July 8. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Payne, endure pain. " And made him to be done on 

 a crosse, for that he should payne thereon longe or he 

 dyed." — The Festival, fol. Ivi. recto. 



Perditrability, endurance. Caxton's Golden Legend, 

 "Inv. of the Cross," edit. 1503, as subjoined to Fisher's 

 Ancient Paintings at Stratford-upon-Avon, 18S8. 



Possessioners, rightful owners. " And ever shall be 

 [the Jews] subjectesand not possessioners." — The Fes- 

 tival, fol. xcix. verso. 



Premyour, the chief, or recompence. "Jesus is . . . 

 his lovers rewarde and premyour." — The Festival, 

 fol. cxxiii. verso. 



Rather. " Of the rather people." — Wycliffite ver- 

 sions, i. 69., where the later gives "former." 



Reprouchable, lamentable. " Yet is the deth of the 

 soule .... much more reprouchable." — Ca.-%.ion's Art 

 cf Dying Well, a. i. verso. 



Resourd, spring up again. " Fro thens .... the 

 lyfe resourded, and the stench is tourned into swetnes: 

 Canticorum i." — Caxton's Golden Legend, " Invent, of 

 Cross." 



Sen-ze, spelt seyne in WyclifBte version, i. 2. : " Seyne 

 of Nicene." 



Sharper, shaper? " God the Maker, the sharper of 

 all these thynges." — The Festival, fol. cxxiiii. recto. 



Shenship, confusion. " The seventh payne is open 

 shenship or shame for synne." — The Festival, fol. clxxx. 

 verso, edit. 1528. " Prophetis of Baal, tliat counceili- 

 den Acal go to werre to his own schenschipe and deth." 

 — Wycliffite versions, Prolog., p. 30. 



Shepster, a seemster. Soe " N. & Q,.," Vol. i., 

 p. 356. 



Speed, interest. " Yf thou praye ony thynge agaynst 

 thyne owne spede," — The Festival, fol. clxxxix. recto. 



Stickle. This word seems to mean " to encourage, 

 promote," in the passage following ; " As on this day 

 {24 June) was the conflict at Mersbrough . . . stickled 

 forth by the Pope." — Liturgical Services, Queen Eliza- 

 beth (Parker Society), p. 449. 



Treaty, disquisition. Jewel's Works, edit. Oxford, 

 1848 (Eleply to Harding, art. v. div. 1. vol. ii. p. 320.) 

 " Herein he [Harding] bestowed his whole treaty." 



Unberohbed, secure from loss. The Festival, fol. Ixxvii. 

 recto. " So that all the people myght go sage and un- 

 berohbed." 



Vndepartably, Inseparably. " Dives and Pauper," 

 apud H. Tooke's Diversions of Purley, p. 408. ed. 1 840. 



Underjoin, to subjoin. WyclifFe vers., Prolog, i. 38., 

 from Dublin MS. 



Underlonte, to condescend. The books of Psalms. 

 " Kingis to pore men it maketh underlontynge." — 

 Prologue to Wycliffite versions, p. 39. note. 



Vndren. " An husbounde man went into his gardeyn, 

 or vyne yearde, at prime, and ayen at undren or myd- 

 day." — Liber Festivalis, fol. v. verso, edit. Paris, 1495. 

 Ungilty, guiltless. Coverdale's Bible, Exod. xxi. 



Unmightfuhiess, reducing, weakening. Foxe, Acts 

 and Monuments, iii. 114., edit. 1843. " Wrongfull op- 

 pression of coinmons for unmightfulnesse of realmes." 



Upst.yenye, rising up, ascension. " Thus for grete 

 wonder that the lower aungelles had of his [Christ's] 

 upstyenge."— -r/ie Festival, fol. xli. recto, ed. 1528. 



Uttermore, additional. " Withouten uttermore help." 

 — Wycliff. versions, Prolog., i. 37., from Dublin MS. 



Fading, failing. " Vading of water." — Foxe, vol. ii. 

 177., edit. 1843. 



Venom, as a verb, to envenom. " A grete dragon . . . 

 venymed the people so with her brethynge." — Festival, 

 fol. xcviii. verso. 



Focyull, by word of mouth, " Confessyon vocyall." 

 — The Festival, fol. clxxxiiii. verso. 



Voydly, uselessly. " Beware that thou bare not that 

 name voydly." — The Festival, fol. clvii. verso. 



Wair, a pool? "The bysshop of the temple let 

 make a way re .... to washe in shepe." — The Festival, 

 fol. ci. recto. 



Waryinge, cursing. Wycliff. vers, of Rom. iii. 14. 



Wederynge, fine weather. The Festival, fol. cxciv. 

 verso. " That God sende suche wederynge that they 

 may growe." 



Welowynge, fading. " Roses, lelyes, and floures with- 

 out welowynge." — The Festival, fol. cxlii. verso. 



Withinforth, internally. " For only contrycyon wy- 

 thlnforth may suffyce in suche a case." — Caxton's Art 

 of Dying Well. fol. A. iii. recto; Foxe, ii. 744., ed. 1843. 



Withoutforth, externally. The Festival, fol. xxxi. 

 recto. 



Wonders, exceedingly. " Than was Kynge Herode 

 wonders wroth." — Fest., fol. Ixxv. verso. " A wonders 

 ryche man." — Fol. x. verso. 



Yeasely, feebly ? Latimer to Hubberdin, in Foxe, 

 vol. vii. Append. 209., edit. 1843. " Which two per- 

 suasions though they be in very dede lyes, as 1 trust in 

 God to shew them, yet though they were true did but 

 yeasely prove your intention." 



N. B. — The explanation of words offered in the 

 foregoing list is in many cases but conjectural, 

 and is, of course, fully open to correction or im- 

 provement. Novus. 



MODERN PILGRIMAGES AMNET HOLTROOD, 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



Although not aspiring to the relation of any 

 anecdote of the author, or of the account of a 

 " Pilgrimage to the Holy Land" (Vol. v., p. 289. ; 

 Vol. vii., pp. 344. 415 ), I think the following sim- 

 ple narrative of pilgrimages to a sacred spot in 

 our own country is worthy of preservation in the 

 columns of " N. & Q." If we are to credit recent 

 writers on the customs of the Irish of making 

 yearly pilgrimages to shrines and holy wells, such 

 superstitions are gradually giving way to the light 

 of divine truth. But in the following relation 

 there is neither superstition nor bigotry. 



At a recent meeting of the Cotswold Naturalists' 

 Club in Gloucestershire, a paper was read by 

 Mr. Charles Pooley upon the still prevalent cus- 

 tom of pilgrimages to the churchyard of Amney 

 Crucis or Amney Holyrood in that county, the 

 church in which parish is dedicated to Holyrood ; 

 the parish is in the hundred of Crowthorne and 

 Minety : 



" Amney Holy Rood," Mr. Pooley relates, " is not 

 deserted, even in these days ; pilgrimages are still made 



