April 30. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



435 



" * Go you abroad to Flanders yonder, 



And show your valour there. Sir Knight ; 

 What bus'ness have you here, I wonder, 



With people's roses, red or white ? 

 Go you abroad, for shame,' says Phillis, 

 ' And from the Frenchmen pluck their lilies.' 



VI. 



« * Lilies !' says Thraso, 'lilies too ! 

 The wench, I find, would be a wit, 

 Had she command of words eno', 



And on the right one chanced to hit : 

 For pity, once, I'll set her clear : 

 The laurels, you would say, my dear.' 



" ' No, but I would not. Sir ; you know 

 What laurels are no more than I, 

 Upon your head they'll never grow, 



My word for that, friend, and good-bye : 

 He that of roses rohs a wench. 

 Will ne^er pluck laurels from the French.'" 



3 AS. Ckossley. 



BURIAIi OF UNCLAIMED CORPSE. 



(Vol. vii., pp. 262. 340.) 



A tradition of similar character with that men- 

 tioned by E. G. R., and noticed by J. H. L., is 

 reported to have occurred between the parishes 

 of Shipdham and Saham Tony in Norfolk, of a 

 corpse being found on the common pasture of 

 Shipdham, which parish refused to bury it, and 

 the parish of Sahara Tony, therefore, was at the 

 expense thereof, and claimed a considerable piece 

 of the common pasture from Shipdham, in conse- 

 quence of the neglect of the latter parish. 



A fine continues to be paid by Shipdham to 

 Saham to this time ; and although many entries are 

 made of such payments in the early parish ac- 

 counts, beginning a.d. 1511, yet in no instance is 

 it said the reason or cause of these payments 

 being annually made. The said payments are not 

 always of the same amount ; they are sometimes 

 paid in money and sometimes in kind, as the fol- 

 lowing instances show. 



The first entry I meet with is in 1511 : 



Payd the halfFe mark at Saham. 



1512. Delyvyrd to same jj buschells of otts, viJj^ ; in 



sylv', ij''. 



1513. The same payment as in 1512. 



1514. No entry of any payment. 



1515. Payd for wools to Saham, vj*, and ij* of mony. 



1516. Payd to y° hallemarke, j"* (not said if to Saham 



or not). This entry " to y" hallemark " may 

 be an error of the scribe for " y« halfFe mark," 

 as in the first entry under 1511. 



1517. Payd to y« halfFe mark, j"* (no doubt to Saham). 



1518. No entry of payment to Sahara. 



1519. Payd to same for ij barssels of owte, vj*; 



to same, ij^ - - - - - viJj* 



1520. Payd for ij busschellys of otte to same« 



viij'i ; and a henne, ij* - - - X* 



1521. Payd to same for ij buschells of ots, xj*, 



and ij'' in sylver - - _ » xiij* 



1522. Payd for y* half marke, j*; payd for 



cots to same, vij* - - - - viij* 



1523. Payd for y« halflF mark (no doubt to 



Saham) j« 



1524. Payd for otts to sam and wodlod - viij* 



1525. Similar entry to the last. 



1 526. Payd for otts to same, viij* ; payd for 



wod led to same, j* - - - ix* 



1527. Payd the halfFe mark, j* ; paid to the 



Comon, to (two) bussells otts, ix*, and 

 a j* in lieu of a henne - - - xj* 



1539. Payd to same for the task - - x»* 



1541. Payd to Thomas Lubard, for ij bs. of 



otts to Saham _ - . _ viij* 



Payd to y® seyd Thomas for j heyn 

 (hen) to Saham . - - - ij"* 



On looking through the town accounts of Ship- 

 dham, I find entries of — 



Payd to the half mark to Saham - - - j* 



Ij bushells oates, and in lieu of a hen - - - ij* 



The only entry in which I find anything at all 

 apparently relative to the common is that under 

 1527. Whether the court books of Saham would 

 throw any light on the subject, I know not. Should 

 an opportunity offer for my searching them, I will 

 do so. G. H. L 



P.S. — Although I have given several entries of 

 the customary payments to Saham, they are merely 

 given to show the different modes of making those 

 entries, and not in expectation of your giving all 

 of them, unless you think any further light can be 

 given on the subject. As before, perhaps the 

 court books of the manor of Saham would assist. 



It was an annual custom for Shipdham people 

 to " Drive the common " (as it was called) once a 

 year, in a night of an uncertain time, when all the 

 cattle, &c. found within the limits or boundary of 

 Shipdham were impounded in a farm-yard adjoin- 

 ing. Upon the common, all those belonging to 

 owners residing in Shipdham and claimed were 

 set at liberty, while those belonging to Saham had 

 to be replevied by a small payment, which custom 

 continued up to the period of the commons being , 

 inclosed. Perhaps this custom was by way of re- 

 taliation, by which means the charge of payment 

 of oats and a hen was recovered by the money 

 paid for replevying their cattle, &c. so impounded. 



PSALMANAZAB. 



(Vol. vii., p. 206.) 

 Your correspondent inquires as to the I'cal name 

 of this most penitent of impostors. I fear that 



* No payment entered in the accounts between 1527 

 and 1539. The average tenpence annually. 



