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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL JAN. 9,

Bernhard Bauhusius's

Omnia si laudas mea, Branti, caecus amore os : Omnia si culpas, csecus es invidia (ii. 26)

at once recalls Owen, i. 2 : Qui legis ista, tuam rej)rehendo, si mea laudaa

Omnia, stultitiam ; si nihil invidiam. The second of Cabillavus's ' Epigram- mata Selecta,'

Nox cfc Dies.

Mille oculos gerit ilia, Cyclops hie errat : at uno Plus oculo hio cernit ; luscus an Argus erit ?

resembles Owen, i. 82 :

Sit; nox centoeulo quamvis oculatior Argo ; Plus uno cernit lumine lusca dies.

Owen's lines on Sir Philip Sidney (ii. 29),

Qui scribenda facit, scribitve legenda beatus, &c., are singled out by Mr. Leach as worthy of their subject. It should not be forgotten that for thought and expression Owen is here largely indebted to the younger Pliny (Ep. vi. 16, 3). The metre is not beyond reproach.

Unless the reader is alert in recognizing Owen's countless reminiscences of other authors, the epigrams are not likely to be properly appreciated. In i. 6, 3-4 (addressed to Thomas Neville, son of the poet's patroness),

Qui puerum laudat, Spem, non reni laudat in illo, Non spes ingenium, Res probat ipsa tuum,

we have plainly a recollection of the words of Cicero quoted by Servius on '^En.,' vii. 877, " causa difficilis laudare puerum, non enim res laudanda sed spes est." Misled by the faulty punctuation that appears in some editions, Owen's German translator, Valentine Lobern, 1653, has here written nonsense.

After recording the inscription on Owen's monument in Old St. Paul's, Parva tibi statua est, quia parva statura, supellex Parva, c.

Mr. Leach observes that Owen would not have tolerated parva statura from a fifth- form boy. This criticism argues a want of acquaintance with the history of Latin versification. The rule about not retaining a short vowel before sc, sp, st, however familiar to the modern schoolboy, was neglected by Owen. Heinous false quan- tities can be collected from him, and what was Owen's practice was the practice of other versifiers of his day. To see what a Student of Christ Church was then capable of, one need only turn to the Latin verses prefixed by Burton to the third and following editions of his ' Melancholy.'

EDWAUD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth.

THE MANORS OF NEYTE, EYBURY r

AND HYDE. (Concluded from 10 S. x. 463.)

THE first part of this note had in view the original great manor of Eia with its three reputed divisions, Neyte, Eybury, and Hyde, and treated specially of the situation of Neyte Manor House ; the second part was devoted to the history of the Manor House r and in this, the third part, I would refer to the limits of the three divisions or manors, noting also the particulars gathered in rela- tion to Eybury and Hyde.

The site of Neyte Manor House being, as I hope, no longer questionable, we have now to inquire as to the land attached which constituted the manor in the broad sense of the term. I will answer at once that, as the result of study, my finding is that although there were some fields attached to the house in the time of the abbots, and cer- tainly a considerable extent of land when, after the suppression of the monastery,. Neyte became a tenanted farm, this land did not lie in or make the manor. In fact, the manor of Neyte, so called, simply lay in the words of the Abbot's grant or surrender, and the Act which embodies it " within the compass of the moat," an- area perhaps of two acres. Housings, build- ings, yards, gardens, orchards, fishing, &c.,. were contained within the enclosure ; but no lands beyond are indicated as per- taining to the manor. I am aware that this conclusion as to the very limited extent of Neyte manor will appear heterodox in view of the prevalent conception of its having been a substantial division of the original great manor of Eia ; but I hope to prove it.

The grant proceeds to specify " over against the same site" a close called "the Twenty Acres," and a meadow called " Abbot's Meadow," with a piece of ground called Cawsey Hall (properly Haw, i.e. Cause- way Haw), in all thirteen acres. These certainly adjoined and were attached to the manor house. But the next item was far from it, arid far eastward of the Eye brook, the east boundary of Eia, viz., " a meadow next the Horseferry over against Lambeth." Then follow indefinitely "thirty-two acres of arable land in divers places," meadow in Thames Mede, and land near the Eye ; these might have gone with Neyte, but they are items in a promiscuous list, which goes on to include land in Charing Cross Field, " The Lamb " in King Street, Westminster, the advowson of the church at Chelsea, and the manor and church advowson of Totyng-