Dec. 14. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



477 



3. In the "Life of Ri)bin Hood" prefixed to 

 Ritson's Collection of Ballads concerning Robin 

 Hood (People's edit. p. 27.), the foUowing story, 

 extracted from Cei-tuine Merry Tales of the Alad- 

 men of Gottam, by Dr. Andrew Borde, an emi- 

 nent physician, temp. Hen. VIII. (Black letter), 

 in Bodleian Library, occurs : — 



" There was two men of Gottam, and the one of 

 them was going to the market to Nottingham to buy 

 sheepe, and the other came from the market ; and both 

 met together upon Nottingham bridge. Well met, 

 said the one to the other. Whither be yee going? said 

 he that came from Nottingham. Marry, said he that 

 was going thither, I goe to the market to buy sheepe. 

 Buy sheepe ? said the other, and which way wih thou 

 bring them home? Marry, said the other, I will bring 

 them over this bridge. By Robin Hood, said he that 

 came from Nottingham, but thou slialt not. By Maid 

 Marrion, said he that was going thitherward, but I 

 will. Thou shalt not, said the one. I will, said the 

 other Ter here ! said the one. Shue there ! said the 

 other. Then they beat their staves against the ground, 

 one against the other, as there had been an hundred 

 sheepe betwixt them. Hold in, said the one. Beware 

 the leaping over the bridge of my sheepe, said the 

 other. I care not, said the other. They shall not 

 come this way, said the one. But they shall, said the 

 other. Then said the other, and if that thou make 

 much to doe, I will put my finger in thy mouth. A 

 t . . d thou wilt, said the other. And as they were at 

 their contention, another man of GoUiim came from the 

 market with a sack of meale upon a horse, and seeing 

 and hearing his neighl)ours at strife for sheepe, and 

 none betwixt them, said. Ah, fooles, will you never 

 learn wit ? Helpe me, said he that liad the meale, 

 and lay my sacke upon my shoulder. They did so ; 

 and he went to the one side of the bridge, and un- 

 loosed the mouth of the sacke, and did shake out all 

 his meale into the river. Now, neighbours, said the 

 man, how much meale is there in my sacke now ? 

 Marry, there is none at all, said they. Now, by my 

 faith, said he, even as much wit as in your two heads, 

 to strive for that thing you have not. Which was the 

 wisest of all these three persons, judge you? " 



4. Tom Coryat, in an oration to the Duke of 

 York (afterwards Chas. I.), called Crambe, or 

 Colwarts twice sodden (London, 1611), has this 

 pas.sage : — 



" I c.ime to Venice, and quickly took a survey of 

 the whole model of tlie city, together with the most 

 remarkable matters thereof; and shortly after my ar- 

 rival in England I overcame my adversaries in the 

 Town of Evill, in my native county of Somersetshire, 

 who tliought to have sunk me in a l>argain of pilcliards, 

 a.s the wise men. of Gottam went aljout to drown an eel." 



5. Dr. jMore's Antidote against Atheism, cap. ii. 

 §14.: 



" But l>ccause so many Indicts joggled together in a 

 man's hat will settle a determinate figure, or because the 

 frost and wind will draw upon doors and glass windows 

 pretty uncouth streaks like feathers and other fooleries 

 which are to no use or purpose, to inter thence, that 



all the contrivancts that are in nature, even the frame 

 of the bodies, both of men and beasts, are from no other 

 principle but the jumbling together of the matter, and 

 so because that this doth naturally effect something, 

 that is the cause of all things, seems to me to be rea- 

 soning in the same mood and figure with that wise 

 market man's, who, going down a hill and carrying his 

 cheeses under his arms, one of them falling and trim- 

 dling down the hill very fast, let the other go after it, 

 appointing tliem all to meet him at his house at Gotham, 

 not doubting but they beginning so hopefully, would 

 be able to make good the whole journey ; or like 

 another of the same town, who perceiving that his 

 iron trevet he had bought had three feet, and could 

 stand, e-xpected also that it should walk too, and save 

 him the labour of the carriage." 



6. Col. T. Perronet Thompson's Works, vol. ii. 

 p. 2-36., Anti- Corn- Law Tracts: — 



" If fooleries of this kind go on, Gotham will be put 

 in Schedule A., and the representation of Unreason 

 transferred into the West Hiding." 



J.R.M., M.A. 

 K. C. L., Nov. 26. 1850. 



HERSTMONCEUX CASTLE. 



Can you find an early place in your pages for 

 the following Queries relative to the history of 

 Herstmonceux Castle and its lords, on which a 

 memoir is in preparation for the next volume of 

 the collections of tlie Sussex Archteological Society. 



1. Who was Pharamuse of Boulogne, father of 

 Sybil de Tingry ? He is called the nepheiu of 

 Maud, King Stephen's wife ; but I believe there is 

 no doubt that she was the only child and sole 

 heir of Eustace Earl of Boulogne, brother of God- 

 frey, King of Jerusalem. Where is Tingry, of 

 which place he was lord ? Is there any place in 

 the North of France bearing that name now ? 



2. Will any one well skilled in the interpreta- 

 tion of ancient legal documents furnish some ex- 

 planation of the following extracts from the Rotid. 

 de Fin. (Hardy, i. 19.) : — 



" 1199. William de Warburton and Ingelram de 

 Monceux give 500 marks to the king for having the 

 inheritance of Juliana, wife of William, son of Aymer, 

 whose next of kin they say they are." 



Yet six years later, 1205 (Hardy, i. 310.) : — - 



" Waleran de Monceux gives 100 marks for having 

 the reasonable (rationabills) part of the inheritance 

 of .Tuliana, as regards (versus) Wm. de Warburton, 

 William and Waleran being her next of kin." 



This Waleran was son of Idonea de Herst 

 (now Herst iVIonceux), and appears in other docu- 

 ments as '• Waleran de Herst."' Tiie land in (pies- 

 tion was in Compion (afterwards Conipton Mon- 

 ceux), Hants. 



Now how are we to reconcile the two above- 

 quoted documents ? AVhat was the connexion 



