2>i<«S. VI. 145., Oct. 9. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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corrector of vulgar errors. The writings of this 

 great author and profound thinker are filled with 

 words that differ from Latin only in their termi- 

 nation. In the preface to his admirable treatise 

 on Vulgar Errors, there is a passage perfectly de- 

 scriptive and censorious of his own style. He 

 complains that 



"If elegance still precedeth, and English pens main- 

 tain that stream we have of late observed to flow from 

 many, we shall, within a few years, be fain to learn Latin 

 to understand English, and a ivork will prove of equal faci- 

 lity m either." 



James Elmes. 



Roger Shnltspeare. — Nash, in his account of 

 Tardebigg (Hist of Worcestershire, vol. ii.), speak- 

 ing of Bordesley Abbey, says : 



"A.D. 1534, John Daj', the last Abbot, with 19 Monks, 

 subscribed to the King's supremacv, and to the surrender 

 of the Convent, 17 July, 1539, 15 Hen. VIII. 



" In 1553 there remained in charge £2 in fees, £6 7s. id. 

 in Annuities, and the following pensions." 



Then follow eleven persons, among whom is 

 Roger Shakespear, £5. 0. 0." 



Nash's authority is (Browne?) "Willis." Is 

 anything known of this Roger ? While on the 

 subject of the Shakspeare family, I may add that 

 that illustrious surname is comparatively common 

 ia South Staffordshire. H. S, G. 



Edie Ochiltree's Gravestone. — Being in the 

 parish graveyard of Roxburgh, near Kelso, Rox- 

 burghshire, on 12th Sept. 1858, I found the fol- 

 lowing inscription on a gravestone : — 



"TheBody of the 



Gentleman Beggar, 



Andrew Gemmels, alias Edie Ochiltree, was interred 



here, 



Who died at Roxburgh Newtown 



In 179.3, 



Aged lOG years. 



Erected by William Thomson Farmer Over 



Koxburgb, 



1849. 



I. 



®xxtxizi. 



WALK-MONEY AND WALK-MILLS. 



In the collection of Remarkable Charities and 

 Old English Cmtoms, extracted from the Reports 

 of the Charity Commissioners, and edited by H. 

 Edwards in 1841, mention is made, at p. 124., 

 of a charity at Oxborough in Norfolk termed 

 " walk-money." I am at a loss to determine the 

 meaning of this term. There were formerly, in 

 that district, mills called walk-mills, or fulling- 

 mills ; used for the purpose of fulling or milling 

 duffielel, a stout coarse cloth of worsted. These 

 mills were worked by persons walking inside a 

 cylinder, like a turnspit in his wheel, or squirrel 

 in his cage, or the donkey that draws the water 



from the deep well at Carisbrooke Castle in the 

 Isle of Wight. I recollect a crane for raising 

 heavy goods at Lynn being constructed and 

 worked upon the same principle. Sometimes 

 these mills were called Waugh ISIills. There were 

 three or four of them formerly at Castle Rising, 

 mentioned in Mr. Harrod's Gleanings among the 

 Castles and Convents in Norfolk. 



But I cannot say whether the charity of walk- 

 money is to be connected with the walk-mills. 



Another suggestion has occurred to me : — 

 Among the efforts of former days to put down the 

 nuisance of general mendicancy, was a system of 

 licensing beggars to solicit alms within certain 

 limits, with dish and clapper, or the ringing of a 

 bell ; and the district to which such permission 

 was limited was termed a hell-gate or hell-walk. 

 In the city of Norwich officers were appointed 

 with the title of Marshal of the Beggars, armed 

 with long staves, for the painting of which several 

 instances occur in the records ; and in the follow- 

 ing passage the bell-walk is mentioned : — 



" Whereas y« keeper or guider of the almshouse has 

 heretofore had permission, at the will of the Mayor, 

 Shereffs, and Common Council (with the ringing of a 

 hand-bell), to ask and receive the alms of the inhabitants 

 of the Citj' in diverse streets, the said Keeper or Guider 

 of the said liouse shall see that the said persons (having 

 permission to ask charity) well and orderlj* demean them- 

 selves in their Bell-gate, or Bell-walk, according to such 

 orders as are or shall be made b}' the Mayor and Alder- 

 men, and entered in the court of mayoralty." 



Whether the term walk-money is connected with 

 either of these old customs, or with some other 

 with which I am not acquainted, I beg to submit 

 to the readers of " N. & Q." GoDDAitD Johnson. 



East Dereham. 



THE ENGLISH THEOPHEASTUS. 



I have a Timo. volume printed in 1702, entitled 

 The English Tkeophrastus : or The Planners of the 

 Age. Being the Modern Characters of the Court, the 

 Town, and the City. No author's name, nor any 

 clue to it. Some former possessor of the book 

 had caused it to be lettered, "Blount's English 

 Theophrastus." But I very much doubt the cor- 

 rectness of this assignment. If it be correct, to 

 what Blount is it attributed ? 



There is an original note on the fly-leaf ad- 

 dressed to " Mr. Pewterer," and signed " Ric. 

 Burton," dated " Oct. 14, 1709." The note is as 

 follows : — 



" The book you dipp'd in when in my study was the 

 ' Art by which a man may raise himself, &e. ; or Hu- 

 mane prudence.' But you are past those Rudiments, and 

 I have therefore chose to send you this, which, if not 

 alreadj' in your hands, be pleas'd to accept as an Acquit- 

 tance for acquitting so many acquittance.s to 



"Your bumble Servant, 



• " Ric. Burton." 



I am not quite sure the signature is Ric. or Nic. 



