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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 43. 



cult to elucidate them fully. In the meantime, I 

 venture a few suggestions on some of tlie remain- 

 ing words. 



" In the fever or the hereba7-de" 



" Berbi, O. F., chancre, dartre; a boil, bubo, or tetter, 

 commonly attendant upon pestilent fever. ' Correpta 

 fuit veliementissima febri. Subtus ejus axillls detectis 

 quoque Buboiiibtis, magiiam durltiem ac timorem pr« 

 se ferentibus.'" — MiracuU S. Francisci Solani, A. S., 

 torn, v., Julii, p. 909. 



(See Bullein's Dialogue hothe pleasant and pitiful, 

 icherein isagodlie regimente against the Fever Pes- 

 tilence, &c., 1578.) 



"Deale," if an interjection (?), may possibly stand 

 for " Ded," or " Oiiy Ded, Yes, truly ! verily ! " 

 &c. (See Cotgrave in v. Ded ) 



" SchuHche away." — To shun or shunche is used 

 for to shove, in Sussex. " I shunched him away." 



" Wear no iron, nor haircloth, nor irspilles 

 felles" — that is, no skins having hard or hristly 

 hair like that of goats. 



" HiRCiriLus, Durorum pilorum homines sicut 

 hirci. " — Festus. 



Here the context clearly leads to this interpre- 

 tation. 



Suhraz, or sabras, is a decoction or infusion. One 

 of the numerous terms which the ajiothccaries 

 adopted from the Arabic, in which shnbra is a 

 drink. 



Sabe, in O. F. ; saba, Ital., an inspissated juice 

 or decoction. 



" Sabaricio, a kind of strong drinke made of barley." 



I doubt whether Ducange is riglit in explaining 

 sahnerium in the following passage, by condimentum, 

 Gallice saupiquet. It most probably signified a 

 beverage. 



" In omnibus secundis ferlis dent illis ova quatuor 

 uniquique clerico pinguia, cum bono Sabrierio." 



S. W. SiNGEE. 



[We take ibis opportunity of correcting two errata 

 in the Etymological Queries of our valued corre- 

 spondent J. Mn. 



" Heteneste " should be " heteueste " — " Inclosed 

 heteueste in a stone coffin or tomb:" and in a later 

 Query " isti/ed " should be " isti/ied " — "Let their 

 hesmel be istihed, al without broach."] 



3RcijTtc^ to ^t'nar CSucffcS. 



Lord Richard Christophilus. — CH. (Vol. ii., 

 p. 130.) will probably find as much information as 

 he requires, if he can consult a small volume in the 

 British Museum (catalogued under the head of 

 '•'■ Isuf, Sassa,") of which the title is — 



" A True Relation of the Conversion and Baptism 

 of Isuf, the Turkish Chaons, named Richard Christo- 

 philus. 8vo. Lond. 1684." 



Also, in the Bodleian Catalogue, under the head 

 of " Bassa (Isuf)," CII. may find — 



" The History of Isuf Bassa, Capt.-Gencral of the 

 Ottoman Army at the Invasion of Candia. 8vo. Lund. 

 1684." 



In reference to the former of these volumes, 

 there is a note in the Fasti Oxonienses, ad ann. 

 1683, V. Thom. White, of which the following is a 

 copy : — 



" Qufere, if Tho. White, Lecturer of S. Andrew's, 

 Holborn, published an Epistle to the Reader of 

 ' A True Relation of the Conversion and Baptism of 

 Isuf, the Turkish Cbaons, named Richard Christo- 

 philus, in the presence of a full congregation, Jan. 30, 

 1 658, in Covent Garden, where Mr. Martin is Preacher. 

 Lond. 1658. 8vo.' Kenneth." (^Athena: Oxon. ed. 

 Phil. Bliss, 1820, vol. iv. Fasti, coll. 392, 393.) 



J. Sansom. 



Poker. — Among the muniments of the corpora- 

 tion of Bodmin is a certificate of the mayor and 

 burgesses respecting the claims of the inhabitants 

 of the town to take wood in Dunmere Wood, be- 

 longing to the Priory of Bodmin. The language 

 of it seems to throw light on the origin of the 

 word pocarius, or poker, which has been so often 

 noticed and discussed. {Ante, Vol. i.,pp. 185. 218. 

 236. 269. 281. 323. 369.) The passage also illus- 

 trates the Hook or Crook privilege, which has 

 been already satisfactorily explained. The date 

 is A.D. 1525 : 



" We say, and for truth testify that the wood called 

 Dynmure Wood, was ever open and common to all 

 burgesses and inhabitants of Bodmin till now of late, 

 as well for all manner kind of their beasts to common 

 therein, as to have their burden wood, to bear and 

 carry away upon their backs, of lop, crop, hook, crook, 

 and bag wood ; . . . . always reserving to the Prior the 

 stems of the trees for their ftiel and building." 



(See the Bodmin Register, collected by the Rev. 

 John Wallis, of Bodmin, and printed at Bodmin, 

 1827-1838, p. 303.) 



I presume that bag wood Is such wood as can be 

 cut with a hook or crook, and bagged. In another 

 nearly contemporary petition {Ibid. p. 306.), the 

 same identical privilege is described by the towns- 

 men as a right to lop and crop with a hook and 

 crook, and to carry away on their backs, and 

 " none other ways." This explains the former 

 passage, and shows that the wood was probably 

 carried away on the back in a bag. 



The woodward, who carried a bill for such pur- 

 poses, would also carry a bag, or poke, and might 

 therefore be very appropriately called a poker. 



It will be seen in Halliwell's Dictionary, verb. 

 " Bag " and " Bagging," and in the Hereford 

 Glossary (London, 1839), verb. "Bag," that bag- 

 ging is sometimes used to signify cutting; and, 

 more particularly, cutting for burning. 



I mention this, because it may be thought per- 



