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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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CONTENTS. No. 81.

NOTES : Henry I. : a Gloucester Charter, 149 Richard Edwards's Correspondence, 151 Huntingdonshire Book- sellers and Printers, 153 " D-d littery fellers" " Maisonette " : " MansionetU," 154 John Lyon, Founder of Harrow School Warwickshire Sheep Folk-Lore L. Bayly's 'Practice of Piety,' 155 Shakespeare's Walk- Thomas James Type-founder "Slouch" Westmorland Centenarians' Epitaph, 156.

QUERIES : P. S. Fournier, Parisian Type-founder, 157 Waller, Fleet Street Bookseller Philip van Marnix Japanese " Caste'ra"- Dutch Thermometr 'The Pirates,' Opera by Cobb and Storace - Willaume Mossop Family Forster of Hanslope W. Kniveton : Irish Stipple En- gravings ' Llewelyn' : ' Llewelyn's Heir," 158 Stevenson's 4 The Wrong Box 'Salamanca Doctor Beaconsfleld's Novels: Keys Wanted J. E. Ward of New York- Bernard = Payne Neale and Dutton Families Ward Family, 159 Westcar Family De Quency Family T. Rogerson, Royalist Thousand : its Seven- teenth - Century Sign Mazes in Yorkshire " The Banner of the Resurrection " : the Flag of St. George, 160 Berry, Actor D.O.M. G. Goodwin's 'Rising Castle ' Ardagh Family H. Neele Hollyhocks Oak and the Ash Durham Tithes and Charles II. 's House at York, 161 Magniac Family Constitution Hill Pilgrims' Marks " Laycock " Authors of Quotations Wanted, 162.

REPLIES : Pickwick, Origin of the Name, 162 Barrel- Organs, 164 Prince Charles Edward Stuart and a French Princess, 165 Mews or Mewys Family, 166 Latin Elegiac Renderings of a Committee Notice Mr. Lloyd, 4t Founder of London Exchange " ' Vitta Latta " : Napoleon's ' Moliere 'Farewell Family, 167 St. Pierre Lake, Berne Penn Armorial Relic William Blagrave Thos. Postlethwaite. M.P. Weekes Tonks Surname Heraldic: a Shield Sable Elphinstone : Keith: Flahault Carcassonne, 169 Lady Frances Hastings : Mr. Ingham New Shakspere Socie y The Metropolitan Club -John Pepys of Salisbury Court Jack Price of Pepys's Diary- Sir Walter Scott : ''Asl walked by myself," 170 Sheppard Murder Stone Shrapnel : its Inventor's Epitaph Maw : Piquet Bishop Dawson of ""Uonfert- Conserve of Roses, 171 Naturalization by Act of Parliament" Bold Infi- delity ! turn pale and die ''William Petyt Boys born in May Baptist Ministers : Purdy and Grantham 41 Flat Candle," 173 Grammar School Registers Roupell Family Authors of Quotations Wanted, 174.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-Prideaux's ' Bibliography of R. L. Stevenson' ' The Weather Calendar."

Booksellers' Catalogues.

OBITUARY : Walter Crouch, F.Z.S.

Notices to Correspondents.

HENRY L t A GLOUCESTER CHARTER.

THERE is in the cathedral library of Glou- cester an original charter of Henry I., c. Easter, 1123, notifying that the King has terminated the dispute between Gilbert de Minors and the monks of Gloucester regarding the manor of Coin Rogers. That I have been enabled to copy this important document I owe to the courtesy of the Ven. Walter Hobhouse, Archdeacon. It is given in extended order in the

' Gloucester (St. Peter's) Cartulary," but without any of the witnesses (vol. i. p. 236).

" H. Rex Angl' Archiep'is ..Ep'is . Abbatibus . Comitib' . Baronib". Vicecomitib*. & om'ib' fidelib' suis francis & Anglis toti* Anglie Sal'. Sciatis q[ui]a monacki de Gloecestrie. & Gis't' de Mineriia. in Curia' mea' vener't cora' me ad terminu' int'r eos positum. de plac' ruanerii. de Chulna. q'd Gis't' versus eos. & Abbate' suum clamabat. Et Adam de Portd & Will's fil' Odonis. cora' me testifies ti fuerunt q'd ipsi afluer't. ubi Roger' de Gloec'. manerium illud. Eccl'ie S'c'i Petri Gloecestr'. & monachis ibidem Deo servientib' in elemosinam dederat. & ubi ego req'sitione ipsi' Rpgeri. donatione' illam eis co cessi. et inde isdem Gisleb'tus judicium recusavit. T. Will'o Archiep'o Cantuarie. & Rog'o Ep'o Sarosb'ie. & Will'o Ep'o WintomV. Bern' Ep'o de S'to Dauid. & Will'o Ep'o Exonie. & Urbano Ep'o de Glammorgan. & Gaufr' Cancell'io. & Rob' de Sigillo. & Milone Gloec'. & Henr' de Pordt. & Walt'o de Amfre- villa. & Will'o de Folia. & Rog'o & Will'o filiia Ada' de Pordt. Ap' Wintoniam."

The seal has been clean cut away. It is endorsed in contemporary hands :

Gisleb' de Mineres

Culna Rog'ri.

Finis placiti p' Cur" Reg' de Man'io de Coin' Roger!.

Gileb' de Min'.

The probable exact date is obtained thus- Henry I. gave William Corbeuill the Arch- bishopric of Canterbury in February, 1123. Geoffrey Rufus, another witness, succeeded as Chancellor about the same time. The King was then in England, but he left for Normandy in June that same year. He returned to England in September, 1126, and from that date till August, 1127, he remained at home. He next returned from Normandy in July, 1129 (' D.N.B.'), some six months or more after the death of William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester, a third witness, who, according to Dr. Stubbs, died on Jan. 25, or, as the ' Annals of Margan ' has it, he died in 1128 (Rolls Series, p. 12). This charter, therefore, must have passed either in the short interval between February and June, 1123, or in the interval between September, 1126, and August, 1127. But it was given at Win- chester, and the number of bishops in the witness-clause, namely six, suggests a time when there was a large assembly of magnates there. Dr. Round shows that such an assembly met the King and Queen at Winchester at Easter, 1123 (Apr. 15), when the important charter to the church of Exeter was granted ; and as six of the names in the Exeter charter are identical with six in this charter, that occasion probably marks the date. The name of