Page:Notes and Queries - Series 12 - Volume 7.djvu/611

 1 2 s. vii. DEC. 25, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

503

"Clocking" or " clappering " is "an illegitimate method of chiming," the rope being hitched round the "flight" of the clapper (see Mr. Walters, p. 73).

6. The verb enollare, being non-existent* cannot help us to nola ; nor seemingly does enollare, which is not a word recognized in Du Cange, and would appear to be merely a Latinized form of the English "knoll," as used, for instance, by Shakespeare :

If ever been where bells are knoll'd to church. Dr. Raven did, indeed, suggest (p. 10) that :

" There can hardly be a doubt that nola is akin to ' knoll,' ' knell,' and like forms in German."

But this suggestion receives no countenance from anything in Skeat's 'Dictionary' or in the 'N.E.D.' under "knell " or "knoll," words which seem to be allied in origin to "knock" (see "cnollin " in Statmann's 'Middle English Diet.,' by Bradley).

7. Whatever may really be the distinction between enollare and pulsar e as used in the Oseney manuscript, Dr. Raven's comment on pulsare cannot be applied universally. Pulso 'is the word given in ' Prompt. Parv. ' for "ryngin' bellys," and it is the only word that I can find in our College Accounts for producing sounds from bells. Here are two examples taken from widely different times :

" In solutpro iii. cordulis emptis pro campanis pendentibus in campanile pulsandis, iis. viiid." (1398-9.)

" Pulsantibus campanas in victoriam imagin- ariam, 00 : 02 : 06." (1708-9.)

I am not suggesting that the methods of ringing did not alter from time to time, but that pulsare included the use of the clapper and was not limited to "blows from outside the bell." Usually, when "knolling" is contrasted with "ringing," the distinction lies in the slowness and solemnity of the knolling.

8. While searching in vain for nola in printed accounts, I. found in 'Durham Account Rolls ' (Surtees Soc.) vol. ii. p. 403 (Sacrists' rolls : church expenses, 141213) : ' Pro reparacione del knoll et bakyngyrns, 3s."

This is cited in the 'N.E.D.' under "Knoll, s&.V as meaning "a large bell, a church bell, obsolete." But the entry is sufficiently obscure to justify hesitation about accepting this explanation of it.

H. C.

Winchester College.

EXTRACTS FROM THE ALDEBURGH RECORDS. I.

(See ante, pp. 141, 184, 225, 287, 327, 366, 402, 443.)

CHAMBERLAIN'S ACCOUNT-BOOKS. 1589-1590.

A great deal of correspondence occurs about this time about the inroad of the sea, and a Yarmouth man (an expert evidently; is employed to make somejgroynes.

The entry of the "marieinge stoole " is uncommon.

1589

Other genall Receipts dewe in the said yere

1590 as in other yeres before (videlt). Receyved for a fryeinge panne. . . . " x (l

of willm Skurton for a little Brasse pott that

was Robte Wards. . . . . . ii

of maye the Gelder for an escape into the

Towne marshe w th his horse of John writte for an escape of his horse into

the towne marshe of Rog Thompson for Trespas of 28 bullocks

in the Towne marshe. . . . iiii 8 of John Fiske for a dpble pistolle of willm Shippman of Sizewell for layeinge his

shipp at Slatuinge. . . . *. . v i s viii d

p d for vi peny nayles. . . . . . j<i

for pfumes and Franckinsence. . xiiii d

p d for a shodd shelve for Benedicke. . vii' 1 To Eves for matts for the Churche xiii 8

To John Browne for Tryminge the quenes

armes To Thomas Dowe for bricke and mendinge the

Crosse

To Skomsbye for whippinge of Gonrad for Beere spent on the Towne halle for Chargs at ypswiche the 30 of marche 90

towards burie assizes at o r Cominge in for

bread beere and fyer. . . . ji s iiii (I

for Dyett the same nghte. . . . . . x jija

for horsemeat the same nghte. . xvi s vi d for a Servisse book. . . . . . v [s j^ci

for Bere and candle spent on the Towne hall

on the Ellecon Daye. . . . f m ^M

for 200 O d nayles for the Towne house To old Blowers for chargs when he went'to

have the bells Cast for one pound of Candles on the Cronnacion

daye w c he old Blowers hadd To m r Foxe and palm the plum for 734 pound

waite of leade at 14 s the hundred v 11 xii To palm more the same tyme for layeinge the

1590

p d for whippinge of the Fellows

p d to Eldersleve for making of a boke and for a pasport makinge for Hardell pole and whippinge of the same fellow. .

p d to Thorns Birde for keapinge of ould pro- phet

p d to Bett Nobes for hir childs learinge, iiii

p d for a paire of hosen and a paier of shone * ' xv g

vi*

viii d xii s

iiii

ii"

xii d