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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Meaning of Royd (Vol. v., pp. 489. 571. 620.). 

 — Not at all differing witli your corre.spon(lent 

 Lancastriensis in the meaning to be applied to 

 Royd in Huntroyd, &c., as explained, p. 571., I 

 must express a doubt if " Ormerod" should be 

 referred to " Eoyd," as the derivative of its last 

 syllable. I apprehend od means old, and is now 

 pronouncetl oud, in the East Riding dialect. Thus, 

 HI the reign of Edward I., two places stood at the 

 mouth of the Humber, spoken of in old charters 

 and deeds respectively as " Ravenser" and " Ra- 

 venserod," that is. Old Ravenser. I fancy orf, 

 affixed to Ormer, means Old Ormer, and not 

 Ormer in the clearing. T. Thompson. 



Foundation- Stones (Vol. vl., p. 20.). — Founda- 

 tion of Blackfriar's Bridge, from Noorthouck's 

 History of London, 1773, p. 404. : 



" The first stone of the new bridge at Blackfriars 

 was laid with great ceremony on the last day of October 

 (1760), by the Lord Mayor and Bridge Committee. 

 Several gold, silver, and copper coins of the late King 

 were deposited under the stone, together with the silver 

 medal given to Mr. Mylne by the Roman Academy. 

 By order of Common Council, a plate with the follow- 

 ing inscription on it was placed there likewise, the 

 classical Latinity of which was much burlesqued, by the 

 wits at the time : — 



' Ultimo die Octobris, Anno ab Incarnatione 



MDCCLX, 



Auspicatissimo principe Georgio Terfio 



Ilegnum jam ineunte, 



Pontis hujus, in Reipublicae Commodum 



Urbisque Majestatem, 



(Late turn flagrante Bello) 



a S. P. Q L., suscepti, 



Primum Lapidem Posuit 



Thomas Chitty, Miles, 



Praetor, 



Roberto Mylne, Architect©. 



Utque apud posteras extct Monumentum 



Voluntatis sute erga Virum, 



Qui Vigore Ingenii, Animi Constantia, 



Piobltatis et Virtutis sua felici quadam Contagione, 



(favente Deo 



faustisque Georgii secundi auspiciis) 



Imperium Britannicum 



In 



Asia, Africa, et America, 



Restituit, auxit, & stabilivit, 



Ntcnon Patriae antiquum Honorem & Auctoritatem 



Inter Europae gentes instauravit, 



Cives Londinenses, uno Consensu, 



Huic Ponti inscribi voluerunt nomen 



GuLiELMi Pitt,'" 



There is added to the above a translation, which 

 you already have. As there is a great probability 

 that the present bridge will be taken down, the 

 first stone, with the inscription, &c. as above, may 

 perhaps be found. E. N. W. 



Southwark. 



Meaning of ''Whit" {\o\. v., p. 610.; Vol. vi., 

 p. 45.). — ^xour correspondent J. B. Colman re- 

 peats an error I noticed in an Illustrated Almanack 

 a year or two ago. Our forefathers would never 

 have been content with the quantity of ale one of 

 these small earthen bottles contained. They were 

 used for wine. Two exactly alike in form and 

 material are now in the Norwich Museum ; one is 

 inscribed "whit, 1648," and the other "claret, 

 1648." Another of the same form, but much 

 smaller, has "sack, 1650" upon it. The larger 

 bottles would hold about half a pint, the small one 

 about a quarter. Hknrt Harrod. 



Plague Stones (Vol. v., p. 571.). — On the three 

 main roads leading out of Beverley, about a mile 

 each from the Minster, are three crosses, each of 

 which, according to the reputation of the country- 

 people, was erected In the time of the plague, as a 

 substitute for the market cross in the town of Be- 

 verley ; and tradition states that on market days 

 during the plague, the country people brought 

 their goods (marked with the price demanded) 

 and left them at one or other of those crosses : 

 afterwards the townspeople came there, took away 

 the goods and left their money In their place, 

 which afterwards the owners of the goods came and 

 took away; the parties thus never coming into 

 contact. 



Finding this tradition current on three different 

 sides of the town, I cannot doubt It being In the 

 main correct ; but It is certain those crosses were 

 not erected for any such purpose, for from ancient 

 documents It Is well known they are the boundary 

 crosses, showing the limits of the sanctuary for 

 criminals belonging to the Church of St. John of 

 Beverley In ancient times; and no doubt being 

 existing in the times of the plague, formed a very 

 convenient point on each road for the sort of fetch 

 and carry market above alluded to. May not 

 other plague stones also have had their origin 

 (since forgotten) prior to the times of the plague, 

 their latter use only being remembered ? 



T. Thompson. 



Hull. 



Custom of Cranes in Storms (Vol. v., p. 582. ; 

 Vol. vl., p. 31.). — The crest of "Cranstoun" is a 

 crane, holding a stone in his foot. 



W. J. Beenhard Smith. 



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