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NOTE AND QUERIES. 
(2948, No 17., Apri 26, 56. 
Grazebrook family, in Burke’s Family Romance, 
art. “The Legend of the Angry Bear.” 
C. J. Doveras. 
Old Rights of Way (St. James's Place and the 
Green Park). — By whose authority is the iron 
gate locked and the pathway closed in St. James’s 
Place, which leads, by the side of the late Mr. 
Rogers’ house, into the Green Park? Between 
the years 1810 and 1823 the writer of this was in 
the habit of using it daily. Its convenience to 
those who wanted to reach the centre of St. 
James’s Street from the Park side was great. 
Who keeps it shut ? W.B. 
Kingsclere, Highclere, Burghclere. — What is 
the interpretation of the final syllable of each of 
the above villages on the northern border of the 
co. of Hants ? T.E. B. 
Clifton. 
Wolves in Forest of Dean, &c.—I have some- 
where read that as late as the time of Queen 
Elizabeth, some wolves were to be found wild, 
either in the forest of Dean or in that of Dart- 
moor. It would be esteemed a favour if any of 
your correspondents would kindly mention in 
what work the statement appears, and what 
grounds there are for giving credit to it ? 
F.S. A. 
Tradesmen’s Tokens. —'The contractions and 
corruptions of the names of places on the trades- 
men’s tokens of the seventeenth century, as well 
as the varieties in spelling, are well known to all 
collectors, and must frequently have puzzled even 
good topographers, Can any of your readers give 
me the present names of the following places: 
Bvdsdell, Ostenfeild, Walkham (query Walk- 
hampton), Delverton (query Dulverton). A list 
of the more curious and intricate of these con- 
tractions and corruptions would, I think, be not 
unsuitable to your pages, and would oblige many 
others of your old subscribers as well as myself. 
As instances of what may be found, I may state 
that Rothwell (Northamptonshire) appears as 
Roell, the local pronunciation ; Colyton as Culli- 
ton, most probably also the local pronunciation ; 
Evesham as E’sham. J.-S. 8. 
Hutchins’ Queries.-— Can any of your readers 
give me information as to the pedigree of Sir 
George Theophilus Hutchins, of Devon, Knt., 
Keeper of the Great Seal of England with Trevor 
and Rawlinson, May 14, 1690? who are his de- 
scendants, and what arms did he bear? His 
daughter Ann married William-Peere Williams- 
Freeman, author of Law Reports. Also as to 
Richard Hutchins, an officer engaged in the Civil 
War, who settled in Ireland about the year 1641. 
I believe him to have been a relation of Sir 
George. K. H. 
Fontlands, Charleville, co, Cork, 
Dunscombe of Dunscombe, co. Devon.— Can any 
of your readers refer me to an authenticated pedi- 
gree of this family, or give me any authenticated 
details of any of its members, or any references on 
the subject ? 
Dunscomb is in Crediton Hundred, in the 
parish of Kirton. ; 
The family appears to have borne, arg. barry of 
four, sa. in chief a demi-wyvern erect of the last. 
They possessed the estate in 1613 ; between which 
year and 1586 a Clement Duncombe, son of 
George and Margaret, lived, respecting whom in- 
formation is particularly required. Any com- 
munication too lengthy for “N. & Q.” may be 
addressed to J. K., care of Mr. Wilson, 314. 
Oxford Street, London. 
“ Grandsire Triples,” “ Bob,’ §&c.— Can you 
afford me any information as to the origin of the 
term “grandsire” triples in ringing, or of the 
term “Bob?” Both seem inexplicable. 
Bor anp SInGue. 
Anstey Pedigree.—TI shall be very thankful to 
any one who will furnish me (either through “ N. 
& Q.,” or the post) with the pedigree of Chr. 
Anstey, author of the New Bath Guide, up to the 
middle of the fifteenth century. 
Epwarp Ventris (Clk.), 
Cambridge. 
SHingry Queries with Answers. 
“ Appruari” and “ Appruator.’—I find, in Fleta, 
lib. ii. ¢. 73,, the words appruari and appruator, 
and shall be obliged to any one who will tell me 
what they mean. Can it be “appraised,” “ ap- 
praiser ?” 1G bgp el 
(H. A. F. will find the passage in Fleta, lib. ii. e. 73., 
quoted by Du Cange, and the word appruari thus inter- 
preted by that learned glossarist: “Ubi appruare, est 
commodum domini facere de pradiorum exitibus (7, e. to 
make profit for the lord or owner out of the proceeds of 
his farms), faire le profit du maistre.” So also, “ Appruator, 
qui domini commodis invigilat, et ejus reditus et com- 
moda percipit et auget” (Fleta, lib. ii. cap. 76.§1.) The 
appruator appears, therefore, to have been the farm-~- 
steward, whose duties are to receive the rents, and watch 
over and improve the property, of the landowner. Ap- 
pruare, to approve, 7. e. to improve. “To approve land, is 
to make the best benefit of it by increasing the rent,” 
&c., says ‘Tomlin in his Law Dictionary. ] 
“ The Deity."— Who was the author of The 
Deity, 4 poem praised and quoted in Tom Jones 
(vol, vii. p.1.)? And where is it to be found? 
It was published about 1740. The lines quoted 
begin : 
“ From thee all human actions take their springs, 
The rise of empires, and the fall of kings.” 
J. B. (3.) 
[This poem is by the unfortunate Samuel Boyse, who, 
during the early part of the Jast century, earned a prer 
