ii 8.x. AUG. is, i9R]i NOTES AND QUERIES.
127
" [And all the aforesaid vases remained
possession of the said John by brief of the king
dated 21st Dec., 4 Edward III., the said Johi
to keep all the said vases until the king shouk
end and ask for them, for which also the sau
John should answer.]"
I imagine this extract from the origina roll will be of interest to readers of ' N. & Q. One longs to have the handling of such lovely things. C. SWYNNERTON.
'POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.' Any one issuing a new volume of poetry with this title renders himself liable to the charge of plagiarism. I have been idle enough to make a list of volumes with this title that have been issued in the past. I give them here in chronological order, with the author's name where known, and date of issue :
Charles Cotton, 1689, 8vo.
Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Wycherlev, &c., 1701, 8vo.
Anonymous, 1701, 8vo.
Matthew Prior, 1709.
Lady Chudleigh, 1713, cr. 8vo.
John Smith, 1713, 8vo.
Anonymous, 1713, 8vo.
Thos. Parnell, 1722, 8vo.
Walter Harte, 1727, 8vo.
John Phillips, 1728, 12mo.
J. Mitchell, 1729, 8vo, 2 vols.
Mary Masters, 1733, 8vo.
Saml. Wesley, 1736.
Stephen Duck, 1736.
Nicholas .tames, 1742, 4to, Truro.
Rev. Thos. Warton, 1748, 8vo.
Wm. Hamilton, 1748, 12mo, Bangour.
Edwd. Cobden, 1748, 8vo.
Nicholas Rowe, 1751, 12mo.
Anonymous, 1752, Oxford.
Thos. Blacklock, 1754, 8vo, Edinb.
W. Whitehead, 1754, sm. 8vo, Lond.
John Pomfret, 1766, 8vo.
John Gay, 1775, 8vo, 2 vols.
A Young Gentleman of Chichester, 1776.
Rev. T. Fitzgerald, 1781, 8vo, Oxford.
Ann Yearsley, a milkwoman of Bristol, 1785, 4to.
Rev. Thos. Browne, 1800, 12mo, Hull.
Anonymous, priv. printed, 1844, cr. 8vo, Lond.
Pascoe Grenfell Hill [1845], 8vo, Penzance.
Several volumes have this title with additions, notably Ed. Waller's ' Poems, &c., written upon Several Occasions and to Several Persons,' 1645, 12mo ; NahumTate's
- Poems by Several Hands and on Several
Occasions,' 1685 ; B. Molesworth's ' Ma- rinda, Poems and Translations on Several Occasions,' 8vo, 1716. As variants of this much-vised title we find ' Poems on Various Occasions,' by R. Ferguson, 1785 (third edition), 12mo, Edin., and also by the Rev. John Horseman, 1845, Camb. J. H. New- man called his volume of poems ' Verses on Various Occasions.' ' Poems on Various Subjects,' by Jane Cave, 17S3, Winchester,
and an anonymous volume, 12mo, with the
same title, published in Edinburgh in 1799,
complete my collection, garnered chiefly
from the pages of second-hand booksellers'
catalogues. J. HAMBLEY ROWE.
" RUBY." I find a curious and umc- corded use of this word in Cyril Tourneur's ' Atheists Tragedie,' 1611, sig. E3. Borachio log. :
" 1 knock'd out 's braines with this faire Rubie. And had another stone iust of this forme and bignesse ready : that I laid i' the broken skull vpo" the ground for 's pillow ; against the which they thought he fell and perish'd."
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
EARLY ' N.E.D.'
FOR THE
INSTANCES OF WORDS
(See 11 S. ix. 387.)
Abeigh, at a shy distance, aloof (' O.E.D.,' 1707). C. 1568, A. Scott, ' Poems ' (S.T.S.), xxvii. 34 : " Quhen scho growis skeich, I byd on beich*" To the account in ' O.E.D.' may be added that the word occurs only in a burlesque context, and only in connexion with akeigh, with which ex- clusively it rimes : see also quots. in ' B.D.D.'
J 4nfepend=antependium, a veil for the front of the altar (' O.E.D.,' 1542). 1506, ' Ld. H. Treas. Accts.,' iii. 80 : " Item, the xx day of Maij, for ane antepend to the altair of Sanct Anthonis in the Crag, Is. Item, for ane othir to Sanct Nicholais Chapell in Leith, Is."
Apparitor (' O.E.D.,' 1533). C. 1450, Henry- son, ' Tale of Dog,' quoted by ' O.E.D.,' s.v. ' Corbie.'
Ark, the masonry in which the water-wheel of
mill moves ('E.D.D.,' ' O.E.D.'). 1563-4,
Edinb. Rec. (Town Treas. Accts.),' i. 463 : " for
ane daill to mend the waiter ark of Drynis heichtt
myln " ; ibid., 466, " mending of the waiter ark."
Barragan, -on, a corded stuff (' O.E.D.,' 1787). 1677, Cunningham, ' Diary,' 89 : " 11 ells Bar- ragon to be a cloak."
Barras, " A coarse linen fabric originally im- ported from Holland " (' O.E.D.,' 1640). 1535, Ld. H. Treas. Accts.,' vi. 261 : " Item, for j xxx einis barres canwes to be sorpclaithis to cary the Kingis gracis woll fra Selkirk, and to >ak the samyn to be send to the sey, price of ilk "Ine xviijd. ; summa xvij/t. v."
Brander, v., prob. f. Brander, 6. 2 , as if "to arrange cross-bars in the form of a gridiron," or . F. brandir, to fasten two pieces of wood together with a peg (' O.E.D.,' 1869). Our quotation would suggest the derivation from Brander. 1580, Aberd. Reg.,' ii. 35 (Jan. 23) : " the geir and wnderwrettin .... ane standand bed of ayik,
....
,he pryce thairof ten libs.,. . . .ane mait buird of ayik branderit, pryce thairof iii lib. [" Mait " ? = mat, " the coarse piece of sacking on which the feather-bed is laid *' (' E.D.D.,' ' O.E.D.,' 1702).] Buzz, Sc. bizz, to molest by buzzing (' O.E.D.,' 1079). ? 1645, ' MS. Colmonell Kirk-Session ' (May 1) : " Hew M'llwrik entered a bill against Patrick M'Lymont and Andrew his son in Lagar- trie, complaining that they both had stricken and bizzst his wyfe, being within a month of her tyme."
Bypertii, divided into two parts (' O.E.D., 1574). 1455, Holland, ' Howlat,' 357 : " Ane
