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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL MAR. 27, ime.

croppere," " }heleshofell " or " zheleshofell," " ad cambipartem," " helping stock," " la stoupe," " cublad." The following extracts show the context and the period when the words were used :

1. May, 1362. Isabel Bryt permitted a bake- house to be ruinous, and carried away the corr and timber thereof.

2. May, 1362. Thomas Yonge was granted an entry into 3 acres of overland, paying a fine cum haltio by pledge of the reeve, and he was to be distrained to do fealty.

3. Oct., 1382. An estray was one red sterred fytelfoted bullock.

4. Oct., 1382. The homage presented " of corribote about Herdyngecroft, 5 bushels of wheat."

5. May, 1414. Thomas atte Hume unjustly entered a house and carried away some wheat. The same Thomas is a common holcroppere of other things, to the grievous nuisance of the neighbours.

6. April, 1421. Richard assaulted John with one Zheleshofell or zheleshofell.

I. May, 1362. A swarm of bees arising of estray remains in the custody of John Cory ad cambipartem.

8. April, 1353. It is granted that Walkelin may demise ad campi partem his tenure in a mes- suage to the vicar for two years.

9. Oct., 1815. The jury presented the helping stock before " The Half -Moon Inn " as being dangerous.

10. May, 1361. Alice Lacok having been convicted many times as a common gossip and quarreller, "it is ordered that she have the judgment of la stoupe."

II. March, 1615. Richard' Michell, a customary tenant, having died, there fell " to the lord for a heriot one .... [blank in MS.], in English a Cublad, of the value of 12d."

A. H.

[3. Bullock with a red star and fiddle-footed ? 4. For " cornbote " see 9 S. viii. 44 ; x. 61, 115 253.]

APLIN FAMILY. The following statements are from an old manuscript pedigree :

1. Aplin or Ap Lynn ; family of Welsh origin ; owned estates in Cornwall up to beginning of sixteenth century ; afterwards settled in Somerset, and a branch in Ox- fordshire. Motto : " Gala rag whethow." Arms : Argent, on a cross sable five eagles displayed. Quartered arms of D'Oyly of Chislehampton.

2. I. Peter Aplin or Ap Lynn, called "The Warrior," temp. Queen Elizabeth. Arms, three arrows. Crest, a warrior's cap.

11. Richard, of Hayes, Kent. Dean of Exeter ; Canon of Christchurch, Oxon.

III. Peter. Born Hayes, Kent ; d. March, 1711, Taunton. Soldier temp. Queen Anne. Married Mary Webb. Quartered arms of Webb. Three cross-crosslets gules.

Can any reader kindly tell me where information of the early history of this

family can be found (other than that con- tained in ' History of the House of D'Oyly,' 1845) ? Does the name occur in any records or history of Wales, Cornwall, or Somer- set ? F. R. H. CHAPMAN, Major.

Balgonie, Camberley, Surrey.

BELFOUR FAMILY. I should be very glad to know where I can see a pedigree of the above family. To what county did it belong ? Okey seems to have been a frequent Christian name, and some were members of the Inner Temple. LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

ROAST PIGS CRYING " WHO 'LL EAT ME ? " When does the land where roast pigs run about with a knife and fork stuck into them, crying, " Who '11 eat me ? " first appear in literature ? G. M.

" GAUNOX." In the Birchanger Court Roll of December, 1511, a woman is de- scribed as " gaunox seruicie " (i.e., cervisie). Whether the four minims between a and o represent un is quite uncertain. I shall be glad of any information on the word.

Q. V.

INDIAN NAMES.

(10 S. xi. 166.)

MR. PLATT is correct in his suspicion that Mukarji (often spelt Mookerjee) is a " collo- quial form of the name which appears on State occasions as Mukhopadhyaya." This is one of the four great Brahman cognomina of Bengal, the three others being Chatter jee, Bannerjee, and Chuckerbutty, whose State (or Sanskrit) appellations are Chatopadhyaya, Banopadhyaya, and Chakravarti. Amongst the lower castes there is an infinity of de- signations, not so much family as caste or tribal, which are now familiar to readers of newspapers, such as Sen, Pal, Mitter, Bose, Dutt, &c.

As to Mohammedans, I had something to say about " Abdul " a few months ago (10 S. x. 284). The Muslimln have no patro- nymics, but are occasionally designated after the names of their birthplace or tribe, e.g., Saiyid Husain Bilgrami, a member of the Indian Council, called after the town of Belgaum, or Ahmed Durrani, after the Afghan tribe.

Mahrattas, in addition to surnames in -kar, have often hereditary names derived from occupations, as Gaekwar, a cow-tender. Other surnames are Bhonsla, Sindhia, &c.