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 9*8. VIII. SEPT. 28, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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But it would seem to be impossible that th vicar was indebted to the cure. C. T. J.

DESIGNS OF EARLY PRINTERS. John Da; (ob. 1584) has a design, dated 1562, represent ing his portrait surrounded by a motto anc an ornamental frame, at opposite corners of which are two groups of pinks (or carnations and two groups of daisies. Richard Tottel a contemporary printer (ob. 1593), seems to have used the same flowers, though much conventionalized. Were these two blossoms emblematic in any way of books and print- ing ? Day, of course, might have chosen the daisy in allusion to his name, but Totte] had not that excuse. MEGAN.

MARINE QUERIES. Would some corre- spondent kindly inform me (1) why the Dud- geon lightship at the mouth of the Humber is so called ; (2) why a broom at the mast- head of a ship denotes that the vessel is for sale ; and (3) what is the greatest ascertained depth of the sea 1 DOWNHAULER.

[(2) Smyth, 'Sailor's Word-Book, 5 supposes the broom at the masthead to be derived from the bough at taverns.

(3) ' Chambers' s Encyclopaedia ' gives 4,655 fathoms in the North Pacific, east of Japan.]

CAPT. HENRY WALLER is named in the a relative of Edmond Waller, the poet, but I ,fail to trace him among the Wallers of Beaconsfield. As "Henry Waller, cloth- worker," he was returned M.P. for London in 1628-9, and was living 19 Jan., 1660, when nominated by the restored Rump Parlia- ment one of five commissioners for the government of Ireland. Rebecca, daughter of Henry Waller, woollen-draper, married John Bathurst, of Cornhill, and lived at Edmonton, where both she and her husband were buried (Le Neve's ' Knights,' p. 341). " Mrs. Waller, wife of Capt. Waller in White Cross Street, once Mrs. Work, a widdow of the lame Hospitall by Smithfield," died 13 Aug., 1669 (Smith's * Obituary '). Does this refer to the
 * Remembrancia ' (p. 319) with his wife as

wife of the M.P J

W. D. PINK.

"RIDING THE MARCHES." According to a recent evening newspaper, "the ancient festival of riding the marches was duly observed at Langholm in fine weather." Where can I find particulars of this custom ? There is no allusion to it in Ditchfield's ' Old English Customs extant at the Present Time.'

H. ANDREWS.

"PARSEMENT" OR " PERSEMENT." In the records of the borough of Bridport an account, undated, but without doubt of the

end of the sixteenth century, is preserved, in which the following entries occur :

"Inprimis delivered Lambert and Sparke to the cofferers supper a gallon of parsement, iiij-s.

" Item to Lambert the same time for Mrs. Way a pint of parseman, \jd.

"Item to Sparke the same night 3 quarts 1 pint of parseman, iijs. vjrf.

Item to Sparke on the queens day a pottell of parsament, ij.s.

"Item to Sparke the same time a pint of clarett, "

I have not met with this word elsewhere, and I cannot find it in the works to which I have access ; I shall therefore be obliged to any of your readers who will inform me what parsament was. The word thus written may possibly be an attempt to spell " parmasent," concerning which word in Nares's * Glossary ' (new edition, with additions by Halliwell and Wright, 1850) it is written, after giving the explanation ' ' Parmesan cheese," " But Decker has twice used it as if he took it for a liquor ...... Can this have been in ignorance?

Or was there such a liquor 1 ?" It may be assumed that it was not of a very intoxi- cating character, as a pint was given to Mrs. Way, wife of one of the bailiffs of the borough, n 41 Eliz., if she is to be supposed to have drunk it at the supper.

THOS. WAINWRIGHT.

Barnstaple.

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THE MANOR OF TYBURN. (9 th S. vii. 310, 381, 402, 489 ; viii. 53, 210.)

THE evidence adduced by MR. HARBEN hows that the Abbess of Barking held a rent-

charge of thirty shillings on the manor of ?yburn, which is a different thing from being n possession of the manor. This rent-charge

was probably allowed as a concession to the eelings of the abbess when possession of the

manor was taken by the king. If we may >elieve the MS. in the Cottonian collection ited by Dugdale, even that sum ceased utterly to be paid by the powerful lords of he manor.

The position of the king as over-lord of the aanor can be proved by plenty of evidence.

Apart from the fact that in the important

writ of quo warranto which 1 cited in my ormer paper* (9 th S. vii. 383) there is no

s exhibiting the different tenures under which the Sari of Oxford held his two London manors. In is ancestral manor of Kensington, acquired by his redecessor at a period anterior to Domesday, he eld every manorial right (including the gallows) xcept that of utfangetheof, while in Tyburn, which
 * This writ of quo warranto is further interesting