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As Edward II. was hunting on Wolmer Forest, Morris Ken, 

 of the kitchen, fell from his horse several times, at which ac- 

 cidents the king laughed immoderately ; and, when the chase 

 was over, ordered him twenty shillings, 6 an enormous sum for 

 those days ! Proper allowances ought to be made for the 

 youth of this monarch, whose spirits also, we may suppose, 

 were much exhilarated by the sport of the day ; but, at the 

 same time, it is reasonable to remark that, whatever might 

 be the occasions of Ken's first fall, the subsequent ones seem 

 to have been designed. The scullion appears to have been 

 an artful fellow, and to have seen the king's foible, which fur- 

 nishes an early specimen of that his easy softness and facility 

 of temper, of which the infamous Gaveston took such advan- 

 tages as brought innumerable calamities on the nation and 

 involved the prince at last in misfortunes and sufferings too 

 deplorable to be mentioned without horror and amazement. 



NOTES 



1 Selesburne, Seleburne, Selburn, Selbourn, Selborne, and Selborn, as it 

 has been variously spelt at different periods, is of Saxon derivation ; for Set 

 signifies great, and burn torrens, a brook or rivulet : so that the name seems 

 to be derived from the great perennial stream that breaks out at the upper 

 end of the village. Sel also signifies bonus, item fcecundus, fertilis. " Sel 

 gsepr-cun : foBcunda graminis clausura ; fertile pascuum : a meadow in the 

 parish of Godelming is still called Sal-gars-ton" LYE'S Saxon Dictionary, 

 in the Supplement, by Mr. Manning. G. W. 



2 Thus, the name of Aldred signifies all-reverend, and that of Kemp means 

 a soldier. Thus we have a church-litten, or enclosure for dead bodies, and 

 not a chitrch-yard ; there is also a Culver-croft near the Grange Farm, being 

 the enclosure where the priory pigeon-house stood, from culver a pigeon. 

 Again there are three steep pastures in this parish called the Lith, from 

 Hlithe, clivus. The wicker-work that binds and fastens down a hedge on 

 the top is called ether, from ether, a hedge. When the good women call 

 their hogs they cry sic, sic,* not knowing that sic is Saxon, or rather Celtic, 

 for a hog. Coppice or brushwood our countrymen call rise, from hris, 

 frondes ; and talk of a load of rise. Within the author's memory the Saxon 

 plurals, housen and peason, were in common use. But it would be endless 

 to instance in every circumstance : he that wishes for more specimens must 

 frequent a farmer's kitchen. I have therefore selected some words to show 



* 2i'ca, porcus apud Lacones ; un Porceau chez les Lacedemoniens : ce mot a sans 

 doute este pris des Celtes, qui disent sic, pour marquer un porceau. Encore aujour'huy 

 quand le Bretons chassent ces animaux, ils ne disent autrement que sic, sic. Antiquite 

 de la Nation et de la Langue des Celtes, par Pezron. G. C. D. 



