June 10. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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to be found on record upon the rolls of Ireland. 

 The following transcripts have been taken from 

 the Memoranda Roll of the Irish Exchequer of 

 the first year of Edward II. : 



" Noverint universi me Johannem de Doveria Rec- 

 torem Ecclesie de Litlington Lyncolnensis Dyocesis 

 recepisse in Hibernia nomine domini Roberti de Bar- 

 delby clerici subscriptas particulas pecunie per manus 

 subscriptorutn, videlicet, per manus Johannis de Ides- 

 sale dimid' marc'. Item per manus Thome de Kancia 

 5 marc'. Item per manus Ade Coffyn 2 marc'. Item 

 per manus mercatorum Friscobaldorum 10 libri una 

 vice et alia vice per manus eorundem mercatorum 100*, 

 fratre Andr' de Donscapel de ordine minorum medi- 

 ante. Item per manus Johannis de Seleby 29*. Item 

 de eodem Johanne alia vice 2 marc' et dimid'. Item 

 per manus ejusdem Johannis tertia vice tres marc' et 

 dimid'. Item per dominum Willielmum de Estden 

 per manus Ricardi de Onyng 100*. Et per manus 

 domini Johannis de Hothom pro negociis domini Wal- 

 teri de la Haye centum solid? De quibus particulis 

 pecunie memorate predietum dominum Robertum de 

 Bardelby et ejus executores quoscumque per presentes 

 quieto imperpetuum. Ita tamen quod si alia littera 

 acquietancie ab ista littera de dictis particulis pecunie 

 inveniatur de cetero alicubi pro nulla cassa cancellata 

 irrita et majus imperpetuum habeatur. In cujus rei 

 testimonium sigillum. meum presentibus apposui. 

 Datum apud Dublin', 28 die February, anno regni 

 regis Edwardi primo." — Rot. Mem. 1 Edw. II. m. 12. 

 dorso. 



" A toutz ceaux q' ceste p'sente l're verrount ou or- 

 rount Rauf de Mounthermer salutz en Dieu — Sachez 

 nous avoir ordeine estably e assigne 'n're foial et loial 

 Mons' Waut' Bluet e dan Waut' de la More, ou lun de 

 eaux, si ambedeux estre ne point, de vendre e n're p'fit 

 fere de totes les gardes e mariages es parties Dirlaunde 

 q' escheierent en n're temps, e de totes autres choses q' a 

 nous apartenet de droit en celes p'ties, e q°unque eaux 

 ferount p r n're prou, co'me est susdit, teignoms apaez 

 e ferme e estable lavoms. En tesmoigne de quele chose 

 a ceste n're l're patente avoms mys n're seal. Don' a 

 Tacstede le qu't jour de Octobr Ian du regne le Rey 

 Edward p'mer." — Rot. Mem. 1 Edw. II. m. 17. 



" Rogerus Calkeyn de Gothurste salutem in Domino 

 Sempiternam. Noveritis me remisisse et quietum cla- 

 masse pro me et heredibus meis Johanni de Yaneworth 

 heredibus suis et assignatis, totum jus et clameii quod 

 habui vel aliquo modo habere potui, in tenemento de 

 Gothurste in dominio de Cheddeworth. Ita quod nee 

 ego nee heredes mei nee aliquis nomine nostro, aliquid 

 juris vel clamei in praedicto tenemento habere vendicare 

 poterimus imperpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium 

 huic presenti scripto sigillum meum apposui. Hiis 

 testibus, Magistro Waltero de Istelep tunc Barone 

 domini Regis de Scaecario Dublin', Thoma de Yane- 

 worth, Rogero de Glen, Roberto de Bristoll, Roberto 

 scriptore, et aliis." — Rot. Mem. 1 Edw. II. m. 30. 



James F. Ferguson. 

 Dublin. 



DERIVATION OF CURIOUS BOTANIC NAMES, AND 

 ANCIENT ITALIAN KALYDOR. 



The generic name of the fern Ceterach qffi- 

 cinarum is generally said to be derived from the 

 Arabic Chetherak. I find however, among a list 

 of ancient British names of plants, published in 

 1633 at the end of Johnson's edition of Gerard, 

 the expression cedor y wrach, which means the 

 joined or double rake, and is exactly significant of 

 the form of the Ceterach. The Fernrakes are 

 joined as it were back to back ; but the single 

 prongs of the one alternate botanically with those 

 of the other. Master Robert Dauyes, of Guis- 

 saney in Flintshire, the correspondent of John- 

 son, gives the name of another of the Filices 

 (Equisetum) as the English equivalent of the 

 ancient British term. But the form of this plant 

 does not at all correspond to that signified by the 

 Celtic words. It is not improbable, therefore, 

 that he was wrong as respects the correct English 

 name of the plant. 



The Turkish shetr or chetr, to cut, and warak, a 

 leaf, seem to point out the meaning of the Arabic 

 term quoted in Hooker's Flora and elsewhere. 

 Probably some of your Oriental readers will have 

 the kindness to supply the exact English for che- 

 therak. 



It appears to me, however, that the transition 

 from ceclorwrach to ceterach is more easy, and is a 

 more probable derivation. 



Hooker and Loudon say that another generic 

 name, Veronica, is of doubtful origin. In the 

 Arabic language I find virunika as the name of a 

 plant. This word is evidently composed of nikoo, 

 beautiful, and viroo, remembrance ; viroonika 

 therefore means beautiful remembrance, and is 

 but an Oriental name for a Forget-me-not, for 

 which flower the Veronica chamcedrys has often 

 been mistaken. Possibly the name may have 

 come to us from the Spanish- Arabian vocabulary. 

 The Spaniards call the same plant veronica. They 

 use this word to signify the representation of our 

 Saviour's face on a handkerchief. When Christ 

 was bearing his cross, a young woman, the legend 

 says, wiped his face with her handkerchief, which 

 thenceforth retained the divine likeness.* 



The feminine name Veronica is of course the 

 Latin form of <pepovlK-n, victory-bearer (of which 

 Berenice is the Macedonian and Latin construc- 

 tion), and is plainly, thus derived, inappropriate 

 as the designation of a little azure wild flower 

 which, like loving eyes, greets us everywhere. 



In looking over Martin Mathee's notes on Dios- 

 corides, published 1553, I find that Italian women 

 of his time used to make a cosmetic of the root of 

 the Arum, commonly called " Lords and Ladies." 

 The mixture, he says, makes the skin wondrously 



[* Se < « N. & Q.," Vol. vi., pp. 199. 252. 304.] 



