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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. VII, ApUil 9. '59. 



Bellenden Kers ^^Archaology of Popular Phrases 

 and Nursery Rhymes" (2""* S. i. 445.) — This book 

 was amusingly reviewed by Mr. Taylor in " N. 

 & Q." for 1856, and he inserted a Query in his 

 article which 1 have been all along curious to see 

 answered. And I certainly thought M. Van 

 Lennep, or some of our friends over the water, 

 would at any rate have told us whether Mr. Ker's 

 language is a bond fide one or not. It looks like 

 Dutch, but I cannot unravel its structure, even 

 with the aid of a dictionary. I want to know more 

 of these Saxonesque patois, especially Friesic and 

 that spoken in the Island of Nord Strand, lately 

 mentioned. Will anyone kindly refer me to the 

 best books for acquiring a knowledge of old 

 Friesic, and tell me if .the Scriptures are printed 

 in if, and procurable ? Sloaneus. 



Pancroundel, Abban Croundel {1"^^ S. vii. 200.) — 

 On reference to Kemble's Codex Diplom., the words 

 are found to be " pancrundel, Abban crundel." 



In the Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon, re- 

 cently edited by the Rev. J. Stevenson, " Crun- 

 dle" is explained as a Saxon word signifying " a 

 meadow lying near a river, corresponding (o the 

 Northumbrian Haugh" (vol. ii. p. 479.). The 

 word is also found, in the course of the Chron. 

 M. de A., under the various forms of crundel, 

 crundol, crundelle, crundele, &c. 



It is in a grant of land to the church of Abing- 

 don ("Abbendonensi aecclesiae") that Abban crun- 

 del is mentioned as one of the boundaries. And 

 in connexion with this subject it is worthy of ob- 

 servation that Abingdon itself was in A.-S., ac- 

 cording to Lye, Abban-dune, Abbatiae raons vel 

 coUis, Abbey-hill. The Abingdon abbey is said to 

 have stood originally on a hill (Lysons's Berk- 

 shire): Abban crundel, then, would be the Abbey 

 meadow ; yet differing, perhaps, from the part of 

 Abingdon now called the Abbey field; for the 

 Chronicon mentions an Abbe/eld, which seems to 

 be distinct from the Abban crundel. 



Pan, which in A.-S. signifies a piece, plait, or 

 hem, evidently corresponds to the L. pannus. 

 Pancrundel, qu. a cloth-meadow, i. e. a bleaching 

 field? Cf. Panffield ("N. & Q.," 2"'" S. vii. 224.). 



Stancrundel (^Chronicon, i. 80.), stone-meadow, 

 probably a meadow in which some memorial stone 

 had been erected. See Chronicon, Glossary, Stan. 



Thomas Boys. 



Lists of the Public Schools (2"* S. vii. 236.) — 

 As to Harrow, I beg to refer Q. V. A. A. to the 

 following work : — 



" Harrow ; a Selection of Lists of the School between 

 MDCCLXX. and mdcccxxvi. By George Butler, D.D. 

 Peterborough, 1849. 12mo." 



Dr. Butler, who was head master of the school 

 for nearly twenty-five years, and afterwards Dean 

 of Peterborough, died in 1849. 



An Old Pauline. 



Payment of Members (2°* S. vi. 489.) —In the 

 Life of Sir Edward Coke, by Cuthbert William 

 Johnson, Esq. (London, Colburn, 1837), I find 

 the following notice regarding the payment of 

 members of parliament : — 



" The paj' of a knight of the shire, as then allowed by 

 the statute of tlie sixteenth of Edward the Second, was 

 four sliillings per da}'; a burgess was to be content with 

 half that sum. This, however, did not preclude the 

 members from entering into private bargains with their 

 electors. As an instance, John Strange, the member for 

 Dunwich in 1463, agreed with the burgesses of that town 

 to take his wages in fed herrings." — Vol. i. p. 79. 



The Dunwich agreement is given in full in a 

 note to the above paragraph, and states that — 



"The sayd John Strawngne granted no more to be 

 takj'n for h3'S wagvs than a cade full of herj^ng and halff 

 a barell full heryng, tho to be deliueryd be Chrystmasse 

 next coming." 



R. S. F. 



Perth. 



A Muffled Peal on Innocents' Day (P' S. xi. 8. ; 

 2"^ S. vii. 245.) — It is the custom at Pattingham, 

 in Staffordshire, to ring a muffled peal on In- 

 nocents' Day. In the belfry of the parish church 

 hangs a list of the days on which the ringers are 

 expected to ring; amongst which occurs "Inno- 

 cents' Day," and the word-s " muffled peal" are 

 also inserted. John N. Bagnall. 



Charlemont Hall, near Wednesbury. 



The same custom existed at Norton, near Eve- 

 sham, Worcestershire. Cuthbert Bede. 



To fix Tracings on Oiled Paper (2°" S. vii. 234.) 

 — I think it would answer to use spirits of wine, 

 with powdered rosin dissolved, so as to tinge the 

 solution of a pale yellow colour. This answers 

 admirably for fixing blacklead and black chalk 

 upon paper ; and though I never tried it on oiled 

 paper, I should think it likely to prove efficacious. 



F. c. n. 



Prayers and Intercessions (2"* S. vii. 130.) — 

 The title of J. C. J.'s volume is 



" Prayers | of | Intercession | for their | Use who Mourn 



in Secret | for the | Publick Calamities | of this | Nation 



I with I an Anniversary Prayer for the 30"> of [ January 



I Very necessary and Useful in Private Fa | -luilies, as 



well as in Congregations | By Jo. Huit, D.D. | London ; 



Printed in the Year 1G59." 



My copy is small 8vo., pp. 48., and two of "Con- 

 tents." It is, I believe, privately printed, and 

 rare. If J. C. J.'s copy has fifty-three numbered 

 pages, it is a different edition, and I should like 

 to collate it with my own. E. S. Taylor. 



Ormesby St. Margaret. 



Sir Philip Sidney (2"'' S. vii. 213.)— I have as 

 a framed picture the print to which J. K. alludes 

 in his PS. It is a whole length portrait of Sir 

 Philip, reclining on a bank under a tree, with the 

 view of Penshurst in the distance, engraved by 



