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not ufer or @fer, there, for it is used for inland 
places, away even from brooks. ~ 
Wardine and Warten.— This is a common ter- 
mination in Herefordshire and Shropshire, as 
Wrockwardine, Pedwardine, Richwardine, Leint- 
wardine. I consider it as a form of waredean, in- 
dicating a Roman site, and as an equivalent for 
the eastern term of warley or warlley. 
Warten for wareton is likewise used as a com- 
pound termination, as in Burwarten, Bridge- 
warten. 
Hunger. — Hunger and hungry are topographi- 
cal prefixes to be found in most districts of 
England south of Trent, as in Hungerford, Hun- 
gerton, Hunger Hill, Hungry Hill, Hungry Heath, 
Hunger Heath. The sites are commonly on a 
Roman road. The word is not hanger, though 
sometimes it is corrupted into hanger, and it is 
always a prefix, while hanger is most used as a 
termination. 
Batch.— A topographical term, of which there 
are fifty examples in Shropshire, is batch, in other 
districts made bach; and perhaps corresponding 
to the betch of the east of England. I shall feel 
obliged by any explanation. Is it not the neigh- 
bouring Welsh, bach ? 
Aston. — This is a topographical termination of 
wide extent in the west midland and west of 
England. In some cases it seems a dialectic vari- 
ation for Easton, as opposed to Weston; but this 
does not account for such forms at Osbaston, Ed-_ 
staston, Woolstaston, &c. 
Windy.—The meaning of this prefix seems 
doubtful in Windy Harbour, Windy Oak; and I 
shall feel obliged for any explanation of this topo- 
graphical term which may come before your cor- 
. respondents. 
Peck Beggar.—In Shropshire there is no place 
ealled “ Mock Beggar,” but there is a Peck Beggar 
near Stoke. Query the meaning of Peck Beggar 
and Mock Beggar. The latter name, for a farm 
or solitary house, is to be found in half a hundred 
examples over southern England. Hypz Crarxe. 
THE VOW OF PETER AUGER. 
In looking over the Patent Rolls of the time of 
Edward I. I met with the following curious entry, 
which is perhaps worthy of a place in your pages. 
The vow which this Peter Auger made is one which 
at the present day would pass almost unnoticed, 
and would not entail any inconveniences such as 
he here apprehends; but it is to be regretted that 
we have no more details as to the object of his 
journey, which must have been of no unimportant 
nature for him to obtain a formal instrument from 
the Crown, in order to enable him to travel with- 
out molestation on account of his hirsute orna- 
ment. Wiurrizam Henry Harr. 
Albert Terrace, New Cross. 
(“ Patent Roll 4 Edward IT, part 2. meméb. 20.) 
Pro Petro Auger. — Rex omnibus amicis et fidelibus 
suis ad quos, &c. salutem. Cum dilectus vallettus noster 
Petrus Auger exhibitor presentium nuper voverit quod 
barbam suam radi non faciat quousque peregrinationem 
fecerit in certo loco in partibus transmarinis et idem 
Petrus sibi timeat quod aliqui ipsum ratione barb suze 
prolixe fuisse Templarium imponere sibi velint et ei 
inferre impedimenta seu gravamina ex hac causa. Nos 
veritati volentes testimonium perhibere vos tenore prz- 
sentium intimamus quod prdictus Petrus est vallettus 
camerz nostre nec unquam fuit Templarius set barbam 
suam sic prolixam esse permittit ex causa superius an- 
| notata, vos igitur amicos rogamus vobis fidelibus man- 
dantes quatinus prefato valletto nostro non inferatis 
occasione preedicta injuriam molestiam impedimentum seu 
gravamen. In cujus, &c. usque ad festum Sancti Michae- 
lis proximo futurum duraturum. Teste Rege apud Ber- 
wicum super Twed xvij die Februarii. 
“ Per breve de privato sigillo.” 
Minor Notes. 
Unregistered Proverbial Saying. —The follow- 
ing was related to me the other day by a Salopian : 
“An inch every Good Friday, the rate lawyers go to 
Heaven.” 
There are many proverbs in Codrington’s Col- 
lection of Many Select and Excellent Proverbs, 
1762, and Leigh’s Observations (a collection of 
French proverbs with English equivalents), 1670, 
not to be met with in Bohn’s late Hand Book. 
G. E.R. 
Kidderminster. 
“ Going Snacks.” — In Wada's brief account of 
>the Plague in London in his Memorabilia, it is 
stated that the office of searcher was at that period 
avery important one; and a noted body-searcher, 
whose name was Snacks, finding his business in- 
crease so fast that he could not compass it, offered 
to any person who should join him in his hazard- 
ous practice, half the profits; thus those who 
joined him were said to go with Snacks. Hence 
arose the saying of “ Going Snacks,” or dividing 
the spoil. Henry KeEnsInGTon. 
Arboreal and Floral Decoration of Churches. — 
On Good Friday the parish church of Leigh, 
Worcestershire, was decked with “ funereal yew,” 
and on Easter Sunday with evergreens and spring 
flowers, according to the immemorial custom cf the 
De The same custom also prevails at Bel- 
broughton, in the same county. Why should it 
not be as general as the similar custom observed 
at Christmas ? Curncbert Breve. 
Giving Gloves at a Maiden Assize.—The fol- 
lowing extract, from The Lincolnshire Chronicle 
