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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°-i S. VIII. Oct. 22. '59-. 



the bearer ; and without the parish, one pound ten shil- 

 lings Scots, and to the bearer six shillings Scots, yet to 

 be modified according to persons' ability. 



" 1726, July 10. This day Mary Darlin made her ap- 

 pearance before the congregation in the place of public 

 repentance /or Ihe first time, and Avas gravely rebuked for 

 her sin of uncleanness with Adam Wilson, and at her de- 

 sire was allowed to sit on the stool, in the afternoon, and 

 enjoined at her next appearance (they were condemned for 

 two Sabbaths to be the gazing-stock of the congregation) 

 to pay her penaltie, else not to be absolved ; and in regard 

 the woman's appearance, the man's not appearing, was dis- 

 pensed with. ( ! !) 



" 1726, July 17. Mary Darlin, not procuring the pe- 

 nalty, was refused to be absolved. (Very hard measure 

 seems to have been meted out to poor Mary. Her para- 

 mour, Adam, also stood or sat on the stool of repentance, 

 some time thereafter, and paid for his fine, what Bums 

 profanely calls the " buttock hire," 21. Os. Od. — Scots, we 

 suppose.) 



" 1726, Sept. 25. There being ground of suspicion that 

 Janet Cockbnrn, servitor to the laird of Bell, is with child 

 to John Hunter, the Session order their officer to summon 

 her to the next meeting of Session. 



1727, Oct 13. Rohert Lamb, }-ounger, of Old Grinlaw, 

 in the parish of Ecles, and Catherine Laurie, daughter 

 of Mr. Gilbert Laurie, late minister of the Gospel at 

 Hutton, gave up their names to be proclaimed in order to 

 marriage. 



" 1728, Dec. 22, Paid for three j'ards of linen to be a 

 winding sheet to Isabel Thomson, 01/. 10s. Qd. Scots. 



" 1729, Jan. 16. Taken out of the (poor's) box for 

 Isabel Thomson's coffin and grave, 03/. 01s. Od. Scots. 



" 1730, Oct. 28. To John Thomsoji, bellman, for making 

 a grave to Allison Moffat, Sd. English money. To Do. 

 for a timber handel to the bell, 3d. (A hand-bell was 

 used at funerals.) 



" March 16. To Anna Bowmalter, in Hutton, to buy 

 shoes to her two grandchildren, 2 shillings English. 



« 28. To a tow (rope) for the kirk- bell, lOd. 



"June 13. To Mrs. Gray, in Faxton, for teaching two 

 poor schollars one quarter, 4sA. 4.d. English. 



" .25. To Margaret Wilson, in Fishwick, for teach- 

 ing a poor schollar one quarter, 8d. 



" 1731, Jan. 28. To a coffin to Margaret Knox, in Fa.v- 

 ion, 4sh. Gd. English. (The charge for a pauper's coffin 

 here is now one pound.) 



" April 30. To Benjamin Ford, wright in Hutton, for 

 making two new boxes, to gather the ofi'ering for the 

 poor, one large new hand-spoke, and a timber handle to 

 the bell, 2s/i," 



Mebtakthes. 



Chimside. 



Careless Writing and Odd Residt. — 

 " A merchant of London that writt to a factor of his 

 beyond sea, desired hem by the next ship to send him 

 '2 or 3 ' apes. He forgot the r, and then it was 2 o 3 

 apes. His factor has sent him fower scoare, and saves he 

 shall have the rest by the next shipp, conceaving the 

 marchant had sent for two hundred and three apes. If 

 yourself or friends will buy any to breed on, you could 

 never have had such choice as now. In earnest this is 

 very trew." — Verney Papers, p. 167. 



Francis Tbench. 

 Islip. 



Sponge or Spanish Cahes. — Much Las been 

 written lately about the superiority of Spanish 



bread ; it reminds me that the celebrated " sponge 

 cakes" of English confectioners most likely are of 

 Spanish origin : for, in the Levant, in Italy, and 

 in France, cakes of this kind are always called 

 " cakes of Spain ;" so perhaps " sponge" is only a 

 corruption of " Spanish" in this instance. 



M. E. R. 



Charm for cutting Teeth. — "I have made your 

 daughter a present of a wolf's tooth. I sent to 

 Ireland for it, and I set it hear in gold. They 

 ar very Luckey things ; for my twoe ferst one did 

 dye, the other bred his very ill, and none of j" 

 Rest did, for I had one for al the rest." — Letter 

 from Lady Wentivorth to her Son Lord Strafford, 

 March 26lh, 1713. Zz. 



Lynching by Women in Olden Time. — The 

 following is a remarkable instance of condign 

 punishment inflicted by a band of enraged women 

 upon a murderer of one of their sex, extracted 

 from The London Chronicle by Sir Harris Nicolas, 

 p. 117.: — 



" 1429. This same j'cre, betwen Estren and Witsontyd, 

 a fals Breton mordred a wydewe in her bed, the which 

 found hym for almasse withoughte Algate in the subarbes 

 of London, and bar awaj* alle that sche hadde, and after- 

 ward he toke socour of Holy Chirehe at seynt Georges in 

 Suthwerk ; but at laste he tok the crosse and forswore 

 the kynges land ; and as he wente h3-s way it happyd 

 hj'ni to come be the same place wliere he had done that 

 cursed dede, and women of the same paryssh comen out 

 with stones and canell dong, and there maden and ende 

 of him in the hyghe strete, so that he went no fertliers 

 notwithstondj'uge the constables and othere men also 

 which had \\ym. undir governauance to conduct hym 

 forward, for there wase a gret companyne of them, and 

 hadde no mercy no pyte." 



What is the meaning of " almasse ?" [Alms.] 



W. J. Pinks. 



Bobyll and the CardinaTs Hut. — In the four- 

 teenth year of Hen. VIII. there lived a wine-seller 

 or publican of the name of " Bobyll beside New- 

 gatte in london," who used to cater wine for my 

 Lord Cardinal Wolsey, and the better to ingratiate 

 himself with his eminence he adopted for the sign 

 of his house, " The Cardynal's Hatte." From a 

 document I have before me, he appears to have 

 succeeded in drawing this potent prelate's atten- 

 tion. The item occurs in a very curious bill of 

 household expences, signed by Cardinal Wolsey ; 

 Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey ; the Hero of 

 Flodden Field ; Culhbert Tonstal, Bishop of Lon- 

 don ; and Thomas Docwra, the last Prior of the 

 Order of St. John of Jerusalem : — 



" Itm. paj'd to Bobj'Il of the Cardynals hatted 



besj'de newgatte in London for xxviii L-^^.^,., u- 

 gallones of tennysse Wyne att xv<i the 



gallon ------ -J 



Query, Where was this house situated ? ani 

 who was Bobyll ? George Robinson. 



