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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2''<» S. VII. June 11. 'ot». 



Traoelling from Belfast to London, 1785. — The 

 following advertisement from the Belfast News- 

 Letter (January, 1785), is curious : — 



" A gentleman intends setting off for London, by way 

 of Portpatrick, the beginning of next week, and would 

 be glad of a partner in a chaise. Enquire at the Prin- 

 ters hereof." 



Abhba. 



Arms of Sicily and Man. — In the Saturday Re- 

 viev), March 5, 1859 (p. 280.), are some remarks 

 on " Gaulish and Ogham Inscriptions," which seem 

 to bear on this subject. After describing a bull 

 carrying three cranes, inscribed " Tarvos trigaj- 

 anus" (qu. Tavros), the reviewer translates from 

 Beitriige zur vergleichenden Sprachforschung, 

 p. 473. : — 



" In the bull with tliree cranes, lie, Dr. Siegfried, sus- 

 pects a reminiscence of the same idea which we have in 

 the Vedic Vishnu of the three strides — namely, the 

 rising, the noonday height, and the setting of the sun. 

 The metaphorical use of 'bull' for 'sun' is not sur- 

 prising. The three strides next, perhaps, became three 

 legs ; and the bull on the Parisian monument reall}' 

 seems three-legged. A further transformation by the 

 Celts of the legs into cranes were easily explained, for in 

 ^Velsh garan means crane as well as leg (cf. grus and 

 crus)." 



The above suggests grian, the sun ; and I think 

 affords a hint of the origin of the Manx arms, so 

 inapplicable to the shape of the island. If Man and 

 Sicily received the symbol from the same race, 

 they were not peopled by the earliest horde of 

 Indo-Europeans. F. C. B. 



Ancient Document. — I enclose an article of 

 some interest which occurred in the course of my 

 black-letter pursuits, temp. Q. Eliz., and which 

 will appear in Skeet's next Catalogue for June : — 



" Articles agreed upon by the Archbishops and By- 

 shops of both Prouinces, and the whole Cleargie, in the 

 Conuocation holden at London in the yeare of our Lord 

 God 1562, for the stablishing of consent touching True 

 Religion. Engraved bordered title. London, for C Bar- 

 ker, 1563." 



On the back of the last page is a contemporary 

 manuscript declaration, signed and attested by the 

 deputies, churchwardens, and other parishioners 

 of St, Andrew Undershaft, dated July 24, 1567, 

 that 



"John Daye, Clarke, with playne voyce read all the ar- 

 ticles -contained in this boke, and did, in the hearing of 

 the congregation then p'sent, thereunto gyve hys full 

 and unfeined assent, acknowledging them all agreeable 

 to the holye scriptures," &c. 



Query, Was this John Day the printer ? 



George Robinson. 

 3. Castle Street, Stratford N. T., Essex. 



Blomefield's " Norfolk." — In case of a new 

 edition of this work, I venture to send you a Note. 

 In vol. ii. p. 392., 8vo. edit., in the account of 

 Easton, and of Adam de Easton, created a cardi- 



nal in the reign of Richard II., Blomefield says 

 that Godwin, in his discourse of English Cardinals, 

 "saith he was a Hereford man," which Blome- 

 field calls a great mistake according to the Re- 

 cords. This apparent discrepancy is reconciled 

 by Blomefield's own account of a manor in Easton, 

 which he says belonged to the Vauxes, and then 

 to the Herefords, or Herforths, who held it till 

 1317. And though, in 1382, the date of the car- 

 dinal, it had passed to the Batemans, Blomefield 

 says that in his own time it was still Hereford or 

 Herforth. Is there the slightest chance of Mr. 

 Dawson Turner's Blomefield falling into hands 

 that would make it available for a new edition ? 

 In carefully reading the present work, I noticed 

 (not noted) numerous instances in which a little 

 attention would materially elucidate the text. 



F. C. B. 



ANGLO-SAXON WORDS IN THE " LIBEE WINTON." 



May 1 beg from the numerous philologists who 

 read your pages some light concerning the fol- 

 lowing terms, which appear to be Anglo-Saxon 

 words written by a Norman scribe, the meaning 

 of which is required for the right understanding 

 of some passages of the Liber Winton, which are 

 of considerable archaeological interest ? 



Fol. 531. col. 1. 11. 12, 13. "hoc aute Burgenses 

 pacto sacramto : aporta orientali ce^unt inquirere 

 ^hergingis." 



As a clue to the meaning of the word noted, I 

 may say that the survey proceeds from Eastgate 

 to Westgate, along the north side of the street, 

 and returns by the south side. 



Fol. 534. col. 2. 1. 19. " Et ubi mewenehaia est 

 ibi fuit. I. dom'." 



Note, that the Mews, or " Hawkheyes," called 

 in this Survey " Domus havoc," were not in the 

 site here indicated, as far as I can ascertain, at 

 any period. 



Fol. 535. col. 1. 1. 3. from bottom, " Suma in 

 Hestdinges, i hoc vico habuit rex Edward'," &c. 



Where the word noted appears to be another 

 name for the present High Street. It was known 

 as " Cyppinga" and "Cyp Street" before the Con- 

 quest; and afterwards as "Mercatus" .and ^^ Mag- 

 nus," " Albus," or " Summus Vicus." 



Fol. 539. col. 1. 1. 18. "In Wenegenestret." 



Fol. 553. col. 2. 1. 1. "In Wunegrestret." 



This street was afterwards called " Wongar " 

 Street. Does the name refer at all to the vine- 

 yards which once were at Winchester ? in proof 

 of which there is not only the name of one of the 

 churches, "All Saints in the Vineyards" (not how- 

 ever situated near this street), but also that line — 



" Testis Lundonia retibus, Wintonia Baccho." 



Harrison's Description of Britaine, f. 112. 



