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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 110. 



Blaauw on the recently discovered letters of 

 Prince Edward, which is published in the second 

 volume of the Sussex Archaological Collections. 

 The offence appears to have been committed in 

 May or June, 1305, and the minister was, as has 

 been stated, Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lich- 

 field and Coventry, the king's Treasurer, but in 

 the letters called Bishop of Chester ; a seeming 

 discrepancy arising from the fact that the Bishops 

 of Lichfield and Coventry were not unfrequently 

 called Bishops of Chester at that period, which 

 was two centuries before the present see of Chester 

 •was created. W. S. W. 



Middle Temple. 



It may be as well to add a note to your two 

 communications from Mr. Joseph Burtt and 

 E,. S. V. P., that the Bishop of Chester, named by 

 the former, is one and the same person with the 

 Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, named by the 

 latter, as suggested by Mr. Foss ; the two bi- 

 shoprics being identical, and almost as often called 

 by one title as by the other. P. P. C. 



Joceline's Legacy (Vol. iv., pp. 367. 410.). — The 

 first edition I believe to have been " The Mother s 

 Legacie to her Vnborne Childe, by Elizabeth loce- 

 lin, London. Printed by John Hauiland, for Wil- 

 liam Barret, 1624." pp. 114. + title, approbation 

 and epistle dedicatorie (40). 



Henry Jocelyn, a younger son of Sir Thomas 

 Jocelyn, who died 4 Eliz., married Anne, daugh- 

 ter and heir of Humphry Torrell, Esq., of Tor- 

 rell's Hall, Essex, by whom he had Sir Thomas 

 Jocelyn, Knt., and other sons ; one of whom I sus- 

 pect to have been the Tourell Jocelin, husband to 

 Eliz. Jocelin, the authoress of this excellent little 

 tract. P. B. 



Bristol Tables (Vol. iv., p. 406.). —The four re- 

 markable bronze tables, respecting which E.N.W. 

 inquires, formerly stood under the piazza of 

 the " Tolzey," or " Counter," in Bristol ; the place 

 where the merchants transacted business. On the 

 opening of the Exchange in 1743, they were re- 

 moved, and fi.xed in front of that building, where 

 they now stand. It appears that they were pre- 

 sented to the city at different times, and by dif- 

 ferent persons. On a garter, beneath the surface 

 of one of them, is the following inscription : — 



" Thomas Hobson of Bristol made me, anno 1625. 

 Nicholas Crisp of London gave me to this honourable 

 cltv in remembrance of God's mercy in anno domini 

 1625. N. C." 



On a ring round the surface is this inscription : 



" Praise the Lord, O my soul ! and forget not all his 

 benefits. He saved my life from destruction, and .... 

 to his mercy and loving-kindness. Praise ... ." 



On a ring round the surface of the second is 

 the following : 



"A.D. 1631. This is the gift of Mr. White of 



Bristol!, Merchant, brother unto Dr. Thomas White, 

 a famous benefactor to this citie." 



On the garter round the exterior is this in- 

 scription : 



" The church of the Living God is the pillar and 

 ground of the truth. So was the work of the pillars 

 tinished." 



The third table has the following words round 

 the surface : 



" This Post is the gift of Master Robert Kitchen, 

 Merchant, some time Maior and Alderman of this city, 

 who deceased Sep. 1. 1594." 



On the ring below the surface : 



" His Executors were fower of his servants. John 

 Barker, Mathew Howil, and Abel! Kitchin, Aldermen 

 of this city, and John Rowborow, Sherif. 1630." 



Six lines in verse, and a shield with armorial 

 bearings, formerly appeared as the centre of this 

 table ; but they are now obliterated. 



The fourth table, which is supposed to be the 

 oldest, has no inscription. 



These curious round tables, on which the mer- 

 chants of this ancient city formerly made their 

 payments, and wrote their letters, &c., are now 

 used by the newsmen, who here sell the daily 

 journals, &c. In times of popular excitement, 

 they have been sometimes used as pedestals, 

 whence mob-orators, and candidates for parlia- 

 mentary honours, have harangued the populace. 



J. R. W. 



Grimsdyhe or Grimesditch (Vol. iv., pp. 192. 

 330.). — There is a hundred in Norfolk called 

 Grimoshoe or Grimeshow, of which Blomefield, in 

 his History, vol. ii. p. 148., says : 



" It most probably derives its name from Grime and 

 hoo, a hilly champaign country. This Grime was (as 

 I take it) some considerable leader or general, probably 

 of the Danes, in this quarter ; and if he was not the 

 prcEsitus comitatus, or vicecomes, that is, the shire reeve 

 or sheriff, he was undoubtedly the CeniuricB prcepositus, 

 that is, the hundred-greeve ; and, as such, gave the 

 name to it, which it retains to this day." 



Near this is a curious Danish encampment, with 

 a number of pits and tumuli, called Grime's Graves, 

 from the aforementioned Grime. These are about 

 two miles east of the village of Weeting, on a 

 rising ground. On the west side of the village is 

 a bank and ditch, extending several miles, called 

 the Fen-dyke or Foss. The encampment contains 

 about two acres, and is of a semicircular form. 

 There are numerous deep pits dug within it in the 

 quincunx form, and capable of concealing a large 

 army. There are also several tumuli, one in par- 

 ticular of a long shape. The usual opinion respect- 

 ing these remains is, that it was the seat of great 

 military operations between the Saxons and Danes. 



E. S. Taylor. 



Derivation of ''JEra" (Vol.iv., p. 383.).— With 

 regard to the derivation of ^ra (or Era). I have 



