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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Gorge: the Conge, Yarmouth (2"** S. x. 

 67.) — A singular misappropriation of the word 

 gonge occurs in the above reference. You do not 

 see "on the walls Gonge leading to the termi- 

 nus ;" unless there is a mistake, as the direction 

 evidently alludes to the Conge, the name of a 

 street in Yarmouth leading from George Street 

 to the North Quay ; near which, on the opposite 

 side of the river, is the railway station. For an 

 account of the Conge, vide Swinden's History of 

 Yarmouth (p. 21.), in which he states that the 

 Provost of Yarmouth had his residence probably 

 in or near the Conge, circa temp. Hen. I. He 

 also recites the mention of this locality from some 

 Rolls, temps. Edw. II. and Edw. III. The ancient 

 name of this street is preserved to the present day. 



Henry Manship, the elder, in his History of 

 Yarmouth, ably edited by Mr. C. J. Palmer, says : 



"The shippes and vessels did arrive and come for that 

 purpose (to land goods, &c.) to a certain place called the 

 Congee, wch is yet knowen by evidence to be in the north 

 ende of the said towne at this daye. The said Congee, 

 being a French word, is in English leave or licence — so 

 as .ill men resorted thither to have leave of the Provoste 

 to lade and unlade, &c. ; and after there dues paid, the 

 Provoste gave them leave to sayle to y® City of Norwich, 

 or to other places." 



But the younger Manship conjectured the word 

 conge to be derived from the Latin word congia- 

 rium.. Vide Mr. Palmer's edition of Manship, 

 pp. 57. 247. Thos. Wm. King (York Herald). 



Mr. Gantillon has made a great mistake here. 

 The opening in question is called the Conge, in- 

 stead of the " Gonge." It was anciently called 

 the King's Conge, there being a place called Gur- 

 ney's Conge, the site of which is unknown. 

 Manship derives it from the Latin, congiarium, a 

 dole or gift ; or from the French, conge : as if the 

 vessels got from the crown officer who dwelt 

 there leave to discharge their cargoes.. 



The word conge is in frequent use by the Nor- 

 folk peasantry to signify a bow or salutation. 



E. G. R. 



Your correspondent Mr. Gantillon will find 

 another " Gong " at Lowestoft, if not at Yar- 

 mouth ; meaning, if I remember rightly, one whole 

 row, or breadth, of meshes in making a fishing- 

 net ; one whole " go " of meshes, as it might now 

 be called. • 



The Lowestoft people call the bent irons at 

 each end of the trawl and shrimp nets " Lutades," 

 so pronounced at least. Is this from A.-S. Lut-an, 

 to bow, bend, &c. ? I have not found the word 

 known farther up the coast than Aldeburgh, nor 

 mentioned in any provincial dictionary. 



Parathina. 



The place at Yarmouth which Mr. Gantillon 

 calls Gonge is really the Conge, for the origin of 

 which see Manship and Palmer's Yarmouth, i. 57. 

 247. J. W. Cooper. 



Bath Family (2-<' S. ix. 487. ; x. 54.) — The 

 valuable particulars furnished by Mr. D' Alton 

 seem rather to belong to a different family than 

 that of Devon, the published accounts of the 

 Bath, Bathe, or De Bathe family of Ireland de- 

 riving their descent from Hugh or Hugo de Bathe, 

 who " accompanied Earl Strongbow in his expe- 

 dition to Ireland about 1172, and had grants of 

 many manors and lands in the counties of Dublin, 

 Meath, Louth, and Drogheda."— (Debrett.) The 

 family were first raised to the baronetage in 1663 

 or 1666, but the title expired in 1686. (Vide 

 Broun's Baronetage, Burke's Gen. Arm. (s. v. 

 Bath of Athcarne Castle, co. Meath.) The arms 

 of De Bathe are totally dissimilar to those given 

 in Mr. Tuckett's Collections, which will be found 

 in Burke under " Baa (Bedfordshire)," viz. " Gu. 

 a chev. arg. betw. 3 plates," while those of De 

 Bathe or Bath are " Gu. a cross betw. 4 lions ram- 

 pant ai'g." " Henry de Bathe, Lord Chief Jus- 

 tice of England, in the reign of Henry III." is 

 mentioned by Sir Richard Broun among the an- 

 cestors of the present Baronet, Sir Wm. Plunkett 

 de Bathe of Knightstown, co. Meath, in Ireland, 

 where the family has been located uninterruptedly 

 from its first settlement in the 12th century. 



Henry W. S. Taylor. 



Southampton. 



Poem by J. G. Lockhabt" (2°^ S. x. 43.)— Your 

 correspondent is mistaken in supposing that the 

 facetious lines on William Maginn have not been 

 printed before. They are included in a collection 

 of Epitaphs by Dr. Pettigrew, published in 1857 

 (in Bohn's Antiquarian Library). 



The " poem " in question is there given as the 

 " Epitaph" on Maginn at Walton-on-Thames. I 

 remember, not long ago, looking over the inscrip- 

 tions in that church and churchyard, but without 

 observing this one, which would not be likely to 

 escape notice. 



Yet, as Dr. Pettigrew in his Prefoce states that 

 he has been anxious to avoid fictitious epitaphs, 

 we must, I suppose, presume that this one, not- 

 withstanding its extremely ludicrous character, 

 has a "local habitation" at Walton. 



Perhaps some local subscriber to " N. & Q." 

 would enlighten us as" to the fact ? 



John Ribton Garstin. 



Dublin. 



Sixtxne Bible (P' S. il. 408. ; 2"'^ S. x. 78.)— 

 After I sent a Note and Query on the above, I 

 met with the following in course of reading Dr. 

 James's defence of his Bellum Papale : — 



" I have seen four or five " (Sixtines) " and they are 

 in like sort very exactly mended. I have noted the 

 places in my Book of the Wars." 



The late Rev. Joseph Mendhara, of Sutton Cold- 

 field, Warwickshire, had one in his possession. 

 There is room for inquiry yet. George Lloyd. 



