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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°* S. VII. April 23. '59. 



and John Berwike, Esq., justices of the peace of 

 Wilts, is the 19th of June, 5 Eliz. The date of the 

 letter being the 10th of July, 1563 ; and the per- 

 son accused of the slander being Robert Brooke, 

 an innkeeper at Devizes. F. A. Carkington. 



Ogbourne St. George, Wilts. 



Who was the Father of William of Wyheham ? 

 (2"'* S. vii. 197.) — Edward Coudray, one of the 

 legatees named in the bishop's will, was seised of 

 a portion of the Manor of Burton Sacy, Hants. 

 He lived at Herriard in the same'county, and was 

 sheriff in 4 & 5 Henry IV. The above manor is 

 referred to as in the possession of his descendants 

 in vol. iv. Cal. Inq. Post Mort., p. 47. and 67. 

 Will this afford any clue ? W. H. Lammin. 



Fulham. 



Voyding Knife (2"<* S. vii. 286.) — I have often 

 seen this implement at Drapers' Hall, which is 

 said to be the only one left in England. It is of 

 silver, nearly two feet long, with a plain flat blade 

 very much like a paper-knife. Your correspon- 

 dent's objection is very just, but such was not the 

 tradition as stated to me by one of the oldest 

 members of the court since deceased. He told 

 me it was for clearing the tables, not of crumbs as 

 our semi-circular brushes do, but of the uncon- 

 sumed portions of the meal, which were swept by 

 this knife into voiders or large baskets, from 

 whence they were distributed next morning as 

 doles to the poor. Several old dictionaries, that 

 of Matthew Bailey among the rest, describe a 

 "voider" as a basket used at dinner to hold plates, 

 &c. If the tradition told me be correct, we can 

 readily understand their voiders to be the baskets 

 used to receive the fragments, and thence the 

 derivation of the word voiding-knife. A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Letters of the Herhert Family (2"'^ S. vii. 238.) 

 — The principal portions of these letters were 

 among the muniments at Jlibbesford House, Wor- 

 cestershire, formerly the residence of Lord Her- 

 bert of Chertury. These documents passed by 

 purchase, at the close of the last century, from the 

 Marquis of Winchester, descendant of the Her- 

 bert family, to Francis Ingram of Bewdley ; from 

 whom they passed by will to his kinsman, the late 

 Rev. E. Winnington Ingram, Canon of Worcester ; 

 and while in his possession were published by 

 Mrs. Rebecca Warner of Bath. The MS. letters 

 are most of them in the Earl of Powis's possession, 

 but some remain in the library at Stanford Court. 

 Thomas E. Winnington. 



Stanford Court, Worcester. 



Orders of Monks (2"'' S. vii. 29.) — Much of the 

 information sought for by Stylites, at least so 

 far as regards orders established in England, is to 

 be found in the preface to Grose's Antiquities. 



Meletes. 



Bounds of Macclesfield Forest (2"*^ S. vii. 296.) 



— If the inquirer had referred to the county his- 

 tory (Ormerod's Cheshire), he would have found 

 an answer in the following pages to his questions : 



Vol. iii. p. 281. The ancient perambulation of 

 the Forest of Macclesfield. 



Ibid. The perambulation 17 Jac. I., used as 

 evidence when this work was completed, viz. in 

 1819. 



P. 282. Townships in Liberty of the Hundred. 



P. 283. Townships in the Manor and Forest. 



P. 283. Townships in both jurisdictions, the 

 boundary line of the Hundred and the Forest pass- 

 ing through them. 



These statements may be adapted to any Jlap 

 of Cheshire. Lancastriensis. 



Archbishop Neile (2"'^ S. vii. 297.) — It is not 

 exactly an answer to a question about a man's 

 grandfather to give an account of his grandson ; 

 but your correspondent may not know that Neile 

 had a grandson who is now better known than 

 himself. Sir Paul Neile, the son, was In the 

 household of Charles I. : William Neile, the grand- 

 son (born 1637, died 1670), was an early member 

 of the Royal Society. He is distinguished as 

 having been the first, or among the first, for all 

 the priority questions of that day are diflSculties, 

 who exhibited in an algebraic formula the length 

 of the arc of an algebraic curve, the semicubical, 

 or, as it was once called, the Neilian parabola. 

 For a short note on his life, see Birch, Hist. Roy. 

 Soc, vol. il. p. 460. William Neile had a very 

 powerful mathematical genius, but he died before 

 he had established a name worthy of It. I have 

 seen an absurd story that he was an O'Neile, and 

 that the Saxon de-O'-ed him lo make an English- 

 man of him. A. De Morgan. 



Church Tune « Wareham" (2"'^ S. vlf. 217.) — 

 William Knapp was parish clerk of Poole, Dorset- 

 shire, for a period of thirty-nine years. He w.is 

 born in 1698, and died in 1768. I have two of 

 his publications now before me, viz. A Set of New 

 Psalms and Anthems, in Four Paris, on Various 

 Occasions, the Seventh Edition, London, J. New- 

 bery, 1762 ; and New Church Melody, being a Set 

 of Anthems, Psalms, Hymns, Sfc, on Various Oc- 

 casions, in Four Parts, the Fifth Edition, London, 

 R. Baldwin, n. d. Both volumes are In octavo, 

 and the latfier has a characteristic portrait of the 

 author before the title-page. 



The tune called " Wareham" is given at p. 47. 

 of the first named publication. It was so called 

 from the name of a town in Dorsetshire, in which 

 Knapp was born. Edward F. lliMnAui.T. 



Double Christian Names (2"* S. v. 159. etscepe.) 



— The following examples are of earlier occur- 

 rence than most of those which were some time 

 since noted by several correspondents. The dates 



