The Ancient Styles and Designations of Persons. 339 
Houses, or University Marshal, shall notify to the proper officer of the Railway 
Company that any person about to travel by the Railway ‘‘is a member of the 
University, not having taken the degree of Master of Arts or Bachelor in Civil 
Law,” and require such officer to decline to take such member of the University 
as a passenger by the Railway, the officer of the Company shall refuse to convey 
such member on the Railway, notwithstanding he may have paid his fare, and 
the fare is to be returned. 
With respect to Bachelors of Divinity, Medicine, Civil Law, and 
Music, I can give no particular information. 
The Bachelors at Oxford were often addressed as “Florentissimi” 
as has been already stated. 
The term Bachelor as applied to men who have never married, 
is familiar to us all; and in the year 1808, an Act of Parliament 
passed (48 Geo. 3, chap. 55, sched. C. No. 1) compelling these 
bachelors to pay certain taxes on servants at a higher rate than 
was paid by married men and widowers, and they also had to write 
the letter B after their names in their tax returns. 
But it is not generally known, as stated by the Rey. H. J. Todd 
in his edition of Johnson’s Dictionary, that the term “ Bachelor” 
is applied by Ben Jonson to an unmarried woman, and he cites— 
“ We do not trust your uncle he would keep you a bachelor still by 
keeping of your portion, and keep you not alone without a husband 
but in sickness.—Magnetick Lady.” 
GoopMAN AND YEOMAN. 
In the old Churchwarden’s account book of Ogbourne St. George 
(which commenced in the year 1617 and has been recently mislaid), 
under the date of 1674, is the following entry :— 
“They received of Goodman Ayres & Mr. Buckerfield, chosen 
churchwardens for ye year 1674, VECO feted ne oe POL BP 
and in the same book in a list of subscribers for the sufferers by a 
great fire at Northampton, there are entries “ Goodman N orris, 
£0. 0s. 3d.,” and “ Goodman Cox, £0. 0s. 6d.” From a letter dated 
January 10, 1675, now among the archives of the Corporation of 
Marlborough, which was addressed to this body by the Corporation 
of Northampton, it appears that the fire occurred in 1675. 
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