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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t;2ndS. N°110., Fkb. G. '58. 



this enterprise : for " one Roger Godsalue, Esquere, 

 of Bucknam Ferry in Norfolke had begun to 

 apply hiniselfe to this worthy work, and had on 

 the stocks at Yarmotli five Busses," which, ex- 

 cepting one large "Busse" building on the Thames, 

 appear to have been the first of the kind in Eng- 

 land. The author recommends the institution of 

 a Joint-Stock Fishing Company, with a capital of 

 70,000Z. or 80,000Z., and 100 busses; and he esti- 

 mates the profits at 75 per cent. Full directions 

 are given for the building, equipping, arming 

 (muskets, bandoleers, and pikes), manning, vic- 

 tualling, and even physicking, connected with the 

 enterprise. 



The tract is now in the Great Yarmouth Public 

 Library, but I noted down the following ancient 

 fishing terms : — 



Shivers, i. e. blocks or pulleys ; now called 

 sheaves. 



Warropes. Qu. Warps. 



Ipswitch Poledavis for sails ; a kind of coarse 

 canvas. 



Waterskeits for wetting the sails; skeets or 

 scuppets. 



Wodden Scummers. Qu. Skimmers. 



Iron Esses, i. e. hooks in the form of an S " to 

 mend the shrowd chaines." 



Orlup Nailes. Orlop, a part of a ship's deck, is 

 from the Dutch overloopen, to run over. 



Deepivgs and Masks, in connexion with nets ; 

 and Nozzels, cords to fasten the nets to the ropes. 



Pynbolls or Bwyes (hod. the local pronuncia- 

 tion) ; apparently the buoys, bowls, or tubs with 

 a pin or staff, surmounted by a vane, to mark the 

 locality of the nets, and which figure pictu- 

 resquely among the waves, in marine pictures, 

 such as Vandervel^'s. 



Gippiiig Knives^oi^ Heading Knives — the for- 

 mer to open the fish. 



Roaring Baskets. 



Susses, Yagars, Pinkes, and Carwells ; vessels 

 of different kinds. 



Herring Stickes, i. e. barrels and chopstiches. 



Kip and Garfangle Hookes. 



Trinker Men and Trinker Boates. 



The above may serve as a small contribution to 

 the new Dictionary of the Philological Society, 

 ancient words of this kind not being likely to oc- 

 cur generally ; nor are the modern terms, such as 

 one constantly hears among the fishermen of this 

 coast [e. g. Beatsters, i. e. net menders (females, 

 hence the Sax. fem. term, ster") ; names of fish, 

 such as the Sull, or horse-mackarel ; Sweet Wil- 

 liam, apparently a small species of shark], to be 

 found m any provincial vocabulary. I believe 

 the small 4to. tracts of the seventeenth century, 

 for which I have, I confess, a sort of mania, m 

 common with many of my fellow subscribers I 

 dare say, would be found particularly rich in ob- 

 solete words. E. S. Tatlob. 



I know of no work, either ancient or modern, on 

 coast fishing. A publication of the kind, ably com- 

 piled and delineated, is a desideratum. G. R. L.'s 

 Query reminds me of a very curious and primitive 

 mode of capturing fish on the southern coast of 

 Wales, a note of which may possibly be of service 

 to some future writer on this subject. Owing to 

 the recent establishment of so many iron works in 

 the Principality, both sewin and salmon, which for- 

 merly abounded in our Welsh rivers, have been 

 driven to more northern localities, and in conse- 

 quence the curious practice in question of taking 

 them has almost, if not entirely, ceased. It was 

 as follows : — The fishermen commenced their 

 operations, at every ebbing of the tide, by stretch- 

 ing a seine across the river (several hundred paces 

 above the coast), and whilst drawing it towards 

 the sea, they incessantly disturbed the water by 

 beating the surface, as well as hurling into it 

 the heaviest stones they could poise. The af- 

 frighted fish made at once for the sea, which, how- 

 ever, they could not reach except by passing 

 through the intervening shallows. Here they were 

 pursued by dogs trained for the purpose, and 

 clubbed or speared by the men. I have fre- 

 quently -seen from one to two hundred fine fish, 

 weighing from ten to twenty pounds each, taken 

 in this extraordinary way. j8. 



Luther and Gerhelius (2""^ S. iv, 519.)— Mr. 

 Offor asks, how it was possible that Luther 

 should use the edition of Gerb^lius for his ver- 

 sion, since, according to Melancthon, the volume 

 (meaning, I suppose, the whole of his version of 

 the N. T.) was in the hands of the printer on 

 May 5, 1522, " only two months after the date of 

 Gerbelius' edition." But in this computation Mr. 

 Offob is not correct. An interval of nearly 

 fourteen months had passed. I have now before 

 me a copy of the edition by Gerbelius. The title- 

 page is wanting, but that page contains nothing 

 more than the simple title of the work to which 

 it is prefixed, viz. H KAINH AIA0HKH. In the 

 last page of the volume, at the end of the list of 

 errata, we find the following : — " Hagenaae, in 

 8Bdibus Thoraae Anshelmi Badensis, Mense Mar- 

 tio, Anno Salutis mdxxi." In the month of 

 April, 1521, Luther pleaded his cause before the 

 Diet at Worms, and at the end of that month was 

 safely lodged, by his friend the Elector of Saxony, 

 in the castle of Wurtemburg. 



" In this retirement, which he used to call his Patmos, 

 he first began to apply himself to the great undertaking 

 of a new Translation of the Bible into German." — Town- 

 ley, Bib. Lit. ii. 275. 



Before he left the castle in March, 1522, he had 

 translated the whole of the N. T. It was, clearly, 



