2nd s. No 48., Nov. 29. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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firmed by the following lines of the romance of 

 Richard CcBur-de-Lion : 



" Of my tale be not awoiidered 1 

 The French^ says he slew an hundred 

 (Whereof is made this English saw) 

 Or he rested him any thraw." 



Here saw is evidently the same as the preceding 

 tale ; whereof is from which. It is a great pity 

 that this old word cannot be revived, for we are 

 sadly in want of a term answering to saga, sage. 



I lately read in the Cambridge Essays one on the 

 English language in America, wherein some things 

 rather surprised me. Thus, to ride, for going in a 

 carriage, is given as an Americanism. Is it not of 

 common use in London? and do not Cockneys 

 even ride in steamers to Kew and to Greenwich ? 

 Suspenders for braces is another, — a word which 

 was, and I believe still is, in common use in Ire- 

 land, where, in my boyhood, they were still more 

 expressively termed gallows. The writer also says 

 that "cantankerous for rancorous" is peculiar to the 

 " Great West." But it too is common in Ireland, 

 in the sense of waspish, and it is probably a cor- 

 ruption of contentious, not of rancorous, 



Thos. Keightlet. 



MONUMENTAL BRASSES. 



CConchidedfrom 1" S. xi. 143.) 



The following is a supplementary list of brasses 

 with which I have become acquainted since my 

 last communications on this subject : 



BERKSHIRE. 



Hendred, East. Heniy and Roger Eldysley (one figure 



lost), 1439. 

 Hendred, East. John Eyston and wife, 1589. 

 Sparsholt. William de Herleston, priest (loose in chest). 

 Wittenham, Little. A small fragment of a female figure, 



c. 1600. 

 Wantage. Wife of William Wilmot, 1618. 



Stanford Rivers. Anne Harper and children (mural), 1584. 

 Stanford Rivers. A man in armour and his wife (not seen 

 in a recent visit to the church). 



Norwich, St. John's, Maddermarket. A civilian and wife. 

 Norwich, St. John's, Maddermarket. A female figure 

 (partially concealed). 



NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 



Addington. John Bloxham, priest with chalice, 1609. 

 Ashby, St. Leger's. William Catesby and wife, 1494. 

 Ashby, St. Leger's. William Smyght, priest, 1500. 

 Ashton. Robert Marriott and wife, c. 1580. 

 Barnewell. Christopher Freeman and family, 1610. 

 Boddington, Upper. William Proctor, priest, 1627. 

 Burton Latimer. A figure in shroud and children. 

 Burton Latimer. Wife of Thos. Bacon and infant, 1626. 

 Cranford, John Fosbrooke and wife, 1417. 

 Cranford. John Fosbroke and wives, 1589. 

 Dene. Sir Edmund Brudenell and lady. 



Earls Barton. John Muscote and wife, 1512. 

 Easton Neston. Richard Fennor and wife, 1552. 

 Fawsley. Edward Knyghtleye and wife, 1542. . 

 Floore.' Henry Mitchell, Esq., and wife, 1510. 

 Geddington. Henry Jarmon and wife, 14 — . 

 Green's Norton. Mary Talbot. 

 Grendon. Two knights and a lady, c. 1480. 

 Hemington. Thos. Montagu and wife, 1517. 

 Newbottle. Peter Dormer, wives and children, 1555. 

 Newnham. A female figure. 

 Newton Bromshold. Roger Hewett, 1487. 

 Norton. William Knyght and wife, 1504. 

 Paulerspury. Sir Henry Mylnar, priest, 15 — . 

 Potterspury. Wife of Cuthbert Ogle. Esq., 1616. 

 Prestoii. Sir Clement Edmunds and lady, 1G22. 

 Staverton. Thos. Wylmer, wife and children, 1580. 

 Stoke Bruerne. Richard Lightfoot, rector, 1625. 

 Sulgrave. Lawrence Washington, wife and children, 1564. 

 • Tansor. The priest is John Colt. 

 Wappenham. A knight mutilated. 

 Wappenham. A knight and lady. 

 Wappenham. Constantia Butler, 1499. 

 •Weltbrd. -~ Saunders, Esq., three wives and children. 

 Woodford. Symon Malory, knight, 1580. 

 Woodford-cum-Membris. Nicholas Stafford, priest, 14 — . 



HERTFORDSHIRE. 



North Mimms. A civilian (mutilated), c. 1420. 



OXFORD3HIBE. 



Checkendon. Cecilia Bede, 1428. 

 Checkendon. Anna Bowett (under pue), 1490. 

 Crowmarsh Giffbrd. William Hydesley (mutilated), 1576. 

 Ewelme. Catherine Palmer and family (kneeling), 1599. 

 Oxford, St. Peter's in the East. A man and his wife (much 

 worn), 1478. 



SUFFOLK. 



Belstead. Tlie knight (he is John Goldingham, Esq.) and 



wives, 1518. 

 Brundish. A female figure (mutilated). 

 Easton. John Brook. This brass was pued over last year. 

 Mendlesham. John Knyvet, Esq. (under pue). 



SURREY. 



Mickleham. William Wyddolkson and wife (mural), 1514. 



YORKSHIRE. 



Harpham. Sir Thos. de St. Quintin and lady, 1420. 

 Harpham. Thos. de St. Quintin, Esq., 1445 (both these 

 brasses are engraved by Boutell). 



F. S. Geowse. 

 Bildestone, Suffolk. 



A NOTE UPON FEPYS. 



Pepys, in his varied Diary, under date of Au- 

 gust 4th, 1665, notes to this effect : 



" To Mr. Rett's, who led us into his garden, and there 

 the lady, the best-humoured woman in the world, and a 

 devout woman, I having espied her on her knees, half an 

 hour this morning, in her chamber." 



In writings contemporary with Pepys, I have 

 remarked three instances of the private devotions 

 of ladies having become known to others. They 

 are as follows : 



1. " One of the first things by which her change was 

 discovered to her mother and friends, was her fervent 



