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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. x. DEC. 13, 1902.
CROOKED USAGE, CHELSEA (9 th S. x. 147,
253, 417). The explanation of this name
which is given in the London County Council
Staff Gazette is virtually identical with that
which I quoted from the Academy at the
first reference. I should be glad to know the
authority for the statement that strips of
unturned grass which separate allotments
were known as "usages," and if there are
any other instances of the employment of
this term, either in London or in other parts
of England. I have looked up likely sources
of information, but have failed to find a
satisfactory reply. W. F. PRIDEAUX.
DYNGHAM AND OCKHAM PRIORIES (9 th S. x. 309). For Wickham, Wycham, or Wykeham Priory, situated near Scarborough, see Burton's ' Monasticon Eboracense,' pp. 255 to 257 ; also vol. xvii. of the Yorkshire Archaeo- logical Society's Record Series (' Monastic Notes '), p. 228. Further particulars about the documents alluded to by MR. WHIT- WELL would be interesting to Yorkshire anti- quaries, as the list of prioresses of this and other similar monastic establishments is far from complete. CHARLES A. FEDERER.
Bradford.
DOROTHEA RUTTER (9 th S. x. 109). At the conclusion of much genealogical information concerning the family of Le Roter, or Rutter, of Kingsley, co. Chester, contributed by T. Helsby, Esq., barrister-at-law, to the Reliquary for January, 1872, is the following excerpt :
" And last, but not least, we conclude with a lady of the Gloucester branch, distinguished in her day as the angel of her parish, and whose portrait attached to her funeral sermon, in 1661, gives us some little idea how, if the most classical features command admiration, there is still a higher and more commanding beauty that goes straight to the heart that expression that lies in the face of some, in the eyes of others, and that induced the writing of the couplet beneath the engraving referred to : Life more abundant in her looks you see : Picture her Soule, a Heav'nly Saint is Shee ! about which there can be little doubt.
The portrait of 1661 is engraved with four shields in its corners, one with the arms of Rutter quartering, instead of impaling, Hales, she being the daughter of Sir John Hales, of Hales, co. Kent, and Hales Place, in Coventry, Knt., afterwards Bart., 1660 (see aped. Dr. Howard's Miscett. Geneal. Monthly, No. 6). The other shields are inscribed, ' Dominse Dorothea Rutter, Martij 21 mo Vera Effigies 166J, Anno ^Etatis suse ult. et 31 mo .' She was the wife of Michael Rutter, of Burton-on-the-Hill, co. Glou- cester, Esq., and was greatly lamented on her decease by the multitude she had succoured during her too brief existence: her funeral sermon was published, and the singular honour done her of its republication, with a fresh engraving, some 160 years af tei wards, that is in 1820, the portrait then
being ' by T. Berry, from a rare print in the
possession of E. W. Martin, Esq., published by
T. & H. Rodd, 17, Little Newport Street, Leicester
Square.' "
A foot-note to the above states that " Mr. Rutter, of London, has an original copy of the first engraving, and we are indebted to Edward Morton, Esq., of Old Malton, for another copy published in 1820, and now very rare."
I possess a proof copy of the engraving drawn by a local man, the late Robert Langton, of Manchester, but for what pur- pose I cannot at present discover.
RICHARD LAWSON. Urmston.
" MAY LINE A BOX " (8 th S. v. 286, 394 ; vi. 178). Cf. Byron, 'Don Juan,' canto xiv. stanza 14 :
And, though these lines should only line port- manteaus, Trade will be all the better for these cantos.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. 9, Tavistock Place, W.C.
"YEOMAN" (9 th S. x. 204, 354) I leave to students learned in historical antiquities the task of discussing, and, if possible, of throwing light on, the difficult question of the early history of the term " yeoman " and its relation with the Danish "young man." I find that there are antiquaries who hold that the " young men " of Cnut's laws is a term synonymous with the " yomen " of the statute book (37 Edward III. c. 9). Whether this be the fact or not, I would remind Q. V. that the question of the etymological connexion be- tween the two words must be discussed independently, and settled with a due regard to the susceptibilities of "Anglicists." Well, considered from the point of view of English philology and phonetic analogies, the ety- mological identification of the Danish term with the Edwardian one appears to me to be a somewhat risky operation. I cannot re- member another instance of the disappear- ance of a nasal guttural under similar circum- stances. The history of the word " yeoman " is still very obscure on its formal side.
COMESTOR OXONIENSIS.
CROMWELL'S DAUGHTERS (9 th S. x. 289, 392). Portraits of Cromwell's four daughters were given in the serial issue of Mr. John Morley's 'Oliver Cromwell 'in the Century Magazine. They appeared as follows :
Bridget Cromwell (Mrs. Ireton, and later Mrs. Fleet wood), miniature by Crosse at Windsor. By special permission of Her Majesty the Queen. C M., March, 1900, p. 745.
Mary Cromwell (Lady Fauconberg). From
