dedicated to St. Bartholomew; and its origin is mentioned in the "Hundred Rolls" (7 Edw. I. = 1279), where we read :— "The House of St. Bartholomew without Oxford was founded by the old King Henry (1100-1135), who married the good Queen Maud, and it was assigned for the accommodation and support of infirm lepers," &c. It is also mentioned in the "Patent Rolls," 51 Hen. III., m. 29 (1266); and that it was a celebrated hospital is shown by the numerous gifts to it in succeeding years, as may be seen by reference to the "Patent Rolls" of Edwards II. and III., in the former of which reigns it was restored. It was much damaged during the civil war, and again restored in 1651. Wood mentions a quaint service which was held there on Ascension Day by the Fellows of New College. It will thus be seen that this chapel had no connection with the Templars of Cowley; so that if the underground passage referred to by your correspondent can be traced at all, it might possibly lead to the site of the old Templars' church. Still if the passage exists it is worth investigation, and if your correspondent could send me any further particulars he may have collected about the old house, I should be much obliged, as I hope, if possible, to be able to visit the house and to examine it thoroughly. J. P. EARWAKER, Hon. Sec. Oxford Architectural Society. Merton College, Oxford. MEDAL OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR (4th S. viii. 454.)- Supposing the story true, and the medal that was found was what is ordinarily called a medal, it must have been "planted," as pennies (silver) alone were coined by William the Conqueror, but I cannot answer for what he struck when only Duke of Normandy. NEPHRITE. CARNAC (4th S. viii. 478.)--The name Carnac (properly Karnak) has been translated by Ducange burying-place or cemetery." A Mrs. Stothard, on the authority of a priest, says "carnac" in the Breton language signifies "a field of flesh." The name properly means "heaps of stones," from Bas-Bret. karn, pl. karnek, karnez. Conf. the W. carn (pl. carnedd) Gaelic carn, a cairn; carnach, abounding in cairns. R. S. CHARNOCK. Gray's Inn. P.S.-Carnac would translate "field of flesh" in Gaelic, but no in Armoric or Bas-Breton. ORMISTON CROSS, HADDINGTONSHIRE (4th S. viii. 478.)-I quote from the Statistical Account, Edin. 1845, ii. 141 :— "There is an old cross in the centre of the village. It seems to have been connected with a Roman Catholic chapel, which about the beginning of the last century stood where the cross now is, extending across the street from north-west to south-east. That chapel was then used as the school-house, and one of the oldest inhabitants, now dead, told me he was educated there. Several of the parish records are dated in that school-house." About the year 1829 or 1830: in some danger of falling; to prevent which, it was sub"The stones of the base were much decayed, and it was stantially repaired by means of a subscription, and is now in a state to stand for ages." 1855, vol. i.) will be found some interesting notices In Jeffrey's History of Roxburghshire (Jedburgh, of crosses still existing in that county. According to the Statistical Account (vol. already mentioned, Berwickshire, p. 56), there is a "cross or monument of white sandstone at Crosshall, about a mile to the north of the village of Eccles"; and we learn from a footnote that a description and drawings of this cross are to be found in the Trans. Soc. of Antiq. Scotland, 1792, vol. i. Newcastle-on-Tyne. J. MANUEL. There is a market cross in the centre of the village of Doune, Stirlingshire. I speak from a recollection of forty years ago, but, doubtless, it still remains. It then stood on rather dilapidated shallow steps; a narrow column of one stone having some kind of animal sitting on its hind quarters on the top. W. B. SCOTT. "AN-HUNGERED" (4th S. viii. 435, 528.)-I regret to find that I am wrong in supposing this form to have originated with Tyndale. I did look in Stratmann's Dictionary, as MR. FURNIVALL recommends, and in others besides. Dr. Stratmann, under the word hungren gives ofhungren as the only compound; and this misled me. But he gives also anhungren under the heading and, with references which carry the word back to the time form (the prefix being the A.-S. and-, G. ent-) of Edward II. Anhungered is therefore a genuine existing side by side with ofhungren (where the prefix is the intensive of-). 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