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family, the ancestral parchments would, no doubt, 
tell which particular Horsley they were lords of. 
If not, provided his family resided near a town- 
ship of that name, they might fairly be considered 
as taking their name from such township. Hen- 
gist and Horsa will not do? TEM 
Etymology of “ Bard” (2°° §. i. 390.) — Welsh 
bardd, barth, barg ; Gaelic bard, baird ; Irish bard ; 
Armen. barth; Old French barde; Latin bardus ; 
Greek Bapios. 
Owen says, Barz, one that makes conspicuous : 
a priest ; a philosopher; a teacher; and, as poetry 
was a principal requisite, and the vehicle for 
spreading of knowledge, he was necessarily a poet; 
from bar, affliction, wrath, fury, impulse. — 
Bochart says, from Heb. paral, to modulate: 
Dr. John Macpherson, that it cannot be traced to 
any root. Armstrong says: 
“Tn opposition to these opinions, it may be stated, that 
bard is of Celtic origin; and that it properly means one 
who extols, being resolved into b-ard. That ard itself, 
a three-lettered monosyllable, is not a radical word, but is 
derived from the primeval root ar, high, which is seen 
in every language on earth, and, though now gone into 
disuse among the Gael, is still retained by the Celts of 
Bretagne in their dialect called the Armoric. That bard is 
derived from ard is more likely, to say the least of it, 
since the northern word scald, or poet, whose pursuits 
were similar to the bard’s, means also an extoller, being 
derived from alt, allt, or ald, forms of the same word, 
which is common to the Celtic and Gothic languages, and 
signifies high. Bard and scald, therefore, are synony- 
mous terms.” 
Menage says: 
“Tsaac Pontanus (en son petit Glossaire) derives it 
from the ancient Gallic word baren, ‘qui signifit Clamare, 
ce qwils confirme par ce passage de Tacite en son livre 
des meeurs des Allemans. Ituri in’ prelia canunt. Sunt 
et illis hae quoque carmina; quorum relatu quem bari- 
tum vocant, accendunt animos, futuraque pugne for- 
tunam ipso cantu augurantur. Nec tam vocis ille quam 
vitutis concentus videtur. Affectatur preecipué asperitas 
soni, et fractum murmur,’ ” 
Lemon says: 
“Tf the word druid be Greek, as all our etymologists 
allow, then there can be no hesitation in admitting that 
the word bard may be Greek likewise; and Litt. tells us 
that ‘bard’ signifies waerd or word, which, like emos, sig- 
nifies ‘et verbum et carmen.’ Now the bards were most 
certainly the British poets, harpers, or singers, and of 
equal antiquity with the Druids,” 
R. 8. Cuirnocx. 
Dr. Beddoes’ “ History of Isaac Jenkins.” — 
Many thanks to your correspondents J. M. 
Gurtcn and I. K. R. W. for their kind information 
relative to this gentleman (2"7S. i. 278.), and 
trust you will permit me to repeat my Query for 
the loan of a copy of his celebrated History of 
Isauc Jenkins. J. B. Wuitzorne. 
Country Bills (2% §. i. 890.) — Anon. has sent 
two notices of country bills: the first I have some- 
where seen (much better told than his version), 
but I cannot lay my hand upon it. Perhaps I 
may be allowed to add another. 
The following is a copy of bill, sent to a gentle- 
man from an inn in Essex, where he had left his 
horse, with directions that it should be baited, 
stabled for the night, and sent home in the morn- 
ing. The bill ran thus: 
s. d. 
“To anos - - - - 4 6 
To agitinonimom - - - 0 6 
5 (jc 
Which being translated reads, “To an horse, 
4s. 6d. To a gettin’ on him home, 6d.” M.C. 
Mayor of London in 1335 (2°78. i. 353.) — 
The two following extracts from Stow’s Chronicles 
(ed. London, printed by James Govvlande, 1565) 
will clearly show who was mayor of London in 
*¢ John Kyngston 
the year 1335: 
i a Walter Turke } 8. 
“1334, Reignoll 
at cundyt 
This yere Kyng Edward sent ambassadors into 
France, to conclude a peace, which toke none 
effect.” 
“1335. Reignold M € Walter Mordon g 
at conduit * { Richard Upton ff ™ 
This yere Kyng Edward made claim to the 
crowne of France, and therefore proclaimed open 
warre betweene England and France.” 
The edition of Stow from which I quote is 
printed in black-letter, and certainly, if your cor- 
respondent is correct in his assertion, differs from 
that of 1607, which ascribes the mayoralty of 
London in 1335 to Richard Wotton. It would 
therefore seem that not only is Stow, in his Survey 
of London, at variance with Stow in his Chronicles, 
but that two editions of this Jatter work differ as 
to the subject in question: Siii ipst impar est. 
The truth most probably is, that Reignold at Con- 
duit occupied the office of mayor in both the years 
1334 and 1335, and that the insertion of the names 
of Nicholas Woton and Richard Wotton was the 
result of error. James Spencr Harry. 
Paris. 
As your correspondent W. (Bombay) may not 
have consulted Heylin’s List of Lord Mayors, I 
take the liberty of informing him, that according 
to this author, “ Reginald, at the Conduit” was 
lord mayor in two consecutive years, 1334 and 
1335, and that Nicolas Wotton was lord mayor in 
1837. CO a 
“ Herbergier te Worschooten” (27° §. i. 371.)— 
Menage says the her, in Herbergen, is the Celt. 
@r, war. He says also: 
“ Heriberga a été fait de Allemand herbergen, qui 
signifie loger, ou recevoir une armée, mais qui a aussi 
signifié loger, en general.” 
The Anglo-Saxon here-berga is a station, a 
