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NOTES AND QUEBIES. 



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of the present day will be found ignoring the ex^ 

 istence of Messrs. Cobden, Yeh, & Co., and seizing 

 on the above coincidence in order to account for 

 the '' mighty change," as in the case cited by Dr. 

 DoRAi^, K. W. Hackwood. 



Naked Boy Court : Bleeding Heart Yard (2°'^ S. 

 iii. 254.) — The theory of your correspondent, 

 E. G. R., concerning tlie origin of the names fpr 

 these localities, is, I think, ingenious and not at all 

 improbable. But I think he is mistaken with re- 

 gard to the latter name for the dark red wallflower. 

 In the midland counties it is frequently called 

 "Bleeding Heart," and in Dorsetshire "Bloody 

 Warrior." The Bev. W. Baines, in the glossary 

 to his Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorsetshire 

 dialect, gives this word, and in one of his poems 

 enumerating the flowers in a cottage garden says, 

 "jilliflowers," and "bloody wa'yors stained wi' 

 red," thus pointing to a difference between the 

 yellow and red variety. I have consulted Forby 

 and find no mention made of any of the names re- 

 ferred to by your correspondent. The autumnal 

 crocus, or meadow saflTron, does not grow to any 

 pxtent in Norfolk. Essex is the county most 

 celebrated for its gro^vth. E. S. W. 



Norwich. 



Meaning of " Redchenister " in *' Domesday " 

 (2"'' S. ii. 353.) — r- On turning over the pages of 

 Cowell's Interpreter, I came upon the following 

 passage, which may assist Mb. Alfred T. IjEE to 

 the elucidation he requires : 



" Hodknights, alias Radknights, are certain servitours, 

 whicli hold their land by serving their Lord on Horse- 

 back. Bracton, li. 2. ca. 36. num. 6. saith of thern, debet 

 equitare cum Domino suo de manerio in manerium, vel cum 

 Domini uxore. Fie. a lib. 3. cap. 14. § Continetus." 



The edition of Cowell's useful work which I 

 possess is that for 1607. It is copiously illustrated 

 with MS. notes in tlje Italian Jjand peculiar to the 

 period. T. C. S. 



Filius Populi (2'"i S. iii. 158.) ^ Lord Bray- 

 brooke's note reminds me of a passage in Tom — 

 (" I hold he loves me biit that calls me Tom ") 



Hey wood. In that pleasant poet's preface to his 

 English Traveller, he says : 



" T}iis trggi-comedy (being one reserved amongst 220 

 in which I had either an entire hand, or at the least a 

 main finger) coming accidentally to the press, and 1 

 having intelligence thereof, thought it not fit that it 

 should pass as filius populi, a bastard, without a father to 

 acknowledge it." 



The last words seem to explain what was actu- 

 ally meant by a flius populi, namely, not merely 

 an illegitimate, but an unacknowledged child. The 

 extract made by Lord Bratbrookb from the 

 Lawrence Waltham register appears to confirm 

 this, where little Anne is entered as " the daughter 



of Mary Cardless and of the people." The ad- 

 ditional information in brackets, which tells us of 

 the mother swearing the child to that ungallant 

 valentine, John Ford, proves that John had not 

 acknowledged the paternity. Heywood'e play The 

 EJnglish Traveller, has for it| chief incident the 

 marriage pf a young girl, in the absence of b^r 

 lover, to a kind-hearted old man- Mr. Jeaflfre- 

 son's novel, Isabel, or the Young Wife and the Old 

 Love, turns on a similar point ; a,nd I can promise 

 two or three remarkably agreeable evenings to 

 any one who has leisure enough to read the two 

 works above-named, and who cares to see how 

 one subject i^ admirably, yet differently, treated 

 by the old dramatist and the young novelist. 



J. DoRAN. 



Sir Thos. Move's House at Chelsea (2"^ S. ii, 455.) 

 — The following additional particulars on the 

 above subject may perhaps interest some of ypur 

 readers. 



An ancient manuscript I possess describes a 

 capital messuage, as situate in Chelsey, alias Chel- 

 sey-hith, in the county of Middlesex, commonly 

 called by the name of " The Great More House," 

 with an adjoining Banquettingr house, garden, and 

 close of land (in which grew a row of barberry 

 trees, along the garden wall, and also rose trees 

 and other hearhes), in the tenure of Sir John 

 Danvers, Knight, The manuscript referred to 

 bears the date of 1617, and states the owners of 

 the inheritance of the Great More Hpuse to have 

 been, previous to and at that period, Firstly, 

 John Paulett, second Marquis of Winchester ; 

 secondly, Margaret Baroness Dacres ; thirdly, 

 Henry Earl of Lincoln ; and fourthly. Sir Arthur 

 Gorge, knt. [translator of Lucan'], from -yvhence 

 it may be reasonably inferred that the Great More 

 House, before-named, was the identical "pore 

 Howse at Chelc-hith." Sir Thomas More alludes 

 to it, in the Memorable Vindication addressed by 

 hini to King Henry VIII., wherein the unfortunate 

 chancellor, with his children and their families,. 

 dwelt, find where the learned Erasmus visited him. 



T. W. Jones. 



Nantwich. 



An Acoustic Query (2""^ S. ii. 410.) —In Crete 

 the human voice may be heard at an immense 

 distance. Homer alludes to it. In Blackwood I 

 find: 



f' M. Zallony, in his Voyage a VArchipel, says that 

 some of the Greek islanders ' out la mix forte et animee ; 

 et devx haititans, a une distance d'une dtmi-Ueux, mej)\e 

 plus, pptfvent tres facilement s'entendre, et quelquerfois 

 s'entretenir.^ 



" Now a royal league is hard uppa three milea, and a 

 sea league two miles; and a h^lr, et mSme plus, would 

 bring us near to two miles. It is said that an English 

 farmer always called his son from a place two miles dis- 

 tant, and the son glw^ys came." — "Vol. 1. p, 42(J. 



Thbei^kej^p. 



Cambridge. 



