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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 126. 



4. Santo Brasca, a gentleman of Milan, made a 

 pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1480, of which he wrote 

 a journal in Italian, and published it the following 

 year at Milan. Brunei gives the title as follows : 

 Tutlo il suo Itinerario di giorno in giorno al sanctis- 

 .<siina cita di Jerusalem nelV anno 1480, 4to. This 

 is a very curious and rare book, written in a simple 

 and natural style ; and at the end of which are 

 " Instruction! a ciascuno che desidra fare questo 

 sanctissimo viagio," and two prayers in verse : 

 " 1. Orati<me per sancto brascha fatta a piedi nudi 

 in Monte Calvario adi 29 Julij, 1480: 2. Oratione 

 facta in la vale de Josaphat a la sepultura de la 

 Vergene Maria." 



5. Jokann or Hans Tucher, a counsellor (Raths- 

 herr) of Nuremberg, undertook a pilgrimage to 

 Jerusalem and Mount Sinai in the year 1479, in 

 company with Balthasar, Duke of Mecklenburg, 

 and two of his fellow-citizens. The title of his 

 itinerary in Brunet is. Wall/art vnd Reise in das 

 gelobte Land. Such was its popularity that it 

 passed through two editions in the same year 

 (1482) ; the one appearing at Augsburg, in folio ; 

 the other, corrected by the author, at Nuremberg, 

 in 4to. (Vide Will's Nilrnbergisches Gelehrten- 

 Lexicon.) The work is, however, very rare. In 

 it full directions are given for the guidance of all 

 such as might thereafter be disposed to venture 

 forth with scrip and staff on these pious but some- 

 what perilous expeditions. 



Referring again to Breydenbach, Dr. Kitto (no 

 mean authority) is of opinion that the account 

 which goes under his name was written by the 

 Dominican monk Felix Faber, who was Breyden- 

 bach's secretary and companion in the journey. 

 (See Kitto's Physical History of Palestine, p. 9.) 



P^REGBINfi A. 



8UBNAMES. 



The subject of surnames has more than once 

 been referred to in the pages of " N. & Q.," and 

 it may assist those of your readers who have in- 

 vestigated the question of their origin and use, to 

 offer them the following examples of peculiar 

 forms of personal designation which occur in cer- 

 tain of the more ancient public muniments of the 

 city of Norwich. 



It is the opinion of Camden, Du Cange, Pegge, 

 Sharon Turner, and other writers, that the cus- 

 tom of appropriating a permanent appellation to 

 particular families, became fully established in 

 this country at the period (sooner or later) of the 

 Norman Conquest. The instances, however, ex- 

 hibited below, prove that such custom was not, 

 at any rate, universally prevalent at that time 

 amongst us. And, indeed, whatever might have 

 been the case in reference to " the high men of 

 the lond," it is very certain that surnames, pro- 



perly so called, were not completely adopted by 

 the mass of the people until the close of the four- 

 teenth century. 



But as the intention of this Note is simply to 

 adduce original examples of individual designa- 

 tions, without inquiring into the circumstances 

 attending their acquisition, or pointing to the 

 causes, obvious enough for the most part, to which 

 their various after-changes and modifications are 

 to be attributed, the subject calls for no other 

 general remark, except, perhaps, as to the pre- 

 fixes "Le"* and " De," which, it may be noticed 

 in passing, are, though not constantly, as is com- 

 monly asserted, attached to names in records of 

 an older date tlian the time of Edward IV., when 

 they began to fall into desuetude. 



With these introductory observations are now 

 given, from the source above indicated, — 



I. Examples of sons bearing a name different to 

 that of their fathers : — 



" 1230. Will. fil. Silvestri, als. Will. Silvestre, fil. Sil- 



vestri Pudding de Holmestrete ; 

 1232. Joh. de Worthestede, Tannator, fil. Simonis le 



Spencer ; 

 1239. Sim. Pellipar (Pelter, or Skinner), fil. Ranulph. 



le Fiirmag. de N. ; 

 1242. Will. Pryse, fil. Clementis Mayne de N. ; 

 1249. Walt.de Swathingg de N. Aurifaber, fil. Joh. 



de Birlingham ; 

 1273. Rob. Leek, fil. Add. de Tifteshale ; 

 . Rad. fil. Willi de Castelaire (Castleacre) qui 



vocatur Rads. de Lenn (Lynn) ; 



1333. Rycard de Byterlnge, fil. Johis le Yunge 



(Lin 2), Ball'ior; 



1334. Joh. del Stonhous, fil. Ad. de Storston, Clici, 



C. N. 

 1354. Willm. de Bernham, fil. Adam, del Sartyn 



defti." 

 Attention is requested to the last entry but one 

 of this list ; and it may be further mentioned, in 

 reference to it, that sub ana. 1270 occurs this 

 notice : 



" Adam le Clerk de Stirston et Anger (?) ux. ej." 



II. Examples of wives described by names other 

 than those borne by their husbands : 



" 1255. Rob. de Wurthestede, et Basitia le Ro', ux. ej. 



1288. Will, de Devenschyr, le Wayte, et Alicia de 

 Wetinge, ux. ej. 



1307. Johes Mengy de Besthorp, et Martha de Fel- 

 minghain, ux. ej. 



Thos. Toyth, et Juliana le Ropere, ux. ej. 



1316. Agnes Richeman (Rickman), Relicta RIc. 

 Holveston defti. 



1318. Rob. de Poswyk, Taverner, et Alicia Godes- 

 man, ux. ej. 



1352. Isabell. de Mundham fuit ux. Willi de Duns- 

 ton, et nunc uxor Simonis Spencer." 



♦ This prefix was occasionally in Cheshire, and in 

 the North with few exceptions, contracted into " A," as 

 Thomas a Becket, Thomas a Dutton, &c. 



