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1679-81, 1681, 1689-90, 1690-95, 1695-8, and February, 1699, to 1700 ; and nominated Sheriff of Essex 8 November, 1688, but declined to serve. He died 11 June, 1702 ; buried at Stanstead Montfichet. Will dated 16 July, 1694 ; proved 30 July, 1702, by son Thomas. By his wife Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir Stephen Langham of Quinton, Northants, he had two sons and three daughters, of whom his second daugh- ter Constance (born 28 December, 1682) married (1) in 1703 Sir Roger Burgoyne, fourth Baronet of Sutton, Beds ; (2) Christopher Wren, Esq., of Wroxall, War- wick, who died 24 August, 1747.

W. D. PINK.

JOHN NIANDSEB (11 S. iv. 169). Ninezergh is a farmhouse on the left bank of the river Kent, half a mile south-west of L evens Hall, in the parish of Heversham, Westmorland. Thomas de Niandesherye or Niansahe attests local charters in 1317 and other near years. By deed dated at Nyand- serghe on Sunday next after All Saints', 24 Edward III. (1350), John de Nyandsergh gave to Sir Matthew de Redemane, Kt., his lands, tenements, meadows, and wastes of Nyandsergh, within the town of Levenes, with warranty (Reg. of deeds at Levens Hall, fol. 67 d). An indult was granted to Peter de Nyenzer of Lund-on- the- Wolds in 1397 (Papal Reg., v. 118). William Nyander is named in the will of Sir Thomas Strickland, Kt., made in 1430 (Scott, ' The Stricklands of Sizergh,' 62). Thomas Nyanser was a feoffee named in a Harington deed in 1462 (' Cal. of the Patent Rolls, 1467-77,' p. 456).

John Niandesergh of Niandesergh, Westmorland, " squyer," suffered forfeiture of his estates not only for the death of John Tybbay, as related in the query, but also for the death of William Gerard of Burton- in-Kendal (ibid., 1413-16, pp. 219, 251 ; Cal. Inquis. ad quod Damnum, 369 6). He was described as of co. Nottingham in respect of the manor of Langar, which was of the inheritance of Margaret his wife, daughter and coheir of Robert Tibetot, and widow of Roger, Lord Scrope of Bolton (Thoroton's' Nottinghamshire,' ed. Throsby, i. 204). The will of Nicholas Nyandezer of the parish of St. Frith, London, was proved in 1496 (P.C.C. Wills, 28 Vox).

It would be interesting to know how it was that a Westmorland yeoman of small estate obtained in marriage the widow of Lord Scrope of Bolton. Was it in reward for services rendered in the French wars ?

W. FARRER.

Hall Garth, Carnforth.

THIRTEENTH (US. iv. 167). A subsidy from laymen of a thirteenth of their annual rents and movable chattels was granted to King John on 9 February, 1206/7. Elabo- rate instructions were given for the collecting of this tax. Any one convicted of frau- dulently removing his goods, or appraising them below their value, was to forfeit the whole and his body to be committed to prison.

The sum paid in the county of Lancaster for fifteenths in 1226 amounted to 553Z.

SIB JAMES MTJBBAY will find some inter- esting details about this in vol. xxvii. pp. 1, 6, 7, 148, 158, of the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society.

HENBY FISHWICK.

The earliest instance of the payment of a thirteenth which I can find was in 1207, when an " assisa de terciodecimo " was levied on the movable property of laymen for the defence of the kingdom. See Patent Roll 8 John, M. 3 dorso, quoted in ' Lan- cashire Lay Subsidies ' (Record Society, vol. xxvii.), pp. 35-6. The author (the late J. A. C. Vincent) attempted a general survey of the taxation of England down to the end of the reign of Edward I. The volume is a mine of information as to fifths, sevenths, ninths, fifteenths, twentieths, and fortieths, and other kinds of taxation.

R. S. B.

BAGSTOB SURNAME (US. iv. 170). The suffix -stor is merely an arbitrary variant of -ster. Perhaps it was suggested by the Devonshire Tors, with which it may have been mistakenly connected. Certainly the original form was the A.-S. bcecestre ; whence the Mid. Eng. bakestere, baxstere, baxtere. more corruptly bagstere, later bagster, latest bagstor. The suffix -ster is the A.-S. double suffix -es-tre, as in spin-ster.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

SWEETAPPLE SUBNAME : SWEETAPPLE

COURT (11 S. iii. 66, 134, 213, 293). Much information on members of the Sweetapple family has already been supplied at the above references by correspondents of N. & (J. I shall be glad to learn whether Sweetapple Court in London once belonged to Sir John Sweetapple or was named after him.

I should also be grateful for any further facts bearing on our pedigree. Our crest is : on a mural coronet argent a plain cross gules. Motto : " Crux nostra corona.

H. ALGAB SWEETAPPLE, M.D.

Parkside, Adelaide, South Australia.