Nov. 25. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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Alefounders (Vol. x., p. 307.). — The alefounders 

 are ale-tasters or ale-conners. In the Old Court 

 Rolls they are called "gustatores cerVisi," the 

 terra commonly used In the records of Courts 

 Leet. During the Commonwealth, when the Rolls 

 of the New Buckenham Leet were kept in En- 

 glish, these officers are called " alefounders ; " and 

 this term is again used upon the reintroduction 

 of the English language. A short time since, 

 when the books came under my notice, as steward 

 of the Court Leet, I determined to send a Note 

 as to this use of the term alefounder^ which Mr. 

 Lower classes with " ale-draper," and calls " a 

 ridiculous designation" {English Surnames, edit. 

 1849, vol. i. p. 112.). Can any of your readers 

 give another instance ? A. F. B. 



Diss. 



English Words derived from the Saxon (Vol. x., 

 p. 145.). — BoTOLPH is referred to the Edinburgh 

 Review, Oct. 1839, pp. 221 — 224., where, speaking 

 of Dr. Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, it is 

 said : 



" By an ingenious contrivance this dictionary not only 

 answers the purpose of a Saxon-English, and of a Saxon- 

 Latin dictionary, but of an English and Saxon, Latin and 

 Saxon dictionary." 



I may add, that the English index refers to all 

 the English words immediately derived from 

 Saxon, of which Dr. Bosworth not only gives the 

 derivation, but the cognate words from other 

 Gothic languages. It was published in one thick 

 volume 8vo., by Longman & Co., in 1838. 



Saxonicus. 



The Roive Family (Vol. x., p. 326.). — The 

 arms of Rowe of Lewes, co. Sussex, as correctly 

 given by C. J. R., were granted, or rather con- 

 firmed. May 24, 1614, by Sir William Legars, to 

 John Rowe, Gent., of Lewes. The crest borne 

 by this branch of the Rowes was as follows : " Out 

 of a ducal crown or, a demi-lion gules, holding in 

 the paw a Polish mace in pale sable, spiked and 

 pointed argent." T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Army Precedence (Vol. x., p. 305.). — In reply 

 to the Query of O. S., I beg to offer the following 

 suggestions. Our military titles are mostly of 

 French derivation. A company is the basis on 

 which an army is founded, and the officer who is 

 at the head of this body is therefore called a 

 captain (probably from caput) ; his deputy, as 

 holding his place in his absence, is called his 

 lieu-tenant. 



The next body of men is called a regiment, and 

 is composed of a column of companies, and the 

 officer commanding a regiment is therefore called 

 a colonel (from the French colonne). His deputy, 

 as holding his place, is the lieutenant-colonel. 

 But it sometimes happens that two or more com- 



panies are detached from a regiment (as In the 

 case of a dep-6t), and the officer in command of 

 this detachment, though Inferior to the lieut.- 

 colonel, is superior to a captain, and is therefore 

 a major (greater) ; as in the non-commissioned 

 ranks of the army the sergeant-major is superior 

 to the sergeant. The army in the field being 

 composed of Infantry, cavalry, and artillery, the 

 officer who commands this general levy is the 

 general, who also has his deputy In the lieutenant- 

 general; and as an officer inferior to lieutenant- 

 general, and yet eligible for a mixed command, 

 and superior to the colonel of a regiment, we find 

 the general who is major (or superior) to the 

 colonel, and called the major-general. R. A. 



" Auke " (Vol. X., p. 53.). — Preferring my 

 sermon at home yesterday, I took up Scotland's 

 Welcome, 1603, where, among the exultations of 

 Master Moses Mosse over the disappointed Papists 

 upon the death of Elizabeth, I read the following : 



"Full confidently did they expect, that so soone as 

 euer the breath was knowen to be out of the queene's 

 bellie, they should have beene ringing auke, and ffiering 

 of houses, and spoiling of goods, and leuying of armies, 

 and bringing in of forraine power from beyond the seas ; 

 yea, cutting of our throates, and burying of vs in the 

 dust." 



J. O. 



Lines atJerpoint Abbey (Vol. x., pp. 308. 355.). 

 — I have no distinct recollection of a publication 

 in octavo of Lines written at Jerpoint Abbey ; but 1 

 remember to have seen, full fifty years ago, a thin 

 quarto poem entitled Jerpoint Abbey, with a vig- 

 nette of the ruins on the title-page. The name 

 Sheffield Grave In W. H.'s note is evidently a 

 mistake for Sheffield Grace, a gentleman who 

 printed for private distribution a large and hand- 

 some octavo volume of Memoirs of the Grace 

 Family ; and the Lines at Jerpoint Abbey may have 

 been his production, or perhaps a portion of his vo- 

 lume, which I have not at hand. Jerpoint Abbey 

 ruins are near Thomastown, in the county of Kil- 

 kenny, In Ireland. C. 



Gresebroke in Yorkshire (Vol. viii., p. 389. ; 

 Vol. Ix., p. 285.) is about three or four miles from 

 Rotherham, and was in the possession of the 

 Grazebrookes till about 1300. If the Querist can 

 consult the papers of this family, he will find full 

 particulai's as to the descent of the manor and its 

 ancient lords. In these days of trade, there are 

 many reasons which make our old families jealous 

 of their papers ; but I should think. If the Querist 

 can show cause, he would be allowed to inspect 

 these MSS. The present Mr. Grazebrooke's ad- 

 dress is Michael Grazebrooke, Esq., Audnam, near 

 Stourbridge, Staffiardshlre. I have recently seen 

 a draft of the pedigree in the hands of a member 

 of the family in Liverpool. B. 



Liverpool. 



