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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 127. 



difference between these most umloiibtedlv dis- 

 tinctive people ? B. M. 



[A very old man, in our younger days, whose in- 

 formant lived temp. Jac. II., used to explain it thus : — 

 When the Conqueror marched from Dover towards 

 London, he was stopped at Swansconope, by Stigand, 

 at the head of the " Men of Kent," with oak boughs 

 " all on their brawny shoulders," as emblems of peace, 

 on condition of his preserving inviolate the Saxon laws 

 and customs of Kent ; else they were ready to fight 

 unto the death for them. The Conqueror chose tiie 

 first alternative : hence we retain our Law of Gavel- 

 kind, &c., and hence the inhabitants of the part of 

 Kent lying between Rochester and London, being 

 " invicti," have ever since been designated as " Men 

 of Kent," while those to the eastward, through whose 

 district the Conqueror marched unopposed, are only 

 " Kentish Men." This is hardly a satisfactory account; 

 but we give it as we had it. 



We suspect the real origin of the terms to have been, 

 a mode of distinguishing any man whose family had 

 been long settled in the county (from time immemorial, 

 it may be), from new settlers ; the former being 

 genuine " Men of Kent," the latter only " Kentish." 

 The monosyllabic name of the county probably led to 

 this play upon the word, which could not have been 

 achieved in the "shires."] 



Bae-parh. — This term is used in Cornisli title- 

 deeds. What species of inclosure does it express ? 

 Do any such exist now ? C. W . G. 



[We have never met with the word, and can only 

 guess at random that it is quasi " the bee-croft," the 

 enclosure where the bees were kept; always remem- 

 bering that formerly, when honey was an article of 

 Jarge consumption, immense stores of these insects 

 must have been kept. In royal inventories we have 

 " honey casks " enumerated to an immense amount.] 



A great Man ivlio could not spell. — Of wliat 

 fjreat historical character is it recorded, that though 

 by no means deficient in education, he never could 

 succeed in spelling correctly ? I have an impres- 

 sion of having read this in some biography a few 

 years since, and I think it was a great military 

 commander, who always committed this error in 

 his despatches, though a man of acknowledged high 

 talents and well-informed mind, and conscious of 

 this defect, which he had endeavoured in vain to 

 overcome. Sampson Anbamenh. 



[Does our correspondent allude to the Duke of 

 IMarlborough, who was avowedly "loose in his ca- 

 cography " as Lord Duberly has it ?] 



Glass-making in England. — The appearance in 

 your pages of several very interesting Notes on 

 the First Paper-mill in England leads me to beg 

 space for a few Queries on another subject of Art- 

 JLiistory. 



I. When, where, and under what circumstances, 

 ■was tlie first manufactory for glass established in 

 Ensrland? 



2. What writer first notices the introduction or 

 use of glass, In our Island ? 



3. Are there any works of authority published 

 devoted to this material ? If so, may I request 

 some of your learned contributors to direct me to 

 them, or, In fact, to any good notice of its early 

 history ? Josiah Cato. 



5. Holland Place, North Brixton. 



[Fosbroke, in his Encyclopedia of Antiquities, '^o\.i. 

 p. 397., has given some carious notices of the early manu- 

 facture of this useful article. The art of glass-making was 

 known to the early Egyptians, as is fully discussed in 

 a Memoir b)* M. Boudet, in the Description de V Egypt, 

 vol. ix. Aiitiq. Memoires. See also the Encyclopedia 

 MetropoUtana, vol. viii. p. 469, which contains many 

 historical notices, from a neat and concise sketch pub- 

 lished by Mr. Pellatt, of the firm of Pellatt and Green, 

 whose works are scientifically conducted on a scale of 

 considerable magnitude.] 



Eustace. — Was Eustachius Monachus ever in 

 Guernsey ? Mortimer Collins. 



[Ft is very probable. Some of the crew of this re- 

 nowned pirate were captured at Sark. See Michel's 

 Introduction to the Roman d'Eustache le Moine, 8vo. 

 I8.'34, where copies of most of our records, and of the 

 passages in our early historians, in which Eustace is 

 mentioned, have been collected with great care.] 



Mas. — I inquired what was the meaning of 

 Mass Robert Fleming, and I partly answer my 

 own question, by saying that Cameronian preachers 

 were so styled, or rather Mas with one "s" before 

 their Christian names, — as Mas David William- 

 son, Mas John King : see John Crelchton's Me- 

 moirs. But I ask again, how the title arises, and 

 whether It Is short for master ? A. N. 



[Nares, in his Glossary, has given several examples 

 from our earlier dramatists in which Mas is used as a 

 colloquial abbreviation of Master, the plural being 

 Masse.^ 



John Le Neve. — Who was John Le Neve, the 

 compiler and editor of the Fasti Ecclesiai An- 

 glicancE, fol. 1716? He has been, though erro- 

 neously, supposed to be a brother of Peter Le Neve, 

 Norroy. When did he die ? G. 



[John Le Neve was born in Great Russell Street, 

 Bloomsbury, Dec. 27, 1679. In his twelfth year he 

 was sent to Eton School, and at the age of sixteen be- 

 came a fellow -commoner of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, where lie remained three years. He married 

 Frances, the second daughter of Thomas Boughton, of 

 King's Cliffe, in Northamptonshire, l>y whom he had 

 four sons and four daughters. He died about 1722. 

 Mr. Lysons, in Environs of London, says he had a 

 house at Stratford, Bow. (See Nichols's Lit. Anecdotes, 

 vol. i. p. 128.) In Cole's MSS., vol. i. p. 143., is the 

 following curious note respecting his Fasti : — " I was 

 told by my worthy friend and benefactor, Browne 



