216 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9*s.vi. SEPT. 15,1900. to Mecca' (Memorial Edition, i. 11). 'Ajami or ogam, then, means some variety of dye specially used in Persia, or popular with the natives of that country. W. CROOKE. Langton House, Charlton Kings. THE ORDEB OF Avis (9th S. v. 457 ; vi. 72). —MR. HOOPER may like to have the follow- ing note from ' A Concise History of Knight- hood,' by Hugh Clark, 1784, vol. ii. p. 95 :— "This Order was first instituted by Alphonno Henriquez, King of Portugal, in the year 1147, on the footing of a Military and Religious Order, on occasion of his taking the city of Evora from the Moors. It continued independent until the year 1213, when it came to acknowledge its subjection to the Order of Calatrava, then under the Grand Master Don Roderigo Garzes De Assa, and it remained in this state of vassalage until the time of its seventh Grand Master, Don John of Portugal, who on de- posing his brothers and seizing the crown threw off all subjection to the Order of Calatrava. The badge of the Order of Avis is a cross flory enamelled Green, and between each angle a Fleur-de-lis Gold ; it is worn pendent "to a green ribbon round the neck." A representation of the badge is given on plate 54. CHAS. H. CROUCH. Nightingale Lane, Wanstead. BEAULIEU (9th S. vi. 87).—In the foundation charter of the abbey of Beaulieu, founded in Touraine by Fulk the Black (1012), the Latinized form of the name is not Bellus Locus, but Belli Locus. (See the French authorities quoted by Miss K. Norgate in ' England under the Angevin Kings, vol. i. p. 154 : "It seems possible that the place was set apart for trials by ordeal of battle.") The earlier Cistercian houses were certainly not founded in beautiful places, the very name of the order being reminiscent of the fact:— "The site which they chose—in the diocese ol Chalons-sur-Saflne, not far from Dijon—was no happy valley, no ' green retreat' such as the earlier Benedictine founders had been wont to select. It was a dismal swamp overgrown with brushwood, a forlorn, dreary, unhealthy spot, from whose marshy character the new house took its name of ' the Cistern'—CutfJlum, commonly called Citeaux."— ' Angevin Kings,' vol. i. p. 70. Bernard, however, was a great lover o: nature, and no doubt his vast influence lee to the foundation of many later Cistercian houses in beautiful situations. GEORGE MARSHALL. Sefton Park, Liverpool. Many monastic houses show by their Frencl names that they were founded by Norman nobles. Such are Belvoir, a Benedictin priory, founded by Robert de Todeni in 1076 , Beauchief Abbey, Derbyshire, founded in 118! for Premonstratensian canons; and Beaulieu lants, a Benedictine house, founded by King "ohn in 1204. We may add Beauvale in Notts and Beaudesert in Staffordshire and Warwick - ihire. Centres of monastic civilization amidst lurrounding desolation might well be called 'fair places." ISAAC TAYLOR. Perhaps your correspondent is thinking of 'salm xvi. 7, " The lot is fallen unto me in a 'air ground." "Fortunamea in bellocampo" s now the motto of Earl Beauchamp's family, and the late Earl Beauchamp (who died in 891) told me that it was his own version of
- hat verse. At my suggestion, he fittingly
jlaced it over the entrance to the beautifully ituated Beauchamp almshouses at Newland, lear Malvern. W. C. B. 'THE WELSH PEOPLE' (9th S. vi. 19, 131).- [t is clear, both from what he says in the above book and in his 'Celtic Britain,' that Prof. Rhys includes the Silures among the jloidels, a race resultant from the fusion of In' non- Aryan aboriginal inhabitants of these islands with their earliest Celtic invaders. Does A. H. suggest that the Silures were a race—of known Basque origin—who came to this country after the Celtic invasions and became amalgamated with the conquering Aryans? But what, then, had become of the aborigines? Prof. Rhys supposes them to have been Picts and non-Aryans. Why should they, then, not have equally contributed to the non-Aryan element? Or does A. H. suggest that the aborigine had been completely exterminated by Goidel and Brython ? JEANNIE S. POPHAM. Llanrwst, North Wales. CARDINAL NEWMAN (9th S. vi. 151).—The passage in question was written, not by New- man, but by Faber. It will be found in ' Life and Letters of Frederick William Faber (1869) at p. 394. GEORGE ANGUS. St. Andrews, N.B. CHARLES LAMB'S HOAXES* (9th S. vi. 85).— Do not the " Curious Fragments, extracted from a Commonplace Book which belonged to Robert Burton, the famous Author of the ' Anatomy of Melancholy.'" come under this description ? And, if so, now must the shade of the well-beloved Elia have smiled to see his fabrication solemnly quoted as Burton's under the word ' Beccafico' in the ' Oxford English Dictionary'! Q. v. RICHTER'S ' DREAM OF INFINITY ' (9th S. vi. 106).—If, as 1 suppose, it is an English trans- lation that is neeaed, MR. WOOD will find two Would not mystification* be the better word t
