2"^ S. VI. 148., Oct. 30. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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known here. Joseph Pearce was INIayor of Wells, 

 A. D. 1722 and 1728. In St. Cuthbert's Church 

 there are several grave-stones to the memory of 

 persons named Pearce : Mary Pearce, wife of 

 Peter Pearce, died Sept. II, 1689; Martha, wife 

 of Richard Slade, and third daughter of Joseph 

 Pearce, died 14th J , 1759. 



If R. C. AV.'s object is something more than 

 mere curiosity, I would endeavour to help him. 

 further, on his addressing me a letter through the 

 Editor. Ina. 



Wells, Somerset. 



French Coin (2''« S. vi. 266.) — The following, 

 extracted from Say's Pol. Econ. (i. 21.) will sup- 

 ply nearly all the information sought. The coin, 

 livre of Charlemagne, contained twelve ounces of 

 fine silver, and the measure of weight also called 

 a livre contained twelve ounces in that reign. 

 Philip I. mixed one-third of alloy, reducing the 

 livre to eight ounces of fine silver. In the year 

 1113 the Zi'rre contained no more than six ounces, 

 and at the commencement of the reign of Louis 

 VII. it had been reduced to four ounces. St. 

 Louis gave the name of livre to a quantity of 

 silver weighing 2 oz. 6 gros. 6 grs. At the era 

 of the French Revolution the livi-e weighed only 

 the one-sixth of an ounce ; consequently it had 

 been reduced to the one-seventy-second part of 

 its value in the time of Charlemagne. The au- 

 thority quoted by Say is Le Blanc, Traite Hist, 

 des Monnuies. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Crannock (2"'» S. vi. 232. 297.) — • " The dolium 

 was a tun of 252 gallons, and the average price 

 (of wine) about 3rf. a gallon." See AVhitaker, 

 Craven, p. 343., describing the establishment of 

 the canons of Bolton. Dolium, for a " cask," is 

 found in Juvenal, Horace, Pliny, &c. See also 

 Dufresne, Gloss, and Riddle, Diet. 



R. S. Charnock. 



Confession of a Sceptic (2°^ S. vi. 311.) — " One 

 of the greatest men of our time," alluded to by Dr. 

 Arnold, was Samuel Taylor Coleridge : — 



"Take myself, S. T. C, as a humble instance. I was 

 never so befooled as to think that tbe author of the fourth 

 Gospel, or that St. Paul, ever taught the Priestleyan 

 Peilanthropism, or that Unitarianisra (presumptuously, 

 nay, absurdly so-called), was the doctrine of the New 

 Testament generally. But during the sixteen months of 

 my aberration from the Catholic Faith, I presumed that 

 the tenets of tlic divinity of Christ, the Redemption, and 

 the like, were irrational, and that what was contradictory 

 to reason could not have been revealed by the Supreme 

 Reason. As soon as I discovered that these doctrines 

 were not only consistent with reason, but themselves very 

 reason, I returned at once to the literal interpretation of 

 ihe Scriptures, and to the Faith." —i\'o/fs on English 

 Uivines, Moxon, 18o.'5, p. 179. 



" I owe, under (jod, my return to the faith, to my hav- 

 ing gone much further tlian the Unitarians, and so having 

 conic round to the other side. I can truly say I never 



falsified the Scripture ; I always told them that their 

 interpretations of the Scripture were intolerable upon any 

 principles of sound criticism, and that if they were to 

 ofier to construe the will of a neiglibour as they did that 

 of their Maker, they would be scouted out of society. I 

 said then plainly and openlj' that it was clear enough 

 that John and Paul were uotUnitarians. But at that time 

 I had a strong sense of the repugnance of the doctrine of 

 Vicarious Atonement to the moral being, and I thought 

 nothing could counterbalance that." — Table Talk, John 

 Murray, 1851, p. 165. 



I could give other extracts from Coleridge's 

 works in farther proof of identity, but I think 

 these two are sufficient. The old Unitarians of 

 this tofvn have never forgiven Coleridge these 

 strictures. C. Mansfield iNGLEsr. 



Birmingham. 



Riccardo Miisardo (2"'^ S. iii. 392. ; vi. 178.)— 

 He will be identical, most probably, as stated (if 

 dates suit) with Richard, son and heir of Has- 

 culphus or Hascoil de Musard, temp. Conq. ; but 

 how the Norman Baron's name became Italianised 

 as above is not easy of conjecture. Richard de 

 Musard was Baron of Staveley in Derbyshire, 

 where he resided as his father had done {v. Ly- 

 sons). Apparently he had a younger son " Wil- 

 liam," who as " grandson of Hascoil de Musard," 

 is stated by Sir B. Burke (Peerage) to have 

 settled at Miserden in Gloucestershire, and to be 

 the ancestor of the Roper (Peynham) family, 

 having changed his name to Rubra Spatha — 

 Rospear — whence " Roper." Richard's eldest son 

 Hasculph continued in the barony at Staveley. His 

 great-grandson John was the last of tlie name 

 (temp. Henry III.), whose aunt and eventual 

 heir, Amicitia de Musard, married Sir Ancher 

 de Freoheville, and carried the Barony of Staveley 

 into that family. His son and heir, Sir Ralph de 

 Frecheville, had a summons to Parliament as a 

 Baron 25 Ed. L 



Fkecheville L. B. Dykes, 

 A descendant and representative. 



Cold Harlonr (2°* S. vi. 143. 317.)— Mr. Bab- 

 ington's " near Eynesbury, but in Cambridge- 

 shire," is identical with " Huntingdonshire, Tem- 

 pisford," of Mr. Clarke's list. It is situated at the 

 junction of Tetworth in Huntingdonshire, Gam- 

 lingay in Ca;nbridgeshire, and Tempsford in Bed- 

 fordshire. Joseph Rix. 

 St. Neot's. 



Alfred's Jewel (2'"' S. vi. 233. 312.) — Mr. 

 Gorham (Hist, of Eyneshiirtj and St. Neots, 1824, p. 

 96.), suggests that 



" Possibly it was mounted upon a Standard (after the 

 manner of the Roman eagle), or \\'a3 elevated upon the 

 suuiinit of a stalf, being carried into battle, for the purpose 

 of animating the soldiers." 



This conjecture, he thinks, explains the state- 

 ments 

 " That St. Neot, after his decease, was the constant ' at- 



