Note 881 — APPENDICES. (continued 2)

Dialogus, i. 10.

[882] Such is the reading given by Anstis, who saw this star among the duchy records. It is greatly to be hoped that it may still be found. Anstis describes the device as "a Lyon."

[883] Duchy of Lancaster: Royal Charters, No. 22.

[884] Rot. Pip., 31 Hen. I., pp. 144, 145, 147-149. Compare the clause in Henry's charter guaranteeing to the citizens "terras suas et vadimonia." Here the possession has to be paid for.

[885] Duchy of Lancaster: Royal Charters, No. 8.

[886] "Gervasio de Corn ..., Johanne filio Radulfi" (Madox's Formularium, 293).

[887] Duchy of Lancaster: Cart. Misc., ii. 57.

[888] Rot. Pip., 31 Hen. I., pp. 150, 151.

[889] Duchy of Lancaster: Royal Charters, No. 3.

[890] Ibid., No. 26 (see Pipe-Roll Society: Ancient Charters, p. 66).

[891] Grants in boxes, A., No. 156.

[892] Ibid., 154.

[893] "Ego Radulfus Archiepiscopus [1114-1122] concedo Æadwardo de Cornhelle et uxori ejus Godelif et hæredibus suis terram de Eadintune ... quam æ. desudwerc dedit cum filia sua æ. de Cornhelle" (ibid., 154). We have here an instance of the caution with which official calendars should be used. In the official abstract of the above record (Thirty-fifth Report of Dep. Keeper, p. 15), the above words are rendered, "with his daughter æ. de Cornhelle," the dative being taken for an ablative, and the wife transformed into her husband!

[894] London and Middlesex Arch. Journ., v. 477.

[895] The curious form "Hupcornhill" should, of course, be noted. I have met with a similar form at Colchester, where the name "Opethewalle," which has been supposed to have been connected with the town wall, occurs earlier (under Edward I.) as "Opethehelle," i.e. up the hill. The idiom still survives in such forms as "up town" and "up the street." It probably accounts for the strange name, "Hoppeoverhumber," i.e. a man who came from "up beyond the Humber" (cf. for aspirate "Huppelanda de Berchamstede").

[896] Ninth Report Hist. MSS., i. 61 b.

[897] Ibid., p. 66 a.

[898] Ibid., p. 31 b. It is certainly earlier than 1120, when Otuel fitz Count (the leading witness) was drowned, and probably earlier than the spring of 1116.

[899] Pipe-Roll Society: Ancient Charters, p. 26 (Eadwardus de Corhulle).

[900] Royal Charters, No. 3. This charter must belong to the years 1116-1120.

[901] Ibid., No. 8 (see p. 305).

[902] This has a curious bearing on the legend that Gilbert Becket, the primate's father, had journeyed to Palestine, as showing that this was actually done by a contemporary City magnate.

[903] This name should be Andrew Buccuinte (Bucca uncta).

[904] Strype's Stow, ii. 4.

[905] Ramsey Cartulary, i. 130. The date there assigned is 1114-1130, but Hugh de Bocland appears to have died several years before 1130.

[906] Rot. Pip., 31 Hen. I, p. 149.

[907] Ninth Report Hist. MSS., App. i. pp. 20 a, 64 a.

[908] The form of this surname should be noted as illustrating the practice of abbreviation. The name of Ælfgar's father must have been Colswegen, or some other compound of "Col—"

[909] See Pipe-Roll of 1130.

[910] This involves a double supposition: (a) that "Ingenolda," who is proved to have been the widow of Roger, was the mother of his son Gervase; (b) that Ralph fitz Herlwin was brother to the mother, not the father, of Gervase. These assumptions seem tolerably certain, but, at present, they can only be provisionally accepted.

[911] For this descent see Stapleton's preface to the Liber de Antiquis Legibus (Cam. Soc.).

[912] From a MS. note of Dugdale (L. 41, dors.).

[913] Ninth Report Hist. MSS., i. 52 b.

[914] This, it must be well understood, is thrown out merely as a suggestion.

[915] Ninth Report Hist. MSS., i. 64 a.

[916] Ibid., 66 b.

[917] Ibid., 20 a.

[918] "Cujus jurisdictioni Cantia subjiciebatur, plus besses et centesimas usuras quam bonum et æquum attendens" (Becket Memorials, iii. 100).

[919] "Quod si forte miles aliquis vel liber alius a sui status dignitate, quod absit, degenerans, multiplicandis denariis per publica mercimonia, vel per turpissimum genus quæstus, hoc est per fœnus extiterit.... Hiis similis qui multiplicant quocunque modo rem." Compare Quadripartitus: ein Englisches Rechtsbuch von 1114 (ed. Liebermann): "qui, vera morum generositate carentes et honesta prosapia, longo nummorum stemmate gloriantur, ... qui vetitum pecunie fenus exercent, ... miseram pecunie stipem, pauperum lacrimis et anxietatibus cruentatam, omni veritatis et justicie sanctioni mentes perdite prefecerunt et id solum sapientiam reputant quod eis obtatum pecunie fenus quibuscunque machinationibus insusurrat" (Dedicatio, § 16, § 33). Compare also with these Cicero (De Officiis, i. 42): "Jam de artificiis et quæstibus, qui liberales habendi, qui sordidi sint, hæc præaccepimus. Primum improbantur ii quæstus qui in odia hominum incurrunt, ut portitorum, ut feneratorum.... Sordidi etiam putandi qui mercantur a mercatoribus quod statim vendant. Nihil enim proficiunt nisi admodum mentiantur."