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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Grazebrook family, in Burke's Family Romance, art " The Legend of the Angry Bear."

C. J. DOUGLAS.

Old Rights of Way (St. James's Place and the Green Park). By whose authority is the iron gate locked and the pathway closed in St. James's Place, which leads, by the side of the late Mr. Rogers' house, into the Green Park ? Between the years 1810 and 1823 the writer of this was in the habit of using it daily. Its convenience to those who wanted to reach the centre of St. James's Street from the Park side was great. Who keeps it shut ? W. B.

Kingsdere, Highclere, Burghclere. What is the interpretation of the final syllable of each of the above villages on the northern border of the co. of Hants ? T. E. B.

Clifton.

Wolves in Forest of Dean, Sfc. I have some- where read that as late as the time of Queen Elizabeth, some wolves were to be found wild, either in the forest of Dean or in that of Dart- moor. It would be esteemed a favour if any of your correspondents would kindly mention in what work the statement appears, and what grounds there are for giving credit to it ?

F. S. A.

Tradesmen's Tokens. The contractions and corruptions of the names of places on the trades- men's tokens of the seventeenth century, as well as the varieties in spelling, are well known to all collectors, and must frequently have puzzled even good topographers. Can any of your readers give me the present names of the following places : Bvdsdell, Ostenfeild, Walkham (query Walk- harnpton), Delverton (query Dulverton). A list of the more curious and intricate of these con- tractions and corruptions would, I think, be not unsuitable to your pages, and would oblige many others of your old subscribers as well as myself. As instances of what may be found, I may state that Rothwell (Northamptonshire) appears as Roell, the local pronunciation ; Colyton as Culli- ton, most probably also the local pronunciation ; EveSham as Esham. J. S. S.

Hutchins" Queries. Can any of your readers give me information as to the pedigree of Sir George Theophilus Hutchins, of Devon, Knt., Keeper of the Great Seal of England with Trevor and Rawlinson, May 14, 1690? who are his de- scendants, and what arms did he bear ? His daughter Ann married William-Peere Williams- Freeman, author of Law Reports. Also as to Richard Hutchins, an officer engaged in the Civil War, who settled in Ireland about the year 1641. I believe him to have been a relation of Sir George. E. H.

Fontlands, Charleville, co. Cork.

Dunscombe of Dunscombe, co. Devon. Can any of your readers refer me to an authenticated pedi- gree of this family, or give me any authenticated details of any of its members, or any references on the subject?

Dunscomb is in Crediton Hundred, in the parish of Kirton.

The family appears to have borne, arg. barry of four, sa. in chief a demi-wyvern erect of the last. They possessed the estate in 1613 ; between which year and 1586 a Clement Duncombe, son of George and Margaret, lived, respecting whom in- formation is particularly required. Any com- munication too lengthy for " N. & Q. " may be addressed to J. K., care of Mr. Wilson, 314. Oxford Street, London.

" Grandsire Triples" " Bob" Sfc. Can you afford me any information as to the origin of the term "grandsire" triples in ringing, or of the term " Bob ? " Both seem inexplicable.

BOB AND SINGLE.

Anstey Pedigree. I shall be very thankful to any one who will furnish me (either through " N. & Q.," or the post) with the pedigree of Chr. Anstey, author of the New Bath Guide, up to the middle of the fifteenth century.

EDWARD VENTEIS (Clk.).

Cambridge.

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" Appruari " and " Appruator." I find, in Fleta, lib. ii. c. 73., the words appruari and appruator, and shall be obliged to any one who will tell me what they mean. Can it be " appraised," " ap- praiser ?" H. A. F.

[H. A. F. will find the passage in Fleta, lib. ii. c. 73., quoted by Du Cange, and the word appruari thus inter- preted by that learned glossarist : " Ubi appruare, est commoclum domini facere de prajdiorum exitibus (i. e. to make profit for the lord or owner out of the proceeds of his farms), faire le profit du maistre." So also, " Appruator, qui domini commodis invigilat, et ejus reditus et com- moda percipit et auget " ( Fleta, lib. ii. cap. 76. 1.) The appruator appears, therefore, to have been the farm- steward, whose duties are to receive the rents, and watch over and improve the property, of the landowner. Ap- pruare, to approve, i. e. to improve. " To approve land, is to make the best benefit of it by increasing the rent," &c., says Tomlin in his Law Dictionary.]

" The Deity." Who was the author of The Deity, a poem praised and quoted in Tom Jones (vol. vii. p. 1.)? And where is it to be found? It was published about 1740. The lines quoted begin :

" From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings."

J. B. (3.)

[This poem is by the unfortunate Samuel Boyse, who, during the early part of the last century, earned a pre*