dit Johanni Com. | |
Warennae, 1270, qui | |
adificavit Castrum | |
de Holt. | |
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GRIFFITH VICHAN, === ELENA.
pater Owyn |
Glyndoure |
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OWEN GLYNDOWRE
proditor Rex H. 4.
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ALICIA, filia et haeres,
nupta ---- Scudamore.

JOHANNIS SCUDAMORE, miles,
duxit filiam et haeredam
Oweni Glendoure proditoris
Regis H. 4.

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_Mind your P's and Q's_ (Vol. iii., p. 328.)--This expression arose from
the ancient custom of hanging a slate behind the alehouse door, on which
was written P. or Q. (i. e. _Pint_ or _Quart_) against the name of each
customer, according to the quantity which he had drunk, and which was not
expected to be paid for till the Saturday evening, when the wages were
settled.

The expression so familiar to schoolboys of "_going tick_," may perhaps be
traced to this, a _tick_ or mark being put for every glass of ale.

C. DE LA PRYME.

_The Sempecta at Croyland_ (Vol. iii., p. 328.).--He was not there,
however; and I am sorry to say, I do not remember where he was personally,
or exactly where the account of him is to be found. I have no doubt of its
being in one or other of the fourteen volumes of Martene's _Thesaurus et
Amplissima Collectio_. I do not now possess those books, and have not
access to them; but I think your correspondent will find what he wants
without much difficulty if (as I suspect) it is with some other pieces in
rhyme, and therefore likely to catch the eye in turning over a volume
chiefly in prose. Perhaps the name "Francis" may be in t