Sept. 22. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



223 



" a moated grange somewhere in Herefordshire." 

 Since I communicated this note, I have been 

 enabled to put together the following fragments 

 of information relative to the Coningsby family. 



Thomas Coningsby, Esq., died 1498, and was 

 buried at Rock (co. Worcester), where a hand- 

 some monument was raised to his memory by his 

 son. Sir Humphrey Coningsby, Knt., one of the 

 Justices of the King'sjBench, who, in 1510, built 

 the south aisle and steeple of Rock Church at his 

 own expense. He died 1551, at Aldnam, Herts, 

 where he is buried. From him descended Sir 

 Thomas Coningsby, of Hampton Court, co. Here- 

 ford, five and a half miles S.S.E. of Leominster, 

 who was also lord of the manor of " Parlors," near 

 Ribbesford, Worcestershire. His son, Fitzwilliam 

 Coningsby, Esq., succeeded to the Herefordshire 

 estates, and was also lord of the chapelry of Cuts- 

 dean (on the Cotswold Hills), Orleton, and Stan- 

 ford, in the county of Worcester. Pie held the 

 manor of Stanford by the rent of one sparr-hawk 

 and knight's service. Mr. Plabingdon, in his ac- 

 count of the siege of Worcester, under date of 

 June 26, 1646, mentions how the governor called 

 a council in the bishop's palace, wherein it was 

 proposed whether they should not accept or en- 

 tertain a treaty with Colonel Whaley, as Oxford 

 was surrendered, no relief was to be expected 

 from the king, and Fairfax's force of 10,000 foot 

 and 5000 horse might soon be expected before 

 the town. Two letters upon this treaty accord- 

 ingly passed between the besiegers and the be- 

 sieged ; upon which Mr. Habingdon says : " The 

 chief person who objected to the treaty was Mr. 

 Fitz Williams Conynsby, a man of great estate, 

 who, at the head of the recusants and cashiered 

 officers, maintained that their orders from the 

 king were to hold out till they heard from his 

 Majesty." After a stormy debate, articles of 

 treaty were drawn up, and a cessation of hostilities 

 (soon to be renewed) agreed on. 



I should suppose that the " Sir Harry " Co- 

 ningsby of the Areley-Kings memorial, was the 

 son, or grandson, of this valiant Mr. Fitz Williams ; 

 and that the moated house where he lived was his 

 Herefordshire mansion, Hampton Court, a build- 

 ing erected by an Agincourt hero. Sir Rowland 

 Lenthall, yeoman of the robes to Henry IV. 



In Pershore Church (co. Worcester) there are 

 inscriptions to the memory of Sir John Conisby, 

 who died Dec. 24, 1738, and to Mrs. Hannah 

 Connisby, who died 1740. The name of Co- 

 ningsby appears under various mutations of 

 spelling; Sir Thomas Coningsby's name, for ex- 

 ample, is, in divers documents, spelt Conyngsbey, 

 Connysbey, Conningby, Consby, and Conesby. 



The arms of Coningsby are — Gules, three coneys 

 sejant argent ; crest, on a wreath, a coney sejant 

 argent. Cuthbert Bece, B.A. 



No. 308.] 



Minav Baltic 



Affected Words. — In Phillips's New World of 

 Words (first edition, 1657; fourth, here used, 

 1678) is "a collection ot such affected words 

 from the Latin or Greek, as are either to be used 

 warily, and upon occasion only, or totally to be 

 rejected as barbarous, and illegally compounded 

 and derived." These words are 188 in number; 

 those which have lasted, though sometimes in an, 

 altered sense, sometimes in a cognate form, are as' 

 follows : 



" Agonize, aetiology, autograph, aurist, bibliography, 

 bimensal, cacography, cacology, cacophony, egurgitate, 

 evangelize, euthanasia, ferocious, hagiography, hologra- 

 phical, homologation, imprescriptible (?), incommisci- 

 bility, inimical, misanthropist, misogynist, oneirocriti- 

 cism, terraqueous." 



So that a little more than ten per cent, have 

 lasted. Those which are marked as " most no- 

 torious " are as follows : 



" Acetologous, acercccomic, alebromancy, ambilogie, 

 anopsie, aurigraphy, circumbilivagination, clempsonize, 

 colligence, comprint, cynarctomachy, efligiate, essentifi- 

 cate, fallaciloquent, flexiloquent, lielisphajrical, hierogram, 

 holographical, homologation, horripilation, humidiferous, 

 illiquation, importuous, imprescriptible, incommiscihility, 

 indign, inimical, logographer, lubidinity, lubrefaction, 

 luctisonant, miniography, nihilification, nugisonant, nugi- 

 polyloquous, olfact, onologie, parvipension, plastography, 

 plausidical, quadrigamist, quadrisyllabous, repatriation, 

 scelestick, solisequious, superiicialize, syllabize, syncen- 

 trick, transpeciation, tristitiation, vaginipennous, viscated, 

 ultimity, vulpinarity." 



Among words, the loss of which may be re- 

 gretted for serious purposes, are, transpeciation, 

 circumstantiation, the establishing by circum- 

 stances, and flexiloquent, speaking persuasively. 

 For comic and sarcastic purposes, asymbolic, not 

 paying " shot or reckoning," bovicide, hydropotist, 

 monophagous, omnitinerant, polyphagian, ventri- 

 potent. It may be worth adding, that among the 

 words which were actually proposed, and some- 

 times used, is honorificahilitudinity . M. 



Clerks of the Council — Sampson and Paget. — 

 In Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Coun- 

 cil of England, 1837, voh vii. Pref. p. i.. Sir Harris 

 Nicolas remarks : 



" It is observed, in the Preface to the sixth volume of 

 the Proceedings of the Privy Council, that the Itegister or 

 ' Book of the Council' does not appear to have been con- 

 tinued after the 13th year of King Henr}- the Sixth, 1435 ; 

 and that, with the exception of some original minutes, or- 

 dinances, and letters, nothing is known of the proceedings 

 of the Privy Council, until the latter part of the reign of 

 King Henry the Eighth." 



Then, after referring to an Order in Council, 

 dated Aug. 10, in the 32nd year of that monarch, 

 1540, by which " William Paget, late the Queen's 

 Secretary," was appointed to the office of Clerk of 



