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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"H S. VI. 148., Oct. 30. '5?. 



tendant ' and 'forerunner' of Alfred; that he 'accom- 

 panied ' the king in his eniragement with the Danes 

 near Chippenham, 'led on the troops,* 'preceded the 

 standards' 'fought in splendour before the army,' and 

 ' gained the victory ' for the Saxons." [" Neotus signifer 

 etprcevius Regis autecedebat Exercitum."] 



Joseph Rix. 

 St.Neot's. 



Two Brothers of the same Christian Name (2"^ 

 S. V. 307. ; vi. 219.)— In Thoroton's Notts, p. 43., 

 two brothers " Radulphus " are given, tetJip. Ed. 

 II., in the " Frecheville " pedigree. From the 

 younger descended the Frechevilles of Palterton, 

 now extinct ; from the elder the main line of 

 Staveley, extinct in the male line on the death 

 of Lord Frecheville in 1682. Joan Frecheville, 

 great-great-granddaughter of the elder Radulphus, 

 married John Cranmer, brother of the Arch- 

 bishop, whose family, originally de Cranemere 

 (argent a chevron between three cranes azure), 

 was a very ancient one in Nottinghamshire. Sir 

 John Fitz-AVilliam of Sprotborough (about 

 1440) had six sons ; the eldest and the youngest 

 were both named " John." From the youngest 

 the Earls Fitzwilliam descend (v. Peerage). The 

 male issue of the elder is extinct ; but from his 

 granddaughter Isabel — through the families of 

 Wentworth of Bretton and Kaye of Woodsome 

 (now also extinct), the family of Frecheville was 

 descended. Frecheville L. B. Dykes, 



A descendant and representative. 



Surnames (2°^ S. vi. 202.) — 



" Many family names in this country clearly indicate 

 the descent of their possessors from those Valdenses and 

 Albigenses whom persecution served only to scatter all 

 over Europe. Such, for instance, are Pickard, Cotterel, 

 Waldy, Humble, Perfect, and Bonomi : derived severally 

 from Picardi, Cotterelli, Valdenses, Humiliati, Perfect!, and 

 Boni Homines. In forming the last name, Boni Homines 

 passed into Bonomii." — Faber on the Ancient Vallenses 

 and Albigenses, book lii. chap. v. p. 339. 7iote. 



J. C. W. 



The Pauper's Funeral (2"'* S. vi. 312.) — There 

 is a poem bearing the above title by the late Ro- 

 bert Southey. It commences : — 



" What ! and not one to heave the pious sigh." 



See the one- volume edition of Southey's Poeti- 

 cal Works, p. 135. 



This is probably what Mr. Hughes inquires for. 



Edward Peacoi k. 



Brass missing from St. Michael's, Norwich (2'"' 

 S. vi. 284.) — I deeply regret with your correspon- 

 dent, J. L'Estrange, the disappearance of the 

 two brasses from the church of St. Michael Cos- 

 lany. I found both there on visiting that church 

 in 1845, and took rubbings of both. I am thus 

 enabled to describe the missing one of Johanna 

 Clerk, having the rubbing now before me. It is 

 a whole length figure, measuring twenty-three 

 inches, including the plate below. She wears the 



angular head-dress of the sixteenth century, a 

 robe trimmed with ermine, and confined about the 

 waist by a rich girdle with three bosses, from 

 which hangs a rosary, and below it two heavy 

 tassels. The lady has her hands, not joined, but 

 lifted up, as if in admiration ; but, oddly enough, 

 one has the palm turned inwards, and the other 

 outwards. The following is the inscription on the 

 plate below : 



" Orate p aia Johane Clerk nup uxis Gregorii Clerk 

 Junioris civis et Aldermani. 

 Norwici q" q'S Johanna obiit xxi" die Septebris A" 

 X' m° v'= xiijo cu' aie ppiciet' de' Ame." 



F. C. H. 



Haveringmere (l" S. vii. 454. ; 2"^ S. vi. 334.) — 

 Harrimere, anciently Haveringmere, is I believe 

 in the parish of Stretham in the Isle of Ely. It 

 is at the spot where the West river empties itself 

 into the Cam. There was formerly a chapel here 

 in the patronage of the Tilney family. The names 

 of the following wardens of this chapel occur : — 



1390. John Berewyke. 



1393. Thomas Whitewell. 



1427. John Northgate. 



1434. Robert Cantell, bachelor of decrees. 



1437. Robert Dowe. 



There was (perhaps is) also a ferry at Harri- 

 mere. It is marked on each of the three maps of 

 the Bedford Level given in Badeslade's Histoj'y 

 of the Navigation between King's Lynn and Cam- 

 bridge, but I do not discern it on Wells's Map of 

 the Bedford Level. 



Harrimere is mentioned in Badesdale's work, 

 pp. 3. 61, 62. 73. 76. 87, 88. 93, 94. 96. 102, 103. 

 110. 120. 133.; and in Wells's Bedford Level, 

 i. pp. 22, 23. 27. 271, 272. 743 ; ii. pp. 48. 50. 90. 

 94, 160. 176. 273. 



Blomefield (^Collectanea Cantabrigiensia, 245.) 

 erroneously states it to be in the Imndred of 

 Wisbech. C. II. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



"Sau7iterer" (2"« S. vi. 314.)— Mr. Picton, 

 in his Note on this word, says : " The English 

 authorities for the word are comparatively modern, 

 not extending beyond the Restoration ! though it 

 is possible diligent research might ascend a little 

 higher." Since I read this, I have been in vain 

 looking for a passage in one of Caxtons publica- 

 tions, in which I well remember to have seen the 

 word, and seen it written saincte-terring. ]\Iy re- 

 collection is that it is in his Preface to Godfrey 

 de Bulloigne. Perhaps some other reader may be 

 able to make this reference more exact, and to 

 satisfy Mb. Picton that the use of the word goes 

 higher than he imagines. A. B. R. 



Belmont. 



Attorney -General Noy (2"'* S. vi. 309.)— In the 

 ^'■Compleat Lawyer, ^c, London, 1670, by William 

 Noy of Lincoln's Inne, late Attorney-General to 



