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NOTES AND QUERIES, do* s. i. MARCH w, 190*.

of the latter is the explanation, then what about "Lent" figs still so called in this part of the country and Mid-Lent Sunday ?

GEORGE C. PEACHEY. Brightwalton.

CHARLES THE BOLD (10 th S. i. 189). If for " Henry, Count of Lancaster," we read Henry, Earl of Lancaster, his connexion with Charles the Bold is easily shown. Charles's maternal grand mother was Philippa Plantagenet, Queen of Portugal, daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, by Blanche Plantagenet, his first wife, who was granddaughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, grandson of King Henry III. Can MR. NUTTALL give us the blazon of this " the only English shield " on Charles's tomb ? If so, that would decide the question. Henry, Earl of Lancaster, bore Gules, three lions passant guardant or, a bendlet azure. H. MURRAY LANE.

The exact connexion of the Duke of Burgundy with the House of Lancaster is as follows : his mother, Isabel of Portugal, was daughter of John I. of that kingdom and Philippa of Lancaster, full sister to King Henry IV. of England. A. R. BAYLEY.

Charles the Bold was descended from the House of Lancaster thus : Henry, Duke of Lancaster, surnamed the Good, great-grandson of Henry III.

Blanche, m. John of Gaunt.

Philippa, m. Joao I. of Portugal.

Isabel, m. Philip of Burgundy.

Charles the Bold.

HELGA. [Reply also from MB. C. E. LEEDS.]

" PANNAGE AND TOLLAGE " (10 th S. i. 126). The rights of pannage are perhaps describee with more regard to detail in a statute ol William III., cap. 36 (Shipping) :

" All persons haying any Right of Common o Pasture, or any Privileges within the New Forest shall enjoy their Right of Pannage between 14 Sept. and 11 Nov. after Michaelmas, 1716 and not before, on forfeiture of any Hogg Pigg, or Swine, that after Michaelmas next, anc before the time aforesaid, shall be found in th( Wastes of the said Forest : And their Common o Pasture is continued to them in the said Was Ground of the Forest, when not Inclosed, except in the Fence month, viz., 15 days before and afte Midsummer, and in the Winter Heyning, viz., from 11 Nov. to 23 Apr. subject to the Forest Laws, a they might have enjoyed the same before the making of this Act : Saving also to the adjacent Inhabitant their ancient right of Fuel, provided they do not sel or dispose of any part thereof, nor take the same in other manner tnan they ought, nor by reason of

any Claim not allowed according to the Forest Laws- jefore 27 Eliz."

The reason that this comes under the head- ng of "Ships and Shipping" is that it had ately been enacted " that 2000 Acres, part ot the Wast Lands of the New Forest. .....shall be

enclosed and kept in severalty, for the Growth and Preservation of Timber for supply of his Majesty's Navy."

"Tollage" may, I think, be more generally described as the right conferred, by paying tribute or custom, to buy and sell within the precincts of a manor, such tolls going towards the repair of any damage the part used may have sustained. (See ' A Continuation of th Abridgment of all the Statutes of K. William and Q Mary and of William the Third ' begun by J. Washington, of the Middle Temple, Esq.,

1699.) J- HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

"CocKSHUT TIME" (10 th S. i. 121, 195). Cockshute as a place-name, whatever its original derivation, is of ancient use. In the grant to Roger Williams of the confiscated lands of the Priory of St. Mary, Usk, 35 Henry VIII., the following parcel is specified : " Certarum terrarum vocat C shute." It retains the name to this day, and so appears on the Ordnance map.

rv. .K.ICKAR.US.

The Priory, Usk. 'RECOMMENDED TO MERCY - (10*8. i, ,109).

-I find on reference to Mrs. M. C. Houstoun novel having this title that it w not the stor I am in search of. No doubt it is another novel bearing the same title The heroine (instead of Helen, as in the above) is name either Rosalind or Rosaline. Can any one kindly help me in my quest 1

EDWARD LATHAM.

EPITAPH ON SIR JOHN SEYMOUR (10 th S. i. 87 137) Ought we not to read pertpatettce, the vocative singular ? E. S. HODGSON.

"SON CONFORT ET LIESSE" (9 th S. xii. 249).-

This, which is the present form of the motto used' by the borough of Doncaster is due to a misreading. It appears on the charter granted to the town by Edward IV. in 1' L Don-Confort et Liesse" see 'Records of the Borough of Doncaster,' 1899 vol. ^ n iv n ). The arms are a lion seated on a cushion powdered ermine, holding a banner whereon is drawn a castle.

-SILLY BILLY" (10 S. i. 183). - This expression was applied to the Duke of Gloucester throughout the greater part of his life but was given to William IV. in the closing years of g his career by those who