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 12 s. ix. DEC. 17, 1021. j NOTES AND QUERIES. 481 LONDON, DECEMBER 17, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 192. NOTES : A Royal Charter hitherto unpublished. 481 Jacob Tonson sent to France as a Spy on Prior, 482 Glass- painters of York : the Barnett Family, 483 Notes on Eighteenth- century Wapping, 485 Owen O'Neill at Arras, 487 A Newly-discovered Map of Surrey Cotton Family of War- bleton, Hants Unpublished Letter of Gilbert Imlay, 488 QUERIES : Egg Folk-lore : Good Friday and Christmas Plugenet Francis Grose in the 19th Foot Percival Barlow " Bees' Wine "John Frost, Chichester, Clockmaker Freedom of a City, 489 London Institutions circa 1830 Colonel Roger Whitley Mary Wollstonecraft Biographical Details of Artists sought, 490 Molesworth Grantham Mead Edward Lamp high ' The Frauds of the Roman Catholic Clergy' Ancient British Dye British Catholic College, Lisbon 'A Newcastle Apothecary' Author wanted, 491 REPLIES : American Humorists : Captain G. H. Derby, 491 " Hangman's Stones," 493 " ' Heads ' as the pieman says," 494 The House of Harcourt Kimmeridge Coal Money Disappearing Church Customs, 495 Burial Regis- ters : St. Katharine's, London Curious Surnames Jonas Coaker, " the Dartmoor Poet." 496 Brothers of the Same Christian Name Hatchments Captain Morton Rhys Unidentified Arms, 497 " Making bricks without straw " Shakespeare's Cheese-loving Welshman Nicholas Grimald Macken Rev. J. de Kewer Williams A Hushing Pool- Milk, Butter and Cheese Streets, 498 Principal London Coffee-houses of the Eighteenth Century, 499. ENGLISH ARMY SLANG AS USED IN THE GREAT WAR : Comments and Criticisms. NOTES ON BOOKS : Publications of the Dugdale Society. Vol. I. ' Minutes and Accounts of the Corporation of Strat- ford-on-Avon and other Records, 1553-1620 ' ' The Oral Method of Teaching Languages.' Notices to Correspondents. A ROYAL CHARTER HITHERTO APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED. STAYING at a country house some time ago, I was allowed to examine certain old deeds of considerable interest. Among them I found two royal charters in original, the one of Richard I., the other of John, Count of Mortain, afterwards King. As charters of any sort are rare at so early a period and are always of importance, I venture to send you a transcript in extenso of the former charter in the hope that at some future date you may be pleased to accept a transcript also of the latter, with a few notes in each case subjoined. [Nov. 10, 1189.] Confirmation by Richard I. of the Manor of Bitton to Robert, son and heir of Adam de " Dameneville," by the service of one knight. Ricardus Dei gratia Rex Anglorum Norman- norum [et] Aquitanie Comes Audegavorum Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciis Vice-comitibus et omnibus Ballivis fidelibus suis Normanie et Anglie Salutem Sciatis nos concessisse et present! carta nostra confirmasse - Roberto de Damene- villa heredi Adame de Damenevilla Mane- rium de Betton cum omnibus pertinentiis suis tenendum ei et heredibus suis per serviciuni j militis de nobis et heredibus nostris ita libere et quiete et integre sicut unquam Adama pater suus illud liberius et quietius et integrius de domino patre nostro tenuit Testibus Comite Willielmo de Mandevilla et Willielmo Mare- scallo Datum apud Westmonasterium per manum Willielmi Eliensis eleeti Cancellarii nostri : x. die Novembris Regni nostri anno primo. [SEAL. The fragment remaining of green wax shows the King enthroned. Endorsement, in a somewhat later hand : I.R.T. Betton.] This charter does not seem to have been noticed by John Smyth of Nibley, the historian of the Berkeleys, temp. Car. I., though a similar charter is mentioned by Jeayes as among the archives of Berkeley Castle. The extensive manor of Bitton, near Bristol, appears in Domesday (1086) as a tripartite manor, one portion only of which was in the King's hands. In or soon after 1150, Henry, Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou (as uncrowned king de jure), makes a grant of "the manor of Bethon with all its appendices" to Robert, Fitz- Harding, together with 100 libra tes of land in Berkeley ; who thereupon became his man. Somewhat later, probably in 1153, when Henry was adopted by Stephen as heir to the throne, he being then Duke of Nor- mandy and Aquitaine and Count of Anjou, made a new grant to Robert FitzHarding, of Berkeley and all Berkeley Harnesse by service of one knight, but makes no mention of Bitton. After his accession he issues a newer grant still of Berkeley and Berkeley Harnesse with added rights and privileges by the service of five knights, but again omits mention of Bitton. In 1156 (accord- ing to Rudder), Henry granted " the manor of Bitton with all its appurtenances " to Adam de Ajnneville to be held of the king and his successors by the service of one knight. It looks as if the King, when finally handing over to Robert FitzHarding all the broad lands of the disinherited Roger de Berkeley III., had taken the Manor of Bitton once more into his own hands. The simple explanation may