Rider Street.
Lode seems to have been anciently used as signifying merely a ditch to carry off water. (See "Inquisition, 21 Henry VIII." in Wells's Hist. of Bedford Level, vol. ii. pp. 8-17.) Lode means to carry. (Promptorium Parvulorum, ed. Way, p. 310.) The term lode is now used to signify a navigable ditch. In Cambridgeshire we have Soham Lode, Burwell Lode, Reach Lode, Swaffham Lode, and Bottisham Lode.
C. H. COOPER.
Cambridge.
Mother Damnable (Vol. v., p. 151.).
—Your correspondent S. WISWOULD will find some slight information respecting this worthy in Daniel's Merrie England in the Olden Time (Bentley, 1842), vol. i. p. 217.
It appears that Mr. Bindley had an unique engraving of her, and that a well-known alehouse at Holloway (of which a token is extant, with the date 1667) was sacred to her memory as Mother Redcap, as well as that in the Hampstead Road.
JOHN EVANS.
Monuments of De la Beche Family (Vol. v., p. 341.).
—The monuments referred to by ÆGROTUS are in the church of Aldworth: the effigies are certainly remarkable, especially one for its size and attitude. Another noticeable circumstance is that most of the figures are of older date than the tombs on which they lie, or than the church which contains them. The building consists of a nave and south aisle; and, at the time of its original construction, three canopied recessed tombs were introduced in each of the side walls to receive the effigies which must have existed in the older church. The style of the architecture belongs to the age of Edward III. There are nine figures altogether, some of them greatly mutilated. They are not entirely unknown to archæologists.