Feb. 22, 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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To the examples mentioned by N. of tombs in ' 

 church walls, may be added the remarkable ones at 

 Bottisham, Cambridgeshire. There are several of 

 these in the south aisle, with arches internally and 

 extei-nally : the wall between resting on the coffin 

 lid. They are, of course, coeval with the church, 

 which is fine early Decorated. They are consideied, 

 I believe, to be memorials of the priors of Angle- j 

 sey, a neighbouring religious house. They will, 

 no doubt, be fully elucidated in the memoir of | 

 Bottisham and Anglesey, which is understood to 

 be in preparation by members of the Cambridge 

 Anticjuarian Society. At Trumpington, in the 

 same county, is a recessed tomb of Decorated date, 

 in the south wall of the chancel, externally. 



C. R. M. i 



Defender of the Faith (Vol. ii ,pp. 442.^81.; Vol. 

 iii., pp. 9. 94.) — Should not King Edward the j 

 Confessor's claim to defend the church as God's ' 

 Vicar be added to the several valuable notices in 

 relation to the title Defender of the Faith, with | 

 ■which some of your learned contributors have 

 favoured us through your pages ? 



According to Hoveden, one of the laws adopted 

 from the Anglo-Saxons by William was : 



" Ilex autem afqiie viciirlus Ejus ad hoc est coiisti- 

 tutus, ut regmim terreniiin, pi)i)ulum Dei, et super 

 omnia sanctam ecclesiam, revereatur et ab injuriatoribus 

 defendat," Sec. 



Which duty of princes was further enforced by 

 the words — 



" lUos decet vocari reges, qui vigilant, defendunt, et 

 regunt Ecclesiam Dei et populum Ejus, imitantes regem 

 pialmographum," &c. — Vul. Rorjeri de Hoveden Annal., 

 par. post., §. Regis Offi'-ium ; ap. Rerum Anglicarura 

 ScriptorL-fi post Bedam, ed. Fiaiicof. 1601, p. 604. 

 Conf. Pryinie's Chroiwl. Records, ed. Lond. 1 666, 

 torn i. p. 310. 



This law appears always to have been received 

 as of authority after the Conquest ; and it may, 

 perhaps, be considered as the first seed of that 

 constitutional church supremacy vested in our 

 sovereigns, which several of our kings before the 

 Reformation had occasion to vindicate against 

 Papal claims, and which Henry VIII. strove to 

 carry in the other direction, to an unconstitutional 

 excess. J. Sansom. 



SaueJiap, Meaning of (Vol. ii., p. 479.). — The 

 word probably means a napkin nr pinafore; the 

 two often, in old times, the same thing. The 

 Coridsh name for pinafore is save-all. (See Ilalli- 

 well's Arch. Diet.) I need not add that nap, 

 napery, was a couiuion word for linen. 



GiiOKGE Stephens. 



Stockholm. 



Sir Thonuis Herbert's Memoirs (Vol. ii., p. 476.). 

 — The memoirs of Charles I. by Sir Tiiomas Her- 

 bert were published in 1702. I transcriljc the 

 title from a copy in my own possession : — 



" Memoirs of the two last years of the reign of 

 that unparall'd prince, of ever blessed memory, king 

 Charles I. By sir Tho. Herbert, major Huntingdon, 

 col. Edw. Coke, and Mr. Hen. Firebrace, e<c. London, 

 Rob. Clavtll, 1702, 8vo." 



The volume, for a publication of that ]ieriod, is 

 of unconmion occurrence. It was printed, as far 

 as above described, " from a manuscript of the Right 

 Reverend the Bishop of Ely, lately deceased." The 

 remainder of the volume consists of reprinted 

 articles. Bolton Corney. 



Robert Burton (Vol. iii., p. IDG.). — The suji- 

 position that the author of tlie Anatomy of Melan- 

 choly was born at Fald, Siaifordshire, instead of 

 Llndley, Leicestershire, seems probable from the 

 fact, that in an edition of the History of Leicester- 

 shire, by his brother William, 1 find that the 

 latter dates his preface " From Falde, neere Tut- 

 bury, Staff., Oct. 30. 1622." In this work, also, 

 under the head " Lindley," is given the pedigree 

 of his family, conunenciiig with " James de Burton, 

 Squier of the boily to King Richard the First;" 

 down to " Rafe Burton, of Lindley, borne 1547; 

 died 17 March, 1619 ;" leaving " Robert Burton, 

 bachelor of divinity and student of Christ Church, 

 Oxon; author of the Anatomy of Melancholy ; 

 borne 8 of Febr. 1578;" and "William Burton, 

 author of this work {History of Leicestershire), 

 borne 24 of Aug. 1575, now dwelling at Falde, ann. 

 1622" T. T. 



Leicester. 



Drachmariis (Vcd. iii., p. 105.). — If your cor- 

 respondents (Nos. 66 and 67.) who have inquired 

 for a book called Jartkare, and for a writer named 

 "Drachmarus," would add a little to the length 

 of their questions, so as not by extra-brief- 

 ness to deaden the dexterity of conjecturers, per- 

 haps they might be nearer to the reception of 

 replies. Many stranger things have happened 

 than that Drachmarus should be renovated by the 

 context into Christian Druthmur. 



Averia (Vol. iii., p. 42.). — I have long desired 

 to know the exact meaning of averia, but I have 

 not met with a good explanation until lately. It 

 is clear, however, from the following legal expres- 

 sion, " Nulliis distringatur per averia cariica;." 

 Curuca is the French charrae, and therefore averia 

 must mean either cart-horses or oxen which draw 

 the plough. P. 



Dragons (V(d. iii., p. 40.). — I think the Draco of 

 the Crusaders' times must have been the Soa con- 

 strictor. If you will look into St. Jerome's Vitas 

 Putrum, you will find that he mentions the trail of 

 a "draco" seen in the sand in the Desert, which 

 appeared as if a great beam had been dragged along. 

 1 think it not likely that a crocodile would have 



