298 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. CZ"-* S. v. 119., April lO. '58. 



1611. His will was proved in the Prerogative 

 Court of Canterbury, August 27, 72 Wood. 



There are many papers in the State Paper 

 Office relating to Michael Lock, the father of 

 Zachary, Eleazar, and Benjamin, and who must 

 have been the visitor of Dr. Dee. Michael was a 

 man of great enterprise, and had travelled much 

 abroad in pursuit of merchandise. He lays claim 

 to the credit of having originated and fitted out 

 JFrobisher for his first voyage to discover the 

 North-west passage to China ; but this subject is 

 I think of sufficient interest for a separate com- 

 munication. G. R. C. 



WHAT IS A TYE? 



(P' S. iii. 263. 340. 469., v. 356. 395. ; 2"^ S. v. 

 197.) 

 I think the following quotations will answer 

 Mr. a. Holt White's pathetic Query, "Will no 

 one tell me what was a Tye ? " : — 



" Teg. Lacinia prati. In antiquis Patrias legibus nee 

 lion hodieque in inferioribus Suecise partibus non usur- 

 patur nisi de portionibits prati. Westm. L. B. B. c. 32. 

 ' Engin inu torff sktera i annars teghe ' Nemo csespitem 

 csedat in alieno prato. Isl. teigr. Ezech. 34, 1. • OUiim 

 eingetcigum' in omnibus prati portionibus." Vide at 

 length in 1749 Ihre. Lex. Suio-Goth. vol. ii. col. 872. ed. 

 1749. 



In Ezechiel xxxiv. 1. of the English version 

 the words do not occur, but as the word pasture 

 twice occurs in the 14th verse, this is probably 

 the verse intended to be cited by Ihre. 



In Halderson's Lex. Island, is : — 



" Teigr (1) haustus amystus, 2. arvumdeclive (Danish 

 Skraa, nedgaaende Enge), 3. tractus (Danish landsbrtek- 

 ning.)" 



" Tigh or Teage, in old Eecords, a Close or Inclosure, a 

 Croft ; in Kent the word Tigh is still used in the same 

 sense." — Phillips's World of Words. 



" Teag, teagh, leah, a scroll, chest, tie, band, an en- 

 closure. V. tige." — Bosworth, Smaller A.-S. Diet. 



Notwithstanding that Bosworth and Phillips 

 agree in making tye an enclosure, I am satisfied 

 that Ihre is right, and that a tye is a strip of 

 pasture. For when the question was first asked 

 in 1" S. iii. I was curate of a parish In South 

 Suffolk, where were some " Tye housen " cottages 

 built on the " Tye" and a "Tye" meadow. The 

 " Tye " and other commons in the parish had been 

 Inclosed. I examined then about twelve or four- 

 teen " Tyes " in South Suffolk and North Essex 

 to endeavour to ascertain by induction what kind 

 of common a Tye was. In this I did not suc- 

 ceed ; but last year I found the passage (part of 

 which I have quoted above) In Ihre, and now I 

 am satisfied that each was a lacinia prati. I will 

 only add that if any English word has a Teutonic 

 derivation, it Is almost certain to be found in 

 Ihre. 



Jamieson (Scott. Diet.) has, " Tag, a long and 

 thin slice," still in use. Can any Scotch reader of 

 " N. & Q." inform me if this is applied to land ? 



E. G. R. 



Will It aid Mr. White towards a solution of 

 the meaning of the word tye, to remind him of 

 Tyburn, which may be derived from Tye and 

 bourne or brook, and where was a public gallows 

 in the reign of Henry IV. ? There seems to be a 

 notion that tye may be connected with the fatal 

 noose, or a place of torture. ALraKo Gtattv. 



ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATIOK OF NAPOLEON I. 



(2°i S. v. 255.) 



With reference to this subject the following 

 extract from the Memoires et Lettres inedites du 

 Ckev. de Gentz, puhlies par G. Schlesier, Stout- 

 gar t, 1841, 8vo. (page 107. being the beginning of 

 his Observations sur la Negociation entre V Angle- 

 terre et la France en 1806), may be interesting to 

 your readers : — 



« No. 1.* 



" Lettre de M. Fox a M. Talleyrand du 20. Fevrier. 



" Cette lettre n'a ^te ^viderament ecrite que pour 

 amener une correspondance pacifique. En la lisant, on 

 ne peut pas se d^fendre de d^sirer qu'un autre moyen eut 

 ete cboisi ; ou du moins, qu'on se fut servi de celui-ci 

 dans une forme un peu plus convenable. 



" Comment un homme, tel qu'on est accoutume h se re- 

 pr^senter M. Fox, pouvait-il ecrire, ' que sa confusion f 

 etait extreme,' — ' que ce n'est, qu'aprfes avoir congedi^ 

 cet homme, qu'il avaitreconnu lafaute qu'il avait faite, etc' 

 — La proposition de cet homme ^tait-elle done si neuve, 

 si inouie? L'ideede se defaire de Bonaparte, n'avait-elle 

 done paseteformeepar unequantited'individus? Georges, 

 Pichegru et tant d'autres, proteges par lea personnes les 

 plus respectables de I'Angleterre, et pleures par I'elite de 

 leurs contemporains, n'etaient ni plus ni moins coupables 

 que I'individu qui a occasionne cette lettre. Si un simple 

 prqjet de ce genre pouvait faire perdre toute contenance 

 h, M. Fox, c'etaient done d'epouvantables scelerats que 

 ceux qui avaient fait des vceux pour le succes de I'entre- 

 prise de Pichegru ? 



" La question, ' si c'est un crime de tuer un homme tel 

 que Bonaparte,' tient exclusivement a celle de la legality 

 de son pouvoir. Celui qui le croit un Souverain legitime, 

 fait bien de prononcer par I'affirmative ; mais celui qui ne 

 volt eu lui qu'un usurpateur, doit en juger autrement. 

 M. Fox doit en convenir lui-meme. Jamais ceux qui 

 pensent comme lui, ne se sont deves centre les tyranni- 

 cides. Si Bonaparte etait aux yeux de M. Fox un usur- 

 pateur et un tyran, il serait le plus inconse'quent des 

 hommes, s'il n'approuvait pas le projet de le punir. Son 

 horreurpour ce projet n'est fondde que sur ce que pour lui 

 Bonaparte est un Souverain legitime. Elle n'est raisonna- 

 ble que dans cette supposition. Mais M. Fox ne peut gufere 

 pr^tendre que tout le monde soit de son avis h, cet e'gard. 

 " Cette pretention parait surtout injuste, lorsqu'on re- 



* Parmi les pieces Francjaises. 



t Le mot Anglais confusion veut plutot dire consterna- 

 tion ; jiiais la nuance est Idgfere, 



