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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 43., Oct. 25. '56. 



whether any -well-founded authority exists. Some 

 persons, I am told, derive the name from lolium, 

 darnel, or tares, the Lollards being represented as 

 the tares which, in parabolical language, the enemy 

 had sown among the Lord's husbandry. The other 

 conjecture is that the name was derived from the 

 old German word lollen (Anglice, lull), meaning 

 to sing, and that the followers of Wickliffe were 

 thus denominated, because they were contmually 

 engaged in singing hymns. N. L. T. 



Culme Family of Devonshire. — Can any one 

 give me some information respecting the armorial 

 beai-ings, lineage, and history of the Devonshire 

 family of Culme ? Have they any connexion with 

 the Cullums of Suffolk ? X. 



Enstammt or Erslourt — This name occurs 

 frequently in some title-deeds of the reign of 

 Elizabeth, as belonging to a family in Radnor- 

 shire. Can any of your correspondents give any 

 information respecting persons of this name, either 

 at that date, or later ? C. C. 



Purseys " De Morton^ — Can you inform me 

 whether the following piece is a drama or a novel ? 

 — The Tj-agedy of De Morton, by Alfred Pursey. 

 8vo., 1844. K. J. 



Nell Gwynn. — Wading through a fragment of 

 an anonymous* Diary, written possibly about 

 1666-7, not particularly interesting in the details, 

 being chiefly memoranda of the writer's health, 

 with here and there a stray piece of historical 

 information, I lighted upon the following entries : 



" Nov. 22, Thursday. 



Paid M'' Aldworth for M" Gwyn xx" sent by 



Will. 



* * * « 



« Dec- 8, Satterday. 



Sent M--^ Gwyn xx" more. 



« • * « 



«« Dec 24. Ch. Eve. 



W. Aldworth went to Standlake, and carried M'" 

 Gwj'nn xx", w<^'' made up Ix" upon Mich. 

 Accompt. . . ." 



Perhaps Mr. Peter Cunningham, or some other 

 of your learned readers, might be enabled to de- 

 termine whether the Mrs. Gwyn here chronicled 

 is likely to be identical with the celebrated mis- 

 tress of King Charles IL The date, if correct, 

 would allow the inference. Cl. Hopper. 



Scotch Darien Company and Equivalent Com- 

 pany. — By the 15th article of the Union with 

 Scotland, the sum;of 398,085Z. 10a\ was to be ad- 



• The writer was, no doubt, a member of the legal 

 profession ; and, apparently, a person of some consequence, 

 mixing in the higher ranks of societ}'. Upon one of the 

 blank pages, I find scribbled the words " Thomas Taylor;''^ 

 but whether the writer or owner of the MS., or other- 

 wise, I am unable farther to determine. 



vanced by England, as compensation for the 

 losses suffered by the Scotch Darien Company of 

 1695-99. 



On July 10, 1713, the sum of 18,421Z. 10^. lQ%d. 

 was voted to William Paterson for " his expense, 

 pains, and considerable losses in the service of the 

 late African and Indian Company of Scotland." 



By another Act of Parliament, interest on the 

 above sums was ordered to be paid to a company 

 called the Equivalent Company, for the purpose 

 of being distributed amongst the losers by the 

 failure of the Darien Colony. 



By an Act of Parliament, passed in 1850, the 

 whole of the capital, including the compensation 

 to Paterson, was ordered to be paid over to the 

 Equivalent Company for distribution amongst the 

 descendants of the original shareholders. 



In 1853, a lineal descendant of Wm. Paterson, 

 named Rogerson, came over from St. John's, New 

 Brunswick, to seek the sum of 18,42H. 10.9. lOftZ., 

 as Paterson's most direct descendant ; but left, 

 without having been able to find out, either in 

 Edinburgh or London, who the persons consti- 

 tuting the Equivalent Company were. Whilst in 

 London, he stopped at Sam's Hotel, 802. Strand. 



Can any of your readers throw any light on the 

 above subject ? ' X. Y. Z, 



" Gone to Jericho" its Oi-igin. — 



" One of Henry VIII.'s houses of pleasure was Jericho, 

 in Essex. When his majesty was desirous of not being 

 disturbed, the answer given was, that he had gone to 

 Jericho, in other words that he was not at home." 



Might I ask if the above is a correct explana- 

 tion of the origin of this common term ? W. W. 

 Malta. 



[Jericho seems to be used by Heywood as a general 

 term for a place of concealment or banishment. If so 

 (saj's Nares) it explains the common phrase of wishing a 

 person at Jericho, without sending him so far as Pales- 

 tine: 



" Who would to curbe such insolence, I know, 

 Bid such j-oung boyes to stay in Jericho 

 Untill their beards were growne, their wits more staid." 

 Hierarchic, book iv. p. 208. 



]\Ir. John Gough Nichols in the Camden Miscellany, 

 vol. iii., has given the following curious note on this word. 

 Speaking of the manor of Blackmore, about seven miles 

 from Chelmsford, he says, " In searching the patent rolls 

 of Henry VIII. I have met with the following record 

 relative to this place. It proves at any rate that the 

 name Jericho existed in the reign of Henry VIII., if not 

 before. 18 Feb., 20 Hen. VIII. (1528-9). Lease by the 

 advice of John Daunce, knt., and John Hales to John 

 Smyth of Blackamore, Essex, gent., of the site and man- 

 sion of the manor or lordship of Blackamore, and the rec- 

 tory of Blackamore, with all demesne lands, &c., a tene- 

 ment called Jerico." (MS. Calendar of the Patent Rolls.) 

 The local tradition is noticed bj' Morant (Hist, of Essex, 

 1768, vol. ii. p. 57.) " This is reported to have been one 



