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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. v. APRIL e, 1912.
" De Cruce " occurs in the first half of the
thirteenth century, and " le Crowch " and
" de la Crouche " in the first half of the four-
teenth century. These three prefixes are
rare.
As a rule the " atte " disappears at the end of the fifteenth century, and simply " Crowche " occurs. At the>same time the name sometimes appears as simply Crowche after, say, 1350. Those of Great Chart, Kent, wrote the name " atte Crowche " in the fourteenth century, but by 1477 the prefix was not in use.
CHAS. HALL CBOUCH.
62, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.
MUMMERS (US. v. 110). Mumming yet lingers on in several parts of England. The recitations vary. Even in one county several versions of the words may be current, yet all the variants which I have seen appear to have originated from one source. The Isle of Wight version shows a resemblance to the dialogues of Lancashire and Lincoln- shire. I believe the old Scotch mumming play had also similar words, that is, words .sufficiently similar to indicate a connexion between the dialogues of North and South.
A. R,
BEAZANT FAMILY (11 S. v. 71). Petro Besaunt of Bonynton, co. Kent, 1347 (p. 127, vol. x., Arch. Cant.).
A close called Beysaunts, 1560, near Ramsgate (Arch. Cant", vol. xii., p. 379).
Thomas Besant, 1576; John Besant, 1706; John Beasant, 1704 ; Ralph Beasant, 1707 (Phillimore's ' Marriage Registers. Wilt- shire,' vol. iii.). R. J. FYNMORE.
SKATING IN THE MIDDLE AGES (11 S. v. 27, 98). Fosbroke is wrong in stating that ' ; skating was a great accomplishment of Thialfe in the Edda, ; ' Skafii and Ullr are alone represented in Edda as being great runners on shift, ondrar, or andrar. snow- shoes ; there is no mention of skating at all. ALFRED W. JOHNSTON.
MONEY-BOX (11 S. v. 50, 117, 156). In his answer to S. J. A. F., ST. SWITHIN notes one shape for a money-box as that of a Sussex pig. It is curious to note that one oJ the most common shapes of a money-box amongst the Chinese is that of a pig. These are made of different sizes, and, of course, earthenware. A slit on the back of the pig allows the coins to be dropped in, and when full they are easily smashed and the cash recovered. J. DYER BALL.
NOTTINGHAM AS A SURNAME (11 S. v. 169 r
237). William Berry, in his ' Encyclopedia
Eeraldica,' gives no fewer than ten families
of this name entitled to arms. Three of
them are Irish. TERTIUS.
COUNTY BIBLIOGRAPHIES (11 S. iv. 488; v. 30, 178, 196). Having given at the last reference a supplementary list for the earlier ounties, I continue below my full list for the remaining counties :
Kent Smith (J. R.), Bibliotheca Cantiana, 1837,. named by MR. FRY, is the one systematic book, and that only comes up to 1837.
An index volume to Archaeologia Cantiana,. covering vols. i. xviii., was issued in 1892.
See also Kershaw (S. W.), Lambeth Palace Library and its Kentish. Memoranda (Arch, Cantiana, ix. 176-88).
Stathain (S. P. H.), Bibliography of Dover in his History of Dover, London, 1899.
Norman (William), Woolwich Bibliography (Woolwich Antiq. Soc., viii. 21-4 ; x. 25-6 j xii. 24-32).
Norman (William), Woolwich Parish Regis- ters and Vestry Books (Woolwich Antiq. Soc.,. ii. 43-61).
Sims (Richard), Dover Records in the B.M. (Brit. Archaeol. Assoc., xl. 129-32).
Descriptive Catalogue of Documents be- longing to the Kent Archaeol. Soc. (ArchseoL Cantiana, xxv. 256-98).
Calendar of Ancient Deeds presented to the Society by Charles Marchant (ArchseoL Cantiana, xxvii. 167-76).
Sands (Harold), An Old Map of Canterbury (Archaeol. Cantiana, xxv. 250-54).
W 7 oodruff (Rev. C. E.), Notes on the Municipal Records of Quceiiborough (ArchseoL Cantiana, xxii. 169-85).
The Lewisham Public Library lias a collection of Kentish books.
Lancashire Fishwick (Lieut.-Col. Henry, F.S.A.), The Lancashire Library, a bibliographical account of books on topography, biography, history .... relating to the County Palatine, in- cluding an account of Lancashire tracts .... printed before the year 1720. London, 1875.
Fishwick (H.), Bibliography of Rochdale,, as illustrated by the books in the local Free Library, 1880 "(reprinted from the paper* of the Manchester Literary Club ).
Fishwick (H.), Quaker Lancashire Lite- rature of the Seventeenth Century (Lan- cashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, vol. v., 1887).
Axon (Ernest), Bibliography of Lan- cashire and Cheshire Antiquities (Lancashire and Cheshire Antiq. Soc. Transactions, vols. vii.-x., 1890-93).
Axon (W. E-. A.), Select List of Works relating to Bibliography, Natural History, History. Topography, &c., of Lancashire (MS. in Wigan Free Library), 1877.
Axon (W. E. A.), Bibliographical List of Books illustrating the Lancashire Dialect, 1875.
Axon (W. E. A.), The Libraries of Lan- cashire and Cheshire (Library Assoc. Trans- actions, 1880), also printed separately.
