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440 
Howard, Earl of Surrey.—Dr. Percy is said, in 
Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica, to have prepared an 
edition of the poems of the Earl of Surrey, the 
whole impression of which was consumed in the 
fire which took place in Mr. Nicholls’s premises in 
1808. Can any of your readers say whether Dr. 
Percy had a copy of the sheets, and whether he had 
prefixed thereto any life of the Earl of Surrey ? 
or did Sir Egerton Brydges ever print any account 
of Surrey amongst his numerous issues from the 
Lee or other presses ? G. 
Bulls called William.—TIn looking into the notes 
in my Provincial Glossary, I tind that bulls are in 
Somersetshire invariably called William. Is this 
peculiar to that county ? C.W.B. 
Bawn.—Mutual.—In vol. iii. p. 506. of Hallam’s 
Constitutional History of England, there occurs 
the following passage in reference to the colonis- 
ation of Ulster in 1612, after Tyrone’s rebellion : 
“ Those who received 2000 acres were bound within 
four years to build a castle and bawn, or strong court- 
yard ; the second class within two years to build a stone 
or brick house, with a bawn; the third class a bawn 
only.” 
What was this bawn, which was equally indis- 
pensable to the grantee of 2000, 1500, or 1000 
acres? Richardson variously describes the term 
as almost any kind of dwelling, or “an enclosure 
of walls to keep cattle from being stolen at night ;” 
in fact, a court-yard. This, however, conveys a 
very unsatisfactory idea, unless I am justified in 
supposing that a court-yard was insisted upon, 
even when a house could not be built, as insuring 
a future residential settlement, and thereby ward- 
ing off the evils of absenteeism. 
At page 514. of the same volume, I read, — 
“ Wentworth had so balanced the protestant and 
recusant parties, employed so skilfully the resources of 
fair promises and intimidation, that he procured six 
subsidies to be granted before a prorogation, without 
any mutual concession from the crown.” 
Will Dr. Kennedy, or any other strict verbal 
critic, sanction this use of the word “ mutual?” 
ALFRED GATTY. 
April 6, 1850. 
[1t is obvious, from the following lines from Swift’s 
poem, The Grand Question debated, whether Hamilton’s 
Bawn should be turned into a Barrack or Malt-house, 
1729, that a Bawn was there used to signify a building, 
and not an inclosure : — 
“ This Hamilton’s bawn, while it sticks in my hand, 
I lose by the house what I get by the land; 
But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, 
For a barrack or malt-house, we now must consider.” 
And in a foot-note on Hamilton's bawn, in the original 
edition, it is described as “a large old house, two miles 
from Sir Arthur Acheson's seat.” | 
Versicle and Response.— What is the meaning 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 27. 
of the following versicle and its response, which 
occur in both Morning and Evening Prayer ? 
“« Give peace in our time, O Lord, 
“ Because there is‘none other that fighteth for us, 
but only thou, O God!” 
Surely the “ because” &c. is a non sequitur! 
ALYRED GATTY. 
April 6. 1850. 
[In Palmer’s Origines Liturgice, vol. i. p. 241. (2d 
edit.), we find the following note on the response, 
“ Quia non est alius,” &¢.: —“* Brev. Eboracens. fol. 264.; 
Brey. Sarisb. fol. 85.” Bishop Lloyd remarks on this 
verse and response as follows: —“ I do not know what 
Burnet means by stating that this response was made 
in the year 1549, on the occasion of political occur- 
rences, for this answer is found in all the foreign bre- 
viaries, in the Salisbury primer, and in the primer of 
Hen. VIII. See Burnet’s Hist Mef. p. ii. b. 1. anno 
1549.”] 
Yeoman. — This word, the origin of which Dr. 
Johnson says is much doubted, in the general ac- 
ceptation of its meaning signifies a small farmer ; 
though several authorities quoted by Johnson tend 
to show it also signifies a certain description of 
servants, and that it is applied also to soldiers, as 
Yeoman of the Guard. It is not, however, con- 
fined to soldiers, for we hear of Yeoman of the 
Chamber ; Yeoman of the Robes ; Yeoman of the 
Pantry ; Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod. 
I should be glad if any of your readers can give 
an explanation of the word as used in the latter 
instances. P. R.A. 
Pusan.— Ihklynton Collar.—Among the royal 
orders issued on the occasion of the marriage 
of Henry VI., contained in the fifth volume of 
Rymer’s Feedera, p. 142., occurs the following : — 
“ We wol and charge you, that ye deliver unto oure 
trusty and well-beloved Squier, John Merston, keeper 
of our Jewell, a Pusan of golde, called Iklynton colar, 
garnished with iv Rubies, &c., &c.” 
What is the meaning and derivation of this word 
Pusan, and why called Iklynton collar 2 E.V. 
Who was Lord Karinthon, murdered, 1665 ? — 
Can any of your readers inform me who was the 
English lord, murdered in France by his Flemish 
valet, in March, 1665, as stated in the following 
passage of Gui Patin’s Letters, tom. iii. p. 519., 
ed. 1846 : — 
“¢ Hier, ce 18 Mars, je vis sur le pont Notre Dame, 
mené a la Gréve, un certain méchant malheureux co- 
quin, natif de Flandre, qui avoit poignardé son maitre 
dans Pontoise; c’étoit un seigneur anglois, dont il 
youloit avoir la bourse.... Ce seigneur anglois qui 
fut poignardé dans son lit avoit nom de Milerd Ka- 
rinthon.... Dans le testament de ce bon mais mal- 
heurenx maitre il se trouve qu’il donnoit a ce pendard 
de valet 20,000 livres.” C3 
