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Paid unto Willm Baldwine for dynner for 10 men on the first drift day

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Great difficulty in obtaining corn in this more for one quart of wyne and for bread and and the following year. In the " Copy Book beere before dynner the same day.. 00 02 05 of Letters" written to and from the Cor

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to the storehouse in the mket
To John Taylor June 12 for cariage of
things to the Towne house when the vault
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poration under date June 14, 1631, is the certificate of the Bailiffs to the High Sheriff of the execution of several books of orders from the King, concerning dearth and price of corn, the keeping watch and ward, &c.

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(Many entries of "Charges laid out about the Lucorne on the Church leades ") September.

Paid unto Willm Bardwell for diet on Michaelmes day for 58 persons and for a great Pie sent forthe

More to Willm Baldwine for dyet on the

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In each shield the enamel is rema rkably hard, but not brittle, and in fairly good condition though well worn.

BRASS AT STOKE D'ABERNON, 1277: ENAMELLED SHIELD.-The brass to Sir John Daubernoun the elder holds a unique position among English brasses for more than one reason. Not only is it the oldest existing brass in this country, presuming pennon was made, the chevron being the dedicatory inscription at Ashbourne, engraved in outline only. 1241, to be a later work or copy, but it is the only brass, save a small figure in the Hastings brass, showing a lance with pennon attached; the effigy is also larger and bolder The shield of Sir John the younger does in design than its contemporaries. But not retain the slightest remnant of colour, there is a yet more important difference but the roughly engraved sunken surface from its fellows to be found in the technical was evidently intended for the more usual treatment of its heraldry-" azure, a chev- pitchy filling (now all gone) and not for ron, or "-in which vitreous enamel instead enamelling, nor was it cut away for the of some coloured pigment was used to insertion of enamelled plates. produce the colour of the field, most of the original enamel still existing. There appears to be no other remnant of enamel before the Carshalton brass, c. 1490.

Enamelling is usually confined to small surfaces, and the method adopted at Stoke to overcome the difficulty occasioned by the size of the shield may be of interest, as this is a matter not touched upon in Haines's or any of the usual reference books. The accompanying woodcut shows the shape to which this portion of the great effigy was cut before the shield was filled in or attached. The dexter portion of the field was pierced through, leaving the projecting chevron as a part of the original sheet of metal, so that the sinister and base portions, cut away as in the print, are denuded of any sort of outline or frame to indicate the edge of the shield, the engraver trusting to the incised matrix

These brasses are carefully covered with a thick carpet but are always open to inspection, which will repay anyone for a walk or ride from Leatherhead, three miles distant. WALTER E. GAWTHORP.

16, Long Acre, W.C.2.

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VICAR ELECTED BY BALLOT.-The elec- heirs in capite by service of knight.—Madox, tion of a vicar by ballot and on a statutory Formul.,' No. 100. register is an ultra-modern development of a gradually disappearing system which deserves note. It is fully described in the following extract from The Birmingham Post of May 14:

The Rev. P. Comeau, senior curate at St. James's Church, Ashted, Birmingham, has been appointed vicar of Baddesley Ensor, near Atherstone, by a poll of the electors of the parish.

There were originally 175 applicants, many of whom had conducted the services and preached at the parish church on different Sundays. The Church Council selected the following candidates to go to the poll:- The Rev. P. Comeau; the Rev. F. Hunt, Wednesfield; the Rev. T. Redfern, curate-in-charge, Church Gresley. Burton-onTrent; and the Rev. N. T. Walters, Langley Park, Durham.

The voting was by ballot, strictly on the new register of Parliamentary electors, and the result was as follows:-The Rev. P. Comeau, 162; the Rev. Frank Hunt, 137; the Rev. T. Redfern, 9; the Rev. H. T. Walters, 3. Mr. Comeau was declared elected. The Rural Dean (the Rev. A. T. Corfield) attended the count on behalf of the Bishop of Birmingham.

The new vicar served during the whole of the war as an army chaplain. The income from the living, which in the past has been a poor one, is derived solely from the Queen Anne's Bounty Fund and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who, it is understood, have arranged to augment their grants so that the stipend in future will be increased to about £400 per annum and house.

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66 TENANT IN CAPITE." The New English Dictionary,' s.v. Capite," notes that word as occurring in the phrase tenere in capite," which it proceeds to say, means Ito hold (of the King) in chief." That this is now the sense in which the phrase is generally used, is, of course, obvious. It would, however, be a matter of some interest to ascertain how and when it acquired its present restricted meaning. As long as the words were in current use, in feudal days, they clearly had, as the following examples, casually met with, show, no such specific inference as the 'N.E.D.' gives

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1146. Charter of Robert, consul of Glouc. :—

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quando haeres Eudonis dapiferi haereditatem suam recuperaverit, de Baiocensi ecclesia et de episcopo haec feoda in capite tenebit. Et haeres [R., Comitis Cestrae] terram suam [in Normandy] de ecclesia Baioc. et de ipso episcopo in capite teneat."-Devises, [Sept.], 1146. (Cartul. Antiq. Baioc.-Livre Noir, vol. i, No. 41. Paris, 1902.)

t. R. i. Hawys de Gournay confirms to Walter son of Thomas land which Alexander of Buddicombe sold to him. .

of Bruton, [Som.], that he has received the homage Acknowledgment by Richard, Prior of R. de Naylesworth for lands in Manor of Horselegh, co. Glouc., " quas clamat tenere de nobis in capite."-Ibid., No. 22.

1230. We have pardoned Rnd. de Cerne and Clifton he held of John de Bello Campo scutage of the 5 knights' fees in Temesford in capite and which said John held of us in capite. -Close, 14 H. 3., m. 18.

1232. Roger, s. of Roger Waspail has fined with King 40 m. for the lands of his late father, who held in capite of G., late Earl of Gloucester, whose lands and heir are in the King's custody.Fines, 17 H. 3, m. 8.

1284. The Bishop of Ely holds a tenement in Balsham, in Radfield, of the heirs of Wm. de Criketot in capite.-Feudal Aids, Cambs.

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1302. Sir Wm. de Bovill holds (in Hasketon) with tenants one fee of the Earl of Herford in capite. Giles de Breuse holds (in same) one fourth of a knight's fee of the Earl Marshal in capite. Sir John de Holbrok (and another) hold in Pleyford one fee of Sir Thomas de Clare in capite.-Feudal Aids, Suffolk.

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mouth, confirms to nuns of Canonleigh, [Devons.], Sir Hy. de Lancaster, Lord of Monlate Earl of Glouc. and Herts, who held it of the Manor of Northleigh which G. de Clare. him in capite by service of knight, had given to them.-Reg. of Canonleigh. Harl. MS., 3660, fo. 125d.

1346. John Morice (and others) hold half a fee in Temesford, of which said John holds (a fraction) in capite of the Bishop of Lincoln and Hugh Cappe holds of a fee of John Creveker in capite.

The Prior of St. Neot's holds (in Everton) fee of John Peverel in capite. Rad. de Bayouse holds fee (in Pertonhale) of the Lady Isabella, Queen of England, in capite. John de Clare holds fee (in Tilbrok) of the Earl of Hertford in capite.-Feudal Aids, Beds.

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1400. Henry, Prince of Wales, to the Sheriff of Crulle, his esquire, the land (&c.), late of John Glamorgan :-The King has given to Peter de Norreys, chivaler, dec., in the lop. of Glamorgan, late tenant in capite of Thos. le Despenser.Letters of Henry IV., No.

From these few examples it would appear that any person holding a knight's fee integrally, in multiple or in part, from another, was the tenant in capite of that other. L. GRIFFITH.

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in the night; (5) he prefers walking above IDENTIFICATION OF ARMS.-What families sitting; (6) he prefers hard to soft food; (7) bore the following arms (tinctures not given) he holds his grandchildren in greater favour than his immediate progeny; (8) he is inquisitive after trifling, not grave, affairs; (9) he drinks much tea but little wine; (10) he will go out more in cold than in warm days. Men of yore were unanimous in praising him to have adroitly hit off the symptons of senile aberration.

1. Party with a lion counter-coloured. 2. A chevron with three millrind crosses. 3. A chevron between three martlets with five cinquefoils on the chief.

USONA.

MAGINN AND BYRON.-William Maginn, in a note respecting the Hellespont appended to verse 32 of his poem, The Funeral of Achilles,' states that "Lord Byron, in spite of all his boasting, did not perform the feat of Leander.”

I do not know how far the other peoples agree with the Chinese in these ten indications of mental weakness of the old age. The Japanese would seem to differ from the Chinese in some of them; e.g., there are among them many old persons disliking tea because of its making them sleepless (cf. Mujú, Shaseki Shû,' A.D. 1283, tome viii., ch. xvi.), and their proverb, Infants Is it known whether Maginn had any are the wind's children and old folks the authority for this categorical assertion? fire's children," is of a meaning quite conH. J. AYLIFFE. trary to the tenth Perversity mentioned above. KUMAGUSU MINAKATA.

Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

Queries.

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17, Wyndham Street, Brighton.

"THE GREY MARE IS THE BETTER HORSE."--I want information about "The Grey Mare is the Better Horse." I know it is in Haywood's Proverbs,' 1546; in 'Pryde and Abuse of Woman,' 1550: and in The Marriage of True Wit and Science,' 1569; and an older play, Wyt and Science,' by John Redford. It sprang from some story. What is the story?

I was told that a crusader returning home was given a grey mare by a sheik and was told to turn her face to the west when he unsaddled her. One day he made a mistake and the mare changed into a woman who offered to marry him, but the prudent man said he had a grey mare of his own.

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ARMS OF THE SEE OF BRECHIN.-What is the correct field ? The Cathedral was founded by King David I. in 1150. His grandson, David Earl of Huntingdon (born in 1143), bore or, three piles in point gules. The family of Wishart bore argent, three I am quite sure, when I was a child, I piles in point gules. Alex. Porteous, in heard a song about The Grey Mare was The Town Council Seats of Scotland,', the Better Horse." It was sung by a person says that the natural son of David of from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Huntingdon, who obtained from his father her ancestor came from Cornwall about the Lordship of Brechin, was, from the 1630. A number of Devonshire and Cornish great slaughter he made among the Saracens, people were sent over by Mason about that surnamed Guishart, and from him are time. Does anyone know such a song? descended the families of Wishart." But It was evidently old. I can't recall it. Woodward and Burnett say there never That crusader story is evidently an allusion were such persons as Wisharts, Lords of to some proverb or story. Brechin, and that the right tincture is I find that the Cumming MS. gives the tincture as argent, and this is the tincture in the Bishop Forbes memorial window in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Dundee.

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I have traced several proverbs back to stories early in the fourteenth century, and would like a clue to this one. And where is that crusader story?

M. J. CANAVEN.

133, West Springfield Street, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

[This was discussed at 6 S. ii. 207, 279; iii. 95; iv. 138, 233, 256, 316, 456; V. 96. Not much to the purpose of the above query was elicited.]

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