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pew in which plaintiffs and their ancestors " ont seie et kneel e pur oyer divine service in le Eglise de D. en un He en le upper End del Eglise." Two years later Mrs. Fetti- place sues the parson of Pusey " pour de bruser son close et de fouler ses herbes ove ses avers (viz.) beufes, vacces, galines, Ducks, Aucks, et Cock de Indies ; " and the Court sagaciously quashes the judgment against him on the ground that turkeys are not averia, but volatilia.

In Cossett's Case, 2 Car. I., 'Tauerne quant I'homme fuit tue per un plage BUT Je teste ove un quart pott, & drinking ensemble, mes ne fuit prove quex d'eux done le plage."
 * fuit prove que diverse fuerunt present in le

In the same year it is said that the Statute of Westminster

" n'est qu un Nurse [when] le child est nee, et 1'statute come careful mother prist ceo en ses braches a preserver ceo."

And again :

" Dodderidge dit que les parolls d'un Judgment doit estre certen et nemy destre vary ou frame solonque le pleasure et fond conceit de chescun home."

I have extended the abbreviations. There is a mine of comedy in the old Reports.

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their name's and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" TERSE " CLARET. In Sir C. Sedley's man says, " I am so full I should spill terse at every jolt ; we drank gallons apiece " ; and a little further on, " He grudg'd her money for honest terse, and so he's right enough serv'd." Here it appears that terse was the name, proper or in slang, of some beverage. Shadwell, ' The Humourists,' Act IV. (of 1671), has " Must I stay till by the strength of terse claret you have wet yourself into courage ? " Here the epithet terse is applied to claret ; whence we may perhaps conclude that the terse in Sedley stands for " terse claret." But why is claret described as, or called, " terse," and what is the origin of the term ? Claret no doubt was imported in " terses " or " tierces," but so also, I suppose, were other wines. I do not find that Halliwell or Nares has dealt with " terse " in this sense, and shall be glad if readers of ' N. & Q.' can give us any light on it. JAMES A. H. MURRAY. '
 * Bellamira,' Act II. sc. i. (of 1687), Merry-

Oxford.

THE BLACK PRINCE'S LANGUAGE. It is stated in Mr. Edmund Storer's ' Peter the Cruel,' p. 308, that after the battle of Najara the Black Prince asked where Henry de Trastamara was : " 'E lo bort, es mort o' pres ? ' (' And the bastard, is he dead or taken ? ') he asked ; and when they told him of his escape, he answered prophetically, with the intuition of a true general : ' Noy ay res fait' ('Then nothing is done')." In what language or dialect was the Prince speaking Provenyal, Gascon, Languedocian, Bearnais, or what ? Was it his usual lan- guage in France and Spain ?

ALBAN DORAN.

" DIE IN BEAUTY." I have been reading lately the phrase "in Schonheit sterben " so often that it seems to me trite, but only now it occurs to me that I do not know its origin. Are readers of ' N. & Q.' in a better position with regard to it ? G. KRUEGER. Berlin.

ROGER GREATOREX, PAPER MANUFAC- TURER. I should be grateful for any infor- mation regarding the family of Roger Greatorex, paper manufacturer. Between 1784 and 1795 he was living at Apsley Mill, in the parish of King's Langley, Herts. A later address may have been Two Waters Mill, Hemel Hempstead, same county.

In 1800 he apparently had to move to Lancaster, and wrote of getting sailing accommodation for America ; but whether he went or not, I do not know. His son Lawrence was a passenger on the American ship Washington, sailing from Lisbon in November, 1799. This Lawrence settled in America, and, I believe, owned and operated the first paper mills in that country, on the Brandywine, near Wilmington, Delaware.

I want also the names of the wives of Roger Greatorex and his son Lawrence.

E. HAVILAND HILLMAN. 3227, Campo S. Samuele, Venice.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOLK-LORE. In the first report of the Council of the Folk-lore Society, dated 29 May, 1879, it is stated :

" In April of last year it will be remembered that the Council prepared and issued forms for the com- pilation of a Bibliography of English Folk-lore. But almost immediately a member came forward and offered the use of his valuable collection, made for a Bibliography of superstitions and religious belief, which was the result of many years' work, involving, among other labours, complete perusal of the British Museum catalogues. Although this collection was only in part available for the Society's purpose, and did not cover all the ground which the Bibliography of Folk-lore will occupy, the Council very thankfully accepted this offer, and they are