2'"» S. VII. June 11. '^9.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



475 



Fol. 540. col. 2. 1. 23., and fol. 558. col. 1. 1. 5. 

 "In Calpestret." 



Spelt also in later documents " Cawpe.''* 



Fol. 537. col. 1. l.*8. from bottom. " In Bre- 

 dencstret." 



Fol. 550. col, 1.1. 13. "■BrvdenestreC 



In aftertimes it was called "Bridney" and "Brid- 

 ling" Street. 



Fol. 556. col, 1. 11, 19, 20. "7 hantacheuesle sole- 

 bat ibi ee. ubi ^bi homies Wint' potabant Gilda 

 sua." 



It is the name of a Guildhall ; but I know of no 

 record of any such building in the street named ; 

 nor of any Guild the name of which might elu- 

 cidate this word. 



Passim. " Brug'," " brueg'," &c. 



Can this be the " Brycgbot " which was one of 

 the dues to the king ? 



Fol. 538. " Sapala7ida" Mr. Smirke (Arch. 

 Journal, vol. iii. pp. 339. &c.) has proTed that this 

 is not the name of a monastery, but of some land 

 for which rent was paid (most probably to St. 

 Swithin's monastery). It undoubtedly was situ- 

 ated within the walls of the city ; therefore 

 neither meaning ("marsh land" or "sheep land") 

 suggested by Mr. Smirke is suitable. Winchester 

 was a great place for the fulling trade : was there 

 any plant (there is a common weed called " Soap- 

 wort") which was ever used in that trade, and 

 cultivated for that purpose ? B. B. Woodward. 



Haverstock Hill. 



^{n0r ©uertcS. 



Natural : Lawful : Illegitimate. — Your recent 

 exposure of Cobbett's malicious interpretation of 

 the term "natural issue" in the statute 13 Eliz., 

 raises a question which I should like to see an- 

 swered. He wilfully perverted the plain mean- 

 ing of the word, as it was then used ; but at what 

 period, and under what circumstances, and by 

 what author, was it first introduced in the sense 

 which is a seeming justification of his abusive 

 version ? 



In the quotation from Temple, given by John- 

 son, the expression seems to have been commonly 

 used in his time in its bastard signification. D. S. 



Grave-diggers. — There are diffused over this 

 country numerous legends, historical facts, monu- 

 mental inscriptions, and curious reminiscences of 

 grave-diggers, worthy of preservation, I am 

 making a collection of the same. Can any of the 

 readers of " N. & Q." help me ? as I find it next 

 to impossible to make my work completely satis- 

 factory without the aid of MSS. in the hands of 

 private persons. 



For a particular Query, I send the following 

 lines from Peterborough cathedral ; they are un- 

 derneath a life-size portrait, painted in oil. It is 



not often that we see in holy places pictures of 

 this kind : — 



" You see old Scarlett's picture standing on the wall, 

 But at your feet there doth his hody lye : 

 His gravestone doth his age and death-time show, 

 [His office by these tokens you may know.] 

 Second to none for strengthe and sturdy limb, 

 A Scarbape mighty voice with visage grim. 

 He had intered two queens within this place, 

 And this towns householders in his life space 

 Twice over ; but at length his one turn came : 

 What he for others did, for him the same 

 Was done : no doubt his soul doth live for aye 

 In Heaven, though here his body clad in clay." 



Query, What is a Scarbape voice ? 



Septimus Piesse. 



Vine Cottage, Turnham Green. 



[We have added from Gunton's Church of Peter- 

 burgh, p. 93., where the epitaph is printed, the fourth 

 line omitted by our correspondent. The first line, as 

 given by Gunton, reads thus : — 



" Tou see old Scarlet's picture stand on high ; " 



and Scarbape is more correctly printed Scarehabe, which 

 means a Scarecrow, a figure set up in fields to frighten 

 crows. From a MS. note in Gunton's History, we learn 

 that Robert Scarlet died July 2, 1594, aet. 98.— Ed.] 



T'he Kenible Family. — In A New History of 

 Gloucestershire, printed at Cirencester by Samuel 

 Rudder in 1779, there is an account of the monu- 

 ments and tombs in the parish church of that 

 town. Among the tombs set down as then exist- 

 ing in the chapel of St. Catherine, there is "A 

 flat stone — on a bend ermine, three leopards' 

 heads cabosbed (the colours not expressed) — and 

 underneath, this inscription : — 



" Hie requiescit 

 jErumnarum portu et meta Salutis 

 quicquid terrestre fuit 

 Thomse Kenible, Gen. 



Cujus anima 

 Ad Superos Evolavit 

 14 Cal. Aug. 

 .„„„ f-<Etat. Suaj 71. 

 ■^™°\^rse Christiana, 1710. 

 Anne Kemble, daughter of Anthony Kemble, was buried 

 the 14"' day of Dec. 1733. 

 William Kemble, Gent., obiit June 22'"i, 1745." 



Were these persons ancestors of the illustrious 

 theatrical family bearing the same name ? 



John Pavin Phillips. 

 Haverfordwest. 



Luther and Wesley. — I have a copy of John- 

 son's Lives of the Poets, with Archdeacon Hare's 

 book-plate and a few notes which I believe to be 

 in his hand. The following passage from the Life 

 of Cowley is marked : — 



" Language is the dress of thought : and as the noblest 

 mien, or most graceful action, would be degraded and 

 obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employ- 

 ments of rusticks or mechanicks; so the most heroick 

 sentiments will lose their efficacy, and the most splendid 

 ideas drop their magnificence, if they are conveyed by 



