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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2od s. VIII. Dec. 31. '5r. 



Nodway Money. — In the last edition of Dug- 

 dale's Monasticon (vol. ii. p. 87.), in a computus 

 temp, Henry VIII. of the possessions of Tewkes- 

 bury monastery, under the head "Manor of Tar- 

 rent Monkton, Dorset," occurs the following : — 

 " Red mobil cu' quoEfm redd' voc' Nodway Money" 

 Can anyone explain the nature of this pay- 

 ment, or offer any suggestions as to its origin ? 



Wm. Shipp. 



{^Noda -was, in med.-Lat., a herd of cattle. (" Pro 

 quaque noda pecudum." Du Cange.) With "noda" 

 agree the A.-S. nite, niten, Sc. nolt, nowt, our own iiout, 

 neat, nowt, note, Sw. not, and Dan. nod. We would, 

 therefore, suggest that nodway money was noed-way 

 money, or nowt-waj' money, i. e. a. certain fixed payment 

 for the right of way, that nowt or horned cattle might 

 pass and repass between grazing-grounds and home- 

 stead. This right of way is a thing well-known in 

 English farming, and is occasionally the subject of liti- 

 gation.] 



Phillips's '■'■New World of Words." — I have a 

 perfect copy of t]xQ first edition of Phillips's New 

 World of Words, published by E. P., London, 

 printed by E. Taylor for Nath. Brooke, at the 

 sign of the Angel in Cornhill, 1658. Can any of 

 your readers inform me if copies of this edition 

 are scarce ? as Sir F. Madden (P' S. xi. 208.) 

 says the only editions of Phillips in the Museum 

 library are the fourth of 1678, and the sixth of 

 1706. H. E. P.T. 



[In the new MS. Catalogue of the British Museum 

 three other editions have since been entered, namely, 

 1662, fol. ; 1671, fol. third edition (an engraved title in 

 this copy has the date 1670) ; and 1696, fol. fifth edition. 

 Lowndes gives, incorrectly, 1657 as the date of the first 

 edition, Avhich does not appear to be rare, as it only sold 

 for 28. at the sale of George Chalmers's library in 1841. 

 The first edition, however, is interesting and important 

 to English philologists, being the anonymous Dictionary 

 of 1658 so frequently cited \>y Skinner. The allusion to 

 Shakspeare, in the first and second editions, is omitted in 

 the later ones. The following editions were sold by So- 

 thebv & Wilkinson, May 22, 1857 : 1658, 1662, 1671, 1678, 

 1696:] 



Olhohoiis " Constitutions." — Can you tell me 

 whence the following is taken ? — 



" Whereas it is unbecoming for Clergymen employed in 

 heavenly Offices to minister in secular Affairs, we think 

 it sordid and base, that certain Clerks greedily pursuing 

 earthly Gain and temporal Jurisdictions, do receive se- 

 cular Jurisdiction from Laymen, so as to be named Jus- 

 tices, and to become Ministers of Justice, which they 

 cannot administer vfithout Injury to the canonical Dis- 

 positions and to the clerical Order." 



There is considerably more than this in the 

 quotation, and the word " Othobon " is added at 

 the end, apparently as the name of the author. 



I have probably transcribed enough to enable 

 some of your correspondents to recognise the 

 passage, and shall be much obliged if any of 



them will inform me whence the words are taken. 

 And if I am right in my conjecture as to the 

 word "Othobon;" who, and what was he? and 

 when did he live ? Vrtan Rheged. 



[Othobon was legate of Pope Clement IV., and presi- 

 dent of the Council held in the cathedral church of St. 

 Paul, London, a.d. 1268, 52nd Henry III. Collier (_EccIes. 

 Hist. i. 474. fol. 1708) states, that " the Canons of this 

 Council were of great authority, and looked on as a rule 

 of discipline to the English Church ; and notwithstanding 

 the change at the Reformation, there are several of them 

 still in force, and make part of our Canon Law." The 

 passage cited by our correspondent will be found in 

 Wilkins's Concilia, ii. 4., and in Constitutions Provincialles, 

 and of Otho and Octliobone, translated into Englyshe, 1534, 

 p. 130. The same canon is also quoted in Dr. Burn's 

 JEccles. Law, edit. 1797, iii. 194., under "Privileges and 

 Restraints of the Clergy." A summary of the canons of 

 this Council is printed in the British Magazine (1844), 

 XXV. 380.] 



Clerical Error. — When did this expression first 

 come into use, and whence is it derived ? 



D. S. E. 



[The terms clerk, clerc, cleric, clericus, though pro- 

 perly appertaining to ecclesiastics, came in time to signify' 

 any educated person. " Dagobert fut moult preud'homme 

 et grand clerc," " Un loup quelque peu clerc " (a wolf who 

 was something of a scholar), ^cscA. Clerk, "a man of 

 letters," Johnson. " Cleriei dicti etiam qui Uteris imbuti 

 erant, viri literati et docti," Du Cange. Hence followed a 

 further extension of the meaning, by which clerk or cle- 

 ricus signified an amanuensis, any person emploj-ed as a 

 writer, Johnson. " Cleriei prajterea dicuntur Scriba;, oc- 

 tuarii, et Amanuenses judicum," &c., Dti Cange. It is, 

 we apprehend, to this last signification that we are in- 

 debted for the expression "clerical error," which simph' 

 implies an error in writing, a " slip of the pen," and 

 which does not appear to be a phrase of very early origin. 

 When we use the expression "a clerical error," or ":i 

 lapsus linguae," we mean in either case a mistake arising 

 from inadvertence, not from ignorance. Thus it was 

 through a " lapsus linguse," and not through unacquaint- 

 ance with the proper term, that a person speaking of the 

 death of an Indian friend, and meaning to saj' that he was 

 " killed by a Sepoy," said instead, " killed by a Cyclops ! "] 



NAPOLEOH'S ESCAPE FROM ELBA. 



(2"'> S. viii. m. 382.) 



The object of your correspondent H. N.'s com- 

 munication is not perfectly clear, and the same 

 remark certainly applies to the following sen- 

 tence : " As a matter of mere tradition of an event 

 comparatively recent, and quite susceptible, as one 

 would think, of direct proof, this version is of lit- 

 tle value." By the wording of the paper, vol. 

 viii. p. 86i, it is made perfectly clear from whom 

 the anecdote originated, and repeated in your 

 pages under the thorough conviction of the fact. 

 Why IT. N. has indulged in creating doubts, when 

 the matter is "quite susceptible" of "direct 

 proof," must rest with himself. 



