Page:Notes and Queries - Series 11 - Volume 6.djvu/361

 ii s. vi. OCT. 12. 1912. j NOTES AND QUERIES.

297

The number of volumes and the date of the beginning of the publication agree with the edition published, 1853-61, by Seeleys, the remainder, 1868-70, by George Seeley.

In collating my copy I have found that the plate ' The Burning of Master John Rogers, Vicar of St. Sepulchre's ' (see vol. vi. part ii. p. viii), is missing, as it is in another copy which I have examined.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[Robert Riland Meiidham died the year after Dr. Home's letter was written. See ' Diet. Nat. Biog., y.v. Joseph Mendham.]

COUNTESS OF LANESBOROUGH (MRS. JOHN KING) (11 S. vi. 229). MR. SOLOMONS'S information as to John King, alias Jacob Rey. is interesting, but the Countess's family, that of Rochfort, is and was a Protestant one, and the leakage from the Protestant churches to Rome only set in after the Oxford Movement gained ground, and was unknown in the eighteenth century.

K.

" LEASE FOR THREE LIVES " (11 S. vi. 230). The words " to the use," quoted by MR. McPiKE, do not imply that the property was entailed, but quite the contrary.

The words were used to convey the property in " fee simple/' or freehold, after the death of the survivor of the three sisters. A. COLLING WOOD LEE.

This phrase has no bearing on the word- ing, as quoted, of Mrs. Price's will. She seems to have given a life -interest in property to three sisters, and, subject to such interest, the entire fee simple, not fee tail, to Mr. Millikin ; but not even a lawyer could give an opinion upon a document without seeing the original or an exact copy. There is no suggestion by the quotation that Mrs. Price was dealing with entailed property. Whether she did or did not exceed her actual testa- mentary powers is a purely legal point, only to be decided on examination of the previous title to the property and careful consideration of the then existing law. MISTLETOE.

CONCAVE MIRROR WITH EAGLE, CHAIN, AND BALL (US. vi. 230). I also own one. The centre of the chain is held by the eagle, and the ends are looped up to gilt flowers on the upper half of the frame, but do not terminate in a ball ; the lower half of the frame has two gilt candlesticks on either side. I cannot say whether the eagle with chain in its beak is a mere ornament

or has an heraldic or royal significance, nor can I give any information about the origin of my mirror.

F. E. R. POLLARD-URQUHART. Craigston Castle, Turriff, N.B.

I have recently seen a mirror answering to the above description at my sister's in Folkestone. Although at the present time the eagle, chain, and two balls are gilded, they were originally black: the eagle is resting on rocks or a mount, as depicted in heraldry. I do not consider that the whole is an achievement, but merely a trade design. The mirror has been in my family for very many years. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

" YELVER " IN PLACE-NAJIES (11 S. vi. 191, 238). The statements at the last reference are due to a singular misunder- standing of the ' E.D.D.' Gilver or (/elver is a verb, meaning " to ache," and has no connexion with gild, geld, " barren." The confusion is due to the entry following, viz., " Gelt, Gelver ; see Geld, Gilt, Gilver." The meaning of this is, that for Gelt we are to consult the articles on Geld and Gilt ; and that for Gelver we are to consult that on Gilver. It never entered the editor's head that any one would so utterly misunder- stand all these matters as to imagine a connexion between Gelt and Gelver ; so he threw the two distinct references into a single line, to save space.

It follows that w ? e can be perfectly sure that the prefix Yelver- has nothing whatever to do with geld, " barren " ; for, indeed, a d and a v are unconnected. It is more likely that it refers to some proper name that is not recorded. As Geld- sometimes begins names, and -frith sometimes ends them, such a name as Geld-frith is possible. In any case, we must account for the -er as well as for the v.

"EXATE" (US. vi. 251). Perhaps a mis- reading of " exact." It is not a very suitable word to modern ears, but the ' N.E.D.' gives a few examples in which it means " to call for, demand, require " in no very rigorous sense. It cannot be right as it stands.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

I suggest that this word stands for " exact," in the sense of " demand." One of the definitions of " exact " in the ' X.E.D.' is "to require .... with authority .... the concession of (anything desired)."

L. R. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg.