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Michael ove comyn for all in townes for grete bests. And a martynis ove all in townes may enter in with shepe.

Hangniede Estover is several fro lammasse to Michaell eve save Yatmyster and Chetnolle and no mo shal morwe lese and eve lese her laboryng bests therynne the fruts savyng theruppon and after Michaell eve comyn for Yatmyster and Chetnolle and no mo.

Newham felde is comyn for hem of Lye and no mo ; for all man bestel fro lammasse to michael eve savyng the fruts uppon.

The next felde lying to Newham felde is comen for hem of Chetnolle and no mo fro lammasse to michaell eve savyng the fruts theruppon for all man bestel.

All the feldis a westhalfe Chetnolle beth severel for hem of Chetnolle all the yere. Yatmister schal not comyn bi Sowthe the high wey lying betwene Chetnolle and Lye not er michaell eve and then ther schal have comyn there for the Sunday after Candilmasse Day and then thei shal goo owte thereof whether hit be value or no.

And all the feldis an e^thalfe Rielond ben severel for hem of Lye all the yere. Also thei of Lye have iij acres lond lying in a felde and Yat- mister hath thyre lying in their feld and as for that ther schal none comyn with other never the more.

The Este downe and Ernhille is comyn for Yatmyster and no mo fro lammasse to michaell eve for all man bestel as thei woll hemself savyng the fruts uppon. Thei of Lye and Chetnolle shall not comyn to north the Dow r ne lake and the Grene Wey lying to Stake Vopds not or Michaell eve and then thei schal come in with the lords of Whitfeld and comyn fro the Olde Pynne to Northam Forde etyng that old and kepe that new til the Sunday after Candelmasse And then schal Lye and Chetnolle go owte therof whether hit be valew or no.

All the felds an esthalfe Yatmistere is comyn for Yatmistre fro lammasse to michaell-eve for all man bestel that thei woll hemself.

Also all the felds awesthafe Yatminstre is comyn for hem of Yatminstre fro Lammasse to Michaell eve savyng the fruts uppon.

Fro Lyming Stoon to Deffords Brigg schall thei of Ryme comyn after Michaell Eve.

Yatmystre shall comyn in Byrne felde after Michaell Eve fro Lamslond Wey to Downe Lake the which officers that schuld loke that this for- said custume wer thus kept schal be chose in Yatmystre and in no nother towne.

Thus schuld the comyn be kept among the tenants the which is destrued in everie kynde as I schal reherce for they of Lye Eielonde schuld lye falwe and be comyn thei makith but Whete- felde the which schuld be comyn feld for all there townes.

Also the tenantrye of Lye and Chetnolle bryngith almost 200 bests mo then they men- teyneth upon her tenantrie owte of Wybroke (?) and Stokwade grownd unto our comyn assone as hit is apeyn for hit draw to midwynter and then thei gather home to her fresshe lese ayen and thus distoneth the comyn of the por tenantrie.

Also thei that have a folde or to of the lord wol have ther felde and comyn as a tenant ther thei after have none till michaell eve.

EDMUND R. NEVILL, F.S.A.

West Hanney Vicarage, Wantage.

ADMISSION REGISTERS OF SCHOOLS. This Society is at present engaged in com- piling a record of the registers of English schools, printed and otherwise, and we should be obliged if any reader of ' X. & Q.' would tell us the present place of deposit of the Admission Registers of Schools now dissolved, and whether any are in private hands. IVY C. WOODS,

Librarian-Secretary of the Society of Genealogists.

227. Strand. W.C.

SOURCE OF QUOTATION WANTED. The late Bishop Fraser, in a sermon dated 9 February, 1879, quoted Aristotle as saying :

" There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field ; and sometimes, if th.e stock be good, there springs up for a time a suc- cession of splendid men (#v5/>es Treptrroi) ; "and then comes a period of barrenness."

Will some correspondent furnish the reference, and also the passage as it stands in the original ?

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

WOODEN NUTCRACKERS. I have several old carved wooden nutcrackers with gro- tesque figures and screw -handles. I should be glad to know if these articles were of English or Swiss make, and their prob- able date. Two are human figures, the heads being hollow at the back to hold the nut, which is cracked by the pressure of the screw-handle. Another is a hand hold- ing a nut ; the third a squirrel.

P. D. M.

SOLICITORS' ROLL. W r here would one apply to see the Roll of Solicitors for those commencing practice about 1827 ?

OFFICERS IN UNIFORM. At what date, after Jane Austen wrote, did naval and military officers cease from wearing uniform when off duty, and was the change effected by official regulation ?

' THE FRUITLESS PRECAUTION.' Pepys in his ' Diary,' under date 15 October, 1660, notes :

" I fell to read ' The Fruitless Precaution ' . . . . which I read in bed till I had made an end of it* and do find it the best writ tale that ever I read in my life."

By whom was it written ? The eluci- datory notes to Wheatley's edition, 1904, which give the date of death of almost every person mentioned in the * Diary,' are apparently silent about it.

G. B. M.