June 12. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QtJERIES. 



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Sir Gilbert Qerrard (Vol. v.^ p. 511.). — I beg 

 to refer Mr. Spedding to Erdeswick's Stafford- 

 shire, by Harwood (1820), p. 83., who states that 

 Sir Gilbert Gerrard died in 1592, and that he was 

 buried in Ashley churchyard in that county, under 

 a handsome monument. Probably the inscription 

 on it will give the precise date, and some of your 

 readers may be able to refer to it, and send the 

 communication to "N. & Q." His death must 

 have occurred between January 8, 1592, 34 Eliz- 

 abeth, tbe date of his will as given in Dugdale's 

 Baronage, vol. ii. p. 417., and the following April ; 

 if Dugdale is right in saying, that it was then 

 proved. But on referring to the Baga de Secj'etis, 

 the contents of which are so excellently calendared 

 by Sir Francis Palgrave in the Appendices to his 

 third, fourth, and fifth reports as deputy-keeper of 

 the Public Records, it appears that Sir Gilbert was 

 named in a commission of Oyer and Terminer, on 

 March 22 ; that he signed a precept under it for 

 the return of the grand jury, on April 1 1 ; and that 

 he signed another precept to the lieutenant of the 

 Tower for bringing up Sir John Perrott before the 

 justices, on June 12, all in 34 Elizabeth, 1592. 

 (Fourth Report, Appendix II. pp. 282, 283.) It 

 would seem, therefore, that Dugdale has erred in 

 the date he assigns to the probate of Sir Gilbert's 

 ■will. A search, however, at Doctors' Commons 

 will solve the difficulty. Edwakd Foss. 



Fides Carbonarii (Vol.iv., pp. 233. 283. ; Vol. v., 

 p. 523.).— The Collier's Confession of Faith did not 

 originate with Dr. Milner, but is at least three 

 hundred years old. Cardinal Hosius commends it 

 highly (De auctor. sacrce Script.: 0pp. fol. 263.: 

 Antverp. 1556), and so does Staphylus likewise 

 (Apologia, fol. 83. : Colon. 1562). Bellarmin gives 

 another version of the narrative, which he has 

 taken from Petrus Barocius (De arte bene moriendi, 

 lib. ii. cap. ix. pp. 200-203. : Antverp. 1620). Your 

 correspondents should not have forgotten the con- 

 cluding question and answer in what Crakenthorp 

 has styled " The Colliar's Catechisme " ( Vigilius 

 Dormitaris, -p. 187.: Lond. 1631). The entire of 

 the conversation may be represented thus : 



" What do you believe?" 



" I believe what the Church believes." 



" And what does the Church believe?" 



" The Church believes what I believe." 



" And what do you both believe? " 



*' The same thing." 



R. G. 



Line on Franklin (Vol. iv., p. 443. ; Vol. v., 

 pp. 17. 549.). — 



" Eripuit Jovi fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis." 



I do not exactly see the object of Mb. Warden's 

 inquiry (if it indeed be one), as your correspon- 

 dent R. D. H. had already traced It from Cardinal 

 Polignac to Manilius ; but, as perhaps Mb. Wab- 

 DEN means to inquire where he may have read it, 



I beg leave to inform him that line was first pub- 

 lished as anonymous in the Correspondence de 

 Grimm el de Diderto, April, 1778, and was lately 

 reproduced in the Quarterly Reoieio for June, 1850, 

 with the addition that it was from the pen of 

 Turgot, as the authority, I presume, of the Life, 

 art. TuBGOT, in the Biographic Universelle. C. 



Meaning of Boyd as an Addition to Yorkshire 

 Names (Vol. v., p. 489.). — The glossary to Hul- 

 ton's Coucher Book of Whalley Abbey at once 

 gives it thus : 



"Hod A, an assart, or clearing. Rode land is used in 

 this sense in modern German, in which the verb roden 

 means to clear. The combination of the syllable rod^ 

 rode, or royd, with some other term, or with the name 

 of an original settler, has, no doubt, given to particular 

 localities such designations as Huntroyd, Ormerod, 

 &c,, &c." 



See also Lower On Surnames (3rd edit. i. 85.), 

 and an elaborate note in Dr. Whitaker's Whalley^ 

 referred to in his account of Ormerod (3rd edit, 

 p. 364.). 



In the sense which Dr. W. gives to Rode, or 

 Royd, as " a participial substantive of the pro- 

 vincial verb rid, to clear or grub up," that word 

 will be found singly, or in combination, near 

 forests and chases from the Lancashire Pendle to- 

 the Devonshire Dartmoor. It occurs also in 

 Rodmore, Rodleys, &c., in the forest district of 

 Gloucestershire over Severn ; and Murray's Hand- 

 book may be referred to for Wernigerode, Elbin- 

 gerode, &c., in the Hartz forest of Germany. 



In Lancashire and Yorkshire the adjunct some- 

 times refers to the early proprietor, as in Monk- 

 royd, MarUnrode, &c. ; sometimes to the trees 

 ridded, as in Oakenrode, Acroyd, HoUinrode, Hol- 

 royd, &c. ; sometimes to other characteristics. In- 

 stances of all kinds will be found in the Whalley 

 Coucher Booh, printed by the Chetham Society. 



Lancastbiensis. 



Binnacle (Vol. v., p. 499.). — This word, which 

 signifies the case or covering of the compass, was 

 until the last thirty years spelled and pronounced 

 " bittacle," and is derived, I should Imagine, from 

 the French word habitude, a little habitation, 

 a hut, a covering. It is almost the only one of 

 our nautical terms which can be traced to a French 

 origin. C. K. 



Plague Stones (Vol. v., p. 500.). — I have not 

 observed that any of your correspondents have 

 noticed the stones near the romantic village of 

 Eyam, about four and a half miles E.N.E. of 

 Tideswell in Derbyshire. 



It Is well known that this village suffered most 

 severely from the plague; and the inhabitants stil! 

 revere the memory of their pastor Mr. Nompesson, 

 who nobly refused to desert his floc;k in the hour 

 of danger, and fell a sacrifice to his devotion. I 

 became acquainted with these stones some years 



