Aug. 13. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the officer of the abbat blow his horn, that ye may 

 know how to find him. And he shall deliver to you, 

 William de Bruce, ten stakes, eleven strut-stowers, and 

 eleven yeathers, to be cut by you, and those that come 

 for von, with a knife of a penny price. And you, 

 Ralph de Peircy, shall take one and twenty of each 

 sort, to be cut in the same manner. And you, Al- 

 latson, shall take nine of each sort, to be cut as afore- 

 said. And then ye shall take them on your backs, and 

 carry them to the town of VVliitby, and take care to be 

 there before nine of the clock, and at the same hour, if 

 it be a full sea, to cease your service. But, if it be low 

 •water at nine of the clock, then each of you shall, the 

 same hour, set your stakes at the edge of the water, 

 each stake a yard from the otlier, and so yeather them 

 with your yeathers, and stake them on each side with 

 your strut-stowers, that they may stand three tides, 

 without removing by the force of the water. And 

 each of you shall really do, perform, and execute this 

 service yearly at the hour appointed, except it be a full 

 sea, when this service shall cease ; in remembrance that 

 ye did most cruelly slay me. And that ye may the 

 more seriously and fervently call upon God for mercy, 

 and repent unfeignedly of your sins, and do good 

 •works, the officer of Eskdale-side shall blo%v. Out on 

 you! Out on you ! Out on you! for this heinous crime 

 of yours. And if you or yours shall refuse this service 

 at the aforesaid hour, when it shall not be a full sea, 

 then you shall forfeit all your lands to the Abbat of 

 ■Wliitby and his successors." 



There is a similar account, with verbal and 

 otlier variations, " From a printed copy published 

 at Whitby a few years ago," in Blount's Jocular 

 Tenures, by Beckvvith, pp. 557 — 560. In that ac- 

 count the word, which in Mr. Peck's account is 

 " yeathers," is " yadders." Mr. Beckwith states, 

 " This service is still annually performed." 



Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, Canto ii. st. 13.) 

 thus alludes to the legend : 



" Then Whitby's nuns exulting told, 

 How to their house three Barons bold 



Must menial service do ; 

 While horns blow out a note of shame. 

 And monks cry ' Fye upon your name ! 

 In wrath, for loss of silvan game, 

 Saint Hilda's priest ye slew.' — 

 * This on Ascension Day, each year, 

 While labouring on our harbour pier. 

 Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear.' " 

 In note 2. C. the popular account printed and 

 circulated at Whitby is given. It is substantially 

 the same with that given by Beckwith, but for 

 "strut-stowers" we have "strout-stowers ;" and 

 for "yadders" we have "y ethers." It appears, 

 also, that the service was not at that time per- 

 formed by the proprietors in person ; and that 

 part of the lands charged therewith were then 

 held by a gentleman of the name of Herbert. 



I shall be glad if any of your correspondents 

 will elucidate the terms strut-stowers, and yea- 

 thers or yadders. C. II. Coopeb. 

 Cambridge. 



Archbishop Parker's Correspondence. — I am 

 now engaged in carrying out a design which has. 

 been long entertained by the Parker Society, that 

 of publishing the Correspondence of the distin- 

 guished prelate whose name that Society bears. 

 If any of your readers can favour me with refer- 

 ences to any letters of the archbishop, either un- 

 published, or published in works but little known^ 

 I shall feel extremely obliged. I add my own 

 address, in order that I may not encumber your 

 pages with mere references. Any information be- 

 yond a reference will probably be as interesting to 

 your readers generally as to myself. 



John Bkucb.. 



5. Upper Gloucester Street, Dorset Square. 



Amor Nummi. — Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me as to the authorship of the following 

 verses ? 



Amor Nummi. 

 " ' The love of money is the root of evil, 

 Sending the folks in cart-loads to the devil.' 

 So says an ancient proverb, as we're told, 

 And spoke the truth, we [no ?] doubt, in days of old» 

 But now, thanlis to our good friend, Billy Pitt, 

 This wholesome golden adage will not sit [fit?] ; 

 On Englisli ground the vice dissolves in vapour. 

 Being at best only a love — of paper." 



It must have appeared in an English ministerial 

 paper about the year 1805. — From the Navorscher.. 



DiONYSIOS. 



The Numher Nine. — Can any of your mathe- 

 matical correspondents inform me of the law and 

 reason of the following singular property of the 

 numbers ? If from any number above nine the 

 same number be subtracted written backwards, 

 the addition of the figures of the remainder will 

 always be a multiple of nine ; for instance — 



972619 

 916279 



56340 the sum of which is 18, or 9x2. 



925012 

 210529 



714483 the sum of which is 27, or 9x3. 



83 

 3^ 



45 the sum of which is 9. 



John Lammens. 



Position of Font. — The usual and very signifi- 

 cant position of the font is near the church door. 

 But there is one objection to this, viz. that the 

 benches being best arranged facing the chancel, 

 the people cannot without much confusion see the 

 baptisms. This being so, perhaps a better place 



