism, From increased inter-
course with America, where the term is com-
monly employed, and (probably the greater
reason) from the initial J (= Jack) being now
put in the margin of Knaves (to be a
different letter from K = King), the word i;
coming round again into polite use. AJ,
PROF. SKEAT aeem.s to have a fancy for rungs,
he might devise some method to bring it aisc
into fashion again. Meanwhile, notwith-
standing the great weight of his dictum, I for
one prefer to follow Dr. Blain's authority in
that particular. I observe that Sir Walter
Scott wrote round in ' Kenilworth,' vol. i.
chap. vii. J. S. M. T.
Rungs is the word in Derbyshire for the staves in a ladder, and many would not understand rounds in this connexion. Bars of wood are also called rungs : a five-barred gate, and the rungs of a wooden-barred fence. THOS. RATCLIFFE.
Worksop.
The following passage in 'Durham Account Rolls' (Surtees feoc.), vol. ii. (in the press), p. 322, shows that the term -rungs was applied to the raw material. In 1481-2 is an entry of a payment " pro prostracione del rongez in Acleywod." In the previous year we find " pro prostracione del stowrys in parco de Acley.* J. T. F.
Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham.
RIVERS' BANKS (9 th S. ii. 205, 251, 295, 350). The question seems exhausted, but may I say that if a swimmer lie on his face, his back is to the sky, not to the source ; and if he lie on his back, then his back is to the bed of the river ? In either case he has not placed himself in the recognized position for deciding which is the right and which the left bank. ARTHUR MAYALL.
BEKESBOURNE, KENT (9 th S. ii. 368). In Black's 'Guide fco Kent,' p. 245 (1878 edition), will be found spmeaccountof these ruins, which, if MR. SHARP is correct as to their being those of a chapel, would be of one attached to an archiepiscppal palace with which the names of Archbisnops Cranmer and Parker are closely connected. Murray's ' Guide ' also has an account. In Domesday this place (according to the Rev. Lambert Larking, the painstaking and accurate Kentish antiquary) was called Burnes, and the following is the entry relating thereto :
" The same Bishop [Baieux] holds in demesne Burnes. It answers for two sulings. There is the arable land of six teams. In demesne there are two. And twenty-five villans, with four bordars, have seven teams. A church there. And six slaves. And one mill of thirty-eight pence. And one Salt
Work of thirty pence. And half a fishery of four
pence, From Pasture, forty pence. Wood of six
hogs and a half. Leuinc held it of King Edward.
In the time of King Edward it was worth twelve
pounds, and afterwards seven pounds. Now, twelve
pounds. And yet it renders eighteen pounds.
When Hugh de Monfort held it, it was worth five
shillings."
Philipott, in his ' Villare Cantianum ' (1659), says :
"Bekesbourne, in the Hundred of DoWnhamforcl, distinguished from the other Bournes, which are linked to each other by the River of Leving, by the ancient Owner's Name the Bekes. It hath long been a Member to Hasting in Sussex, and enjoyetn like Liberty with the Cinque Ports, which K. Edward the Third made Declaration of by a special Writ in the forty-third year of his Reign. At which time, and long after, there was a small Navigation out of the River of Stoure up to this place: Richard de Beke, as we read in 'Testa de Nevil,' a Book kept in the Exchequer, held some Lands here in grand Serjeantie to find one Ship each Time K. Henry the Third should pass the Seas. The Arch-Bishops of Canterbury had here a small but elegant House, very commodious for their Re- cesse or Retirement, the River brought so con- veniently about it, that the Trouts, the principal Fish there, are plentifully useful unto it."
WM. NORMAN. Plums tead.
NONJURORS (9 th S. ii. 408). The Conjurors' Litany, Mr. Procter tells us, was printed at Shrewsbury as late as 1797. The last (but irregular) bishop, Boothe, died in Ireland in 1805. These circumstances point to a con- tinuance of the schism into this century.
EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.
Hastings.
I cannot say if there were any of the Non- jurors' places of worship still in existence in this century, but last century there were some. In ' The Universal Pocket Companion ' for 1745, under the heading 'Meetings of Several Denominations,' I find "Noniurors' Meeting, Aldersgate Street, St. Giles s, and Scroop's Court." I notice also the meeting- olace of the Muggletonians and that of the French Prophets. I have heard of Non- iurors before, but never of the sect of French Prophets. Who were they ?
ALFRED J. KING.
101, Sandmere Road, Clapham, S.W.
GENTLEMAN PORTER (8 th S. xii. 187, 237, 337, 438, 478 ; 9 th S. i. 33, 50, 450 ; ii. 50, 392). I am much obliged to MR. W. L. RUTTON ! or his information re John Traherne. Can le give me any further information of this man ? Was John Traherne, who was member
- or Dartmouth in 1601, any relation of the
above ? How, if at all, was. either of these lien connected with William ap Edmund
