Mar. 6. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Cheltenham and Slaughter, &c. &c. &c. in ex- 

 change for the villes of Winchelsea and Rye, which 

 had been gi-anted to the said abbot, &c. by Edward 

 the Confessor ; to hold them — 

 " adeo libera et quieta sicut antea tenuerunt Win- 

 chelsee et la Rye ratione donationis eis facte a felicis 

 memorie sancto Adwardo, et concessionum ac confir- 

 niationum postmodum abltarum a Willelmo et Henrico 

 Regibus Anglie de terra de Staniges cum omnibus 

 apendiciis suis. Inter que reputabantur Winchelsee 

 et la Rye. In cujus regis Willelmi carta contine- 

 bantur hujusmodi libcrtates ; videlicet, quod predicti 

 abbas et monachi Phiscanenses habeant terram de 

 Staniges, cum omnibus omnino apendiciis suis et 

 cum omnibus legibus, libertatibus, liberis consuetudi- 

 nibus quietanciis placitis, qucrelis, et causis que sunt 

 Tel fore possunt, absque ulla inquietudine et diminu- 

 tione cujuslibet secularis vel judiciaria potestatis sicut 

 res ad Phiscum dominicum pertinentes et quod 

 predicta terra cum omnibus apendiciis suis libera 

 sit et quieta ab omni consuetudine terrene ser- 

 vitutis et ab omni dominacione et subjeccione Baro- 

 num et principum et omnium aliorum. Et quod 

 prefati abbas et Monachi Phiscanenses et eorum 

 ministi'i habeant omnem regiam libertatem et consue- 

 tudinem et omnem justiciam suam de omnibus rebus 

 et negociis que in terra sua evenient vel poterunt 

 evenire, nee aliquis nisi per eos se inde intromittat. 

 Quia hoc totum regale beneficium est et ab omni ser- 

 vitute quietum. Et quod si aliquis quicquam contra 

 hujusmodi concessionem presumat, ad phiscum domi- 

 nicum coactus auri libras centum persolvat." 



I have ventured to subjoin this recital from the 

 charter of William, thinking that it may be accept- 

 able to your querist, as fully explanatory of the 

 transaction to which his question refers. 



Lambert A. Larking. 



Donkey (Vol. v., pp. 78. 165.). — In Chaucer's 

 Canterbury Tales, v. 16954., we have — 



" Ther gan our hoste to jape and to play. 

 And sayde : sires what ? Dan is in the mire." 

 There is also an old proverbial simile : 

 " As dull as Dun in the mire." 

 It is supposed that Dun was a nickname applied 

 to the ass from his colour, in the same way as 

 Burnell, in the Chester Whitsun Playes, MS. Harl. 

 2013., and Russell applied to the fox, Canterbury 

 Tales, V. 15340. 



As to the termination key, it is probably (as in 

 monkey, jockey, wliich are the only words of similar 

 formation which I can call to mind at present) the 

 same as kin, which has the force of a diminutive in 

 words like lambkin, mannikin, &c. Juvenis. 



Sir Samuel Garth (Vol. v., p. 151.). — I believe 

 it will be found difficult to find the place of this 

 celebrated physician's birth. In the fourth volume 

 of Mr. Surtees' History of the County of Durham, 

 pp. 26, 27., there is an interesting account of him, 

 to which is added a pedigree of his family. Sur- 

 tees, in a note, says : 



" There is no trace of his having ever revisited the 

 north, and I have in vain endeavoured to glean any- 

 thing of correspondence, or of traditional anecdote." 



Fba. Mewburn. 

 Darlington. 



Princes of Wales and Earls of Chester, Sfc. : Mr. 

 Bush's Collection (Vol. v., p. 178.). — I suspect 

 Mr. Bush's proposed collection was never pub- 

 lished. In an old MS. account of the Fellows of 

 King's, I find the following extract. I copy it as 

 it stands : 



" 1718, 



" Cha. Bush, of Harmondsworth, Middx. Res on 

 being denied his Degree of A. B. in College from 

 Party . . A Clk. of the Record Off. in the Tower, 1725. 

 April 27, 1726, he published proposals for printing by 

 Siibsr. A lott of Charters and I^etters Patent, and 

 otlier Instruments concerning the Creation and Investi- 

 ture of the eldest sons of the K' of Engl, as Princes of 

 Wales, D. of Cornwall & E. of Chester & Flint, to- 

 gether with several Extracts out of the Pari. Rolls 

 relating to the Honor, Dignity, & Estate of the P. of 

 Wales, from the time of Edward first, P. of Wales 

 (afterwards K. E. 2) to the time of E. 4. inclusive, 

 faithfully collated from the Records of the Tower by 

 C. B. one of the Clks. of the Record Oft", in the T. & 

 late Fell, of K. C. C. 



" He was taken into the Ordnance Office to assist 

 in methodising the Papers belonging to it, and was 

 after Sec. to the Board of Ordnance." 



It would seem Mr. Bush's proposals did not 

 meet with a favourable reception, or perhaps his 

 removal to an important government office pre- 

 vented his fulfilling his intentions. It is to be 

 hoped he returned his subscriptions (if any). 



J. H. L. 



Litera scripta manet (Vol. v., p. 200.). — The, 

 following extract, if not a complete answer to the 

 query on Litera scripta manet, is a curious in- 

 stance of the early use of that maxim, and I 

 transcribe it with pleasure as a specimen of one 

 of the best informed and most interesting of our 

 medieval prose writers. I rely, as to orthography 

 and punctuation, on Joseph Ames : 



" Considering that wordes ben perisshyng, wayne, 

 and forgateful, and wrytynes duelle and abide perma- 

 nent, as I rede. Fox audita peril, litera scripta manet. 

 Thise thinges have caused that the faites and deeds of 

 auncient men ben sette by declaracion in fair and 

 aourned volumes, to thende that science and artes, 

 lerned and founden, of thinges passed might be had in 

 perpetuel meraorye and remembraunce," &c. 



Wailimx Carton. 

 WLt^tmtitct fill 3LoniJ0u, i48i. 



Bolton Corney. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Atkenceum of Saturday the 21st February an- 

 nounces that Sir F. Madden has secured for th^ British 



