In the foregoing list are names derived from places, trades and employments, animals, birds, fowls, personal peculiarities, christian names of parents, and various other sources, as well as many which are of doubtful or unknown derivation. Amongst the uncommon names may be noticed Bixer, Clipwell, Dow (a corruption probably of Dove), Idoll, Kingsey, Larn, Pennyman, Pugmore, Shortburn, Skeache, Sparhawke, Spendlove, and Vynne.

Tiddenham is a corruption of Tybnam, or Tibenham, Beamond, of Beaumont, Lightning, of Leighton, or Lighton, and Viper, of Vipond. The last is probably from the French name Vipont. Cronshay has been corrupted to Cranshaw, and Scroncher; and the descendants of the Ebbetses, of Hardwick, are now known by the name of Ebbage. Sharlow is a contrac

tion of Shardelow.

In the marriage register are the names of Wechengham, Dowsinge, Fenkell, Billiarde, Castledyne, Fayerchild, Kipping, Dawdry, and Stitifat.

G. R. P.

S. R. Q. F.-I should be disposed to read the S. R. Q. P. in the epitaph in St. John's Church, Maddermarket, as follows :—

Elizabetha Bedingfield
Sorori Fancesca[e] suæ

Sepulchrum Recefobacalum que posuit.

Obiit die 10 Maii, 1637.

I must add that I do not know any other example of the use of these initials.-W. H. S., Yaxley.

The Southwold Brief.-The following extract from the Parish Register of Gamston, co. Notts., may interest your Suffolk readers :

"The Briefe for Southwold, in ye County of Suffolke, was published in ye Parish Church of Gamstone, the 28 day of Aug., 1659, & upon yo said Briefe there was collected the summe of five shillings."-G. W. M.

VOL. III.

GRANT TO JAMES SCAMBLER, OF WAXHAM, NORFOLK, OF THE WARDSHIP AND MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM PLAYTERS, 1600.

This Indenture Made Betweene the moste excellent Pryncesse and o' moste dread soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England ffrance and Ireland defendo of the fayth, &c., of thone p'tie, And James Scambler, of Waxham, in the Countie of Norff., esquier, of thother p'tie, Witnesseth That of said soveraigne Ladie wth thadvice of the m' and Councell of her highnes Court of wardes and lyveries,* Is contented and pleased to grante and by these p'nts doth comytte and grante vnto the said James Scambler, the custodie, wardshipp,† and marriadge‡ of William Playters, her highnes ward, sonne and next heire of Mary Wingfeild, deceased, to the vse of margaret Head, widowe. And yf yt fortune the said Willyam Plaiters to dye before he come and be of his full age of xxjtie yeres wthout marryadge of him or the effecte thereof hadd. Then the wardshipp and marryadge of his next heire male, and soe from heire male to heire male beinge whin age vntill the said James Scambler, his executors or assignes, have taken theffecte of the Marryadge of one of them w'hout disp'agement. And Where also there doth not appeare at this tyme that every p'cell of the Inheritance of the said heire vppon the death of his said mother, is come into the handes and possession of o' said soveraigne Ladie, nor certaintie in every p'cell of the Inheritance of the said heire what ought to be in her highnes handes and possession, because of such dowers, feoffamts and wylles, as p'case byn declared in the same. Therefore for that of said soveraigne Ladie should not be deceyved in that behalf, but that her highnes should haue p'fecte knowledge and vnderstandinge of all such Mannos, Landes, and hereditamts wch be nowe descended in possession, or imedyatlie after the decease of any p'son or p'sons, or after yeres fynished or ended, or any laste wyll p'formed, or by any other waies or meanes shall descend, revert, remayne, or come to the said heire in possession or revercon, wth the very beste and vttermoste true value of them and every of them by yeare. The said James Scambler hath delyvered a writinge indented, herevnto annexed, in the which byn conteyned and speci

* Wards, was a court first erected in the reign of King Henry VIII, and afterwards augmented by him with the office of Liveries, wherefore it was stiled the Court of Wards and Liveries, now discharged by the 12 Car. 2. Jacob's Law Dictionary, 6th ed., London, 1750.

"This wardship consisted in having the custody of the body and lands of such heir, without any account of the profits, till the age of twenty-one in males, and fourteen in females." Stephen's Blackstone, vol. i, p. 186. London, 1848.

Marriage "signifies the power, which the lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant ward in matrimony. For he might tender to his infant tenant, when of the age of fourteen, a suitable match without disparagement, or inequality; which the infant, if a male, could not refuse, and marry elsewhere, without forfeiting to the lord double the value which the lord might have obtained for the alliance. And even without tender of a match he was entitled in every case, on the ward's coming of age, to the single value which he might have obtained for the marriage.' This right was expressly declared by the statute of Merton (20 Henry III, c. 6), which is the first mention of it perhaps to be met with, in our own or any other law. Blackstone, vol. i, p. 189.

above the yerelie value lymytted in the said writing such shalbe found vppon the said search, vewe and of three yeres value, and also as much money as the s or any other to his vse shall p'ceyue and take of the s and hereditamts so omytted, and that from the decease Wingfield deceased, and likewyse the value of all the hereditamts lefte out and omytted in the said writing such shalbe found vppon the said search, vewe, and Mannors, Landes and hereditamts, beinge of the Inher heire, wch shall hap en to descend, revert, remayne, or he come and be of his full age of one and Twentie ye James Scambler coven'nteth and granteth for him an p'nts, That he, the said James Scambler and his Assig bringe vpp and intertayne the said William Playters ar or heires males, hereafter happeninge to be the Queen comeinge to the Custodie of the said James Scambler vertue of this present grante, in good erudicon, ve quallities as to the Queenes hono' in that behalfe, an highnes publike weale app'teyneth. But, also as mu them lyeth, shall saue and defend all the Mannors, Lan of the Inheritance of the said heire, from all vnlawfull mts, wastes, decayes, spoyles, disorders and expellinge o as in them is, shall p'serue the evidences and writinges heritance of the said heire. And yf at any tyme her said grante any vnlawfull intrusion, incrochmt, waste, order, or expellingo of Tennts, be done or made vppon the said Inheritance, or yf any evidences, mynimts or the said Inheritance be imbesiled, wthdrawne, concea the knowledge of the said James Scambler or his assi said James Scambler, his executors or assignes forthw thereof hadd, shall certifie the same to the said M' an

tyme beinge, and receyue and prosecute forth their order for the reformacon thereof to and for the advancemt of the Queenes Mats Intereste and right, and for the preservacon, sauegard and tuy con of the Inheritance of the said heire, &c. And further, yf at any tyme hereafter duringe the mynoritie of the said heire, or before his Lyverie or Ousterlemayne* be prosecuted and had out of the handes and possession of the Queenes Matie or of her heires and sucesso", It shall fortune any Mannors, Landes, or hereditamts whatsoever, to descend and growe to the said heire in possession or revercon, or by any other waies or meanes which be not knowne to the said M and Councell, to be descended at the makeinge hereof. That then the said James Scambler, his Executors or assignes, wthin one half yeare next after any such discent fallen or happened, shall certify the same to the said M' and Councell for the tyme beinge, as they may have sure informacon thereof, as well for the p'servacon of the right and tytle thereof to the vse of the said heire, and for the good order and custodie of the same duringe his mynoritie, as for the true and iuste answeringe of all such rentes and profytts as shalbe found due and payable in the said court vppon any such discent And also, yf any spirituall promocon belonginge to the patronage of the said heire happen to be voyd before he come and be of his full age of xxitie yeres, That then the said James Scambler or his assignes, wthin one moneth next after any such discent or vacacon, giue knowledge thereof to the said Mr and Councell for the tyme beinge, as the Queenes moste gracyous pleasure may be knowne for the guyfte, order and disposicon of the same. Provided Alwaies and the said James Scambler coven'nteth and granteth for him and his assignes by these p'nts, That nether he, the said James Scambler, ne his assignes, shall gyue, grante, comytt, bargaine and sell this grante, or the custodie of the said William Playters, or of any other his heire or heires males hereafter happeninge to be the Queene's mat wardes, and comeinge to the custodie of the said James Scambler or his assignes, by vertue of the said grante to any p'son or p'sons wthout knowledge and agreement of the said Mr and Councell for the tyme beinge, ne shall dispose in maryadge or by any p'swasion induce the said heire to marry where any case of disp'agement is, or other detryment, annoyance, or disorder may arise and appeare contrarie to the order of the lawe. And Moreover also, the said James Scambler coven❜nteth and granteth for him and his assignes by these p❜nts, That he, the said James Scambler, or his sufficient deputy or Attorney shall, wthin two monethes next after the delyverie of the bill of the grante of the said wardshippe, signed by the Queene's matie to the Clerke of the said Court of wardes and lyveries prosecute forth her Highnes L'res Pattents vnder the greate seale of England, and after the sealinge thereof, bringe the same pattent wthin the said tyme to the Awdyto' gen'all of the said Court to be inrolled, and vppon the enrolemt therof, demand and take

(To be continued.)

* "When the male heir arrived to the age of twenty-one, or the heir female to that of sixteen, they might sue out their lyvery or ousterlemain, that is, the delivery of their lands out of their guardian's hands." Stephen's Blackstone, vol. i, p. 186.

The East Anglian.

JUNE, 1867.

NOTES.

the same pattent wthin the said tyme from the said Audyto' after the said inrolement. And the said James Scambler coven'nteth and granteth for him and his assignes by these p'nts, That he, the said James Scambler and his assignes shall, at all tymes hereafter stand to abyde and p'forme 'all such order as shalbe taken by the Mr and Councell of this court for and concerninge what some or somes of money shalbe had and taken of the said ward for the value or other composic'on of or for his Marryadge, whereby the said ward may not be further charged then, this Court shall adiudge respectinge the state and value of the said ward, and the charges and disbursemts of the said James Scambler or his assignes, in and about the same, yf the ward have cause or shall complayne. In Witnes whereof to the one p'te of these Indentures remayninge wth the said James Scambler, o* said Soveraigne Ladies seale of her Highnes court of wardes and lyveries, wth th'advice of the Mr and Councell of the same court is affixed and sett. And to thother p'te remayninge wth or said soveraigne Ladie in her highnes said Court, the said James Scambler hath putt his hand and seale, the second day of december, in the three and forteth yere of o' said soveraigne Ladies moste gracyous raigne.

(Under the turn up-Ex p Hare cl'ic wardes.)

Chextent and cleere yerelie value of all the Manno, messuags, landes, tents and hereditamts, late of Mary Wingfeild deceased, late wyfe of Robert Wingfeild, esquier, and before wyfe of willam Playters, esquier, wch Mary Wingfeild dyed the xxijth day of December, Anno xljo Elizabeth Regine, &c. And wch byn descended and com'en in possession and revercon to William Playters as sonne and next heire of the said Mary Wingfield, beinge of the age of xvijen yeres ixen monethes and xxtie daies, at the findinge of thoffyce as by thoffice thereof found* at the Castle of Norch, in the county of Norff. vito die Septembr', Anno xlijdo, Elizabeth' Regine &c. appeareth.

"Office found, Is where an Inquisition is made to the King's use of any Thing by Virtue of his office who inquireth, and it is found by the Inquisition." Jacob's Law Dictionary.