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y e lent tyme." Here "Tablemer" is probably a form of 

 Talernaculum. In the original the letters are perfectly 

 clear and distinct ; but with tbe word in this form, those 

 who are more versed in tbese matters tban I am seem 

 altogether unacquainted. The otber entry is a " guer" or 

 "quer of Cofhemorations." Here "quer" is probably a 

 form of " queare," or " quire," a square of paper, whereon 

 were recorded the names of the benefactors of St. Cather- 

 ine^ Ile. 



I will only further remark that the streets referred to 

 in the Rent Roll bear the same names in the present day. 

 " Ratyn Rew," however, has disappeared, and I have no 

 means, at present, of determining the locality. It seems 

 to have had its origin in the cloth manufactures which 

 were extensively carried on at Bridgwater from an early 

 period. The "pere of towkers sheres," mentioned in this 

 MS., for the use of which Thomas Nawden paid i]d. 

 annually to the wardens of St. Catherine, are indications 

 of the same craft. "Ratteen" was a kind of thick woollen 

 stuff, quilled. " Ratyn Rew" may have been the name of 

 the street or locality where this stuff was manufactured. 

 Pynel is now joined to Orlieu, as Pennel-Orlieu street. 

 In old documents they appear as distinct streets. The 

 origin of both is very obscure. The latter may have been 

 named from the wine trade with Orleans, in France, which 

 place in old MSS. appears in the form of Orliaunce : as 

 " Wyne of Langdoke and of Orliaunce."* The accounts of 

 the water-bailiffs contain many entries of wine among the 

 importations at Bridgwater, temp Henry VIII. May 

 Orlieu street have been an ancient corruption of Orliaunce 

 street? 



* Quotcd hy Halliwell in bis Archaic Dictionary. 



