IIS. VII. June28. 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 513 Luther, Esq. Until quite recently it was known as Great Myles's. During the closing years of the eighteenth century and the early portion of the nine- teenth it was a seat of the Marquess of Lothian. In 1828 it was the residence of a memher of the Marjoribanks family. Chas. Hall Crouch. 62, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N. This Was a manor situated in the parish of Kelvedon Hatch, near Ongar, Essex. The house was pulled down about 1843. Horace Walpole, who visited it in 1759, refers to it as a dull place. The manor was for some generations in the possession of the Luther Family, and the " so truely loveing brothers " Richard and Anthony Luther (whose epi- taph was printed in ' N. & Q.' a few years ago), were occupiers of the manor house for nearly forty years in the early part of the seventeenth century. I visited the old church of Kelvedon Hatch in September, 1907, and rubbed the brasses and noted the memorials, but there were none to the name of Ford. The church was then dismantled, and is now completely closed. William Gilbert. 35, Broad Street Avenue. E.C. This inquiry evidently refers to Myles, or Miles, situate in Kelvedon Hatch, Ongar Hundred, co. Essex. The estate of Myles Was in the possession of the Luther family prior to 1627. On the death, on 13 Jan., 1786, of John Luther, M.P. for co. Essex, without surviving issue, Myles and his other estates passed by his will to his nephew, Francis Fane, M.P. for Dorchester, son of Henry Fane of Wormsley, M.P. for Lyme Regis (and brother to the eighth Earl of Westmorland), by his wife Charlotte, sister to the said John Luther, M.P. At the death of Francis Fane s.p., Myles passed by entail to his brother, John Fane. LL.D., M.P. for Oxfordshire, who married, 1 December, 1773, Lady Elizabeth Parker, eldest daughter of the third Earl of Macclesfield. Francis N. Relton. 9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath. In ' The Family Topographer,' by Sam- uel Tymms (1832), vol. i., p. 11, the follow- ing appears in the list of Essex seats :— " Myles's, Chipping Ongar, ■ Wel- lesley, Esq." John T. Page. In Spelman's ' Villare Anglicum,' 2nd ed., 1678, " Miles," is entered as a village in Essex, situate in the hundred of Ongar. Richard Welfobd. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In answer to G. F. R. B., Myless (Miles) is in the parish of Kelvedon Hatch (Hundred of Ongar). Wright says:— "The part which belonged to Leueuia the Saxon, and to fiamo Dapifer, forms the Manor of Miles, the mansion-house of whioh is about a mile north- ward from the Church [Kelvedon Hatch]. This Manor is not mentioned in records till the reign of Henry the- seventh, when it belonged to Andrew Prior, who died in 15'J7, and was succeeded by his son John. John Prest was the next possessor, who died in 1546, leaving Franoes, his only daughter; his widow, Alice, was married to Robert Black- wall, esq., and, dying in 1561, left by him Frances Black wall, her only child and heiress. Richard and Anthony Luther, esqs., were the next owners of this estate, who remained joint possessors of it nearly forty years ; ' so truly loving brothers,' as is expressed in their epitaph, that no account what- ever was kept between them. They died in 1627. It is now in possession of Fane, esq." Z. Moon. Central Library, Leyton, N.K. It was a well-known estate in Essex, near Chipping Ongar. In 1778 it was the property of John Luther, Esq., who left it by will to Fane, Esq.. of Wormsley, see Burke's ' Commoners,' vol. iv., p. 92. In 1796 Mr. Fane was living at Myles's ; 1806, Dr. Chandler; 1811, Francis Fane, Esq.; 1824, Mrs. Tower; 1831, E. Mar- joribanks, Esq. John W. Thackeray. Myles's is a manor in the parish of Kel- vedon Hatch. It could have been found at once by reference to Morant's ' County History.' An account of it is given in the Transactions of the Essex Archaeo- logical Society, xii., 109-112. F. In an index ' to the less noted villages, 1751, this place is described as being near Kelvedon. Wm. Norman. "Furdall" (11 S. vii. 228, 297, 337, 417).—Mr. Clare Hudson's satisfactory explanation of his original query is rather obscured by Mr. H. A. Harris's reply. Reference to Littre's dictionary shows that " furdall," " vardle." " vartivell," are the English forms of Fr. vertevelle (O.F. er being usually pronounced as ar), the gud- geon or socket, or eyed spike, in which turns the pintle of a door or rudder. The word becomes vertendle in the ease of a rudder. Vervelle, the hawk's ring, is another form of the word. Verveux is a net. so called, not from having rings along its margin, but from being supported in funnel-shape by withy hoops. " Fardell " has nothing to do with this word, it being Fr. fardeau, originally a bundle of clothes, fardes. hordes, the Australian " swag."
