10 s. XL FEB. 20, loco.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
HORSE HILL (10 S. x. 489). Possibly
Horsill is or was the same as Horse Hill.
- or, an Alphabetical
Cities, Market-towns, Parishes, Villages, and Private Seats, in England and Wales,' by J. Adams of the Inner Temple, 1680, is the following :
In ' Index Villaris
Table of all the
"' Horsill, Surry, Chertsey.
Longit. 26 W."
Latit. 51 23,
" Chertsey " appears in the column which
gives the " Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward,
Wapentake, or other Division of the County."
The longitude is eastward or westward from
London, Greenwich being 4' E. of London,
as given.
The latitude of Bagshot appears as 51 23', the same as that of Horsill, but its longitude is 34' W. The difference between the longitude of Horsill and Bag- shot is 8', that is, Horsill is that distance east of Bagshot.
Assuming that the figures given by Adams are correct, which as to longitudes especially is a large assumption concerning a book published in 1680, one may place Horsill as follows : 8' due east of Bagshot. These 8' equal roughly 6 statute miles. The position should be about 6J statute miles east of Bagshot, and about 2J south by
it would not be the only Horsehill in Surrey,
since there is a parish so named (also called
Horsell) in N.W. Surrey, bounded on the
N. and N.E. by Chobham and Chertsey ;
on the E. and S. by Woking ; and on
the W. by Bisley. Woking, Horshil, and
Byfleet Heaths or Commons form one
extensive tract of comparatively Maste
land, crossed from S.W. to N.E. by the
Basingstoke Canal.
J.
NT MACMlCHAEL.
east of Chertsey.
In the ' Index Villaris '
is attached to
Horsill a symbol signifying a city, market-
town, parish, or village "with the seat of
one gentleman."
Since writing the above I have found Horsyl in Speed's map of Surrey (1610), reproduced in ' The Victoria History of the County of Surrey,' edited by H. E. Maiden, vol. i., 1902, facing p. 444. In it Horsyl is 5 miles east of Bagshot, and 2J due south of Chertsey.
In Gough's 'Camden's Britannia,' 1789, vol. i., map of " Surry " after p. 166, is Horshil, lying 5| statute miles east-south- east of Bagshot, and 5 south-south-west of Chertsey. There is also Horsell Heath, lying about 1 miles north of Horshill.
Sheet 285 of the Ordnance map gives Horsell village about 6 furlongs north- west of Woking Railway Station, and Horsell Common about the same distance
further north.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
I may be mistaken, but I think I remember
a high elevation named Horsehill on the road
leading from Horley, on the west side of
Hookwood Common, to Reigate. It was
about the second or third turning on the
left past the " Black Lion " (or " Black
Horse ") inn. Should this be so, however,
There is a place named Horsley Hill,
near this town. R. B R.
South Shields.
Horsell, a village and parish near Woking, Surrey, was, I am informed, originally called Horse-hill.
In " The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales ' the names of Horse-hill, Horshill, and Horsell are used in connexion with the village and parish above mentioned.
R. VATTGHAN GOWER.
ERNISIUS : A PROPER NAME (10 S. x. 388, 471 ; xi. 33). These further particulars and dates may perhaps be interesting to MR. NEVILL and others, for it is clear there were two Nevills of this name.
The earlier Erneis de Nevill occurs too many times in charters and contemporary records for there to be any doubt about his personal name. 1. There is his own charter in B.M. (Harleian Charter, 54 B. 10). 2. As " Arneis de No villa " he witnessed with the Countess " Adeliz de Gaund " a charter of Simon de St. Liz, " brother of Earl Simon," to the nuns of Northampton, 1166-84 ('Mon. Angl.,'i. 1019). 3. As"Er- nesius de Nevill " he witnessed a charter to Rievaulx Abbey, c. 1194. 4. As " Er- nisius de Novill " he witnessed a charter of Henry II. for the monks of Marmoutier made at Chinon in Touraine ('Mon. Angl.,' ii. 991). Mr. Eyton in his ' Itin. of Henry II.' (239) assigns this to Easter, 1181. From the same work we get three other notices of him that on 12 March, 1184/5, he was sitting judicially with Ranulf de Glanvill and others at Woodstock (256), and in the course of the year 1185 was one of the Justices in Eyre in Northumberland, his name being spelt " Arnisius " (266). In 1187 he was one of the Justices holding Forest Pleas in Yorkshire (281), but his name is not in Foss's ' Judges of England.' This is not the last we know of him.
Erneis must have been born not later than 1130-40 for his son Hugh " le Gros " to have been Constable of the Tower of
