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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2" S. VIII. Dec. 24. '59. 



The Battiscomhe Family (2°^ S. viii. 453.) — 

 Writing from memory, away from books and 

 papers, I yet think I can safely inform Me. A. S. 

 Ellis, that Christopher Battiscombe had a brother 

 Peter, who was M.P. for either Lyme or Bridport. 

 The property of Vere Wotton, and some other 

 property in Dorsetshire, passed (upon Peter Bat- 

 tiscombe's death) to a Mrs. Sansom, who was 

 probably also one of the Battiscombe family. 

 Who this lady's husband was, I am uncertain ; 

 but in the Bury accounts, preserved among the 

 Gough MSS., a family of the name of Sansom (or 

 Sampson) is frequently mentioned, as having 

 charge of the sequestration of the tithes of Sher- 

 borne Abbey, and other property belonging to 

 the Earl of Bristol. Thomas Sansom also appears 

 to have taken some part in the siege of Sherborne 

 Castle. They probably lived at a place (still 

 called after their name) in the parish of Milborne 

 Port. There was also a Thomas Sampson, who 

 gave evidence in the Tyrone rebellion, who was a 

 native of Sherborne. If the Battiscombe pro- 

 perty did not pass to a member of this Milborne 

 Port family, it is possible the lady may have 

 married into a family of the same name at Coly- 

 ton in Devonshire, of whom some account may 

 be found in Sir W. Pole's MSS., and who may be 

 conjectured to be another branch of the same 

 family. B. S. J. 



Meaning of the Word " End " as applied to 

 Places (2"'> S. viii. 432.) — In Hampshire on the 

 borders of Berks is the extensive and picturesque 

 parish of East Woodhay, with a very scattered 

 population. Portions of the parish are known by 

 the names of East-End, North-End, Heath-End, 

 Highclere-End, &c., according to their situation ; 

 the first being east, and the second north, of the 

 ancient village of Wydhey (now called Wood- 

 ■ hay) ; Heath-End, that part on or near the Heath, 

 and Highclere-End that part adjoining the parish 

 ofHighclere. W. H. W. T. 



Imitation of Claudian (2°'* S. viii. 495.) — This 

 is the imitation of part only of the beautiful 

 second epigram, " The Old Man of Verona." The 

 lines alluded to are 9 — 12 : — 



"... vicinae nescius urbis, 

 Adspectu fruitur liberiore poli. 

 Frugibus altemis, non consule, computat amium ; 

 Autumnum pomis, ver sibi flore notat." 



A. A. 

 Poets' Corner, 



Plough (2"'' S. viii. 431.) — Your correspondent 

 J. G-. L. B., after stating that in the Civil Wars 

 Lord Feversham commanded the constables of 

 Butleigh to provide a number of ploughs for the 

 conveyance of ammunition, adds that in Somer- 

 setshire waggons are still vulgarly called ploughs ; 

 and then asks, " Is this use of the word general, 

 and how did it originate ? " 



I should gather from J. G. L. B.'s own words, 

 that it is not general even in Somersetshire ; 

 and certainly it is not general elsewhere. 



But in old times the words were synonymous. 

 Caruca, which is the Latin for a cart or carriage, 

 is also the law-Latin for a plough : " (Fr. charrue), 

 from the old Gallic ca7-r, which is the present 

 Irish word for any sort of wheeled carriage ; 

 hence charl and car, a plowman or rustic " (vide 

 Tomlins iii loco) ; and a carucate, a plough land, 

 comprehended as " great a portion of land as 

 might be tilled in a year and a day by one 

 plough." (Ibid.) And in \hQ Synonymorum Sylva, 

 rendered from the Belgic language into English 

 by H. F., and printed at London, " apud Johan- 

 nem Billium, 1627," under the term " to plow," 

 the reader is referred to " to carte.'" P. H. F. 



Passage in Grotius (2"<* S. viii. 453.) — The 

 writer of a very able review of Mr. Emerson's 

 " Representative Men " in the British Quartei-ly 

 Review for May, 1850, has made the following 

 observations upon the passage - in Emerson to 

 which your correspondent refers : — 



" It is no disparagement of Mr. Emerson's learning to 

 remark iu passing that the notion which he derives from 

 Grotius of the selections in the petitions in the Lord's 

 Pra3'er from the Rabbinical forms iu use in the time of 

 Christ, is one of those fancies which melt away before the 

 light of larger information. The simple truth is that 

 there is a casual resemblance between the address, ' Our 

 Father,' with the first two petitions and some miscel-. 

 laneous passages industriously fished up from the Talmud 

 and the Book Sohar, but the closest resemblances are found 

 in Jewish prayers which are not older than the middle 

 ages." 



It is no mean argument, upon this question, 

 that the Jews themselves have never made any 

 claim which clashes with the general notion of 

 the originality of the Lord's Prayer. H. C. C. 



William Marshall (2"« S. viii. 431.) — Some 

 account of William Marshall (engraver) and his 

 works will be found in pages 74 — 78. of the fifth 

 vol. of Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, §-c. by 

 Dallaway, 5 vols. 8vo. London, 1828, and also in 

 Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, 



W. H. W. T. 



Stratford Family (2'"» S. viii. 376. 477.) — Dr. 

 William Stratford, Commissary of the Archdea- 

 conry of Richmond, was born at Northampton in 

 1679, and was the nephew of Dr. Nicholas Strat- 

 ford, Bishop of Chester. At an early period of 

 his life the bishop seems to have adopted and be- 

 friended him, and afterwards made him his secre- 

 tary, in which office he was continued by Bishops 

 Dawes and Gastrell. His relationship to Lord 

 Hardwicke was perhaps not very close, nor are 

 any members of that family mentioned amongst 

 his numerous legatees. Philip Yorke of Dover, 

 attorney-at-law (father of the Lord Chancellor), 

 married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Richard 



