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Again, welcome! Beeswaxcandle (talk) 18:07, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

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Gday. I see that you asked CM some questions, and I thought that I could provide a couple of good reading links to address some of the questions. To note that we tend to look to utilise templates for formatting, so use center rather than <center> as we look to keep more up-to-date with the preferred means to code. To note that Scriptorium is a pretty casual place to seek help and where the majority of the active community hangs out. — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:11, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it will help me for sure. Pamputt (talk) 11:47, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
 * You have seen that I have super-heated the validation of a page, no expectation that you will do all of that, just it is an example. We utilise <ref> and the footnotes will become endnote when we transclude the pages of the chapter, and that becomes a tidiness matter. Also, we look to wikilink authors, and works, and for a newbie, the second is usually a lot easier than the second, so no particular fuss there. After I save this bit, I will add the components about header/footers. — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:08, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

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When proofreading in the Page: namespace and you have your toolbar turned on in "my preferences" (Show edit toolbar (requires JavaScript)), then you will see the button in your toolbar, and clicking it toggles the header/footer on and off. In this space we put the relevant components for top and bottoms of pages, usually by use of the template RunningHeader, so for example produces Personally, I have my header/footer set to open in the Page: namespace and I achieved this by activating that option in my preferences (Show header and footer fields when editing in the Page namespace.) — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:08, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Translation template
Cool, it looks as though Mazzei had the same idea about templates that I had, and has already gotten it working. The volume on the Biloxi langage will make a nice addition to Wikisource, and it's good to see someone tackling it with enthusiasm. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:37, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Author pages for Dictionary
Is the Dorsey author linked from the work the deceased author of 1895? Or are we talking about a son of the same name? If the second, give me a yell and I will disambiguate the pages to give you the ability to add the work to both author pages. — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:04, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * actually I do not know, I guess he is the one who deceased in 1895 but I cannot confirm. It is possible since in in this page, it is written "the late James Owen Dorsey. By the way, thanks for your work on these pages. Pamputt (talk) 14:12, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Magic! Thanks for resolving, especially that I need to do nothing. — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:18, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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 in alphabetical order of all the persons thus nominated. Save as provided in Article 12, paragraph 2, these shall be the only persons eligible.

The Secretary-General shall submit this list to the General Assembly and to the Security Council.

The General Assembly and the Security Council shall proceed independently of one another to elect the members of the Court.

At every election, the electors shall bear in mind not only that the persons to be elected should individually possess the qualifications required, but also that in the body as a whole the representation of the main forms of civilization and of the principal legal systems of the world should be assured.

 * 1) Those candidates who obtain an absolute majority of votes in the General Assembly and in the Security Council shall be considered as elected.
 * 2) Any vote of the Security Council, whether for the election of judges or for the appointment of members of the conference envisaged in Article 12, shall be taken without any distinction between permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council.
 * 3) In the event of more than one national of the same state obtaining an absolute majority of the votes both of the General Assembly and of the Security Council, the eldest of these only shall be considered as elected.

If, after the first meeting held for the purpose of the election, one or more seats remain to be filled, a second and, if necessary, a third meeting shall take place.

 * If, after the third meeting, one or more seats still remain unfilled, a joint conference consisting of six members, three appointed by the General Assembly and three by the Security Council, may be formed at any time at the request of either the General Assembly or the Security Council, for the purpose of choosing by the vote of an absolute majority one name for each seat still vacant, to submit to the General Assembly and the Security Council for their respective acceptance.
 * 1) If the joint conference is unanimously agreed upon any person who fulfils the required conditions, he maybe included in its list, even though he was not included in the list of nominations referred to in Article 7.
 * 2) If the joint conference is satisfied that it will not be successful in procuring an election, those members of the Court who have already been elected shall, within a period to be fixed by the Security Council, proceed to fill the vacant seats by selection from among those candidates who have obtained votes either in the General Assembly or in the Security Council.
 * 3) In the event of an equality of votes among the judges, the eldest judge shall have a casting vote.

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   discharge their duties until their places have been filled. Though replaced, they shall finish any cases which they may have begun. In the case of the resignation of a member of the Court, the resignation shall be addressed to the President of the Court for transmission to the Secretary-General. This last notification makes the place vacant.

Vacancies shall be filled by the same method as that laid down for the first election, subject to the following provision: the Secretary-General shall, within one month of the occurrence of the vacancy, proceed to issue the invitations provided for in Article 5, and the date of the election shall be fixed by the Security Council.

A member of the Court elected to replace a member whose term of office has not expired shall hold office for the remainder of his predecessor's term.

 * 1) No member of the Court may exercise any political or administrative function, or engage in any other occupation of a professional nature.
 * 2) Any doubt on this point shall be settled by the decision of the Court.

 * 1) No member of the Court may act as agent, counsel, or advocate in any case.
 * 2) No member may participate in the decision of any case in which he has previously taken part as agent, counsel, or advocate for one of the parties, or as a member of a national or international court, or of a commission of enquiry, or in any other capacity.
 * 3) Any doubt on this point shall be settled by the decision of the Court.

 * 1) No member of the Court can be dismissed unless, in the unanimous opinion of the other members, he has ceased to fulfil the required conditions.
 * 2) Formal notification thereof shall be made to the Secretary-General by the Registrar. 3. This notification makes the place vacant.

The members of the Court, when engaged on the business of the Court, shall enjoy diplomatic privileges and immunities.

Every member of the Court shall, before taking up his duties, make a solemn declaration in open court that he will exercise his powers impartially and conscientiously.

 * 1) The Court shall elect its President and Vice President for three years; they may be re-elected.
 * 2) The Court shall appoint its Registrar and may provide for the appointment of such other officers as may be necessary.

 * 1) The seat of the Court shall be established at The Hague. This, however, shall not prevent the Court from sitting and exercising its functions elsewhere whenever the Court considers it desirable.
 * 2) The President and the Registrar shall reside at the seat of the Court.

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  leave, the dates and duration of which shall be fixed by the Court, having in mind the distance between The Hague and the home of each judge. Members of the Court shall be bound, unless they are on leave or prevented from attending by illness or other serious reasons duly explained to the President, to hold themselves permanently at the disposal of the Court.

 * If, for some special reason, a member of the Court considers that he should not take part in the decision of a particular case, he shall so inform the President.
 * 1) If the President considers that for some special reason one of the members of the Court should not sit in a particular case, he shall give him notice accordingly.
 * 2) If in any such case the member of the Court and the President disagree, the matter shall be settled by the decision of the Court.

 * 1) The full Court shall sit except when it is expressly provided otherwise in the present Statute.
 * 2) Subject to the condition that the number of judges available to constitute the Court is not thereby reduced below eleven, the Rules of the Court may provide for allowing one or more judges, according to circumstances and in rotation, to be dispensed from sitting.
 * 3) A quorum of nine judges shall suffice to constitute the Court.

 * 1) The Court may from time to time form one or more chambers, composed of three or more judges as the Court may determine, for dealing with particular categories of cases; for example, labor cases and cases relating to transit and communications.
 * 2) The Court may at any time form a chamber for dealing with a particular case. The number of judges to constitute such a chamber shall be determined by the Court with the approval of the parties.
 * 3) Cases shall be heard and determined by the chambers provided for in this Article if the parties so request.

A judgment given by any of the chambers provided for in Articles 26 and 29 shall be considered as rendered by the Court.

The chambers provided for in Articles 26 and 29 may, with the consent of the parties, sit and exercise their functions elsewhere than at The Hague.

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text: The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/Epigram (2)


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text: The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/On my Thirty-third Birthday


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January 11, 1905 {| style="border: 1px solid black; margin:auto; text-align:center;" cellpadding=10 ! style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px"|Club Notes ! style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px"|
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Special efforts are being made to increase the club membership. On Tuesday, January 10, the third entertainment of the winter will be held in the clubrooms. The program will be of an athletic character.

A committee was appointed recently to confer with the legislative committee of the Maine State Grange relative to concerted action to secure from the Legislature favorable action in the matter of good roads. It is considered likely that the Portland Club will join in the movement.

The club was organized recently in Boston, and the following officers elected: Lewis R. Speare, president; F. H. Tudor, vice president; H. L. Bowden, treasurer; J. C. Kearison, secretary; A. E. Gilmore, Harry Fosdick and W. W. Burke, directors.

A meeting was held in the rooms of the Commercial Club on January 3. Steps were taken toward framing an automobile law to be presented to the Legislature, and volunteers called for who would attend the meetings of that body and help in securing the passage of the bill.

A booklet has recently been issued in which are given a brief history of the club and a statement of its purpose, the names of the principal ofﬁcers for each year since the club was organized in 1900, the ofﬁcers and committees for 1905, the constitution, bylaws and house rules, and a list of all the members. Copies of the Ohio State automobile law and the Cleveland ordinance are also included.

A communication has been received from Richard P. Elliott, of Boston, stating that he has prepared a bill to be presented to the Legislature at its next session, which requires that all vehicles upon the highways shall carry lights after dark, visible 300 feet to the front and rear. The co-operation of the club is asked to secure its passage. The effort to have President Goddard appointed a member of the metropolitan highway committee has failed, owing chiefly, it is said, to the fact that his “boom” was started too late. A number of changes are soon to be made in the arrangement of the clubrooms. A lunch room is one of the new features proposed. At a meeting last week it was voted to hold a hill climbing contest next spring and a committee consisting of A. K. Miller, William A. Chaffin and Secretary F. E. Frost was appointed to arrange for it.

A meeting was held at the Hotel Pﬁster recently at which it was decided to allow the secretary a salary of $75 per year. A paper on skidding was read by G. Scholtka, and an interesting talk on snow blindness given by Dr. E. W. Bartlett. A number of new members were elected.

On January 3 the third annual banquet was held at the Yates Hotel. Henry Walters acted as toastmaster. Among those who spoke were Congressman Michael E. Driscoll, Mayor Alan C. Fobes, Prof. W. K. Wickes, Supervisor Robert E. Gilman, William Rubin, Justice F. W. Thompson, John D. Lyon, of Binghamton, Arthur Benjamin, Giles E. Stilwell and Harlan W. Whipple.

Announcements are out for the ﬁrst annual banquet, to be held on January 16 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. The list of speakers contains the names of Mayor McClellan and ex-Governor Odell. The arrangements are in the hands of a committee consisting of Harlan W. Whipple and C. H. Gillette, of the association, and T. M. Hilliard, manager of the Waldorf-Astoria. Reduced railroad rates have been secured for members attending the annual meeting on the one fare and certificate plan. Members purchasing railroad tickets not later than January 18 may obtain a certificate from the ticket agent, which should be presented to Secretary Gillette at the Hotel Seville, Madison avenue and Twenty-ninth street. If the necessary minimum attend the meeting, the return rate will be reduced to one-third.

The fourth annual banquet of the club was held at the Wellington, Providence, on January 4 after the annual meeting in the club rooms, at which the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Dr. Julian A. Chase; ﬁrst vice president, William Penn Mather; second vice president, Darwin Almy; treasurer, Howard D. Wilcox; secretary, Elliot Flint; governors, to serve until 1908, Charles O. Read and Darwin Almy. At the banquet President Chase acted as toastmaster and presented the following speakers: Harlan W. Whipple, A. R. Pardington, A. A. Post, C. H. Gillette and Asa Goddard, president of the Worcester Club. The protest of A. E. Morrison, of Boston, against the award of ﬁrst place to B. F. Blackinton in the hill climbing contest held by the club at River Point on November 26, has been disallowed, because the protest was not ﬁled in writing within twenty-four hours after the close of the event, as required by the A. A. A. racing rules, and also because the performance on which Morrison based his protest was made in a match to decide a tie, after the hill climbing contest proper.

The post office authorities of Cleveland, Ohio, have placed a number of motor wagons in service for conveying mails between the various sub-stations and railway depots.

The Indiana Automobile Company, of Indianapolis, will act as agents for the commercial cars made by the Knox Automobile Company during 1905. The Rockliff Motor Truck Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been chartered by the Secretary of State to manufacture and sell automobiles and other road motors. The capital stock is $50,000, and the directors for the ﬁrst year are Sidney D. Van Wagner, Charles E. Patterson and Charles Rockliff, of Brooklyn.

The Induction Coil Company, 9 Miller Building, Milwaukee, Wis.—Catalogue of Mueller coils.

C. W. Spicer, Plainﬁeld, N. J.—Catalogue of Spicer dust proof universal joints, for automobile use.

Electric Vehicle Company, Hartford, Conn.—Specifications of the various models of Columbia cars.

J. T. Pederson, 642 First avenue, New York City.—Folder showing his various types of pressure feed lubricators.

Atwood Manufacturing Company, Amesbury, Mass.—Catalogue of oil, electric and acetylene gas lamps for automobiles.

Pittsﬁeld Spark Coil Company, Pittsﬁeld, Mass.—Folder showing Pittsfield ignition supplies, coils, plugs, commutators, etc.

The Hesse-Bright Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, 15a.—Illustrated catalogue of Hesse-Bright ball bearings, giving tables of safe loads, etc.

Cullman Wheel Company, 52: Larrabee street, Chicago, Ill.—Catalogue of chains, sprockets and differential gears made and handled by the company.

The Concentrated Acetylene Company, 330 North Illinois street, Indianapolis, Ind.—Catalogue showing Prest-o-Lite gas tanks attached to various makes of cars.

The Manufacturers’ Foundry Company, Waterbury, Conn.—Illustrated booklet showing some of the gasoline engine cylinder castings made by this company.

The Swinehart Clincher Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio.—Booklet containing information concerning the construction and application of Swinehart solid tires.

W. U. Custead, 45 West Twenty-seventh street. New York City.—Folder giving information concerning his recently patented variable speed and power transmission device.

Wray Pump and Register Company, 191 Mill street, Rochester, N. Y.—Pamphlet illustrating the various forms of Kellogg double acting tire pumps and air pipe couplings.

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text: The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/Epigrams


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Epigrams

 * "Epigrams", a series of epigrams by George Gordon Byron
 * "Epigrams", several epigrams by Bertram Dobell
 * "Epigrams from the French", a collection of epigrams by Bertram Dobell
 * "Epigrams", a poem by Ben Jonson.
 * Epigrams, a collection of epigrams by Julian (4th century).
 * Epigrams, a collection of epigrams by Martial (1st century BCE).
 * Epigrams, a collection of epigrams by Plato (spurious, 3rd century).

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Rh their best skill upon these vessels; they received pretty much their own prices for building them, and each ship, as she sailed out upon the ocean, held in her keeping the reputation of her builder, to whom a quick passage meant fame and fortune. Six of the clipper ships launched in 1851, the Flying Cloud, Comet, Sword-Fish, Witch of the Wave, Ino, and Northern Light, established speed records that have not yet been broken, and as time rolls on, the probability that they ever will be, becomes less and less.

The Flying Cloud was originally contracted for by Enoch Train, the good friend of Donald McKay, but while on the stocks she was sold to Grinnell, Minturn & Co., under whose flag she sailed for a number of years. Mr. Train used to say that there were few things in his life that he regretted more than parting with this ship. She was 1783 tons register, and measured: length 225 feet, breadth 40 feet 8 inches, depth 21 feet 6 inches, with 20 inches dead-rise at half floor. Her main-yard was 82 feet and her mainmast 88 feet in length, and like all the large clippers of her day, she carried three standing skysail yards; royal, topgallant and topmast studdingsails at the fore and main, square lower studdingsails with swinging booms at the fore; single topsail yards, with four reef bands in the topsails; single reefs in the topgallant sails, and topsail and topgallant bowlines.

She was commanded by Captain Josiah Perkins Creesy, who was born at Marblehead in 1814. Like most boys who were brought up along the coast of Massachusetts Bay, he began his career by being

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154 skipper and all hands of a borrowed thirteen-foot dory, with the usual leg-o'-mutton sail, and steered by an oar over her lee gunwale. In these dories water was carried in a strong earthen jug with a stout handle to which a tin drinking-cup was usually attached, while a wooden dinner-pail, such as the Gloucester fishermen used in those days, contained provisions. When the rode line was coiled down clear with the killick stowed away forward, and the dinner-pail, wooden bailer, and water jug had been made fast with a lanyard to the becket in the stern sheets, the famous Cape Ann dory was about ready for sea.

Joe Creesy was a genuine boy, large and strong for his age, freckled, good-tempered, and fond of rowing, sailing, and fishing. When he got to be thirteen or fourteen years old, he used to get some one to lend him a dory, and in this, during his summer vacation, he would make short cruises to Beverly and sometimes to the neighboring port of Salem. Here he would loiter about the wharves, watching an Indiaman discharge her fragrant cargo, or perhaps some ship fitting out for another voyage to India or China; and he would gaze up in wonder and admiration at the long tapering masts, with their lofty yards and studdingsail booms, and what appeared to him to be a labyrinth of blocks and slender threads. The ships' figureheads, especially those representing warriors and wild animals, pleased Joe mightily, and the spare spars, gratings, capstans, boats, guns, and shining brass work, all delighted his heart. Occasionally he would behold a sea-captain who had really sailed to Calcutta and

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Rh Canton, and the bronzed mariner was to him a being quite apart from other mortals.

At that time Salem retained much of the spicy, maritime flavor of the olden days, and these pleasant summer cruises to the old seaport naturally captivated the boy's imagination, until he yearned for the time when he, too, might stand upon the quarter-deck in command of a noble ship. It would, of course, have been sinful to keep a boy like this on land, so he was permitted to follow his inclination and ship before the mast on board of a vessel bound for the East Indies. He advanced steadily through all the grades on shipboard, and became a captain at twenty-three.

When Captain Creesy was appointed to command the Flying Cloud, he was well known in New York, as he had commanded the ship Oneida, for a number of years in the China and East India trade, and bore a high reputation among ship-owners and underwriters, many of whom were his personal friends and associates.

The Flying Fish was owned by Sampson & Tappan, who, with George B. Upton, were the leading Boston ship-owners of their day, and between them owned the largest and finest clipper ships belonging to that port. These firms were composed of men in the prime of life, who enjoyed owning fast and handsome vessels. They cared for nothing but the best in design, construction, and equipment, and fitted out their ships with spare gear, stores, and provisions upon a most generous scale. The Flying Fish was 1505 tons register and measured: length 198 feet 6 inches, breadth 38 feet 2 inches, depth

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156 22 feet, with 25 inches dead-rise at half floor. Her commander, Captain Edward Nickels, had sailed out of Boston for a number of years in command of the ship John Quincy Adams, and was a fine seaman and navigator. He was fond of entertaining his friends while in home and foreign ports, and his jolly little lunches and dinners were regarded as models of refined hospitality on shipboard. Commander John A. H. Nickels, U. S. N., is a son of Captain Edward Nickels.

Mr. Webb's Challenge, a still larger merchantman than had yet been constructed, was regarded with pride by the shipping men of New York. The Challenge registered 2006 tons, and measured: length 230 feet 6 inches, breadth 43 feet 6 inches, depth 27 feet 6 inches, with 42 inches dead-rise at half floor. Her mainmast was 97 feet and mainyard 90 feet in length, and the lower studdingsail booms were 60 feet long; with square yards and lower studdingsails set, the distance from boom end to boom end was 100 feet. She carried 12,780 running yards of cotton canvas, which was woven especially for her by the Colt Manufacturing Company. Her mainsail measured: 80 feet on the head, 100 feet on the foot, with a drop of 47 feet 3 inches, and 49 feet 6 inches on the leach. She had four reefs in her topsails, and single reefs in her topgallant sails, and carried skysails, studdingsails, and ringtail. She was owned by N. L. & G. Griswold, of New York, and was commanded by Captain Robert H. Waterman, late of the Sea Witch.

The Invincible, owned by J. W. Phillips and others, of New York, was 1767 tons register, and

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from gravel of River Bain, south of Horncastle.

 * Weight 2-lbs. 6-oz., length 5¼-in., breadth 6½-in., thickness 2-in.

A Roman milestone was discovered in the Bail, at Lincoln, in 1891, inscribed with the name of Marcus Piavonius Victorinus, who commanded in Gaul and Britain, and which must have been set up during his period of office, about A.D. 267. The site of this was the point of intersection of the two main streets, which would be the centre of the Roman Forum at Lindum, one of these streets leading to Horncastle; from Horncastle also there branched off, as will be hereafter noted, several main Roman roads.

As Horncastle stands on the banks of the river Bain it has been taken by Stukeley, the antiquarian, and by others following him, to have been the Roman Banovallum or "Fort on the Bain," mentioned by the Roman geographer of Ravenna; although, however, most probably correct, this is a mere conjecture. On the road between Horncastle and Lincoln we have the village of Baumber, also called Bamburgh, and this latter form of the name might well mean a "burgh," or fort, on the Bain, the river running just below the village. The two names, however, might well exist at different periods. It may be here mentioned that this form, Bamburg, is found in Harleian Charter 56, c. i, B.M., dated at Wodehalle, December, 1328.

Tacitus, the Roman historian, tells us that the Romans "wore out the bodies and hands of the Britons in opening out the forests, and paving or fortifying the roads," and we can well imagine that those skilled generals


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376 Although these British ships show less breadth than the American, yet they have more breadth in proportion to length than the earlier British clippers, such as the Stornoway (1850), Lord of the Isles (1855), etc.

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Rh to find the tonnage, three fifths of the breadth were deducted from the length and the remainder multiplied by the breadth, and this product multiplied by one half the breadth, or the assumed depth, the last product was then divided by 95, giving the formula:

Thus in a vessel measuring 100 ft. x 20 ft. x 18 ft.:

This mode of measurement continued from colonial times until the Moorsom system was adopted in 1865.

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text: United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/5th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 3


text: Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement/Mackenzie, Colin (1806-1881)


text: Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement/Mackinnon, William


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 is sometimes employed by Dorsey instead of the acute accent, and in almost all cases it is over an oral particle and indicates a falling tone.

In the Biloxi-English section it has been impossible to reduce all forms under stems which are constant and always consistent, and in some cases it has been found necessary to enter words or portions of words as principal headings, though they are evidently compounds. The classification must be understood as representing an analysis carried a considerable distance toward completion but not actually completed. The final analysis can take place only when all of the Siouan dialects have been recorded, analyzed, and mutually compared, a work still far in the future. Where stems have several different classes of derivatives an attempt has been made to separate these by dashes, but, as in the analysis, consistency throughout has not been possible. Figures refer to the number of the myth and the line in the text. Biloxi words in parentheses without an English translation or explanation are inflections of the verb or noun next preceding, and are given in the following order: Second person singular, first person singular, third person plural, second person plural, first person plural. Dorsey has inverted the usual English order for the reason that in most Siouan dialects the form for the third person singular is identical with the stem and therefore makes a better starting point than the first person. An English explanation in quotation marks is to be understood as a literal translation of the preceding Indian word, and where two or more forms of the same Indian word are given in succession, some accompanied and some unaccompanied by figures, the figures are to be understood as applying only to the form immediately preceding.

The material on Ofo was collected by the writer in November and December, 1908, from the last survivor of that tribe. In general the phonetics appear to be like those in Biloxi, but it has been impossible to make the same fine discriminations. On the other hand, the fol- lowing additional signs are used: ô like o in stop; ä like ai in hair; ˈ denotes a pause. Probably the consonants followed by h, which is here very distinct, correspond to the aspirated consonants of other Siouan dialects. John R. Swanton.


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6 would see the advantageous position for a stronghold in the angle formed by the junction of the two rivers, and would employ the subjugated Britons of the locality in constructing, it may be, at first only a rude fort, protected on two sides by the streams and in the rear by a "vallum," or embankment, and that on the site thus secured and already a native stronghold, they would, at a later period, erect the "castrum," of which massive fragments still remain, testifying to its great strength.

These remains, indeed, in almost their whole course can be traced through present-day gardens and back premises, shewing the four sides of an irregular parallelogram. Their dimensions, roughly speaking, are on the north and south sides about 600-ft., by about 350-ft. at the eastern, and 300-ft. at the western end, their thickness being about 16-ft. The material employed was the Spilsby sandstone, obtainable within five miles, cemented by course grouting poured into the interstices between the massive blocks. These walls inclose a portion of the High Street as far eastward as the site of the present Corn Exchange, westward they include the present manor house and form the boundary of the churchyard in that direction. On the north they run at the back of the houses on that side of the Market Place, and on the south they extend from St. Mary's Square, past the Grammar School, and through sundry yards, parallel with the branch of the canal, which is the old Waring river. The masonry of these walls, as now seen, is very rude. It is supposed that, originally as built by the Romans, they had an external coating of neat structure, but this has entirely disappeared, it is still, however, to be seen in the wells, which are next to be described.

In a cellar, south of the High Street, at a baker's shop, and close to the eastern wall of the castle, is a Roman well: there is another close to the north-east angle of the castle walls, in what is called Dog-kennel Yard, and a third just within the western wall, near the present National Schools. Thus, although the two rivers were without the castle walls, the Roman garrison was well supplied with water.

The Roman roads branching from the town were (1st) the "Ramper," as it is still called, running north-west, and connecting it with the Roman station Lindum; from this, at Baumber, distant about 4 miles, a branch running northwards led to the Roman Castrum, now Caistor; (2nd) north-eastwards via West Ashby, being the highway to Louth, the Roman Luda; (3rd) eastwards, by High Toynton, Greetham, &c,., [sic] to Waynflete, the Roman Vain-ona; (4th) southward, by Dalderby, Haltham, &c., to Leeds Gate, Chapel Hill, and there crossing the river Witham to Sleaford and Ancaster, the Roman Causennæ, situated on the great Roman Ermin Street. This also was continued to another Roman Castrum, now Castor, near Peterborough; (5th) south-west, by Thornton, &c., to Tattershall, locally supposed to have been the Roman Durobrivæ, and where traces of a Roman camp still remain.

Besides these Roman viæ and Roman coins, quite an abundance of Roman pottery has from time to time been unearthed, and fragments are continually being found in gardens in the town. A collection of these, probably cinerary urns, was preserved until quite recently in the library of the Mechanics'


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Rh Institute, where the writer has frequently seen them, they varied in height from 8 inches to 18 inches. Unfortunately, for lack of funds, that institution was broken up about 1890, the books were stowed away in a room at the workhouse, a valuable collection, and the urns were sold by the late Mr. Joseph Willson, who acted as sole trustee. Other Roman relics have been fragments of mortars of white clay, found on the site of the present union, one bearing the word "fecit," though the maker's name was lost. Portions also of Samian ware have been found, one stamped with a leopard and stag, another bearing part of the potter's name, ILIANI; with fragments of hand-mills, fibulæ, &c. The present writer has two jars, or bottles, of buff coloured ware, of which about a dozen were dug up when the foundations of the workhouse were being laid in 1838, they are probably Samian, a friend having exactly similar vessels which she brought from Cyprus. The writer has in his possession the head of a porphyritic mallet which was found in a garden in the south of the town a few years ago, it is probably Roman; the handle, which would be of wood, had entirely disappeared; it is much "pitted" through damp and age, is 6½ inches long and weighs 3-lb. 9-oz.

, found near the Wong, length 6⅝-in., width 3⅞-in. weight 3½-lb.; of porphyry from the Cheviot region, Neolithic period.

The stone was probably part of a large boulder.

A discovery of further interesting Roman relics of another kind was made in 1896. The owner of a garden near Queen Street, in the south-eastern part of the town, was digging up an apple tree when he came across a fine bed of gravel. Continuing the digging, in order to find the thickness of this deposit, his spade struck against a hard substance, which proved to be a lead coffin. After this had been examined by others invited to inspect it, without any satisfactory result, the present writer was requested to conduct further investigation. The coffin was found to be 5-ft. 2-in. in length, containing the skeleton, rather shorter, of a female. A few days later a second coffin was found, lying parallel to the first, 5-ft. 7-in. in length, the bones of the skeleton within being


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8 larger and evidently those of a male. Subsequently fragments of decayed wood and long iron nails and clamps were found, showing that the leaden coffins had originally been enclosed in wooden cases. Both these coffins lay east and west. A description was sent to a well-known antiquarian, the late Mr. John Bellows of Gloucester, and he stated that if the lead had an admixture of tin they were Roman, if no tin, post-Roman. The lead was afterwards analysed by Professor Church, of Kew, and by the analytical chemist of Messrs. Kynoch & Co., of Birmingham, with the result that there was found to be a percentage of 1.65 of tin to 97.08 of lead and 1.3 of oxygen, "the metal slightly oxidised." It was thus proved that the coffins were those of Romans, their "orientation" implying that they were christian. It should be added that three similar coffins were found in the year 1872, when the foundations were being laid of the New Jerusalem Chapel in Croft Street, within some 100 yards of the two already described; and further, as confirmatory of their being Roman, a lead coffin was also found in the churchyard of Baumber, on the restoration of the church there in 1892, this being close to the Roman road (already mentioned) between the old Roman stations Banovallum and Lindum. Lead coffins have also been found in the Roman cemeteries at Colchester, York, and at other places.

As another interesting case of Roman relics found in Horncastle, I give the following:—In 1894 I exhibited, at a meeting of our Archæological Society, some small clay pipes which had recently been dug up along with a copper coin of the Emperor Constantine, just within the western wall of the old castle, near the present Manor House. They were evidently very old and of peculiar make, being short in stem with small bowl set at an obtuse angle. They were said at the time to be Roman, but since tobacco was not introduced till the reign of Elizabeth that idea was rejected. In the year 1904, however, a large quantity of fragments of similar clay pipes were found in the ruins of the Roman fort of Aliso, near Halteren on the river Lippe, in Western Germany, some of rude structure, some decorated with figures and Roman characters. They were lying at a depth of 9 feet below the surface, and had evidently lain undisturbed since the time of the Roman occupation. From the marks upon them it was manifest that they had been used, and it is now known from the statements of the Roman historian Pliny, and the Greek Herodotus, that the use of narcotic fumes was not unknown to the Romans, as well as to other ancient nations; the material used was hemp seed and cypress grass. In the Berlin Ethnological Museum, also, vessels of clay are preserved, which are supposed to have been used for a like purpose. This discovery, then, at Horncastle is very interesting as adding to our Roman remains, and we may picture to ourselves the Roman sentinel taking his beat on the old castle walls and solacing himself, after the manner of his countrymen, with his pipe. (An account of this later discovery is given in a German scientific review for August, 1904, quoted Standard, August 12, 1904).

Of what may be called the close of this early historic period in connection with Horncastle there is little more to be said. The Roman forces withdrew from Britain about A.D. 408. The Britons harried by their northern neighbours, the Picts and Scots, applied for assistance to the Saxons, who, coming at first as friends, but led to stay by the attractions of the country, gradually


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Rh over-ran the land and themselves in turn over-mastered the Britons, driving them into Wales and Cornwall. The only matter of interest in connection with Horncastle, in this struggle between Saxon and Briton, is that about the end of the 5th century the Saxon King Horsa, with his brother Hengist, who had greatly improved the fort at Horncastle, were defeated in a fight at Tetford by the Britons under their leader Raengeires, and the British King caused the walls to be nearly demolished and the place rendered defenceless. (Leland's Collectanea, vol i, pt. ii, p. 509),. [sic]

North-east corner of the Castle Wall, in Dog-kennel Yard.

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 nations eventually settling side by side, until both alike in the 11th century became subject to their Norman conquerors. The traces of these peoples are still apparent in Horncastle and its soke, since of its 13 parish names, three, High Toynton, Low Toynton and Roughton have the Saxon suffix "ton"; three, Mareham-on-the-Hill, Mareham-le-Fen and Haltham terminate in the Saxon "ham," and six, Thimbleby, West Ashby, Wood Enderby, Moorby, Wilksby and Coningsby have the Danish suffix "by." The name of the town itself is Saxon, Horn-castle, or more anciently Hyrne-ceastre, i.e. the castle in the corner, or angle, formed by the junction of the two rivers; that junction was, within comparatively modern times, not where it is now, but some 200 yards eastward, on the other side of the field called "The Holms," where there is still a muddy ditch.

So far our account of the town has been based mainly upon etymological evidence, derived from river and place names, with a few scanty and scattered records. As we arrive at the Norman period we shall have to deal with more direct documentary testimony, which may well form another chapter.


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CHAPTER II.

RECORDS OF THE MANOR, &c., FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST.

RECENT historian has said "In the 13th century the northern counties of England were so unsettled that there was little security north of the Humber, and in 1250 the powerful Bishop of Carlisle found it necessary to buy the manor of Horncastle (his own residence in the north, Rose Castle, having been destroyed by marauders), and the Pope granted him the Parish Church (of Horncastle) for his use;" but we can carry our history back to a considerably earlier period than this. As a former Roman station, doubtless, and of even earlier origin than that, Horncastle had become a place of some importance, and so, even before the Norman conquest the manor was royal property, since Domesday Book states that King Edward the Confessor bestowed it upon his Queen, Editha. Edward died January 5, 1066, and his possessions naturally passed to his successor, the Conqueror. Its subsequent history for a few years we do not know, but in the reign of Stephen the manor was held by Adelias, or Adelidis, (Alice or Adelaide) de Cundi, daughter of William de Cheney (a name still known in the county), who was Lord of Glentham and Caenby, two parishes near Brigg. She had a castle in this town, the site of which is not now known, but it was probably a restoration in whole, or in part, of the old fortress. She took part against the King in his quarrel with the Empress Maud, and her estates were confiscated by Stephen, they were, however, subsequently restored to her on condition that she should demolish her castle.

On her death the manor reverted to the crown and was granted by Henry II. to a Fleming noble, Gerbald de Escald, who held it for one knight's


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12 fee. He was succeeded by his grandson and heir, Gerard de Rhodes, whose son, Ralph de Rhodes, sold it to Walter Mauclerk, Bishop of Carlisle, and Treasurer of the Exchequer under Henry III. In the reign of Richard II. Roger la Scrope and Margaret his wife, with Robert Tibetot and son, his wife, as descendants of Gerbald de Escald, put in a claim for the manor and obtained letters patent, by which the episcopal possessor was bound to do them homage, but this was only for a brief period, and they then disappear from the scene.

The manor remained a possession of the bishops of Carlisle until the reign of Edward VI., when, by licence of the King, it was sold by Bishop Aldrich in 1547 to Edward, Lord Clinton. In the reign of Mary he was compelled to re-convey it to the see of Carlisle. Queen Elizabeth took a lease of it under the then possessing bishop, in which she was succeeded by James I. He assigned it to Sir Edward Clinton, knt., but through neglect of enrolment this became void. In the reign of Charles II. the former charters were renewed, and the bishops of Carlisle remained lords of the manor until 1856, when it was transferred, with the patronage of some of the benefices within the soke, to the Bishop of Lincoln. Thus from the reign of Edward the Confessor to that of Charles II., a period of about 600 years, broken by brief intervals of alienation, Horncastle was connected with royalty.

The lease of the manor was held, under the bishops of Carlisle by Sir Joseph Banks and his ancestors for nearly a century, the lease of Sir Joseph himself being dated 21 March, 1803, and renewed 1 June, 1811. He died in 1820 and was succeeded by his relative the Honble. James Hamilton Stanhope and, three years later, by James Banks Stanhope, Esq., then a minor, who, at a later period (in 1885) transferred all his rights to his cousin, the late Right Honble. Edward Stanhope, whose widow became lady of the manor and at whose death, in 1907, the lordship reverted to the Honble. Richard Stanhope, son of the present Earl Stanhope. Mr. Banks Stanhope died January 18th, 1904, aged 82, having been a generous benefactor to Horncastle and the neighbourhood.

We have here given a very condensed account of the ownership of this manor from the reign of Edward the Confessor to the present time, a period of nearly 840 years. Having had access to the episcopal archives of Carlisle, so long connected with Horncastle, we are able to confirm several of the above details from documents still existing, which we now proceed to do.

It has been stated that the manor of Horncastle was conferred upon Queen Editha by her husband, Edward the Confessor. In confirmation of this we find the following: In the reign of Charles I. the Vicar of Horncastle, Thomas Gibson, presented a petition claiming tithe for certain mills called "Hall Mills," with a close adjoining called "Mill Holmes," as belonging to the glebe. The tenant, William Davidson, resisted, arguing that he had paid no tithes to the previous vicar, Robert Holingshed, that the mills were erected


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Rh before the conquest and were part of the jointure of Queen Editha, as stated in Domesday Book, and were therefore part of the manor, not of the vicar's glebe. The result is not recorded, but doubtless the tenant was right. The passage here quoted from Domesday Book is the following: "In Horncastre Queen Editha had 3 carucates of land, free of gelt. This land is now 4 carucates. The King has there 2 carucates in demesne (i.e. as his manor), with 29 villeins and 12 bordars, who have (among them) 3 carucates. There are 2 mills worth 26s. yearly, and 100 acres of meadow. In King Edward's time the annual value was £20, now it is £44." These two mills and the meadow were doubtless those in dispute between the vicar and tenant in the reign of Charles I., the date of Domesday being about 1085, or 540 years earlier. They were plainly part of the royal manor and not at all connected with the glebe.

All this, however, proves that the manor of Horncastle belonged to King Edward the Confessor before the conquest, and 360 acres of it were assigned to his consort, Queen Editha. The expansion of the 3 carucates into 4, mentioned in Domesday Book, was probably (as in many other recorded cases) due to the reclamation of land hitherto waste in flood or forest.

On the death of King Edward in 1066 the royal demesnes naturally passed to his successor and kinsman, William the Conqueror, and in due course to the successive Norman kings of his line.

The connection of Horncastle with the sovereign is shown in various ways. Documents relating to the earlier kings are naturally rare, since for many years law courts were hardly yet established, the royal power being rather that of "might" than of "right." Even the sale, or devising, of property could only be legally effected by the king's licence. Among the Carlisle papers connected with Horncastle is one which shows that a matter which in modern times would be settled by the parish overseers, or more recently by the Urban Council, was to be formerly carried out only by the royal sanction. There is a Patent Roll of the 13th year of King Richard II. (pt. 1, m. 3) entitled "Concerning the paving of Horncastre," and running as follows:—"The King to the Bailiff and proved men of the vill of Horncastre, greeting. Know, that in aid of paving your said vill, of our special grace we have granted to you, that from the day of the making of these presents to the end of 3 years, you may take, for things coming to the said vill for sale, the customs underwritten." Then follows a long list of articles for sale, of which we can only specify a few here, viz.: "For every horse load of corn, ¼d., for every dole of wine, 2d.; for every pipe of ditto, 1s.; for every hide, fresh, salt, or tanned, ¼d.; for 100 skins of roebucks (it seems that there were wild deer in those days), hares, rabbits, foxes, or squirrels, ½d.; for every horse load of cloth, ½d.; for every cloth of worstede, called 'coverlyt,' value 40s., 1d.; for every 100 of linen web of Aylesham, 1d.; for every chief of strong cendal (silk) 1d.; for 100 mullets, salt or dry, 1d.; for every cart of fish, 1d.; for every horse load of sea fish, ¼d.; for every salmon, ¼d.; for every last of herrings (12 barrels), 6d.; for every horse load of honey, 1d.; for every wey of tallow (256 lbs.), 1d.; for every milstone, ½d.; for 1,000 turfs, ¼d. For every other


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LINES TO MR. HODGSON.

WRITTEN ON BOARD THE LISBON PACKET.

1.

! Hodgson, we are going,

Our embargo 's off at last;

Favourable breezes blowing

Bend the canvas o'er the mast.

From aloft the signal 's streaming,

Hark! the farewell gun is fired;

Women screeching, tars blaspheming,

Tell us that our time 's expired.

Here 's a rascal

Come to task all,

Prying from the Custom-house;

Trunks unpacking

Cases cracking,

Not a corner for a mouse

'Scapes unsearched amid the racket,

Ere we sail on board the Packet.

2.

Now our boatmen quit their mooring,

And all hands must ply the oar;

Baggage from the quay is lowering,

We're impatient, push from shore.

"Have a care! that case holds liquor—

Stop the boat—I'm sick—oh Lord!"


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14 kind of merchandise not here specified, of value 5s. and over, ¼d.; and the term of 3 years being ended, the said customs shall cease. Witness the King, at Westminster, 9 Nov., 1389."

Truly the kingly government was a paternal one to take cognizance of such petty local matters. The "coggle" pavement of Horncastle is often complained of, but at least it had the royal sanction.

A Roll of the 18th year of Edward III. (m 8), dated Westminster, 28 June, 1344, is directed "to his very dear and faithful John de Kirketon, Fitz Hugh de Cressy," (and others) assigning them "to choose and array 100 men at arms in the County of Lincoln," and (among others) "6 hoblers in the vill of Horncastre, to be at Portsmouth, to set out with the King against Philip VI., de Valesco (Valois)." This was the beginning of the campaign of Edward and his son the Black Prince, which terminated with the glorious battle of Cressy and the capture of Calais. "Hoblers" were a sort of yeomanry who, by the terms of their tenure of land were bound to keep a light "nag" for military service.

A Domestic State Paper of Queen Elizabeth (Vol. 51, No. 12, III) contains the "Certificate of the town and soke of Horncastle to the artycles of the Queen's Majesty's most Honorable Pryvye Councell," dated 27 June, 1569, shewing what "soldiers were furnished and went forth under Captaine Carsey." These were formerly the well-known local troops called "trainbands." The paper contains, further, accounts of payments for "towne common armour, jerkyns, swords, daggers, corslettes, 1 caline (piece of ordnance), conduct money (i.e. hire money), pioneers, victuals," &c. Accounts rendered by Thomas Hamerton, Arthur Patchytt, Thomas Raythbeake (all formerly well known names in the town), and others.

The head of the Carsey family was the owner of the Revesby Abbey Estate, and as such was lesse of the manor of Horncastle under the Bishop of Carlisle. They sold their property, in 1575, to Thomas Cecil, son of Lord Treasurer Burleigh.

There is another Carlisle document in connection with these trained bands among the same Domestic State Papers of Queen Elizabeth (Vol. 199, No. 7), in which the Earl of Rutland writes to Anthony Thorold, sheriff, that he has instructions "from the Lords of the Counsaile to put in strength the power of the realme for the maritime counties," and he asks him to "choose captaines for the yet untrained companies, and to supply the place of Mr. John Savile for Horncastle." N.B.—The Saviles owned Poolham Hall in Edlington. On this (State Papers, Eliz., Vol. 199, No. 72) the Earl writes to Mr. Valentine Brown that he thinks him "meete to supply the place for Horncastle," dated London, 29 March, 1586-7. Sir Valentine Brown was of Croft and East Kirkby, and Treasurer of Ireland; he married the daughter of Sir John Monson, ancestor of the present Lord Oxenbridge.

Among the Domestic State Papers of Charles I. (Vol. 376, No. 123), is a petition from the inhabitants of Horncastle to Sir Anthony Irbie, Knt., sheriff of the county, complaining that the town was over-rated for the payment of "ship-money," and praying for a reduction of the same. The county was charged £8,000. This rate, levied to maintain the navy, created widespread dissatisfaction and eventually led to the revolution. It was included among the grievances against which public protests were made in 1641. The five judges who pronounced in its favour were imprisoned, and Hampden received


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Rh Whether at morn, in lucid lustre gay,

On eastern clouds thy yellow tresses play,

Or else at eve, in radiant glory drest,

Thou tremblest at the portals of the west,

I see no more! But thou mayest fail at length,

Like Ossian lose thy beauty and thy strength,

Like him—but for a season—in thy sphere

To shine with splendour, then to disappear!

Thy years shall have an end, and thou no more

Bright through the world enlivening radiance pour,

But sleep within thy clouds, and fail to rise,

Heedless when Morning calls thee to the skies!

Then now exult, O Sun! and gaily shine,

While Youth and Strength and Beauty all are thine.

For Age is dark, unlovely, as the light

Shed by the Moon when clouds deform the night,

Glimmering uncertain as they hurry past.

Loud o'er the plain is heard the northern blast,

Mists shroud the hills, and 'neath the growing gloom,

The weary traveller shrinks and sighs for home. 1806. [First published, Atlantic Monthly, December, 1898.]


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16 a wound in a skirmish with Prince Rupert, from which he died, June 24, 1643. Petitions were also presented to Sir Edward Hussey, sheriff, 1636-7, as given in Domestic State Papers, Charles I., Vol. 345, No. 42.

It has been already stated that in the reign of Stephen this manor was held by Adelias, or Adelidis, de Cundi. How this came about is not quite clear, whether it was inherited from her father, William de Cheney, who was probably among the Normans invited to immigrate by Edward the Confessor, since it would seem that at the time of the conquest he was already a large owner in the county, or from her husband, Robert de Cundi, a Fleming, probably named from the town and fortress of Conde on the frontier of France, situated on the Scheldt, in the department du Nord. There is, however, evidence to show that she had other possessions of considerable value apparently in her own right in Nottinghamshire and Kent, as well as Lincolnshire. She is described by the old chronicler, Geoffrey Gairmar, as a great patroness of learning and literature.

The Cheneys, or Chesneys, were apparently of foreign extraction, as implied by their appellation "de Casineto." They had considerable influence at various periods, one of them being knighted, another made a baron by Queen Elizabeth. One, Robert de Cheney, was a powerful Bishop of Lincoln (A.D. 1147-67) and built one of the finest castles in England, the ruins of which still remain in the Palace grounds at Lincoln. The Cheney pedigree is given in The Genealogist of July, 1901. They seem to have settled in Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire, as well as in Lincolnshire. Sir Thomas Cheney, K.G., was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in the latter part of the 16th century. The Cheneys fell into decay towards the end of the 17th century, and at the beginning of the 18th century we find them in trade at Boston. About 1750 William Garfit of Boston married Mary, daughter of Thomas Cheney, and the name, as a christian name, still survives in that family. The Cheneys, we may add, were among the ancestors of the Willoughbys and the parish of Cheneys, in Bucks., doubtless named after them, is now the property of the Duke of Bedford.

The granddaughter of Adelias de Cundi, Agnes, married Walter, son of Walter de Clifford of Clifford Castle, Hereford. Walter Clifford is named in the first great charter of Henry III. (A.D. 1216), along with the great nobles Walter de Lacy, William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, William, Earl of Albemarle, and others.


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2 He carried so much and he carried so fast,

He could carry no more—so was carried at last;

For the liquor he drank being too much for one,

He could not carry off;—so he's now carri-on. September, 1807. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 106.]

A VERSION OF OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN.

FROM THE POEM "CARTHON."

! who rollest in yon azure field,

Round as the orb of my forefather's shield,

Whence are thy beams? From what eternal store

Dost thou, O Sun! thy vast effulgence pour?

In awful grandeur, when thou movest on high,

The stars start back and hide them in the sky;

The pale Moon sickens in thy brightening blaze,

And in the western wave avoids thy gaze.

Alone thou shinest forth—for who can rise

Companion of thy splendour in the skies!

The mountain oaks are seen to fall away—

Mountains themselves by length of years decay—

With ebbs and flows is the rough Ocean tost;

In heaven the Moon is for a season lost,

But thou, amidst the fullness of thy joy,

The same art ever, blazing in the sky!

When tempests wrap the world from pole to pole,

When vivid lightnings flash and thunders roll,

Thou far above their utmost fury borne,

Look'st forth in beauty, laughing them to scorn.

But vainly now on me thy beauties blaze—

Ossian no longer can enraptured gaze!


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Rh 7.

When to the mob you make a speech,

My boy Hobbie O,

How do you keep without their reach

The watch within your fobby O?

8.

But never mind such petty things,

My boy Hobbie O;

God save the people—damn all Kings,

So let us Crown the Mobby O!

Yours truly,

(Signed).

March 23$rd$, 1820. [First published Murray's Magazine, March, 1887, vol. i. pp. 292, 293.]

LINES

ADDRESSED BY LORD BYRON TO MR. HOBHOUSE ON HIS ELECTION FOR WESTMINSTER.


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 The name of this tribe, as first suggested by Mr. Mooney, is evidently a corruption of that by which they call themselves, “Taˊnĕks aⁿˊya,” or “Taˊnĕks aⁿyaˊdi,” and Dorsey states that this “agrees with the laws of Siouan consonant changes (t to p, and n to d and l),”ᵃ though its present form is due rather to a metamorphosis undergone in being taken over into the Mobilian trade language. This is indicated perhaps by Iberville in speaking of “the Annocchy, whom the Bayogoula called ‘Biloochy.’”ᵇ The, t was probably pronounced very lightly. Regarding the signification of Taˊnĕks aⁿˊya Dorsey says, “Tanĕks is apparently related to tâni, ‘to be in advance of another,’ and taⁿniki, ‘first.’ The second word, aⁿyaˊdi, means ‘people.’ The whole name, therefore, may be translated, First People. This reminds us of the name by which the Winnebago Indians call themselves, ‘Hotcañgara,’ First Speech, in which tcañga is a variant of a word signifying ‘first.’”ᶜ

The size of this tribe and the place occupied by it in the history of the Gulf region were very insignificant, yet from many points of view its career verges on the romantic. There is no mention of Biloxi or Annocchy in any of the De Soto narratives, and indeed the region where they were found in later days was some distance from the route which De Soto followed. On the other hand, the first Indians met by Iberville in 1699, when he came to establish a permanent Louisiana settlement, were members of this tribe,ᵈ and thus it came about that the only known relatives of our familiar Dakota, Crows, and Osage on the entire Gulf coast gave their name to the first capitals of Louisiana, old and new Biloxi. The Biloxi village was not, however, on Biloxi bay, as has been erroneously stated, but on Pascagoula river several miles to the eastward in the neighborhood of two other tribes called Pascagoula and Moctobi. The first visit to this tribe was made by Bienville in June, 1699, after Iberville’s return to Europe. Sauvolle observes that the three tribes above mentioned lived together on

ᵃ Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, XXX, 268, 1898

ᵇ Margry, Découvertes, IV, 172. It is significant that Iberville, who met Biloxi Indians before encountering any others, is the only one who gives the form Annicchy. In addition to the page above cited, this form occurs on pages 154, 155, 157 and 163 of the same volume. In English it would be Anokshy.

ᶜ Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, XXX, 267-268, 1898. The interpretation of Hotcafigara, however, is probably erroneous.

ᵈ Margry, (p. cit., IV, 152-154.


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Rh William de Cheney, already mentioned as father of Adelias de Cundi, was "Lord of Caenby and Glentham," and Walter de Clifford also is mentioned in the charters of Barlings Abbey as giving to that monastery lands in Caenby and Glentham, along with the above Walter de Lacy. The great feature of the reign of Stephen was the large number of castles erected by lords who were almost more powerful than their sovereign, and Adelias built her castle at Horncastle, where she resided in great state until, on her favouring the cause of the Empress Maud, daughter of the previous king, Henry I. (whereas Stephen was only his nephew), her lands were confiscated, and, as we have already seen, only restored on condition that her castle was demolished. This restoration was, however, only for life and on her demise the manor reverted to the crown.

The manor was next granted by Henry II. to Gerbald de Escald, a Flemish noble, This is shewn by a record still preserved at Carlisle, dated 1274-5. In the reign of Edward I. an inquisition was made at Lincoln, before 12 jurors of the soke of Horncastle, among the Commissioners being John de Haltham, Anselm de Rugthon (Roughton), Thomas de Camera (i.e. Chambers) of Horncastre, the King's Justices and others, when it was declared that "the Lord Henry III., the father of King Edward who now is, once had the manor of Horncastre, and he enfeoffed Gerbald de Escald, a knight of Flanders, thereof, for his service, viz., by doing one knight's fee for the Lord the King."

Gerbald was succeeded by his grandson and heir, Gerard de Rhodes. This is shewn by a Carlisle document. A dispute arose between Hugh, son of Ralph (surname not given) and Gerard de Rhodes, concerning the manor and soke of Horncastle, the advowson of the church, &c., which were claimed by the said Hugh; but a compromise was effected, 400 marks being paid to Hugh, and Gerard de Rhodes left in undisputed possession.

It has been thought probable that this Ralph, father of Hugh, was Ranulph, Earl of Chester, who was lord of the manors of Revesby and Hareby, and had other possessions in the neighbourhood. He, it is supposed, held the manor of Horncastle, as trustee, during the minority of Gerard. Gerard was, in due course, succeeded by his son and heir, Ralph de Rhodes, in the reign of Henry III. This again is proved by a Feet of Fines, which records an "agreement made in the court of the Lord King at Westminster (3 Feb., A.D. 1224-5), between Henry del Ortiay and Sabina his wife on the one part, and the said Ralph de Rhodes on the other part," whereby the former acknowledge certain lands and appurtenances in Horncastle and its soke to be the property of the said Ralph, and he grants to them, as his tenants, certain lands; they, in acknowledgement, "rendering him therefor, by the year, one pair of gilt spurs at Easter for all service and exactions."

We have now reached another stage in the tenure of this manor and find ourselves once more at the point where the present chapter opened. Hitherto the manor had been held "in capite" (or "in chief") of the king by lay lords, or, in the two cases of Queen Editha and Adelias de Condi, by a lady;


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18 but in this reign Walter Mauclerk, the third Bishop of Carlisle, purchased the manor from Ralph de Rhodes. He was himself a powerful Norman and held the office of Treasurer of the Exchequer (a common combination of civil and ecclesiastical duties in those days), but now he and his successors were bound "to do suit and service to Ralph and his heirs." This purchase is proved by a Lincoln document called a "Plea Quo Warranto," which records a case argued before the Justices Itinerant, in the reign of Edward I., when it was stated that Ralph de Rhodes "enfeoffed Walter Mauclerk to hold the church, manor and appurtenances in Horncastre, to him and his heirs, of the gift of the said Ralph." That the Bishop, although an ecclesiastic, was bound to do service to the heirs of Ralph is shown by another document, in which John, son of Gerard de Rhodes, a descendant of Ralph, makes a grant to certain parties of "the homage and whole service of the Bishop of Carlisle, and his successors, for the manor (&c.) of Horncastre, which Gerard, son of Gerard my brother, granted to me." This is dated the 13th year of Edward I., 1285, whereas the actual sale of the manor took place in the reign of Henry III., A.D. 1230, and was confirmed by the king in the same year.

We have called this another stage in the tenure of this manor and for this reason, an ecclesiastic of high rank, with the authority of the Pope of Rome at his back, was a more powerful subject than any lay baron, and this influence soon shewed itself, for while the lay lords of the manor had been content with doing their service to the king, and exacting service from those holding under them, the Bishop of Carlisle, in the first year of his tenure, obtained from the king three charters, conferring on the town of Horncastle immunities and privileges, which had the effect of raising the town from the status of little more than a village to that of the general mart of the surrounding country. The first of these charters gave the bishop, as lord of the manor, the right of free warren throughout the soke ; the second gave him licence to hold an annual fair two days before the feast of St. Barnabas (June 11), to continue eight days; the third empowered him to hang felons. An additional charter was granted in the following year empowering the bishop to hold a weekly market on Wednesday (die Mercurii), which was afterwards changed to Saturday, on which day it is still held; also to hold another fair on the eve of the Feast of St. Laurence (Aug. 10th), to continue seven days.

We here quote a few words of the original Carlisle charter, as shewing the style of such documents in those days: "Henry to all Bishops, Bailiffs, Provosts, servants, &c., health. Know that we, by the guidance of God, and


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Rh "Sick, Ma'am, damme, you'll be sicker,

Ere you've been an hour on board."

Thus are screaming

Men and women,

Gemmen, ladies, servants, Jacks;

Here entangling,

All are wrangling,

Stuck together close as wax.—

Such the general noise and racket,

Ere we reach the Lisbon Packet.

3.

Now we've reached her, lo! the Captain,

Gallant Kidd, commands the crew;

Passengers their berths are clapt in,

Some to grumble, some to spew.

"Hey day! call you that a cabin?

Why 't is hardly three feet square:

Not enough to stow Queen Mab in—

Who the deuce can harbour there?"

"Who, sir? plenty—

Nobles twenty

Did at once my vessel fill."—

"Did they? Jesus,

How you squeeze us!

Would to God they did so still:

Then I'd 'scape the heat and racket

Of the good ship, Lisbon Packet."


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Rh for the health of our soul, and of the souls of our ancestors and descendants, have granted, and confirmed by this present charter, to God, and the church of the blessed Mary of Carlisle, and to the Venerable Father, Walter, Bishop of Carlisle," &c. It then goes on to specify, among other privileges, that the bishop shall have "all chattells of felons and fugitives, all amerciaments and fines from all men and tenants of the manor and soke; that the bishop and his successors shall be quit for ever to the king of all mercies, fines (&c.), that no constable of the king shall have power of entry, but that the whole shall pertain to the said bishop, except attachments touching pleas of the crown, and that all chattells, &c., either in the king's court, or any other, shall be the bishop's." Then follow cases in which chattells of Robert Mawe, a fugitive, were demanded by the bishop, and £24 exacted from the township of Horncastle in lieu thereof; also 40s. from William, son of Drogo de Horncastre, for trespass, and other fines from Ralph Ascer, bailiff, Robert de Kirkby, &c., &c. The same document states that the bishop has a gallows (furcæ) at Horncastle for hanging offenders within the soke; and, in connection with this we may observe that in the south of the town is still a point called "Hangman's Corner."

These extensive powers, however, would hardly seem (to use the words of the charter) to have been "for the good of the souls" of the bishop or his successors, since they rather had the effect of leading him to the abuse of his rights. Accordingly, in the reign of Edward III., a plea was entered at Westminster, before the King's Justices, by which John, Bishop of Carlisle, was charged with resisting the authority of the king in the matter of the patronage of the benefice of Horncastle. That benefice was usually in the gift of the bishop, but the rector, Simon de Islip, had been appointed by the king Archbishop of Canterbury and, in such circumstances, the crown by custom presents to the vacancy. The bishop resisted and proceeded to appoint his own nominee, but the judgment of the court was against him.

A somewhat similar case occurred a few years later. Thomas de Appleby, the Bishop of Carlisle, and John de Rouseby, clerk, were "summoned to answer to the Lord the King, that they permit him to appoint to the church of Horncastre, vacant, and belonging to the king's gift, by reason of the bishopric of Carlisle being recently vacant." It was argued that John de Kirkby, Bishop of Carlisle, had presented Simon de Islip to that benefice, afterwards created Archbishop of Canterbury, and that the temporalities (patronage, &c.) of the Bishopric of Carlisle therefore (for that turn) came to the king by the death of John de Kirkby, bishop. The said bishop, Thomas de Appleby, and John de Rouseby brought the case before the court, but they admitted the justice of the king's plea and judgment was given for the king.

We have said that although Walter Mauclerk, as Bishop of Carlisle, bought this manor from Ralph de Rhodes, he and his successors were still bound to "do suit and service" to Ralph and his heirs, and in the brief summary with which this chapter opened we named Roger le Scrope and Margaret his wife, with Robert Tibetot and Eva his wife, among those descendants of Ralph de Rhodes. We have fuller mention of them in documents which we here quote. In a Roll of the reign of Edward I., John, son


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6 4.

Fletcher! Murray! Bob! where are you?

Stretched along the deck like logs—

Bear a hand, you jolly tar, you!

Here 's a rope's end for the dogs.

Hobhouse muttering fearful curses,

As the hatchway down he rolls,

Now his breakfast, now his verses,

Vomits forth—and damns our souls.

"Here 's a stanza

On Braganza—

Help!"—"A couplet?"—"No, a cup

Of warm water—"

"What 's the matter?"

"Zounds! my liver 's coming up;

I shall not survive the racket

Of this brutal Lisbon Packet."

5.

Now at length we're off for Turkey,

Lord knows when we shall come back!

Breezes foul and tempests murky

May unship us in a crack.

But, since Life at most a jest is,

As philosophers allow,

Still to laugh by far the best is,

Then laugh on—as I do now.

Laugh at all things,

Great and small things,


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20 of Gerard de Rhodes, says "Know all, present and future, that I, John, son of Gerard, have granted, and by this charter confirmed, to the Lord Robert Tibetot and Eva his wife (among other things) the homage and whole service of the Bishop of Carlisle, and his successors, for the manor of Horncastre, with appurtenances, &c., which Gerard, son of Gerard my brother, granted to me, &c., to have and to hold of the Lord the King .... rendering for them annually to me and my heirs £80 sterling." While in another Roll of the reign of Richard II., the king states that having inspected the above he confirms the grants, not only to the said "Robert Tybetot and his wife Eve," but also "to our very dear and faithful Roger le Scrope and Margaret his wife," recognizing them, it would seem, as descendants of the earlier grantee, Gerbald de Escald, from whom they all inherited.

Of these personages we may here say that both Tibetots and Le Scrope were of high position and influence. The name of Thebetot, or Tibetot, is found in the Battle Abbey Roll, as given by the historians Stow and Holinshed; with a slight variation of name, as Tibtofts, they were Lords of Langer, Co. Notts., and afterwards Earls of Worcester. According to the historian, Camden, John Tibtoft was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland under Henry VI., created by him Earl of Worcester, but executed for treason. His successor, John, was Lord Deputy under Edward IV. The last of the Tibetots, Robert, died without male issue; his three daughters were under the guardianship of Richard le Scrope, who married the eldest daughter, Margaret, to his son Roger. This is the one named above in connection with Horncastle. The Tibetot property of Langer, Notts., thus passed to the Le Scropes, and continued in that family down to Emanuel, created Earl of Sunderland by Charles I., A.D. 1628. Castle Combe in Wiltshire was one of their residences, but their chief seat was Bolton in Richmondshire. William le Scrope was created Earl of Wiltshire by Richard II., but beheaded when that king was dethroned and murdered, in 1399. Richard le Scrope was Archbishop of York, but condemned by Henry IV. for treason. The name Le Scrope also appears in the Battle Abbey Roll of the Conqueror. Thus in both Tibetots and Scropes Horncastle was connected with families who played a considerable part in public life.

In the reign of Edward VI. there was a temporary change in the ownership of this manor. Among the Carlisle Papers is one by which that king grants permission to Robert Aldrich, Bishop of Carlisle, to sell to our very dear and faithful councellor, Edward Fynes, K.G., Lord Clinton and Saye, High Admiral of England, the lordship and soke of Horncastre, with all rights, appurtenances, &c., to hold to himself, his heirs and assigns for ever," and that he, the said Edward, "can give and grant to the said Robert, bishop, an


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Rh Sick or well, at sea or shore;

While we're quaffing,

Let 's have laughing—

Who the devil cares for more?—

Some good wine! and who would lack it,

Ev'n on board the Lisbon Packet? Falmouth Roads, June 30, 1809. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 230-232.]

[TO DIVES. A FRAGMENT.]

FAREWELL PETITION TO J. C. H., ESQRE.

yclep'd by vulgar sons of Men

Cam Hobhouse! but by wags Byzantian Ben!

Twin sacred titles, which combined appear

To grace thy volume's front, and gild its rear,


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Rh annual rent of £28 6s. 8d." We have, however, in this case an illustration of the instability even of royal decrees, in that on the demise of that worthy prince, to whom the realm and Church of England owe so much, his successor, Queen Mary, in the very next year, A.D. 1553, cancelled this sale, and a document exists at Carlisle showing that she "granted a licence," probably in effect compulsory, to the same Lord Clinton and Saye, "to alienate his lordship and soke of Horncastle and to re-convey it to Robert Aldrich, Bishop of Carlisle."

His Lordship would, however, appear to have continued to hold the manor on lease under the bishop, and to have acted in a somewhat high-handed manner to his spiritual superior, probably under the influence of the change in religious sentiment between the reigns of "the bloody Mary," and her sister Elizabeth of glorious memory. For again we find a document of the reign of the latter, in which the Bishop of Carlisle complains to Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's Commissioner, of a "book of Horncastle," which the Earl of Lincoln (the new title of Lord Clinton and Saye) had sent to him "to be sealed," because (he says) the earl, by the words of the grant, had taken from him "lands and tithes of the yearly value of £28 6s. 8d.," the exact sum, be it observed, above specified as the rent to be paid by Lord Clinton and Saye to the bishop, Robert Aldrich. Of this, he asserts, "the see of Carlisle is seized and the earl is not in legal possession by his lease now 'in esse.'" He wages his suit "the more boldly, because of the extraordinary charges he has been at, from the lamentable scarcity in the country, the great multitude of poor people, and other charges before he came had made him a poor man, and yet he must go on with it ... the number of them which want food to keep their lives in their bodies is so pitiful. If the Lord Warden and he did not charge themselves a great number would die of hunger, and some have done so," dated Rose Castle, 26 May, 1578. His lordship, however, did one good turn to the town of Horncastle in founding the Grammar School, in the 13th year of the reign of Elizabeth, A.D. 1571, although (as we shall show in our chapter on the school) this was really not strictly a foundation but a re-establishment; as a grammar school is known to have existed in the town more than two centuries earlier.

We have one more record of Lord Clinton's connection with the town, from which it would appear that the Priory of Bullington, near Wragby, and Kirkstead Abbey also had property in Horncastle. A Carlisle document shows that in the reign of Edward VI. Lord Clinton and Saye received a grant of "lands, tenements and hereditaments in Horncastle, late in the


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22 tenure of Alexander Rose and his assigns, and formerly of the dissolved monastery of Bollington; also two tenements, one house, two 'lez bark houses' (Horncastle tanners would seem even then to have flourished), one house called 'le kylne howse,' one 'le garthing,' 14 terrages of land in the fields of Thornton, with appurtenances lying in Horncastle, &c., and once belonging to the monastery of Kyrkestead."

As in other places the Clinton family seem to have been succeeded by the Thymelbys, of these we have several records. An Escheator's Inquisition of the reign of Henry VIII., taken by Roger Hilton, at Horncastle, Oct. 5, 1512, shewed that "Richard Thymylby, Esquire, was seized of the manor of Parish-fee, in Horncastre, held of the Bishop of Carlisle, as of his soke of Horncastre, by fealty, and a rent of £7 by the year." He was also "seized of one messuage, with appurtenances, in Horncastre, called Fool-thyng, parcel of the said manor of Parish-fee." The said Richard died 3 March, 3 Henry VIII. (A.D. 1512). This was, however, by no means the first of this family connected with Horncastle. Deriving their name from the parish of Thimbleby, in the soke of Horncastle, we find the first mention of a Thymelby in that parish in a post mortem Inquisition of the reign of Edward III., which shews that Nicholas de Thymelby then held land in Thimbleby under the Bishop of Carlisle, A.D. 1333; but nearly a century before that date a Lincoln document mentions one Ivo, son of Odo de Thymelby, as holding under the Bishop in Horncastle, in the reign of Henry III., A.D. 1248.

Further, in the reign of Edward I., as is shewn by a Harleian MS., in the British Museum, Richard de Thymelby was Dean of Horncastle; Thomas, son of the above Nicholas de Thymelby, presented to the benefice of Ruckland in 1381, John de Thymelby presented to Tetford in 1388, and John again to Somersby in 1394, and other members of the family presented at later periods. The family continued to advance in wealth and position until in the reign of Edward VI. it was found by an Inquisition that Matthew Thymelby, of Poolham (their chief residence in this neighbourhood), owned the manor of Thymbleby, that of Parish-fee in Horncastle and five others, with lands in eight other parishes, and the advowsons of Ruckland, Farforth, Somersby and Tetford. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Hussey. Other influential marriages were those of John Thymelby, "Lord of Polum" (Poolham), to Isabel, daughter of Sir John Fflete, Knt. (circa 1409); William (probably) to Joan, daughter of Sir Walter Tailboys (circa 1432), a connection of the Earl of Angus; Matthew's widow marrying Sir Robert Savile, Knt.


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24 In connection with the marriage of William to Joan Tailboys we may mention that the base, all that now remains, of the churchyard cross at Tetford bears on its west side the Thimbleby arms "differenced" with those of Tailboys, the north side having the Thimbleby arm pure and simple.

Another important marriage was that of Richard Thimbleby (A.D. 1510) to Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Godfrey Hilton of Irnham Manor near Grantham, through which alliance that property passed to the Thimblebys. It had been granted to Ralph Paganel by the Conqueror, afterwards passed to Sir Andrew Luterel, Knt., and later to Sir Geoffrey Hilton, Knt. Richard Thimbleby built Irnham Hall; he was succeeded by his son and heir, Sir John Thimbleby, who thus became the head of the family, which has in later times become almost extinct. This fine mansion, in the Tudor style of architecture, standing in a deer park of more than 250 acres, was destroyed by fire, Nov. 12, 1887, being then owned by W. Hervey Woodhouse, Esq., who bought it of Lord Clifford's son.

Turning again to the Carlisle documents we find one of the reign of Edward III., giving an agreement made in the King's Court at Westminster (20 Jan., 1353-4), "between Thomas, son of Nicholas de Thymelby, plaintiff, and Henry Colvile, knt., and Margaret his wife, deforciants," whereby, among other property, the latter acknowledge that certain "messuages, one mill, ten acres of land (i.e. arable), two pastures, and £7 of rent, with appurtenances, in Horncastre, Thimilby, and Bokeland (i.e. Woodhall), are of the right of the said Thomas; and for this the said Thomas gives to the said Henry and Margaret 200 marks of silver."

Another document of the same reign, of date 1360-1, states that Gilbert de Wilton, Bishop of Carlisle, "gives 60s. for the King's licence to remit to Thomas son of Nicholas de Thymelby, and John his younger brother, the service of being Reeve (i.e. Bailiff) of the Bishop, and other services, which are due from him to the said Bishop for lands and tenements held of the said Bishop in Horncastre," and elsewhere. Another document, dated a few years later, shews an agreement made at Westminster, between Thomas Thymelby and his brother John, on the one part, and Frederick de Semerton and Amice his wife, deforciants," concerning four tofts, certain land, and £7 of rent, with appurtenances, in Horncastre and contiguous parts, by which "the said Frederick and Amice acknowledge these (properties) to be of the right of the said Thomas and his brother," and for this Thomas pays them 100 marks of silver. Two other Carlisle documents of considerably later date refer to members of this same family of Thymelby, but are chiefly of value as introducing to us a new name among Horncastle owners of land.

A Chancery Inquisition taken at Horncastle, 24 Sept., 1612, shews that "John Kent, of Langton, was seized in his manor of Horncastell, with the appurtenances, called Parish-fee, and certain messuages, cottages, land and meadows in Horncastell (and elsewhere), lately purchased of Robert Savile and Richard Thymelby," and "held under the Bishop of Carlisle by fealty," ... that "the said John Kent died 19 Sept., 1611, and that William Kent, his son, is next heir."


text: Wheeler v. Hughes

title: Wheeler v. Hughes


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Page:William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (3rd ed, 1768, vol I).djvu/89

§. 3. authors, is the ame learned judge we have just mentioned, ir Edward Coke; who hath written four volumes of intitutes, as he is pleaed to call them, though they have little of the intitutional method to warrant uch a title. The firt volume is a very extenive comment upon a little excellent treatie of tenures, compiled by judge Littleton in the reign of Edward the fourth. This comment is a rich mine of valuable common law learning, collected and heaped together from the antient reports and year books, but greatly defective in method. The econd volume is a comment upon many old acts of parliament, without any ytematical order; the third a more methodical treatie of the pleas of the crown; and the fourth an account of the everal pecies of courts.

thus much for the firt ground and chief corner stone of the laws of England, which is, general immemorial cutom, or common law, from time to time declared in the deciions of the courts of jutice; which deciions are preerved among our public records, explained in our reports, and digeted for general ue in the authoritative writings of the venerable ages of the law.

Roman law, as practied in the times of it’s liberty, paid alo a great regard to cutom; but not o much as our law: it only then adopting it, when the written law was deficient. Though the reaons alleged in the diget will fully jutify our practice, in making it of equal authority with, when it is not contradicted by, the written law. “For ince, ays Julianus, the written law binds us for no other reaon but becaue it is approved by the judgment of the people, therefore thoe laws which the people have approved without writing ought alo to bind every body. For where is the difference, whether the people declare their aent to a law by uffrage, or by a uniform Rh


text: Township of Fallowfield v. Township of Marlborough


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