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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 210. 



Newry in Ireland took its name from two yew- 

 trees which St. Patrick planted: A-Nmbaride, 

 pronounced A-Newery, i. e. "the yew-trees," 

 ■which stood until Cromwell's time, when some 

 Boldiers ruthlessly cut them down. 



In the Note by Mr. J. G. Gumming, a derivation 

 is evidently required for the English word yeo- 

 man, which he suggests is taken from " yokeman." 

 Yeoman is from eo, pronounced yo, i. e. free, 

 worthy, respectable, as opposed to the terms 

 villein, serf, &c. ; so that yeoman means a freeman, 

 a respectable person. Feas. Ckossj-ey. 



OSBOKN FAMILY. 



(Vol. viii., p. 270.) 

 Mr. H. T. Griffith asks where may any pedi- 

 gree of the Osborne family, previous to Edward 

 Osborne, the ancestor of the Dukes of Leeds, be 

 seen. In reply, I am in possession of large collec- 

 tions relating to the Norman Osbornes, from whom 

 I have reasons to believe him to have been de- 

 scended. Those Osbornes can be proved to have 

 been settled in certain of the midland counties of 

 England from the time of the attainder and down- 

 fall" of the son of William Fitzosborne, Earl of 

 Hereford and premier peer, down to a compara- 

 tively late period. A branch of them was pos- 

 sessed of the manor of Kelmarsh in Northampton- 

 shire; and their pedigree, beginning in 1461, may 

 be seen in Whalley's Northamptonshire : but this 

 is necessarily very imperfect, on account of the 

 author's want of access to documents which have 

 subsequently been opened to the public. 



I may here notice that an inexcusable error has 

 been committed and repeated in several of the 

 collections of records published by the Parliament- 

 ary Commission, who have, in numerous instances, 

 and without any warrant, interpreted Osb. of the 

 MSS. as " Osbert." Thus they have deprived 

 Fitzosborne, Bishop of Exeter (a.d. 1102), of some 

 of his manors, and within his own diocese, and 

 conferred them on Osbert the Bishop, although 

 there never was a bishop of that name in England. 

 I took the liberty of pointing out this error to one 

 of the chief editors concerned in these works ; 

 but as he has taken no notice of my observations, 

 I must infer that he thinks it most prudent to 

 excite no farther inquiry. 



The Osborns, now so numerous in London, 

 appear to have come from the Danish stem from 

 which the Norman branch was originally derived. 

 Their number, which has increased "even beyond 

 the ordinary ratio of the population, may perhaps 

 be dated from the wife of one of them who (temp. 

 Jac. I.) had twenty-four sons, and was interred in 

 old St. Paul's. 



I shall be very happy to afford any assistance in 

 my power to the gentleman who has occasioned 

 these remarks. Omickon. 



INSCRIPTIONS ON BELLS. 



(Vol.vi., p. 554. ; Vol. vii., pp. 454. 603.; Vol. viii., 

 pp. 108. 248.) 



Many thanks are due to your correspondent 

 CuTHBERT Bede, B.A., for his interesting series 

 of inscriptions on bells. The following are, I 

 think, sufficiently curious to be added to your 

 collection : — 



Rouen Cathedral : 



" In the steeple of the great church, in the cltie of 

 Roane in Normandy, is one great bell with the like 

 inscription." [Like, that is, to the inscription at 

 St. Stephen's, Westminster : see " N. & Q-," Vol. viii., 

 p. 108.] 



" Je suis George de Ambois, 

 Qui trente-cinque mille pois ; 

 Mes luis qui me pesera, 

 Trente-six mille me trouvera." 



" I am George of Ambois, 

 Thirtie-five thousand in pois; 

 But he that shall weigh me, 

 Thirty-six thousand shall find me." 

 Weaver, Fun. Mon., edit. fol. 1631, p. 492. 



St. Matthew, Great Milton, Oxfordshire : 



1. " I as treble begin. 

 3. " I was third ring. 



8. (Great bell) " I to church the living call, and to 

 the grave do summons." 



Inscription suggested as being suitable for six 

 bells, in the Ecclesiologist (New Series), vol. i. 

 p. 209. : 



1. " Ave Pater, Rex, Creator : 



2. Ave Fili, Lux, Salvator : 



3. Ave Pax et Charitas. 



4. Ave Simplex, Ave Trine ; 



5. Ave Regnans sine fine, 



6. Ave Sancta Trinitas," 



Inscriptions are often to be found in Lombardic 



characters, and on bells of great antiquity. Can 



any of your ecclesiological correspondents furnish 



me with the date of the earliest known example ? 



W. Sparrow Simpson. 



On bells in Southrepps Church, Norfolk : 

 " Tuba ad Juditium. Campana ad Ecclesiara, 1641." 

 " Miserere mei Jhesus Nazarenus Rex Judaorum." 



J. L. SiSSON. 



ladies' ARMS BORNE IN A LOZENGE. 



(Vol. viii., pp. 37. 83. 277. 329.) 



I broached a theory with a concluding remark 

 that it would give me great pleasure to see one 

 more reasonable take its place. I fear that, if all 

 your readers anxious to clear up an obscure 

 point in an interesting science take no more 

 trouble than P. P., we shall find ourselves no 



