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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. m. APRIL s, igos.
Poynes, and a gown of fine black cloth to his
cousin Henry Bompstead. John Burton, to
whom he was apprenticed, was, I believe, a
wool merchant, and buried in St. Michael's,
Basinghall Street, where this testator
desired to be buried. After Ralph Kempe's
death an interesting claim was made against
his estate for that he had sold as Cheviot
wool, wool which was found to be from
Buckingham. Two entries concerning this
claim appear in the Calendar of Chancery
Proceedings. It is not yet quite certain as to
his parentagte, but as he held land at Har-
mondsworth it is likely that he was a son of
Richard Kempe of that place, whose will was
proved in 1436 (Comm. Court of London).
Simon Campe or Kemp, of Bedfont, Tyborne,
and Aldgate, was also engaged in the woollen
trade, arid was M.P. for Middlesex in 1413.
He died 1442, and his will was proved in two
courts (P.C.C. and Comm. of London). The
will of his widow Margaret also is registered,
and mentions a kinsman John Campe, junior,
to whom he left a coat "of Kendal" (i.e.,
Kendal green). He was perhaps a kinsman of
that John Kempe (the Flemish weaver) who
under Ed ward III. brought over his craftsmen
to restore the woollen cloth industry at Kendal
and elsewhere in the kingdom. (The line of
Kempe weavers existed at Kendal from about
1331 to 17G1, and continued in other industries
there down to the last decade.) The 'New
Index to the Commissary Court of London,'
which covers the years from 1374 to 1449, and
shows parishes and occupations of testators,
and the ' Calendar of Wills proved in the
Court of Husting,' edited by Dr. Sharpe,
will afford information. (See also 9 th S. v.
288, 3C2, 442.) FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP.
6, Beechfield Road, Catford, S.E.
AMERICAN PLACE-NAMES (10 th S. iii. 188). I do not know the book inquired about, but there is a long poem of a similar kind, from the pen of R. H. Newell ("Orpheus C. Kerr"), printed in 'The Humour of America,' edited by James Barr, 1893, p. 57. It is called 'The American Traveller,' and the first verse is as follows :
To Lake Aghmoogenegamook,
All in the State of Maine, A man from Wittequergaugaum came
One evening in the rain.
JAS. PLATT, Jun.
" VICARIATE " (10 th S. iii. 204). It is quite clear that the use of this word in the sense reprobated by W. C. B. shows ignorance of its history. But as " vicarage " has apparently degenerated to the meaning of " vicarage- house" (on the analogy of "parsonage"),
would it not be better to revert to " vicary,"
which I believe he will find in the ' Paston
Letters ' and elsewhere, representing the
med. Lat. vicaria and Anglo-French vicarie
('Rolls of Parliament,' iv. 3Q5&)1 It may
also be permitted to suggest a doubt whether
the phrase "to accept the episcopate of
Hull " would be altogether beyond the pale
of civilized speech. The 'N.E.D.' quotes
three respectable nineteenth-century writers
(see 'Episcopate,' sb. 2) who use "episcopate"
as equivalent to " bishopric." Q. V.
"Si. GEORGE TO SAVE A MAID" (10 th S. iii. 227). These lines occur, with slight variations, among the epigrams in ' Wits Recreations.' They are to be found on p. 194 of Hotten's reprint; but as this unfortunately does not distinguish the contents of the various editions, and I have not the originals at hand, I am not able to say whether this epigram was printed in 1040 or later. I have at odd times made a number of notes as to the authorship of the various pieces in ' Wits Recreations,' but I have none as to this.
G. THORN-DRURY.
"BRIGHT CHANTICLEER PROCLAIMS THE DAWN " (10 th S. iii. 227). This song, to Shield's music, appears under the name of 'Old Towler' in vol. ii. p. 49 of Hatton's 'Songs of England ' (Boosey & Co.). JOHN T. PAGE.
West Haddon, Northamptonshire.
CHRISTOPHER SMART AND THE MADHOUSE (10 th S. iii. 221). In The Cambridge Review for 8 June, 1887, Mr. Edmund Gosse, in an article on Christopher Smart, gives the result of his searchings in the Treasury of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He notes, for instance, the following entry, dated 12 Oct. 1751 : " Ordered that Mr. Smart being obliged to be absent, there be allowed him in lieu of commons for the year ended Michaelmas, 1751, the sum of Wl." Similar entries occur in 1749 and 1752. Do not these items throw light upon ME. TOVEY'S questions ? H. P. STOKES..
Cambridge.
'D.N.B.' AND 'INDEX AND EPITOME ' (10 th S.
iii. 205). MR. G. D. LUMB is distinctly wrong in stating that it is an unjust accusation to- say that " poor old Thoresby " was inaccurate, unless he means that Thoresby was accurate in his inaccuracies. Having for a considerable period been investigating several prominent statements in the 'Ducatus' (1715), I find, on very carefully comparing them with the original records, that, mildly stated, Thoresby is no authority on facts. Very striking errors are those, amongst many more, where y has used records of great historical
