_Masters of St. Cross_.--"H. EDWARDS" will be obliged by information
of any work except _Dugdale's Monasticon_, containing a list of the
names of the Master of the Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester; or of
the Masters or Priors of the same place before Humphry de Milers;
and of the Masters between Bishop Sherborne, about 1491, and Bishop
Compton, about 1674.
_Etymology of "Dalston."_--The hamlet of Hackney, now universally
known only as _Dalston_, is spelt by most topographists _Dorleston_
or _Dalston_. I have seen it in one old Gazette _Darlston_, and
I observed it lately, on a stone let in to an old row of houses,
_Dolston_; this was dated 1792. I have searched a great many books in
vain to discover the etymology, and from it, of course, the correct
spelling of the word, the oldest form of which that I can find is
_Dorleston_.
The only probable derivations of it that I can find are the old words
_Doles_ and _ton_ (from Saxon _dun_), a village built upon a slip of
land between furrows of ploughed earth; or _Dale_ (Dutch _Dal_), and
_stone_, a bank in a valley.
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