Fes. 23. 1850. ] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Norman Pedigrees.—In answer to “B.'s” query 
(No. 14. p. 214.), an excellent Gazetteer was pub- 
lished in Paris, 1831, entitled Dictionnaire Com- 
plet, Géographique, Statisque, et Commercial de la 
France et de ses Colonies; par M. Briand-de- 
Verzé, pp. 856. Many of the names of the Con- 
queror’s Norman companions will be found in 
that work; as, for instance, Geoffrey de ‘ Man- 
deville, village. Calvados arrondissement, 311 
O.N.O. de Bayeux,” &e. 
Norman de Beauchamp: three Beauchamps are 
mentioned; that 51. from Avranches will be the 
one in question. C.1.R. 
Oxford, Feb. 13. 1850. 
Norman Pedigrees.— Your correspondent “ B.” 
(No. 14. p. 214.) would probably find part of the 
information he seeks in Domesday Book, seu Cen- 
sualis Willelmi Primi Regis Anglie. But query ? 
Is “ B.” right in supposing the prefix “ De” to be 
French? Does it not rather originate in the 
Latin 2 
“ Domesday” is written in Latin throughout; and 
the “ de,” denoting the place, is there occasionally 
followed by what seems to be the Latin ablative 
ease. I copy an example: — 
* Canonici de Hantone ten. 
G.e loc. in co. Stafford.) 
Then of the person it is said — 
«Sanson ten. de rege, &c. .. 
Hargedone,” &e. 
1. hida de Sansone,” 
5 eu hide. tree un 
J.S. 
Translation of ZElian.—In answer to the query 
of “G. M.” in No. 15. p.232., I beg to siate 
that in Lowndes’s Manual, vol. i. p. 13., is the fol- 
lowing notice under the head of “ Hlianus Clau- 
dius :” — 
“ Various Histories translated by T. Stanley. Lon- 
don, 1665. 8vo. 5s. This translation is by the son of 
the learned editor of schylus, and was reprinted 
1670. 1677.” 
GST ie 
Ave Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi, — I reeret that 
I cannot give “ H. L. B.” any further information 
about these ladies than the colophon I transcribed 
affords. To me, however, it is quite clear that 
they were sisters of some convent in Flanders or 
Holland ; the name of their spiritual father, Nicolas 
Wyt, and the names of the ladies, clearly indicate 
this. 5. W.S. 
Daysman (No. 12. p. 188.).—It seems to me 
that a preferable etymology may be found to that 
given by Nares and Jacob. The arbiter or judge 
might formerly have occupied a dais or lit de justice, 
or he might have been selected from those entitled 
to sit on the raised part of the courts of law, 7. e. 
eeepc or barristers as we callthem. I have 
heard another etymology, which however I do not 
favour, that the arbiter, chosen from men of the 
same rank as the disputants, should be paid for 
loss of his day’s work. GeorGE OLIVER. 
Perhaps the following may be of some use in 
clearing up this point. In the Graphic Illustrator, 
a literary and antiquarian miscellany edited by 
E. W. Brayley, London, 1834, at p. 14, towards 
the end of an article on the Tudor Style of Archi- 
tecture, signed T. M., is the following : — 
« This room (talking of the great halls in old manor- 
houses) was in every manor-house a necessary append- 
age for holding ‘the court, the services belonging to 
which are equally denominated ‘the homage,’ with 
those of the king’s palace. The dais, or raised part of 
the upper end of the hall, was so called, from the admi- 
nistration of justice. A dais-man is still a popular 
term for an arbitrator in the North, and Domesday- 
Book (with the name of which I suppose every one to 
be familiar) is known to be a list of manor-houses.” 
C. D. Lamont. 
Greenock. 
[Our correspondents will probably find some con- 
firmation of their ingenious suggestion in the following 
passage from The Vision of Piers Ploughman :— 
«“ And at the day of dome 
At the heighe deys sitte.” 
Ll. 4898-9. ed. Wright. ] 
Saveguard. —“ Burtensis” (No. 13. p. 202.) is 
informed that a saveguard was an article of dress 
worn by women, some fifty or sixty years ago, over 
the skirts of their gowns when riding on horse- 
back, chiefly when they sat on pillions, on a double 
horse, as it was called. 
It was a sort of outside petticoat, usually made 
of serge, linsey-wolsey, or some other strong ma- 
terial: and its use was to guard the gown from 
injury by the dirt of the (then very dirty) roads. 
It was succeeded by the well-known riding-habit ; 
though I have seen it used on a side-siddle by a 
rider who did not possess the more modern dress. 
P. H. F. 
Amongst the bequests to the Clothworkers’ 
Company of London is one by Barbara Burnell, by 
will dated 27th June, 1630, wherein she directs the 
company to bestow 4/. 6s. yearly in woollen cloth 
to make six waistcoats and six safeguards for six 
poor women.* 
Also we find that John Skepworth, by will dated 
17th Oct. 1678, gave two closes of land to the 
parish of Louth, to the intent that the church- 
wardens and overseers of the poor there should 
apply the rents and profits of the same in provid- 
ing so much coarse woollen cloth as would make 
ten suits yearly to be given to ten poor people of 
Louth, the men to have coats and breeches, and the 
women to have waistcoats and safeguards T 
* Reports from the Commissioners of Charities, 
b. 235. 32nd part 4, — 696. + Ibid. 
