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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 176. 



Havering, the cbapel in Essex, being so called 

 from " having the ring." Nothing is more dan- 

 gerous to any etymological solution than the being 

 guided by the sound of words, rather than by the 

 probable derivation of the name of the place or 

 thing signified. I am aware that Camden says 

 Havering is called so for the above-stated reason ; 

 and other compilers of topography have followed 

 what I venture to suggest is an error. Habban, 

 in Anglo-Saxon, means to have ; and Ring is 

 ring — this is not to be denied ; but in the general 

 (and let me add excellent) rules for the investiga- 

 tion of names of places affixed to the late Dr. 

 Ingram's Translation of the Saxon Chronicle, I 

 find Aver is from Aver, Br., the mouth of a river, 

 ford, or lake ; and Ing, it is well known, is a fre- 

 quent termination for the names of places — its 

 import in Anglo-Saxon being a meadow. How 

 far " the meadow near the source of the river, or 

 stream" applies to the site of Havering, I will 

 leave to those more competent than myself to 

 decide, but offer the suggestion to the consi- 

 deration of Ceykep and others. C. I. K.. 



Brasses since 1688 (Vol. vi., pp. 149. 256.). — 

 In connexion with the subject of late brasses, a 

 rubbing which I took from one in Masham 

 Church, Yorkshire, may not be unworthy of a 

 note. It runs thus : 



"Christopher Kay, 

 Buried October the 23d, 



Anno Dom. 1689. 

 [Mrs. Jane Nichollson, 

 Bu. June the 4th, 1690.] 

 C onfined . in . a . bed . of . dust 

 H ere . doth .a . body . lye 

 R aised . again . it . will . I . trvst 

 I nto . the . Heavens . high 

 S in . not . bvt . have . a . care 

 T o . make . yovr . calling . svre 

 O mit . those . things . which . trivial . are 

 P rise . that . we . will . indure 

 H ange . not . your . mind . on . secular . things 

 E ach . one . doth . fade . apace 

 R iches . the . chief, of . we . hath . wings. 

 [A . Matron . grave . is . here . interr'd 

 Whose . soul . in . heaven . is . preferr'd 

 Aftwher . grandson . lost . his . breath 

 She . soon . svrrender'd . vnto . death.] 



K eeping . no . certaine . place 



A diet . your . selues . unto . his . conuersation 



Y our . purchase . heaven . for . your . habitation." 



This, it will be seen, is an acrostic : the lines 

 between brackets are insertions. Wm. Peocter. 

 York. 



Derivation of Lowbell (Vol. vii., p. 181.). — In 

 my younger days I frequently had occasion to 

 draw out (from old established precedent) the 

 form of an appointment, by the lord, of a game- 



keeper for a manor, in which the latter was au- 

 thorised and required to seize and destroy all and 

 all manner of gins, snares, springs, &c., including 

 a dozen or more technical words, one of which was 

 " lowbells." The manors in question were in 

 Dorsetshire and Somersetshire, but I doubt not 

 but that the same form was adopted in other 

 counties in various parts of England. Being 

 strongly impressed with the familiarity of the 

 word on reading H. T. W.'s Note, I was induced 

 to refer to Johnson's Dictionary, where I find my 

 own notion fully borne out as follows : 



" Lowbell. — A kind of fowling in the night, in 

 which the birds are wakened by a bell and lured by a 

 flame." 



At this moment I have only the abridged edition 

 (3rd edition, 1766) to refer to, and that does not 

 give any reference or authority for the definition 

 in question. I would observe, however, that I 

 believe " loke " is either a Saxon or Scandinavian 

 word, signifying a flame or firebrand, which, 

 coupled with " bell," fully bears out the definition, 

 and I think sufficiently accounts for the term 

 " lowbelling " in H. T. W.'s Note, as the offender 

 might have been greeted with bells and firebrands 

 in lieu of the " tin pots and kettles," or by way of 

 addition to them. 



May not this also serve to explain what is con- 

 sidered as a puzzling term in Beaumont and 

 Fletcher? Lowell being nothing more nor less 

 than a snare, may not " Peace, gentle lowbell," 

 mean " Peace, gentle ensnarer ? " M. H. 



The Negative given to the Demand of the Clergy 

 at Merton (Vol. vii., p. 17.). — Warburton agrees 

 with Bishop Hurd on this subject, for he observes 

 as follows, in one of his letters (the 84th), that — 



" At a parliament under Henry III., ' Rogaverunt 

 omnes Episcopi ut consentirent quod nati ante matri- 

 monium essent legitlmi, et omnes Comites et Barones 

 una voce responderunt quod nolunt leges Angliae 

 mutari.' This famous answer has been quoted a 

 thousand and a thousand times, and yet nobody seems 

 to have understood the management. The bishops, 

 as partizans of the Pope, were for subjecting England 

 to the imperial and papal laws, and therefore began 

 with a circumstance most to the taste of the Barons. 

 The Barons smelt the contrivance ; and rejected a pro- 

 position most agreeable to them, for fear of the con- 

 sequences, the introduction of the imperial laws, whose 

 very genius and essence was arbitrary despotic power. 

 Their answer shows it : ' Nolumus leges Anglias^ mu- 

 tari : ' they had nothing to object to the reform, but 

 they were afraid for the constitution." 



C. I. R. 



Nugget (Vol.vi., pp. 171. 281. ; Vol. vii., p.l43.). 

 — T. K. arrogantly sets aside the etymology of 

 W. S. ; and, in lieu of the Persian nugud of the 

 latter, would have us believe that migget is nothing 

 more than a Yankee corruption of an ingot. I 



