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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. ifo 108., Jan. 23. '58. 



gree does very little towards elucidating the sub- 

 ject of his Query. He will, however, find that 

 Blomfield is not without authority for the name he 

 has given to Robert le Brewess wife, by referring 

 to the Calendar of the Charter Rolls, p. 55. I 

 copy the entry, with one or two others, which may 

 possibly help towards the clearing up of his diffi- 

 culty (Calend. Rot. Chart, pp. 55. 74. 99.) : — 



'« Robertus de Brewes et Beatr' uxor' ejus: 

 — Tayden maner' mercat' et feria - - Essex." 



" Robertus de Bruys : — 

 — P ' Mbera waren' 



}«' 



Somerset'. 



- Essex'. 



- Norfolc'. 



- Lincoln'. 



- Netting'. 



- Sutht'. 



- Surr'. 



- Sutht.' 



Horcherd 



Thorpe Wakerinq ) ,., , 



La Leye j ^"^^^^ "«^«'"^" 



Runham, et} ,.. , 



Rachech j ^'^^ra waren' - 



Kneye et"i 



Stratton V libera waren' 

 KestesbyJ 



Eyleston, libera waren' 

 Risandon - - . 



Wysle 



Suinburn ... 

 Bikehaule - - - 



Nerechiche - - . . - 



Curiland - - - - ■ - 



Bradeweye, libera waren' licet sunt infra") a .> 



metas foresta - - . | Somerset'. 



*' Robertus de Brywes : — 

 Rysingdon Basset, et"\ 

 Wyke maner' villa f_ 

 Temple guiting' redd' T 

 Templeham pratuni J 

 Thorpe maner' ) 

 'J 



- Gloucestr.' 



Wakeringe maner' 

 HodenhuU maner 



- - - Essex'. 



- - - Warr'." 



J. Sansom. 



Napoleon's Convej'sations with Lord Lyttelton 

 (2"'* S. iv. 512.) — In reply to your correspondent 

 E. S. W,, I beg to mention that he will find on a 

 reference to Martin's Catalogue of Privately 

 Printed Books, p. 466, second edition, 1854, a full 

 description of the work in question. Upon an 

 examination of the Sale Csitalogue of the very fine 

 library of Joseph Walter King Eyton, Esq., 

 F.S.A., disposed of by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby 

 and Co., London, in 1848, (comprising an extraor- 

 dinary collection of Privately Printed Books, in- 

 cluding the various Club publications, together 

 with numerous unique " large paper copies," and 

 also " works printed upon vellum," all in the most 

 superb condition and bindings,) — I discovered that 

 he possessed a copy of the said work, which had 

 been a presentation one to Southey, the poet, from 

 W. Nicol. It is No. 958, on p. 118. of the Cata- 

 logue, and appears to have been sold for 26s. to 

 Messrs. Boone of London. T. G. S. 



Edinburgh. 



By or Bye (2^ S. v. 11.) -Your corre- 

 spondent must look to a different language than 

 the Anglo-Saxon for the origin of the expression 

 *' Bye-law." A bye-law is passed by a corpora- 



tion or company ; and instead of being general, 

 is only binding within the limits of the jurisdic- 

 tion of that corporation or company. In short, it 

 is the law of the hy or hye — the borough — Bua in 

 old Norwegian, Boe and Bo in Danisl* and Swe- 

 dish ; and, from that tendency to aspiration which 

 gradually increases as we near the south and the 

 mountains, Burh amongst the Germans and our 

 Saxon ancestry. As the borough or bury mark 

 the Saxon, so the by marks the Norwegian or the 

 Dane ; and they who prate about our " genuine 

 Anglo-Saxon ancestry" should explain why "earl" 

 and "by-law" still hold their ground, whilst 

 "ealderman" and "gerefa" have sunk from the 

 dignity of "dux" and "comes" into a city func- 

 tionary and a farm-balllfT or reeve. Signet. 



Jeremiah Job's Definition of a Bishop (2""^ S. iv. 

 128.) — 



" Der Herr Iftspector machte den Anfang, 

 Hustete viernial mit starkem Klang, 

 Shnauzte und rausperte auch viermal sich, 

 Und fragte, indem er den Bauch strich : 



" ' Ich, als zeitlicher pro tempore Inspector, 

 Und der hiesigen Geistlichkeit Director, 

 Frage Sie : Quid sit Episcopus ? 

 Alsbald antwortete Hieronimus : 



" ' Ein Bischof ist, wie ich denke, 

 Ein sehr angenehmes Getranke 

 Aus rothem Wein, Zucker, und Pomeranzensaft, 

 Und wiirmet und starket mit grosser Kraft." 



Kortum, Leben von Hieronimus Jol>s, 

 Th. 1. c. 19. St. 35—37. 



This looks like a satisfactory reply to S. H. J.'s 

 Query, but the letter which he quotes from is 

 dated 1796 ; and my copy of the Jobsiade, which 

 appears to be the first edition, is Dortmund, 1799. 

 The writer of the letter, by not quoting the defini- 

 tion, seems to have thought it familiar ; and even 

 now Kortum's most amusing poem, though appre- 

 ciated in Germany, is almost unknown in Eng- 

 land. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Rev. Dr. Thackeray (2"'' S. Iv. 453-4.)— A Con- 

 stant Reader requests information concerning 

 this family. He married Theodosia, oldest daugh- 

 ter of John Woodward, Esq., of Eton and But- 

 ler's Merston. She had no brothers ; her sisters 

 were Mary, married Rev. James Dalton, Rector 

 of Great Stanmore ; Lucy married H. L. Gar- 

 diner, Esq., of London ; and Jane married, first, 

 the Hon. E. F. Hatton ; secondly, the Hon. and 

 Rev. Dr. Nicholas Boscawen, Canon of Windsor. 

 For particulars of Dr. Thackeray's preferments, 

 &c., see Nichols, Lit. Anec, vol. viii. p. 436. By 

 his wife he had issue six sons and ten daughters 

 (two daugliters died very young), viz. : — 



1. Rev. Elias, Vice-Provost and Bursar of 

 King's College, Cambridge, died single. 

 _ 2. Rev. John, Chaplain at St. Petersburgh, died 

 single. 



