Fes. 23. 1850. ] NOTES AND QUERIES. 269 
&c., I find the following from the Visitation of 
Surry, 1623, and from a MS. book of Pedigrees of 
Peers in the Herald's College, with additions. 
“Thomas Rider married a daughter of — Poole of 
Stafforde, by whom he had Sir William Rider, born at 
Muchalstone, co. Stafforde, Sheriff of London, 1591, 
Citizen and Haberdasher, Lord Mayor, 1600. Will 
dated 1 Noy.,and proved 9 Nov. 1610, 8 Jas. I. (94 
Wood); buried at Low Layton, Essex, &c. Sir Wil- 
liam married Elizabeth, da. of R. Stone, of Helme, co. 
Norfolk ; by whom he had, besides other children and 
descendants, Mary daughter and coheiress, who mar- 
ried Sir Thomas Lake, of Canons, Middlesex, from 
whose issue descended Viscount Lake.” 
S. S. 
Pokership (No. 12. p.185., and No. 14. p.218.). 
—It is to be regretted that no information has 
been supplied respecting the meaning of this re- 
markable word, either from local sources or from 
the surveys of crown lands in the Exchequer or 
Land Revenue offices. In one or the other of 
these quarters we should surely find something 
which would dispense with further conjecture. In 
the meantime the following facts, obtained from 
records easily accessible, will probably be suffi- 
cient to dispose of the explanations hitherto sug- 
gested, and to show that the poker of Bringwood 
forest was neither a purker nor a purser. 
The offices conveyed to Sir R. Harley by 
James I. had been, before his reign, the subject of 
crown grants, after the honor of Wigmore had 
become vested in the crown by the merger of the 
earldom of March in the crown. Hence, I find 
that in the act 13 Edward IV. (a.p. 1473), for 
the resumption of royal grants, there is a saving 
of a prior grant of the “office of keper of oure 
forest or chace of Boryngwode,” and of the fees 
for the “ kepyng of the Dikes within oure counte 
of Hereford, parcelles of oure seid forest.” (6 Rot. 
Parl. p. 94.) 
In asimilar act of resumption, 1 Henry VIL., 
there is a like saving in favour of ‘Thomas Grove, 
to whom had been granted the keepership of 
Boryngwood chase in ‘ Wigmoresland,” and “ the 
pokershipp and keping of the diche of the same.” 
The parkership of Wigmore Park is saved in the 
same act. (6 fot. Parl. p. 353. and 383.) 
In the first year of Henry VIII. there is a 
Receiver’s Account of Wigmore, in which I ob- 
serve the following deductions claimed in respect 
of the fees and salaries of officers : — 
“In feodo Thome Grove, forestarii de Bringewod, 
6l. 1s. 6d. 
_ ejusdem Thome, fossat’ de Prestwode dych, 
18d. 
— Edm. Sharp, parcarii parci de Wiggemour, 
6L. 1s. 6d. 
ae Thome Grove, pocar’ omnium boscorum 
in Wiggemourslonde - 30s. 4d.” 
There is another like account rendered in 23 & 
24 Hen. VII. These, and no doubt many other 
accounts and documents respecting the honor of 
Wigmore and its appurtenances, are among the 
Exchequer records, and we are entitled to infer 
from them, firstly, that a parcarius and a pocarius 
are two different offices; secondly, that, whether 
the duty of the latter was performed on the dikes 
or in the woods of Boringwood chase, the theory | 
of Mr. Bolton Corney (pace cl. viri dixerim) is 
very deficient in probability. If the above autho- 
rities had not fallen under my notice, I should 
have confidently adopted the conjecture of the 
noble Querist, who first drew attention to the | 
word, and, so far from considering the substitution 
of “poker” for “parker” an improbable blunder 
of the copyist, I should have pronounced it for- 
tunate for the house of Harley that their founder 
had not been converted into a porcarius or pig- 
driver. E. Surrxe. 
Pokership. —I had flattered myself that Parker- | 
ship was the real interpretation of the above word, 
but I have once more doubts on the subject. I 
this morning accidentally stumbled upon the word 
“ Porcellagium,” which is interpreted in Ducange’s 
Glossary, “'Tributum ex porcis seu porcellis.” 
Porcarius also occurs as Porcorum custos, and 
mention is made of “ Porcorum servitium quo quis 
porcos domini sui pascentes servare tenetur.” 
Now, considering how much value was formerly 
attached to the right of turning out swine in 
wooded wastes, during the acorn season, it seems 
probable that Sir R. Harley might be the king’s 
“ Porcarius,” or receiver of the money paid for an 
annual license to depasture hogs in the royal 
forests ; and, after all, Porkership is as like to Po- 
kership as Parkership, and one mistake would be as 
easily made as the other. BRrayYBROOKE. 
Audley End, Feb. 16. 
[We are enabled to confirm the accuracy of Lord 
Braybrooke’s conjecture as to Porkership being the 
office conferred upon Sir Robert Harley, inasmuch as 
we are in expectation of receiving an account of the 
various forms of its name from a gentleman who has 
not only the ability, but also peculiar facilities for illus- 
trating this and similar obscure terms. | 
Havior — Heavier or Hever.— Supposed ety- 
mology of Havior, Heavier, and Hever, as applied 
by park-keepers to an emasculated male deer. — 
“ Nores AND Qurrizs,” (No. 15. p. 230.) 
Pennant, in his British Zoology, 8vo. edition, 
1776, vol. i. p. 38., and 8vo. edition, 1812, vol. i. 
p. 45., under the article “ Goat,” says: — 
“ The meat of a castrated goat of six or seven years 
old, (which is called Hyfr), is reckoned the best; 
being generally very sweet and fat. This makes an 
excellent pasty, goes under the name of rock venison, 
and is little inferior to that of the deer.” 
As Pennant was a Welchman, a scholar and a 
