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p d to y 3 newe surge n y first of Februarie in

pt for helinga y j pbore maides Legg v

p d to peter hont musicon for takinge blinde harrye to prentis. . . . . . . . xl

'(Many entries about these years about blind boy 'To thomas Lovenes his win for y said harries belle . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

rto m r Loggge in pt For healinge of y e wenches Logge th* was cutt of. . . . xiii 8 iiii

'P d to y makers of y Kaye in pte of their due at thannciason of o r Ladye. . . . v

(many payments for working at Quay, final paym fc 9 th of Sep ..... vii 11 ix 8 iiii d

'Item p d to M r Foxe in the discharge of Roger woodehouse of Kymberleye in y e countie of Norfi! Esquier o r Late burgis in cosideration of his dyett and chargs th* he was at for the Towne. . . . . . . . . . v 1

p d for y e dynners of those th* tooke paynes to hang the Bell. . .. .. xxii 1

"To y 6 Belman for naendinge of y e Bell . . xx '(Several entries about repair to the bell). p d to y e comissioners for not wearinge of cappes . . . . . . . . xiii" iiii

'To Browne y e waite for blinde harrio. . xxvi 8 viii "To Daye y e gonner for his di yeares wage ended at mihelmes . . ' . . . . . . x 1

p d for pehement to enlarge y e Roule of Rates iiii 1 "To m r mawe for tham r cements of thinhabi- tats and touneshippe at y a Sessions houlden at Beckles in y e xy th yeare of y e Reigne of y quene that now is . . . . . . xv 8 viii r

<for a stringe for y e Ctocke. . . . xviii' 1

'To thorns mayor Is owinge for xxx 11 candell

vi 8 iii d

more p d to hir (widdowe Florance) for vic- tualls ppared for y presser. . . . iii 8

more p d to Mr for y 3 dynners of Jentlemen th 1 came for wastershippe. . . . iii 8

'To y e chandler for vi dosen candell. . xv 8

'To woolflett for a C and di of Candell xxxvii 9 vi <l 'To m r Loggye for healinge of a maides Legge x 8 To Thorns woolflett for ii c candell I 8

3or di a horse skynne and di a Caulfes skynne

for y e bavdricks of y e bells and for naifes iii 8 vi d sp d to y e woorkema th' made y e Bavdricks. . ii 8 pp d to bettes y e paretour y' J xxix th of Januarie for m r Semons Fees due for y e Sute againste Richarde Byrbye. . . . . . xxxi 8 ix d

more to him for his paynes and his supper

xviii d p d to y e m r gunner of Inglonde. . ... v s

SEor a book of Statuts for y e toune. . xviii d

more for Rybbyns for y e tounehouse. . . . viii d

onore for a bucket y hoopes, and a well Roape ........

Aldeburgh, Suffolk. ARTHUR T. Wrax. {To be con r tn*ied.)

ANC ASTER" AND

REX GRECORUM."

I. The oldest extant form of the name of

.Ancaster is " Anecastor " (temp. Edward I.).

In Ane -e presents the eleventh - century

corruption of inflexional -an the O.E.

possessive of weak nouns in -a. But no

name Ana is known to me. On the other hand, although there are several names of men the headword of which is And- (cp. And-hun, -red, -secg), Andan is never found in place-names. But the ending -e is common after n in the eleventh century, and d frequently fell out in O.E., from one cause or another, e.g., when the prefix and- lost the stress it dropped the d and became on- ; vide Prof. Wright's 'O.E. Grammar,' 569,654. It is note- worthy that " Oncaster " survived in folk- speech until Leland's time. Moreover, the tendency to drop d from between n and a is clearly reflected in the behaviour of other personal themes in place-names recorded in Domesday Book. For instance, the proper names Blanda, Randa, Wanda, should make Blandan, Randan, Wandan in combination with such endwords as ford, bui and tun. But Domesday Book yields " Blane-ford," "Rane-bi" and "Wane- tune." To these may be added the Shropshire "Aneberie." For these reasons I assume that d has dropped out of Ane in " Ane-caster " and " Ane-berie," and that the well-known stem AND is postulated. This represents a Ger- manic stem ANTH (cp. the land-name " Anth-aib "), and in Alemannic the West- Germanic AND became ANT. In the name of And-secg son of Ges-seg (<*Gaus-ag-), in

3 pedigree of the East Saxon kings, the d 3efore s became t, according to rule. Hence 3ame " Ant-secg " ; cp. Wright, ' O.E. Grammar,' 300.

II. We read of an Annhun, King of tho Greeks, in a Welch historical tract of three Dages entitled ' De Situ Brecheniauc.' This document was copied out in the thir- teenth century from a MS. written in the eleventh ; cp" my ' Indexes to Old Welsh Genealogies,' No. IV., in Whitley Stokes and uno Meyer's Archiv filr c&ltische Lexiko- graphie, vol. i, 1900, pp. 523-533. The De Situ B.' was edited by the Rev. Arthur Wade-Evans in Y Cymmrodor, in 1906, ^ogether with the ' Cognacio Brychan. ' The atter was copied in the seventeenth century rom a MS. written in the thirteenth. In hese unique Welch records the maternal ancestry of Brachan, who was king of Brecknock circa A.D. 435, is given as fol- ows : Marchel the mother of Brachan was laughter of Teuderic the son of Teudfall* he son of Annhun Rex Grecorum. As one

itu B.' I have eliminated Tender [sic] mob 'eudfal.
 * These two names are duplicated in the ' De