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 n s. vii may io, 1913 ] NOTES AND QUERIES. 371 In reply to your correspondent's second question, the pedigree referred to relates to Wymondham, Norfolk, but the name appears to be Bainard. It was probably drawn up on the sale of the Manor of Nothes in Wy- mondham by Edmund Bainard to Sir Edward Clere of Blickling. I can forward your correspondent an extract from it if he wishes. A further question may arise whether the names Bainard or Baynard and Barnard are identical. They seem to have been used interchangeably. Geo. W. G. Barnard. Norwich. 1. Nicholas Bernard, D.D., was appointed Preacher of Gray's Inn 17 June, 1651. He was educated at Cambridge ; chaplain and librarian to Archbishop Ussher; Dean of Kilmore 1627 ; Prebendary of Dromore and Dean of Ardagh 1637 ; chaplain and almoner to Oliver Cromwell; published religious, historical, and other works, includ- ing a Life of Archbishop Ussher, 1656, which involved him in a controversy with Dr. Peter Heylyn. He died 1661. Dr. John Barnard or Bernard (d. 1683), Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxon, and Prebendary of Lincoln, published a life of his father-in-law Dr. Heylyn in 1683. His son of the same names was a supporter of James II. A. R. Bayley. 1. Foster's 'Gray's Inn Admission Register,' p. 500, says :— " Dean Nicholas Bernard, pensioner of Emmanuel Coll. Camb. 1617, Dean of Kilmore 1627, Rector of St. Peter's, Drogheda, 1627-8, Chaplain to Abp. Ussher.... Dean of Ardagh June 22,1637, Prebend, of Dromore July 12,1637, Chaplain to Oliver Crom- well and one of his Almoners, Preacher of Gray a 7nnlS51, Rectorof Whitohurch-cum-Marbury,cos. Salop and Chester, July 16,'1660. Died Oct. 15th, 1661. [B.A. 1620-1, M.A. 1622, M.A. of Oxford 1628, D.D. of Dublin 16.., D.D. of Cambridge 1650, D.D. of Oxford 1657.]" 2. Lothian Papers, 1515.—I would suggest a letter to the Marquess of Lothian, Blickling Hall, Aylsham, Norfolk, giving full refer- ence to the volume, and asking if his solicitor could be allowed to copy the pedigree for the querist upon payment of the solicitor's charges. 3. Charlemont Manuscripts (Hist. MSS., 13th Report, App., pt. viii. p. 24 (not 23).— The Barnard item is incorrectly indexed in this volume. George Barnard was Usher of the Order of St. Patrick. The words "Ulster King - of - Arms " refer to Sir Wm. Hawkins, whose name follows as knight attendant on the Order. Leo C. " The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea " (11 S. vii. 270, 316).—The cows, after having been milked, must have been returning to their pasture for the night, according to the abiding daily hygienic and economic routine of the dairy ; and they must at the same time, as they trooped along in Indian file, have been lowing, according to the immemorial custom of " jungle law," which requires that notice shall at once be given to the herd when food is in sight. I do not think " lowing " is merely a fixed epithet here. This interpretation, I venture to submit, meets all the requirements of the case, and presents no difficulty of any kind ; whereas the other interpretation, the more usual home-coming theory, is a fallacy of obser- vation which lets loose a swarm of objec- tions. For first of all, however much the tenor of the line may seem to suggest that the cows were homeward bound, at any rate it does not say so. Moreover, if the cows were coming home to be milked, how can milking-time (5 p.m. say) and curfew (8 p.m.) be reconciled ? You cannot milk cows at 8 o'clock at night, for what would happen to the cows if you did ? and what would happen to the milk ? Neither can you milk cows in the dark. We are compelled to assume that Gray either described what he actually saw, and wrote what he meant to write, or else that he mixed and muddled his memories at some distance of time after- wards. Everything certainly, as your corre- spondent says, is designed to emphasize the gathering twilight and the cessation of work ; but had the movement of the lowing kine been homeward, I suggest that work for the day would not have been over, nor would pasturing for the night, unless, indeed, the cows had been milked in the field, and were then en route to the cow-house for the night—a thing which does not take place in summer. Cows, in summer, continue grazing till after 10 p.m., as they spend the night in the open field. My own personal experience bears out what I have said. The cows in Dorset- shire, at milking-time, would be, of course, scattered over the meadow, and to collect them the cowman, or dairymaid, would open the gate and call out, not " Koosh," as another correspondent says, nor yet " Cusha," as Miss IngeloW says, but the loud, carrying cry " Wo ! Wo ! Wo ! " sending at the same time the trusty farm- dog off in hot haste with the significant order " Fetch 'em round—Quick ! " Then would ensue a pretty pastoral episode