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LONDON, JANUARY, 1920

CONTENTS.- No. 100.

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'gave lands in Westwood, in Erchenfield, co. Here-

ford, to St. Peter's, Gloucester, for the soul of his

brother Roger. This is in the Survey, therefore

made before 1086. Westwood was given,' rather

confirmed, to the monks by Walter de Gloucester

for the souls of his father, mother, and brother

Herbert." -Landholders of Gloucestershire in

Domesday,' p. 78.

The authority given is: "Hist. et Cart. Mon.

St. Petri de Glouc., vol. i.,

p. 118." But the

passage referred to states that Westwood
was given by Roger de Gloucester (the son
of Durand) :-

"Anno Domini millesimo centesimo primo,
Rogerus de Gloucestria, pro anima patris sui et
matris, et pro anima Herberti fratris sui, dedit
Westwode in Jerchenfeld ecclesiae Sancti Petri
Gloucestriae, et duos Rodknyztes, et unam eccle-
siam cum una hida terrae, et uno molendino,
Willelmo rege juniore confirmante, rege Henrico
seniore confirmante, tempore Serlonis abbatis."

The Cartulary does not contain any such

charter of Roger de Gloucester, and as

Domesday records that Westwood had been

given to St. Peter's by Durand for the soul

of his brother Roger, this entry in the list

of donations appears suspicious; all the

more so because a charter concocted by the

monks yields a third story, Westwood being

made a gift of Walter de Gloucester for the

soul of his father (cp. 12 S. v. 261-2). If

the whole entry is not an invention, it may

probably confuse two separate acts by

Roger de Gloucester, viz. : (1) a confirmation

of his father's gift of Westwood, and (2) a

gift of two rodknights, &c., for the soul of

his brother Herbert, the date applying only

to the latter. (If so, were these new grants

at Westwood, or where ?) This suggestion

may receive some support (quantum valeat)

from a charter of Henry I. in the cartulary,

which states that Roger's gift was made by

the king's permission, but does not mention

Westwood:-

"Sciatis......et terram quam Rogerus de Glouces-

tria dedit ecclesiae Sancti Petri de Gloucestria pro

anima fratris sui Hereberti, scilicet duos radenithes,

et unam ecclesiam cum una hyda terrae, et unum

molendinum, meo concessu dedisse."— Ibid, ii.,

The construction is defective, but no doubt

"dedisse" depends on an omitted accusative.

23 Weighton Road, Anerley.

However, I doubt if we can rely on this the brother of Roger de Gloucester, his alleged charter, which first notifies the descendants, the Fitzherberts, would have king's gift of Maisemore, then confirms gifts been Roger's heirs; unless Roger himself is left a daughter. G. H. WHITE. by the wife of Roger de Ivry (“ Jureio obviously a misreading of Ivreio), Roger de Gloucester (as above), and Hugh de Laci. There is a much shorter charter notifying the king's grant of Maisemore (ibid., ii. 22), without referring to other gifts, which I should think more likely of the two to No doubt represent a genuine charter. when Mr. Davis publishes the next volume of the Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum,' we shall get an expert opinion on these charters.

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II.

The two passages quoted above are the only references to Herbert, and make it clear that, if he existed at all, he was the Yet in the brother of Roger de Gloucester. index he is described as: "Gloucester, Herbert, brother of Walter of." This may have led to the similar error by Mr. Ellis, whose reputation, of course, stands too high to be affected by one of those slips to which we are all liable.

In another place Mr. Ellis suggested that the Herbert who held Dene and Lesburne in 1086 of Walter de Gloucester,

"was, no doubt, his own brother, who must have died not long after, for the monks of Gloucester were to pray for his soul by desire of Walter, when giving or confirming Westwood (p. 78). It is not unlikely that in this brother Herbert we have that Herbert, the chamberlain, who was holding two manors in Hants of the king and another of Hugh de Port." (op. cit., p. 81).

SHAKESPEARIANA.

'TWELFTH NIGHT,' II. ii. :—

She sate like Patience on a monument
Smiling at grief.

The sense is, She, smiling at grief (=suffer-
Is
ing), sat like Patience on a monument.
the figure a likely invention of the poet !
Does it recall some allegory, or has it any
other origin? What explanation can be
given of the idea!

TOM JONES.

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Yon paltry Moneybags of Gold
What need have we to stare for?
When little or nothing soon is told,
And we have the less to care for?
Cast care away, let sorrow cease,
A fig for Melancholy.
Let's laugh and sing, or if you please,
We'll frolick with sweet Molly.
However unimportant, they are
H. DAVEY.
indicating.

89 Montpelier Road, Brighton.

worth

66 dram of base jars somewhat

No evidence is adduced in support of either 'HAMLET,' I. iv. 36-8 (12 S. iv. 211; v. 4, suggestion, and the latter is hardly compatible with the dates; for Mr. Eyton 115).-It was Theobald who, having regard showed that Herbert the Chamberlain did to the proper interpretation of the passage, not die until about 1129 (Antiquities of first altered "eale" into "base," an emendaShropshire,' vii. 146-8). It is true that Mr. tion that was afterwards adopted by Heath, Eyton does not trace this Herbert back Malone, Steevens, and Singer; but though is thus obtained, the earlier than 1101, and it might be argued the right sense that he was the son of the Domesday tenant.phrase But the Abingdon Chronicle shows that the on the ear, as well as being unpoetic in Herbert under expression. To overcome this difficulty I who was Chamberlain "lees," a word Henry I. was the same man as Herbert the would therefore propose Chamberlain living temp. William II., before that might easily have been mistaken in the death of Abbot Rainald in 1097 (Chron. copying for "eale." What lends probability Mon. de Abingdon,' Rolls Series, ii. 42-3, to this reading, as well as to the substitution overdaub for of a doubt" (as suggested 86, 134); and Dr. Round considers him as identical with the tenant ante, p. 4), is the existence of a practice Domesday ("Victoria County History of Hampshire,' evidently known to the acting profession of i. 425; cp. The King's Sergeants,' pp. 121, bygone days, if not to the present generation, 322). Also it may be doubted whether a which is described in a quotation of the grandson of Durand de Gloucester would year 1763 given in that invaluable granary Thespis have been of age to act as Chamberlain even of English speech, the N.E.D.' : in 1101. And if the Herbert of 1086 were and his Company bedaubed their Faces with

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the Lees of Wine
Music'). In the present case the circum-
stance would appear to have been skilfully
made use of by the dramatist at the close of
Hamlet's colloquy with Horatio on the
excesses of the Danish soldiery, the effects of
intemperance, and the kindred ills resulting
from any defect of body or mind in man
just as Hamlet is about to be brought face
to face with the apparition of his murdered
father. One can easily imagine what a
tour de force might be produced at the closing
of Hamlet's moralizing with the words :-
The dram of lees

(J. Brown, 'Poetry and I found current in North Notts. in a small
village, which run :-

Doth all the noble substance overdaub
To its own scandal,

on the spell-bound audience by the re-entry
of the Ghost !-one of those dramatic effects
of which Shakespeare is an acknowledged

master.

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Since writing at the penultimate reference, I find that Elze, in his Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists, 1889, p. 226, cites several instances of the word daub's in Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Nash. He states, too, that a Mr. Samuel Neil, who published an edition of Shakespeare's Works,' had also proposed the reading over daube," seemingly without having got the idea from Elze. The latter concludes with the remark: Some Elizabethan authority for the verb 'overdaub' would be welcome."

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SHAKESPEARE A SURVIVAL OF AUGURY (12 S. v. 5, 116).-There are several sets of rime lines known to country folk about the magpie, or "pynet" as it is commonly called in Derbyshire, and the best known in the Midlands are those given by Mr. PAGE.

One for sorrow,

Two for mirth,
Three for a wedding,

Four a birth;
Five for a parson,
Six for a clerk,
Seven for a babe
Buried in the dark.

Another ending is—

Five for England,
Six for France,
Seven for a fiddler,
Eight for a dance.

A very satisfactory and pastoral ending.
Another Derbyshire saying:—

I see one magpie.

May the devil take the magpie,
An' God take me.

Derbyshire children sixty years ago were
taught to dread the sight of a single magpie,
to spit over the extended forefinger of the
left hand and make a cross on the ground
with their shoe toe, if the bird crossed their
path when on the way to school; but if the
bird flew straight ahead to keep right on.
Other children instead of this turned back
as it was unlucky to go on.
more was deemed the best of luck and a
good augury.
THOS. RATCLIFFE.

To see two or

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I,
In a cowslip's bell I lie,

There I couch when owls do cry,
Or on the bat's back I fly

After summer merrily, &c.

I see no need for the introduction of the swallow. The bat is nearly as much a follower of summer as the temple

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