Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851

"All the infections that the sun sucks upFrom bogs, fens, flats," &c.;

but, on the contrary, they are the owners of some of the most valuable, salubrious, and picturesque purlieus of the forest. With regard to the name "fengfield," although I am pretty familiar with the records of the forest extant for the last five hundred years past, I do not remember that it is ever so named or spelt in the muniments of the manor or forest. It is so written by Risdon, and in some few other documents entitled to little weight, and from which no safe inference can be drawn. Whatever be the etymological origin of the term, it should be assumed as indisputable by any one who may hereafter exercise his ingenuity or his fancy upon it, that the four most prominent incidents to the tenure are—1. payment of fines; 2. situation in an ancient vill; 3. attendance on the lord's court; 4. enjoyment of certain rights of common. It may be that neither the fine nor the vill forms a component part of the name; but K. need have no scruple in believing that an abbreviated Latin or "legal term" (invented, of course, by the stewards or bailiffs of the lord) may have become naturalised among those of the inhabitants of the Moor whom it concerns. The tenants or retainers of a manor have no alternative but to submit to any generic name by which the steward may please to distinguish them. Thus the "priors" and "censors" of Dartmoor forest are content to be called by those names, because they were designated as "prehurdarii" and "censarii" in the court rolls some hundred years ago. The tenants of a certain lordship in Cornwall know and convey their tenements by the name of landams to this day, merely because the stewards two hundred years ago, when the court rolls were in Latin, well knowing that landa was the Latin for land, and that transitive verbs in that language require an accusative case, recorded each tenant as having taken of the lord "unam landam, vocatam Tregollup," &c. Indeed so easily does a clipt exotic take root and become acclimated among the peasantry of the Moor, whose powers of appropriation are so much disparaged by the sceptical doubts of K., that since the establishment of local courts the terms fifa and casa have become familiar to them as household words and the name and uses of that article of abbreviated Latinity called a 'bus are, as I am credibly informed, not unknown to them.

E. Smirke.

Replies to Minor Queries

Newburgh Hamilton (Vol. iii, p. 117).—In Thomas Whincop's List of Dramatic Authors, &c., the following notice of Hamilton occurs:—

"Mr. Newburgh Hamilton

A Gentleman, who I think was related to, at least lived in the family of Duke Hamilton; he wrote two Plays, called

I. The Doating Lovers, or The Libertine Tam'd; a Comedy acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn-Fields, in the year 1715, with no success: but supported to the third night, for the Author's Benefit; when the Boxes and Pit were laid together at the unusual Price of six Shillings each Ticket.

II. The Petticoat Plotter; a Comedy of two Acts, performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane."

T. C. T.

Pedigree of Owen Glendower (Vol. iii., p. 222.).—A contributor who is not a Cambrian, sends the following pedigree of Owen Glyndowr, with the authority from whence he has obtained it, viz. Harl. MS. 807., Robert Glover's Book of Pedigrees and Arms, drawn up in part about 1574.

H. E.

Mind your P's and Q's (Vol. iii., p. 328.)—This expression arose from the ancient custom of hanging a slate behind the alehouse door, on which was written P. or Q. (i. e. Pint or Quart) against the name of each customer, according to the quantity which he had drunk, and which was not expected to be paid for till the Saturday evening, when the wages were settled.

The expression so familiar to schoolboys of "going tick," may perhaps be traced to this, a tick or mark being put for every glass of ale.

C. De la Pryme.

The Sempecta at Croyland (Vol. iii., p. 328.).—He was not there, however; and I am sorry to say, I do not remember where he was personally, or exactly where the account of him is to be found. I have no doubt of its being in one or other of the fourteen volumes of Martene's Thesaurus et Amplissima Collectio. I do not now possess those books, and have not access to them; but I think your correspondent will find what he wants without much difficulty if (as I suspect) it is with some other pieces in rhyme, and therefore likely to catch the eye in turning over a volume chiefly in prose. Perhaps the name "Francis" may be in the index. If he does not, I shall be happy to seek for information.

S. R. Maitland.

Gloucester.

Solid-hoofed Pigs (Vol. iii., p. 263.).—I saw a pig of this kind a few years ago, in possession of Sir William Homan, Bart., of Dromroe, near Cappoquin, in the county of Waterford.

I do not know whether he has any of that breed at present; but have little doubt that a note, addressed to Sir William on the subject, would receive a courteous reply.

H. C.

Thurles, April 9. 1851.

Porci solide-pedes (Vol. iii., p. 263.).—A correspondent of "Notes and Queries" inquires about the breed of solid-hoofed pigs. Some years, perhaps twenty years, ago there were several pigs of that sort in the possession of Robert Ramsden, Esq., of Coulton Hall, Notts, of which he was good enough to give some to my father. I believe they were considered of Chinese origins, but how remotely I do not know. They were very easily fattened, but always of small size; and I think, unless my memory much deceives me, on removing the horny portion of the hoof, the rudiments of a cloven hoof, like that of the ordinary swine, were to be seen.

E. G. Selwyn.

Blackheath, April 17. 1851.

Sir Henry Slingsby's Diary (Vol. iii., p. 323.).—The council of "The Camden Society" will no doubt be pleased to find that your correspondents are good enough to keep in view the welfare of that Society, and to suggest works suitable for their publication.

If Sir Henry Slingsby's Diary had never been published, it would indeed have been an excellent book for the Camden Society; but be kind enough to inform your correspondent P. B. that, besides some quotations printed in Seward's Anecdotes, and large extracts published at Edinburgh, in an octavo volume, in 1806, the whole Diary, with a great deal of illustrative matter relating to the Slingsby family, was published in one volume, 8vo., London, 1836, under the very competent editorship of the Rev. Daniel Parsons, of Oriel College, Oxford.

It appears from the preface to that publication, that the original MS. is not now known to be in existence. Mr. Parsons printed from a copy of the original, made by Sir Savile Slingsby, in 1714-5, which then remained at Scriven.

Ettie.

Criston, Somerset (Vol. iii., p. 278.).—Perhaps Priston is the place inquired for. This is a village near Keynshem, where a Mr. Vaughan Jenkins has some property. Criston, as a place in Somerset, is unknown to

J.

Bath, April 18.

Criston (Vol. iii., p. 278.).—There is a small village in Somersetshire called Christon, about five miles N.W. of Axbridge.

C. I. R.

Tradesmen's Signs (Vol. iii., p. 224.).—In the delightful little volume on Chaucer, in Knight's shilling series, entitled Pictures of English Life, the author has the following on the Tabard, at p. 19.:—

"The sign and its supports were removed in 1776, when all such characteristic features of the streets of London in the olden time, disappeared in obedience to a parliamentary edict for their destruction."

It would appear, however, by the subsequent quotation from Brand's Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 359., that the edict above referred to was not carried into execution against all signs; or that, if so, it was soon repealed:—

"Lord Thurlow, in his speech for postponing the further reading of the Surgeons' Incorporation Bill, July 17th, 1797, stated 'that by a statute still in force, the barbers and surgeons were each to use a pole.'"

R. W. E.

Cor. Chr. Coll., Cambridge.

Emendation of a Passage in Virgil (Vol. iii., p. 237.).—The emendation of Scriblerus is certainly objectionable, and by no means satisfactory, for these reasons:—1st. "Ac sunt in spatio" is by no means elegant Latin, which "addunt se in spatia" is; for the word "addunt" is constantly used in the same way elsewhere.

2nd. The word "spatium" is seldom used to signify a chariot course.

"Spatia," the plural, was the proper expression, and is only so deviated from in poetry in a single instance. (Juv. Sat. vi. 582.) It is used in the plural in Virg. Æn. v. 316. 325. 327.; Statius, Theb. vi. 594.; Horace, Epist. 1. xiv. 9.

Vide Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities, under art. Circus, p. 232.

Surely there is nothing unintelligible in the expression, "addunt se in spatia," which is the reading given in almost all the best editions.

J. E. M.

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