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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 110. 



no reason to doubt the truth of the statement : but 

 I i^hould like to know whether his name occurs in 

 any of tlie contemporary accounts of the fight 

 at that place, or rather Keynton ; or whether he 

 is anywhere mentioned in the royal musters. 

 I think a correspondent of the "Notes and 

 Queries" indicated an acquaintance with some 

 local information relative to this affair, and the 

 persons engaged in it. D. 



315. Meaning of '' Pallant" ~^X\A\q staying in 

 the neighbourhood of a small country town in 

 the south of England, I was requested to drive a 

 friend to call on an acquaintance who lived in The 

 Pallant in the said town. The word being an un- 

 common one, we naturally conversed on its pro- 

 bable derivation and meaning, but without arriv- 

 ing at a satisfactory conclusion. I have since seen 

 it used in a number of Dickens' Household Words, 

 where the scene of a ghost story is laid in an old 

 house, or street (I fin-get which), called The Pal- 

 lant. AVhat is its true signification ? 



A Devonian. 



31G. Rectitudines Singularum Personarum. — This 

 interesting Anglo-Saxon document is necessarily 

 well known to many of your readers. Will they 

 favour me with a Note, stating what they consider 

 to be its date? In the mean time, I will say that 

 it is not improbable that the date may be refer- 

 rible to temp. Ethelredi II. The service of See 

 weard is insisted upon, and it is fair to suppose 

 that such would not liave been the case if the 

 textus had been written at a period anterior to 

 those times, when the co.ast was wasted by the 

 piratical incursions of the Northmen. In the title 

 " thegnes riht" it is mentioned in priority to 

 "heafod weard" and " fyrdweard." It is again 

 mentioned in the title " cotsetlan riht." This 

 document was doubtless written by a priest, and 

 probably by a secular one, for some of its con- 

 cluding words show a habit, or at least a possi- 

 bility, of migration on the part of the writer, viz. : 

 " Be thsere theode theawe, the we thaenne onwuniath." 



The Latin translation, which accompapies the 

 original, is of a date manifestly later than the Nor- 

 man Conquest. The phraseology which it exhibits, 

 and the gross mistakes which it contains, are suffi- 

 cient evidence of the fact. 



In the title " be thaw the beon bewitath," the 

 words "self lajJan" are translated "ipse minare." 

 Sometimes the translator does not understand his 

 original : in the first title he converts "bocriht" into 

 "testamenti rectitudo;" and of the words "sceorp 

 to frithscipe," he leaves the first word as he 

 finds it. H. C. C. 



317. Sir- Henry Tichborne's Joimial. — I should 

 be obliged to any of your numerous correspondents 

 or readers for any information given respecting 

 a diurnal written by Sir Henry Tichborne, third 



baronet of Tichborne, co. Hants, of his Travells 

 into France, Italy, Loretto, Rome, and other places, 

 in the years 1675, 1676, and 1678. 



Is the original in existence, or where might this 

 MS. be found ? Has any of your readers seen or 

 heard of it? 



I may here remark it is not in the possession of 

 the family, neither have they yet been able to 

 trace it. The White Rose. 



Winchester. 



318. Round Towers at Bhattgulpore. — Lord 

 Valentia (Travels to India, ^c.) gives views of 

 these towers, and the following description of 

 them : — 



" They much resemble those buildings in Ireland, 

 which have hitherto puzzled the antiquaries of the 

 sister kingdoms, excepting tliat they are more orna- 

 mented. It is singular that there is no tradition con- 

 cerning them, nor are they held in any respect by the 

 Hindoos of this country. The Rajah of Jyenagur 

 considers them as holy, and has erected a small build- 

 ing to shelter the great number of his subjects, who 

 annually come to worship here." 



This is but a meagre account of them ; and if 

 any of your readers can give further information 

 respecting them, and especially on the religion of 

 those who go to worship at them, they will confer 

 a great favour on your querist. 13haugulpore 

 seems to be about half-way between Calcutta and 

 Patna, at some distance off the great road; and 

 Jyenagur must be some 800 miles distant. The 

 dominant race in the latter are Rajpoots, but there 

 appear to be inferior races ; which are the wor- 

 shippers ? What is the meaning of Bhaugulpore? 

 has it any relation to Baal ? Jeypoor is another 

 name for Jyenagur. De Camera. 



319. Johannes Trithemius. — In my possession is 

 a book entitled Liber de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, 

 by the above author ; the date of its publication 

 1494. Can any one inform me who Trithemius 

 was, and whether the book, in point of accuracy, 

 ,ig to be relied on ? A. W. H. 



320. Race.i in which Children ore named after 

 the Mothers. — Will some correspondent favour 

 me with a list of the races in which the children 

 are named, or take their titles, or inherit property 

 after their mothers and not after their fathers ; 

 and where descent in any form is reckoned on the 

 mother's side ? I have a list of some, but I fear a 

 very imperfect one ; and all additions to it, with a 

 memorandum of the authority on which the state- j 

 ment is made, will be very valuable to me. I wish 

 the instances to be fetched as well from ancient as 

 from modern nations. Theophtlact. 



321. Foreign Ambassadors, Blinisters, Envoys, 

 and Residents from Foreign Cou7-ts. — Will any of 

 your readers inform me where there may be found 



