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 9 th S. I. MAR. 5, '98.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON ', SATUBDAY, MARCH 5, 1898.

CONTENTS. -No. 10.

lOTES : Manor of Lisson, 181 Notes on Waverley Novel Robespierre and Curran, 183 " Anaconda "English School Sampler, 184 Ulster Towns Wife versus Family- Hugh Awdeley First Edition of Burns, 185-Portrait o Johnson Mrs. Bgerton Satellites of Saturn Anchorites Low Side Windows B. Fergusson, 186. UERIES : " Cuyp " Lady Smyth ' Rockingbam ' " Elephant "Early Steam Navigation MacLehose, 187 B. Wainwright Engraving London Bridge D. Hoope Registers of Guildhall Chapel Gloves at Fairs Date o Quotation Mountgymru Heraldry " So pleased " Horse and Water-lore, 188 Middlemore " Carnafor " F. W. Newman, 189. REPLIES : Gloucestershire Origin for Chaucer, 189 Place Names temp. Edward I., 191 " Bugalug "John Steven son W. Penn Mrs. Webb, 192" Merry" Howth Castle Pope and Thomson, 193 Lady E. Foster Swansea- Little Man of Kent Mauthe Doog. 194 W. Bower- Words and Music of Song 'The Prodigal Son,' 195 Roman Potteries, 196 Huguenot Cruelties Castlereagh'i Portrait " Hoity - toity " Dalton Family, 197 The Porter's Lodge Authors Wanted, 198.

NOTES ON BOOKS -.-Frazer's ' Literary History of India Dobson's 'William Hogarth ' Searle's ' Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum ' Gough's ' Bible True,' Vol. VI.

Notices to Correspondents.

THE MANOR OF LISSON.

IN the Builder for 6 Nov., 1897, it was sug- gested that " Lylleston " would be an appro- priate name for the terminus of the Great Central Railway in the Marylebone Road, as it is situated on land once belonging to that ancient manor. I cannot say if this sug- gestion will be carried out, but I venture to think it is in accordance with the prevalent feeling that old London sites should be com- memorated by the perpetuation of their original names. Personally, I should prefer the modern "Lisson" to the more antiquated "Lylleston." In the case of a railway station the name should come " trip- pingly on the tongue."

A short sketch of the history of this manor, supplementary to the account given by Lysons ('Environs of London,' ed. 1811, ii. 544), may be not without interest. According to Domesday, Lilestone was assessed for five hides. In the time of Edward the Confessor it had been held by Edward the son of Suain, a vassal of the king, but at the date of the Survey it was in the possession of Eideva, who held it of King William. It was included among the eleemosynary lands, and with its profits was worth sixty shillings. Arable land, meadow, pasture, and woodland were all represented in this manor, which seems to have occupied the area filled by the Portman and Eyre estates, as well as the

manor of Lisson Green, which was sold in lots in 1792. Very shortly after the Conquest we find that the office of die-sinker, combined with that of keeper of the dies of the Roval Mint, was held in virtue of the tenure of this manor. The earliest charter relating to this tenure dates from the time of Henry I. It states that the king has yielded to Otho Juvenis the " misterium "* of his father, "scilicet misterium cuneorum et omnia alia misteria sua et omnes terras suas infra bur- gum et extra et nominating Lillestona." In a later charter the same king yields, grants, and confirms to William, son of Otho Auri- faber (who is identical with Otho Juvenis), "totam terrain quse fuit patris sui in Beniflet et Chalvesdon et Chilidit et Lillestona, et ministerium cuneorum et omnia alia ministeria sua et omnes terras et tenementa sua intra Londoniam et extra, faciendo inde ministeria quse Otho Aurifaber pater ejus faciebat."

William FitzOtho lived during the following reign, for there are extant two precepts of Maud the Empress directing the Sheriff of Essex to deliver to him the seisin of his land at Benfleet. He was succeeded by his son Otho Fitz William, who at Eastertide in the nineteenth year of King Henry III. granted a certain portion of land and wood in frank almoign and a lease of the manor of Lilston for forty years to Robert of Sampford, Master, and the rest of the Brethren of the Knights of the Temple. The Templars, it may be presumed, subsequently obtained an enlarge- ment of their estate by a release of the fee, for it undoubtedly remained in their hands until the dissolution of the order. According to the' Testa de Nevill,'

'Willielmus films Ote tenet in Lilleston in ser- vientia unam carucam terre, que valet xls. per serviciam servandi signa Regis monete, et facit servicium suum per totum annum. R. Episcopus Condon, reddit compotum de Ixx marcis vro eodem."

in another charter, which may probably be referred to the time of Henry III., a certain Theobald, who may have been the son of Dtho Fitz William, describes himself as " Theo- raldus de Lyleston aurifaber et insculptor ^uniorum monetse totius Anglise "; but after his we hear no more of the manor of jilleston as connected with the hereditary ervice, serjeanty, or office of keeping the lies or money stamp.t

Generally translated "mystery," but more pro- erly "mestier" or "metier," a craft or employment rom ministerium.

t I am indebted for the information contained ia tiese paragraphs to an admirable article signed D. E. T. (the late Mr. Thomas Edlyne Tomlins),. nthe Gent. May., vol. xliii. N.S. (February, 1855), p. 156-60.