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all. Large as it is, the book may be regarded as a
continuation of a previous work, which we have
not seen, devoted to the family of the author, long,
closely, and honourably connected with the place.
Those interested in the family who do not possess
the history by Prof. Copinger need only turn to the
latest edition of Burke s ' Landed Gentry,' wherein
they will find dedicated to Copinger of Buxhall
close upon two columns. With the family, which
claims, among other members, more than one dis-
tinguished bibliophile, French or English, we are
not allowed now to concern ourselves. Very far
are we from condemning the length at which the
parish has been treated, since we hold that in
time most villages and hamlets will have their
independent histories, and the more parish records
that are put beyond the reach of destruction the
better. The treatment is, at least, exemplary in
fulness, and there can be few sceneV or objects of
importance in Buxhall of which views are not given.
Buxhall is called in Domesday Book Bukessalla-
buressalla=the bower of health and the hall of
flagons, a striking testimony to the salubrity of
situation and the hospitality of its owner. It is a
scattered village in the hundred of Stow and the
diocese of Norwich. Its soil being a strong or clayey
loam, which is rather persistently misnamed clay,
it has little geological interest. In matters of
antiquity it boasts the customary dovecote,
mill, pound, and stocks, though the pillory and
tumbrel the latter a species of ducking-stool
for scolds, which it should have had, since the
lord of the manor had the franchise of view
of frankpledge are not to be traced. We find
in the time of Elizabeth and James more than one
rector presented for playing bowls on the green.
This must have been done in view of the statutes
for the encouragement of archery. For the Dane-
gelt Buxhall was rated at 25rf., equal to about
67. 5s. of modern money. The amount seems to
have been readily paid, Buxhall, with a river then
navigable to vessels of light draught, being open to
incursions from the Danish rovers. In the ' 1 eet of
Fines' the name of Copeuger occurs so early as
7 Richard II. The vill of Buxhall was a tithing in
itself, the tithing- man being called the headborough.
Its manorial court had the right to execute the law
of frankpledge, and, beside other privileges, to
hold twice a year a court leet. Among the fines
exacted 14 April, 27 Eliz., for trivial offences was
iijs. iiiyl. for not using caps on Sundays and feast
days. The inhabitants and parishioners within
the precincts of the leet were also "in mercy iij d
for not providing and having a sufficient snare
called ' A Rooke Nett.' " For not shooting with
bows and arrows the parishioners were fined
vj,s. viijrf. among them all, the penalty having
been much reduced. The Court Rolls are intact
from the reign of Henry VIII. to to-day, and
courts baron have been regularly held. In the
time of Edward the Confessor the manor belonged
(1050) to Leswin Croc, who also had the advowson
of the church. The first Norman lord was Roger
Pictaviensis (Roger of Poictou), third son of Roger
de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by Mabel his
wife, daughter and heiress of William Talvace.
Through three successive descents the manor came,
in 1412, by marriage into the hands of John Copin-
ger, of Buxhall, Esq. His family had long lived in
Buxhall, and exercised such hospitality that to
" live like the Copingers" became a common phrase
in Suffolk. The manor was in the hands of the Copin-
gers until the close of the seventeenth century, and in
1899 the Buxhall estates, including the manor, came
into the possession of Walter Arthur Copinger, the
forty-fifth lord of the manor, and the author of the
present work. For a period of close on a thousand
years, or from the time of Edward the Confessor to
Edward VII., there has been no break in the con-
tinuity of the lords of Buxhall. The parish registers
from 6 January, 1558, to 1699 so far as they are
decipherable, some injuries having been experienced
are printed. The illustrations are numerous and
serviceable, and the book is entitled to a high place
among works of topographical, antiquarian, and
genealogical interest.
The Saga Book of the Viking Club. Vol. III. Part I. THE first part of the third volume of the Saga Club, issued under the care of the Saga Master, F. T. Norris, supplies the title-pages, indexes, and other prefatory matter to vols. i. and ii., reports of meetings in 1901 and those of the district secre- taries, and three separate and important papers. The first of these consists of ' Traces of their [Viking] Folk-lore in Marshland,' a very interest- ing selection of folk-lore, superstitions, and beliefs many of them familiar enough, but others less well known collected in that particular area which, judging from place-names, must at one time " have been the most exclusively Norse portion of Lincolnshire, if not of all England." This contri- bution, which is most brightly written, will be of keen interest to all folk-lorists. More ambitious is Dr. W. Dreyer's 'Features of the. Advance of the Study of Danish Archaeology,' which imparts much curious information conc^jning the results of recent explorations. The third consists of an essay by Mrs. Clara Jerrold on ' The Balder' Myth and some English Poets.' The Viking Club is doing good service, and its work may be commended to the attention of those of our readers who are not already familiar with it. Particulars may be ob- tained of the librarian, A. W. Johnston, 36, Mar- garetta Terrace, Chelsea, S.W.
A Glossary of the. Works of William Shakespeare. By the Rev. Alexander Dyce. Revised by Harold Littledale, M.A. (Sonnenschein & Co.) DYCE'S glossary, forming a volume of his edition of Shakespeare, has long been held in high estimation by scholars. Since 1874 it has been in some respects superseded by the 'Shakespeare-Lexicon' pi Dr. Alexander Schmidt, the assistance of which no careful student would willingly forego. The last-named work -has, however, long been difficult of access, and is now, virtually, not to be pur- chased. Bartlett's ' Concordance,' to which in his preface the reviser draws attention, is an admirably serviceable book, but cumbrous in shape, and is, after all, a concordance, not a glossary. It is, accordingly, a happy idea of Prof. Littledale to revise and amplify the glossary of Dyce and facili- tate the employment of its pages. Dyce edited " on his own hand," and his references are to the volume and page of his own excellent edition of Shake- speare. In the case of those employing other editions the task of research is necessarily diffi- cult and laborious. Dr. Littledale's first task has been to alter every one of Dyce's references, and to incorporate into the text matters of glossarial value which had been left in the foot-notes. The
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