Sept. 20. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Tut is a very general term applied in Lincoln- 

 shire to any fancied supernatural appearance. 

 Children are frightened by being told of Tom Tut; 

 and persons in a state of panic, or unreasonable 

 trepidation, are said to be Tut-gotten. P. T. 



Stoke Newington, Aug. 30. 



A Sword-blade Note (Vol. iv., p. 176.). — The 

 sword-blade note, to which R. J. refers, was doubt- 

 less a note of the Sword-blade Company, which 

 was intimately connected with the South Sea 

 Company. In the narrative respecting the latter 

 company, given in The Historical Register for 

 1720, is an account of a conference between the 

 South Sea Directors and those of the Bank of 

 England : therein is the following passage : 



" And when it was urg'd that the Sword Blade Com- 

 pany should come into the Treaty ; By no means, 

 reply'd Sir Gilbert [Heathcote] ; for if the South Sea 

 Company he wedded to the Bank, he ouglit not to be 

 allow'd to keep a Mistress. The Event show'd that the 

 Bank acted with their usual Prudence, in not admit- 

 ting the Sword Blade Company into a Partnership." — 

 Historical Register for 1720, p.'ssS. 



At p. 377. of the same work it is stated, that on 

 the 24th of September the Sword-blade Company, 

 " who hitherto had been the chief cash keepers to 

 the Soutli Sea Company," stopped payment, " being 

 almost drain'd of their ready money." 



Perhaps some of your correspondents may be 

 able to elucidate the rise, transactions, and " wind- 

 ing up" of the Sword-blade Company. 



C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge, Sept. 6. 1851. 



Domesday Book of Scotland (Vol. iv., p. 7.). — 

 Your correspondent Aberdoniensis is informed 

 that what he is in quest of was published by the 

 "Bannatyne Club," under the name of tlie "Rag- 

 man Rolls," in 1834, 4to. It is entitled, Instru- 

 menta Pahlica sice Processus super Fidelitatibus et 

 Homagiis Scotoi'um Domino Regi Anglice factis, 



A.D. M.CC.XCI. M.CC.XCVr. 



" The documents contained in this volume have not 

 been selected in the view of reviving or illustrating the 

 ancient National Controversy as to the feudal depen- 

 dence of Scotland on the English Crown. It lias 

 been long known that in these Records may be found 

 tlie largest and most authentic enumerations now ex- 

 tant of the Nobility, Barons, Landholders and Bur- 

 gesses, as well as of tlie Clergy of Scotland, jirior to 

 the fourteenth century. No part of the public Records 

 of Scotland prior to that era has been preserved, and 

 whatever may have been their fate, certain it is, that 

 to these f^nglish Records of our temporary national 

 degradation, are we now indebted for the only genuine 

 Statistical Notices of the Kingdom towards the close 

 of the thirteenth century." 



%* " This singular document, so often rjuoted and 

 referred to, was never printed in extenso." 



T. G. S. 

 Edinburgh. 



Dole-bank (Vol. iv., p. 1G2.). — In processions 

 on Holy Thursday, it was usual to deal cakes and 

 bread to the children and the poor of the parish at 

 boundary-banks, that they might be duly remem- 

 bered. Hence the name. R. S. H. 



Morwenstow. 



The Letter " F" (Vol. iv., p. 164.). — If S. S. 

 will turn again to my remarks on this letter, he 

 will see that I did not state that Tiverton was ever 

 pronounced Terton. I accede to what he has said 

 oiTwiverton; Devonshire was inadvertently written 

 for Somersetshire. With regard to the observ- 

 ations of A. N. (p. 162.), he will find those remarks 

 were confined to the v between two vowels, i.e. 

 without any other consonant intervening; and, 

 therefore, other forms of contraction did not fall 

 within the scope of them. I refrained from ad- 

 verting to any such words as Elvedon and Kelve- 

 don (pronounced respectively Eldon and Keldon), 

 because the abbreviation of these may be referable 

 to another cause. In passing I would mention 

 that I think there can be no reasonable doubt that 

 the word dool, about which he inquires, is no other 

 than the Ang.-Sax. did, a division, from daelan, to 

 divide ; and whence our words deal and dole. But 

 to return to the letter w, if Mr. Singer be correct 

 as to devenisch in the MS. of the Hermit of Ham- 

 pole being written for Danish (p. 159.), it seems 

 an example of the peculiar use of this letter to 

 which I have invited attention, for the writer 

 hardly intended it to be pronounced as three syl- 

 lables if he meant Danish. However, if that MS. 

 be a tr.anscript, may not the supposed v have been 

 originally an n, which was first mis-read u, and 

 then copied as a z; ? W. S. W. 



Cardinal Wolsey (Vol.iv.,p.l76.).— The follow- 

 ing anecdote, taken from a common-place book of 

 Sir Roger Wilbraham, who was Master of the 

 Requests in the time of Queen Elizabeth, appears 

 to have some bearing on the subject referred to in 

 the page of your publication which I have quoted 

 above : — 



" Cooke, attorney, at diner Whitsunday * ista pro- 

 tulit. 



" Wolsey, a prelate, was flagrante crimine taken in 

 fornication by S'' Anthony Pagett of y« West, and put 

 in y° stokes. After being made Cardinall, S' Anthony 

 sett up his amies on y" middle Temple gate : y'' Car- 

 dinall passing in pontificalibus, and spying his owne 

 armes, asked who sett them up. Answare was made 

 y' y" said Mr. Pagett. Me smiled saying, he is now 

 well rcclaymed ; for wher before he saw him in dis- 

 grace, now he honoured him." 



AV. L. 



Nervous (Vol. iv., p. 7.). — Nervous has unques- 

 tionably the double meaning assigned to it in 



* This was probably in 1598. 



