Page:Notes and Queries - Series 12 - Volume 1.djvu/304

 298

NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. APRIL s, wie.

quote, as I possess also an elaborately extra- illustrated and enlarged copy of the same (1866) volume, in which the additional pages are not given. F. J. HYTCH.

Crouch End.

' ' BLIZABD " OB " BLIZZABD " AS A SURNAME (US. ix. 290, 396, 437, 456 ; x. 14, 58). At the fourth reference I ventured to suggest that this name was derived from the personal name of Blees and the mediaeval term assart, but at the last reference it was stated that the word was derived from bligh and ard meaning " milk-hill." Since then a well- known antiquary has kindly permitted me to look over some abstracts of title-deeds from the township of Over-Kellet (which was included in the great forest of Lonsdale), and amongst these I noticed an indenture of Dec. 7, 6 Chas. (1630), in which a field is called " Assard." This name is clearly the mediaeval assart the t having become a d. In the year 1818 the same field is named again and is then called " Azard." By that time the ss had been changed to a z. Here we have documentary evidence of the formation of the terminal zard from a word, in ordinary use during the Middle Ages, which does not require any assistance from the Celtic ard, a hill.

W. H. CHIPPINDALL, Col.

Kirkby Lonsdale.

RICHARDSON, c. 1783 (12 S. i. 128). A great deal of information respecting most families of this name is to be found in a MS. at the Bodleian, Oxford, compiled by a Mr. Richardson of Ipswich at the end of the nineteenth century. The Society of Genea- logists (of 5 Bloomsbury Square, W.C.) also possesses much information. If MR. GARDNER cares to write direct to me, I might be able to give him some help. There were some Johnson v. Richardson Chancery suits in the latter half of the eighteenth century, which might possibly refer to his family. (Rev.) T. C. DALE.

115 London Road, Croydon.

EPITAPHS AT NORTH HINKSEY (12 S. i. 26). In his report on the recent restoration of Hinksey Church the Vicar stated that " the memorial stone of the parents of the famous physician of the 17th century, Thomas Willis, was found at a level of about a foot below the existing chancel floor." Tt is mentioned in Lysons's ' History of Berkshire,' p. 293, published 1813, and Murray's ' Handbook for Berks, Bucks, and Oxon,' 1860, p. 66.

In 1635 Thomas Willis and William Fynmore were churchwardens. Murray also

mentions an epitaph in the churchyard to Richard Spindlove, 1825: "All that was mortal of a Blue " this epitaph in full wilB be found in ' N. & Q.,' 2 S. iii. 379. Spind- love is described as "an independent free- man of the city of Oxford." Does this stills exist ? R. J. FYNMORE.

" REMAINDER " (12 S i. 206). Since the day of Thomas Tegg the word has been almost solely applied to bound copies of any work sold by the publisher or a remainder dealer at a much reduced price, when the regular sale at published price has ceased.. This trade in " remainders " has a romance of its own that can never be given to the public because it would not be possible to find a publisher sufficiently courageous. In, the eighteenth-century Trade Sales held at the Chapter and Globe coffee-house a very large number of " remainders," in the form of copies in sheets, were sold, and James Lackington (' Memoirs,' 1791, p. 224) tells us :

very much surprised to learn that it was common for such as purchased remainders to destroy one- half or three-fourths of such books, and to charge the full publication price, or nearly that, for such as they kept in hand ; for a short time I cautiously complied with this custom. But I soon began ta reflect that many of these books so destroyed possessed much merit and only wanted to be better
 * When first invited to these Trade Sales, I was

known From that timel resolved not to destroy

any book, but to sell them off at half, or a

quarter, of the publication price." This pre-dates R. B. P.'s interesting refer- ence, but I anticipate that still earlier instances of the use of the word in this sense could be found. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

GERALD GRIFFIN (12 S. i. 190). He- wrote a novel entitled ' The Collegians,' on. which that at-one-time much admired play ' The Colleen Bawn ' was founded.

ST. SWITHIN.

HERALDRY (12 S. i. 188). The arms in question are those of the Priuli family of Venice, which included three Doges (Lorenzo, 1556 ; Girolamo, 1559 ; and Nicol6 Antonio, 1618), as well as two cardinals, ambassadors, and generals. LEO C.

"TERRA RODATA " (12 S. i. 149, 238). Bardsley, ' Diet. Eng. and Welsh Surnames,' art. ' Royd, Royds,' goes into this very fully, and gives three quotations from Poll Tax, West Riding of Yorkshire, 1379, viz : Johannes del Rode, p. 154 ; Adam de Roides, p. 161 ; Johannes del Rodes, p. 292 ; which may satisfy your inquirer.

H. W. DICKINSON.

5 Salisbury Road, Wimbledon.