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Mrs. Oliphant's 'Neighbours on the Green'-Pierrepoint's Refuge, St. James's Street, 27-'Plato Redivivus Garlick: Onions for purifying Water-Isinglass used in Windows-Coningsby: Ferby-Edward Barnard-George Prior, Watchmaker, 28-"Clasket "-Authors Wanted Richard Thompson, Surgeon R.N.Village Names Feminine-Cross at Higham-on-the-Hill-Dutton Seaman, City Comptroller-Thomas Haggerston Arnott-Britten- Chantrey and Oliver, Miniaturists, 29. REPLIES:-Phillis Wheatley and her Poems, 30-Speakers of the House of Commons-The Tyburn, 31-The Curious House, Greenwich-Authors of Quotations Wanted- Hawkins Family and Arms - Adrian Scrope, 32- the Lord Keeper, whom Owen addresses Some of Mr. Leach's remarks on Owen's Atque polus de te discet uterque loqui Walk Shoreditch Family -The Guard Aloft, 35- "Shibboleth"-Charles Crocker, Poet, 36-Scottish is and es in Proper Names-Lord Beaconsfield and the Primrose, 37-E. F. Holt-Gainsborough's Wife-Isabella Lickbarrow-Love- à-la-Mode '-Roman Law, 38. In his History of Warwick School' Mr. A. F. Leach bestows several pages (124 seqq.) on the master whom he not unnaturally describes as the most distinguished person who ever held that office,' John Owen the epigrammatist. We are told that Owen was thirteen years of age in 1577, when he was given a scholarship at Winchester, so that he must have been born in 1564 or 1563.* His birth has usually been assigned to about 1560. It is of interest to learn that 'the education at Winchester was largely devoted to the production of Latin epigrams,' and that Owen's head master during the last two years of his time at One is surprised, however, to find Mr. Leach describing Archbishop Williams Sol nescit comitis non memor esse sui. Some discrepancy may be due to the fact Again, Mr. Leach says that Camden quotes a number of them, headed by those of Owen." But besides the lines claimed by Owen, Camden gives only a single Mr. Leach writes that Queen Elizabeth's visit to Drake's ship at Deptford was in November, 1580. It was in April, 1581. The words "where its carkasse is yet to be seen,' quoted from the third edition of Gent's translation as evidence, apparently, that the ship was there in 1685, are, after all, a translation of Camden's own words "ubi ejus cadaver adhuc cernitur.' In mentioning Owen's famous lines, An Petrus fuerit Romæ, sub judice lis est Simonem Romæ nemo fuisse negat, it might have been added that a similar idea is found in an epigram of Euricius Cordus (i. 79, ed. 1517; i. 62, ed. 1520):— Prima Simon Petrus fidei fundamina iecit Christicolasque novus dux fuit inter oves, At superas postquam Petrus migravit in arces, Hoc subiit solus munus ubique Simon, Hei mihi, quam tenuis grex est pastore sub illo, Quam gracili rarum tergore vellus habet! At 10 S. ix. 284 a close resemblance was pointed out between another epigram of Cordus and one of Owen. Such resemblances are not unfrequent in modern Latin verse, and may at times be no more than unde- signed coincidences, the same theme being common to more than one writer. * His closest imitator was H. Harder. See 'Deli- Mille oculos gerit illa, Cyclops hic errat: at uno Plus oculo hio cernit; luscus an Argus erit? resembles Owen, i. 82 : Sit nox centoculo quamvis oculatior Argo; Owen's lines on Sir Philip Sidney (ii. 29), Qui scribenda facit, scribitve legenda beatus, &c., are singled out by Mr. Leach as worthy of their subject. It should not be forgotten that for thought and expression Owen is here largely indebted to the younger Pliny (Ep. vi. 16, 3). The metre is not beyond reproach. Unless the reader is alert in recognizing Owen's countless reminiscences of other authors, the epigrams are not likely to be properly appreciated. In i. 6, 3-4 (addressed to Thomas Neville, son of the poet's patroness), 46 Qui puerum laudat, Spem, non rem laudat in illo, Non spes ingenium, Res probat ipsa tuum, we have plainly a recollection of the words of Cicero quoted by Servius on 'Æn.,' vii. 877, causa difficilis laudare puerum, non enim res laudanda sed spes est." Misled by the faulty punctuation that appears in some editions, Owen's German translator, Valentine Löbern, 1653, has here written nonsense. After recording the inscription on Owen's monument in Old St. Paul's, Parva tibi statua est, quia parva statura, supellex Parva, &c. Mr. Leach observes that Owen would not have tolerated parva statura from a fifthform boy. This criticism argues a want of acquaintance with the history of Latin versification. The rule about not retaining a short vowel before sc, sp, st, however familiar to the modern schoolboy, was neglected by Owen. Heinous false quantities can be collected from him, and what was Owen's practice was the practice of other versifiers of his day. To see what a Student of Christ Church was then capable of, one need only turn to the Latin verses prefixed by Burton to the third and following editions of his 'Melancholy.' EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth. THE MANORS OF NEYTE, EYBURY, AND HYDE. (Concluded from 10 S. x. 463.) THE first part of this note had in view the original great manor of Eia with its three reputed divisions, Neyte, Eybury, and Hyde, and treated specially of the situation of Neyte Manor House; the second part was devoted to the history of the Manor House; and in this, the third part, I would refer to the limits of the three divisions or manors, noting also the particulars gathered in relation to Eybury and Hyde. The site of Neyte Manor House being, as I hope, no longer questionable, we have now to inquire as to the land attached which constituted the manor in the broad sense of the term. I will answer at once that, as the result of study, my finding is that although there were some fields attached to the house in the time of the abbots, and certainly a considerable extent of land when, after the suppression of the monastery, Neyte became a tenanted farm, this land did not lie in or make the manor. In fact, the manor of Neyte, so called, simply lay in the words of the Abbot's grant or surrender, and the Act which embodies it "within the compass of the moat,' area perhaps of two acres. Housings, buildings, yards, gardens, orchards, fishing, &c.,. were contained within the enclosure;. but no lands beyond are indicated as pertaining to the manor. I am aware that this conclusion as to the very limited extent of Neyte manor will appear heterodox in view of the prevalent conception of its having been a substantial division of the original great manor of Eia; but I hope to prove it. 66 66 an The grant proceeds to specify over against the same site a close called the Twenty Acres," and a meadow called "Abbot's Meadow," with a piece of ground called Cawsey Hall (properly Haw, i.e. Causeway Haw), in all thirteen acres. These certainly adjoined and were attached to the manor house. But the next item was far from it, and far eastward of the Eye brook, the east boundary of Eia, viz., “a meadow next the Horseferry over against Lambeth." Then follow indefinitely "thirty-two acres of arable land in divers places," meadow in Thames Mede, and land near the Eye; these might have gone with Neyte, but they are items in a promiscuous list, which goes on to include land in Charing Cross Field, "The Lamb" in King Street, Westminster, the advowson of the church at Chelsea, and the manor and church advowson of Totyng ton (=Teddington, v. Newcourt's 'Repertorium '). Next we have the manor of Hyde with demesne lands and tenements, the manor of Eybury with lands, and after much peregrination, sometimes near Neyte, sometimes remote, the list terminates with three closes at East Greenwich !* It is impossible in this list to distinguish parcels that might have constituted a manor of Neyte. But it is true that there are several mentions of Neyte as a manor in the reign of Edward II. That king, as has been shown, had Neyte in 1320, and possibly earlier, as a cattle depot. The bailiff residing there designated it in his accounts as the King's manor; in 1325, however, the King gave an acknowledgment that it was by the will of the Abbot and Convent that he held "the manors of Eybury and Neyte"; here the two are conjoined, the cattle-sheds probably being at Neyte, the manor house; the pasturage in Eybury, the containing manor. The status is also evident in another writing preserved, viz., the release, in the first year of Edward III., of "the manor of Eybury (Neyte House certainly contained), which his father had held of the Abbot." Also it will be noticed that at the time of the release it was at Eybury" that were found 60 cows, 500 sheep, and a pigeon-house, although nominally the depot had been at Neyte.† 66 The ultimate and perhaps clearest proof that Neyte manor was no more than a moated enclosure in Eybury lies in a document at the Record Office found for me by Mr. Salisbury (whose valuable assistance I cannot sufficiently acknowledge), viz., a lease of the manor of Eybury, dated 10 Henry VIII. (1519), and granted by Abbot John (Islip) to Richard Whash. By this lease were excluded "the close called le Twenty Acres, lying opposite the manor of Neyte on the south, and the Abbot's Meadow on the east side of same, with a pasture called Cawseyhau." The term was 32 years, the annual payment 211.; fuel was to be cut and carried from woods on the banks of the Thames; six loads of hay to be reaped and carried into the manor of le Neyte; and the tenant had also the obligation of transporting the goods of the Abbot from this manor house to any other.‡ *For all this, "in recompence and consideration thereof," the King granted the Priory of Hurley in Berkshire and the possessions thereof. +Cartulary of Westminster Abbey,' Samuel Bentley, 1836 (Brit. Mus. 7709 bb. 34). Record Office, "K.R. Conventual Leases," No. 53. Now here the very fields which lay immediately beyond the moated enclosure of Neyte are shown to be part of the manor of Eybury, and thus surely it is proved that the manor of Neyte lay only "within the compass of the moat." Further, the plan of 1614 containing "Nete House " is endorsed "the manor of Eybury," and that of 1675 showing the same is entitled "the Lordship of Eburie." This, perplexing as it was under the conception of Neyte as a manor with lands, is now understood. The del Neyt," for which, as we saw, John of Gaunt besought the Abbot as temporary residence for himself and household, was simply the moated manor house of the estate. 66 manoir 66 After the suppression of the monastery, when Neyte had become the 66 moated grange of a tenant farmer, he had probably those fields always attached to it, and moreover 108 acres of Lammas land; this was in 1592, the circumstance presently to have further reference. The plan of 1723 which has had our attention designates the Twenty Acres" as "the Balywick of Neat," and it and the other fields excluded in the lease of 1519 were not yet absorbed in the Grosvenor estate, but were in the possession of Mr. Stanley. This bailiwick may perhaps imply a subordinate division of the manor of Eybury, but whether formed before or after the Grosvenor acquisition of 1676 is uncertain. In later plans the bailiwick is given a greater extension, and as cultivation advanced Neyte, like Bayswater, or better, like Pimlico its supplanter, from a small nucleus spread, as the "Neat House Gardens," over the area which naturally presents itself as the Neyte manor or bailiwick. That area lies between the Willow Walk (now Warwick Street, Pimlico) and the Thames, with the Eye or Aye brook (now commemorated in Tachbrook [=T'ayebrook] Street) on the east, and on the west a certain dyke which in the plan of 1723 seems to limit the bailiwick of Neat, and is now covered by the Brighton Railway. Concerning Eybury the words of the Act are : "The manor of Eybury with all the lands, meadows, pastures, rents, and services......and two closes late parcel of the farm of Longmore, which manor of Eybury with the said two closes were in the tenure and occupation of Richard Whasshe"doubtless the tenant who got the lease seventeen years earlier. We hear again of the farm in 1592, then said to contain 430 acres -a good large farm, but far short of the acreage of the manor. The tenant is again |