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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 163. 



to the description jriven by F. H. of that which is 

 in his possession, with the exception that it is not 

 interleaved. Tyko. 



Dublin. 



Second Exhumation of King Arthurs Remains 

 (Vol. vi., pp. 490. 598.). — I have just lighted 

 upon the narrative, previously overlooked, of the 

 particulars attending, not the second exhumation of 

 Arthur's remains, but the translation of the shrine, 

 in which they were deposited by order of Henry II. ; 

 and, as it seems to meet the Query of H. G. T., I 

 venture to append a notice of it to my former in- 

 complete reply on the subject. The narrative in 

 question is contained in the chapter of the Assertio 

 Incomparabilis Arturii, Anctore Joanne Lelando, 

 Antiquario, entitled " Translatio Reliquiarum 

 Arturii, ex Archivis Glessoburgensis," p. 55. I 

 would invite attention to the observations of 

 Thierry (^Norman Conquest, book xi.) concerning 

 the discovery of these precious relics. Cowgill. 



Church Stile (Vol. vi., p. 339.). — At Exminster, 

 near Exeter, there is a path through the church- 

 yard, and an old stone church stile ; the house 

 and lands adjoining are called Church Stile, be- 

 longing to Phil. Lardner, Esq. W. C. 



Harlow. 



Sich House (Vol. vi., pp. 363, 364.). — There is 

 a place called Sykehouse, a township and chapelry 

 in the parish of Fishlake, about three miles north 

 by west from Thome, in Yorkshire, portion of the 

 ancient level of Hatfield Chase, a country abound- 

 ing in watercourses. The word syke occurs in an 

 old " perambulation " of the parish of Hatfield 

 (Hunter, S. Y., i. p. 185.), " and so along the same 

 unto Wrangle-syke, and by the same syke unto 

 the river Don," &c. The names of Blacksyke, 

 Foulsyke or Fulsyke, Wilsic or Wilsick, also occur 

 in the same locality. C. J. 



The Verbs " to lay " and " to lie " (Vol. vi., 

 p. 388.). — Your correspondent A. H., who adverts 

 to the not unfrequent use, by some modern 

 authors, of the verb lay, as if it were synonymous 

 with the verb lie, may not be displeased with the 

 information that this absurd practice was, at one 

 time, visited with condign punishment. The fol- 

 lowing is an extract from an article on Blomfield's 

 Prometheus Vinetvs, in the Edinburgh Review 

 (vol.xvii. No. 33. p. 225. November, 1810): 



" We recollect to have seen, many years ago, a work 

 of a very popular author, the reputation of which was 

 greatly diminished by a malicious reviewer, who dis- 

 covered that the writer had frequently fallen into the 

 colloquial error of using the active verb to lay, instead 

 of the neuter verb to lye " [sic]. 



May I append a Query to this communication? 

 Who were the " popular author " and the " mali- 

 cious reviewer " above referred to ? P. N. 



Whipping Posts (Vol. vi., p. 388.). — At Don- 

 caster there was formerly one of these posts of 

 correction. Amongst the orders of the Corpo- 

 ration, under date of May 5, 1713, is one "that a 

 whipping-post be set up at the stocks at Butcher 

 Cross, for punishing vagrants and sturdy beggars." 

 There are numerous charges in the old town- 

 •iccounts, before that time, for whipping vagrants, 

 rogues, and others, male and female. C. J. 



The Termination " -ster" (Vol. vi., ^. 409.). — 

 Your correspondent Charles THiRioy), in his 

 interesting Note respecting the termination -ster, 

 says of webbestere, that it occurs in Piers Plow- 

 man. It is a small contribution, but it may be 

 acceptable — this, that in the old registers of the 

 freemen of Norwich wabster occurs customarily for 

 weaver; and we have in Norfolk thachster for 

 thatcher, where (by the way) one would say it 

 could scarcely be a feminine termination. 



B. B. Woodward. 



St. John's Wood. 



Eiebreis (Vol. vi., p. 316.). — Did not Sandys 

 mean hereby eyebristles ? an uncommon but not 

 inappropriate term for eyelashes. Breis is merely 

 another form of birse, and is apparently the very 

 word wanted in the couplet from an ancient can- 

 zonetta, quoted by Scott in a letter to the Duke 

 of Buccleugh : 

 " The sutor ga'e the sow a kiss : 

 Grumph ! quo' the sow, it's a' for my birss " (breis). 



Sandys was a North Country man, and a clue 

 may often be found to the meaning of obsolete ex- 

 pressions used by our older writers, by recollecting 

 to which part of England they belonged. 



J. J. A. B. 

 Penzance. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Mr. C. Roach Smith announces a continuation of 

 his Collectanea Antiqua. The work was discontinued 

 from the heavy pecuniary loss which its publication 

 entailed on the editor, who has now been urged to 

 resume it, and proposes to do so upon receiving the 

 names of a sufficient number of subscribers — to whom 

 the work will be restricted. Mr. Smith proposes to 

 complete a volume yearly by about four deliveries ; 

 the subscription (24». per annum) to be paid in ad- 

 vance, or on the delivery of the first Part. The subjects 

 announced in the Prospectus as being in preparation 

 are of such interest to archasologists, that we feel sure 

 Mr. Smith will readily secure the co-operation of a 

 sufficient number to justify him in proceeding with his 

 labour of love. 



Of the numerous privately printed books in various 

 departments of literature, which have issued from the 

 press during the last two hundred years, none are so 

 rarely met with as those devoted to genealogical sub- 



