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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 83. 



additional declaration so delivered is called delivering 

 the declaration by the bye." 



In the Kinsr's Bench, in certain cases, any other 

 plaintiff could declare by the bye against the 

 defendant, and that even before the original 

 plaintitFs had declared. See Crompton's Practice 

 Common-placed, 2nd ed., 1783, vol. i. p. 100. 



The Doctor (in chap, ex.) says — 



" By the bye, which is the same thing, in common 

 parlance, as by the way, though critically there may 

 seem to be a difference; for by the bye might seem to 

 denote a collateral remark, and by the way a direct 

 one." 



By tlie bye, what a pity it is there is no Index to 

 I'he Doctor. C. H. Cooper. 



C«mbridge, March 24. 1S51. 



Signd de Loges (Vol. iii., p. 306.). — There is 

 an error, perhaps a clerical one, in M. J. T. 's 

 statement, that " Bigod, whose name was attached 

 to the charter of foundation of St. Werburgh's 

 Abbev, is elsev^here, according to Ormerod, called 

 Robert." 



The remark is by Leycester, not Ormerod, and 

 the purport is exactly the converse. To the 

 words " Signnm lloberti de Loges" is added, 

 " alii Bigot de Loges hie legunt." Vide Monasti- 

 con, pars L, pp. 200. 202. 



This passage will be found in Leycester's An- 

 tiquities, p. 111., reprinted in Hist. Chesh., vol. i. 

 p. 13. But Leycester's Prolegomena is the head- 

 ing, and the initials " P. L." are appended to the 

 note. Lancastkiensis. 



Kneb.iend or Nebsend, co. YorJi (Vol. iii., p. 263.). 

 — A part of Sheffield is called Neepsend, which 

 is probably the place inquired after by J. N. C, 

 especially as the ordinary pronunciation of it is 

 Nepsend. J. Eastwood. 



Mrs. Catherine Barton (Vol. iii., p. 328.). — 

 Your correspondent will find all that is known in 

 Sir David Brewster's Life of Newton, and will see 

 (p. 323.) that her maiden name must have been 

 either Smith, Pilkington, or Barton itself. M. 



Peter Sterry (Vol. iii., p. 38.). — In the title- 

 page to his sermon, preached before the Parlia- 

 ment, Nov. 1, 1649 (Lond. 1050, 4to.), Sterry is 

 called " sometime Fellow of Emanuel College, 

 Cambridge ; now a Preacher of the Gospel in 

 London." Some account of him may be seen in 

 Burnet's History of his own 2'ime ; and in the 

 Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow. Wood says that 

 Peter Sterry was notorious " for keeping on that 

 side which had proved trump" {Athena, iii. 197., 

 edit. Bliss). Edward F. Rimbault. 



Wife of Jamex Torre (Vol. iii., p. 329.). — In 

 reply to JNIk. Peacock's Query I beg to inform 

 him that the lady's name was Elizabeth, youngest 

 of the four daughters and co-heiresses of William 



Lincolne, D.D., of Bottesford, and by her Mr. 

 Torre had several children, all of whom died 

 young except Jane, who married, in 1701, the 

 Rev. Thomas Ilassel. This is taken from Burke's 

 Dictionai-y of Landed Gentry, vol. ii , M to z, 

 published by Colburn, Londcm, 1847, where 

 the Torre pedigree can be seen, but no other 

 mention of the Lincolne family is there made. 

 There are seven different coats of arms and crests 

 under the name Lincolne in Burke's Armory of 

 England, Scotland, and Ireland, published by 

 Churton in 1843. This is all I can find at present. 



J. N. C. 



Ramnsse (Vol. iii., p. 347.). — One word to com- 

 plete Mr. Wat's explanation. This style of 

 sliding down the slopes of the Alps is called a 

 ramasse, because the guides are ready below to 

 ramasser, that is, to jnck up, the travellers who 

 are thus sent down. C. 



This word is by no means obsolete in France, 

 in the acceptation of "a sledge." In addition to 

 the instances given from Barre and Roquefort by 

 Mr. Albert Way, in his instructive note on the 

 " Pilgrymage of Syr R. Guylforde, Knyght," I 

 find in Napoleon Landais' Dictionnnire general 

 et gj-ammatical des Dictionnaires F7-angais," the 

 following explanation : — 



" Ramasse, chaise a porteurs, traincau pour de- 

 scendre des montagnes ou il y a de la neige: descendre 

 une montcigne dans tine ramasse." 



He also says, in defining the meaning of the 

 verb " ramasser : " 



" Trainer dans une ramasse : on le ramassa pendant 

 deux hemes ; qvand il fid sur la montar/ne, it se Jit 

 ramasser." 



The late Mr. Tarver, in his Dictionnaire Phra- 

 seologique Royal, has also the following : 



" Ramasse, s. f. (t. de voyageur), sledge. 



" Oji le ramassa, they conveyed him in a sledge. 



" RaMasseur, a man who drives a sledge." 



D. C. 



St. John's Wood, May 4. 1851. 



Four Wa7if Way (Vol. iii., p. 168.).— Halliwell 

 describes the word " want " as meaning in Essex 

 a cross-road. It is still used here as denoting a 

 place where four roads meet, and called " a four 

 want way." I always fancied it meant a wont 

 way, via solita ; but I have no authority for the 

 etymology. Bratbrooke. 



Audley End. 



[" Went" is used in Chaucer in the sense of " way," 

 " passage," " turning," or road : thus, in Troilus and 

 Creseide, iii. 788., he speaks of a "a privie went," and 

 V. 605., " And up and doun there made he many a 

 went;" and in the Hoitse of Fame : 



" And in a forrest as they went, 

 At the tourning of a went.''] 



