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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. v. MARCH 17, im

Goodere, who murdered his brother, Sir John Dinely, Bart., of Charleton, on board his ship the Ruby at Bristol in January, 1741 1 Was he twice married ? Burke in the 'Extinct Baronetcies' states that he married Elizabeth Watts, of Monmouth, and had twin sons (born 1729), who both succeeded to the baronetcy, and three daughters. In tracing the family of Wyborn, of Sholden, co. Kent, I find in Hasted that William Wyborn married Eleanor, daughter of this Samuel Goodere. In the Deal Registers the baptisms of several children of Samuel and Jane Goodere occur, but these all died infants, excepting Eleanor (born 1713), whose marriage to Wm. Wyborn is also recorded in 1737. The last entry I can find in the burials is that of Mrs. Jane Goodere, 26 August, 1721. Burke does not mention Eleanor (Mrs. Wyborn). Is this Samuel Goodere of Deal identical with the Capt. Samuel Goodere of the Charleton family? T. C. COLYER-FERGUSSON.

Wombwell Hall, Gravesend. [You have, of course, read what is said in 'D.N.B.']

CORONATION OF HENRY II. In Glanville, xii. 11 and xiii. 3, occur, in common form writs, the words " post primarn coronationern meam." Glanville is generally attributed to the reign of Henry II. Was Henry II. twice crowned 1 His son Henry was crowned in his lifetime, but this cannot be "coronatio mea." Henry III. was twice crowned. Can any one give me a reference to Henry II.'s second coronation 1 ? His first was 19 Decem- ber, 1154, and that of his son Henry, 14 June, 1170. I. S. LEADAM.

HYMN TO GUARDIAN ANGEL. The Rev F. A. Gasquet in his 'Eve of the Reforma- tion,' p. 309, has given a translation of a Latin hymn to the guardian angel which occurs in the 'Dextra Pars Oculi.' Has the original text been printed in any modern collection of mediaeval Latin verse 1 N. M. & A.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

A parent asked a priest his child to bless, Who straightly charged him he must first confess.

W. J. DUDGEON.

The wind would blow, had I my will, Soft breezes ever on thy cheek, And in a murmur soft and still Should tell the love I cannot speak, &c.

MAX.

Remember me is all I ask ; But if remembrance prove a task, Forget me then. M. E. PRATT.

On Stainmore's wintry wild. Food for worms, good Percy. H. T. B. [Shakespeare, '1 Henry IV.,' V. iv. 85.]

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THE WORDS "GAVEL" AND "SHIELING." (9 th S. v. 85.)

I MUST protest against the irregular and unscientific way in which PROF. SKEAT has attempted to criticize a statement of mine made under another title. If a man issues a writ from the Chancery Division, he does not 3xpect to be answered in the police court.

Relying on historical evidence alone, I said
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English Coinage ' that the A.-S. gafol, fork, and gafol, tribute, appeared to be identical, and in doing so I followed Dr. Sweet's spell ing of those words. Whereupon PROF. SKEAT says : " There is no connexion at all between A.-S. gafol, tribute, a derivative of the verb to give, and A.-S. geafel, gafel, a fork, which is allied to our modern E. gaff. The former is neuter, and the latter is feminine."

I reply that the historical evidence proves that there is a connexion. Had there been no historical evidence to the contrary, it would have been reasonable to derive gafol, tribute, from the verb to give; indeed, no other derivation would have been possible. But the evidence to which I have referred, and to which I am about to refer again, is sufficient to nullify all previous conclusions on this point.

I have already examined (see ante, p. 31) the method by which in ancient Wales damages for the burning of a village house were assessed against an incendiary. I will ask leave to quote the words of the law-book again :

"Precium hyemalis dqmus est xxti denarii de unaquaque furca que sustinet laquear, et de laqueari xla denarii."

Now if ever there was a clear case of valu- ation by the gafol, or fork, as identical with valuation by the bay, it is this. The laquear, in the passage quoted, is obviously the roof of each bay, and therefore damages were to be assessed at the rate of five shillings a bay.

If we value buildings by the number of forks which they contain, one fork must be left out, or gross injustice will be done. We must not count both ends. I will make this clear by an example.

It appears from a recital in a deed dated 1678 that in 1592 William Topham, alias Short, of Dron field, leased

" amongst other things unto John Rose, of Greenhill* one tenement or dwelling - house containing by estimacion one bav of building, sometime in the possession of Alice renniston, widow ; one dwelling- house containing one bay of building, then in the