12 s. vii. OCT. 2, 1920.1 NOTES AND QUERIES.
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- St. Albans Mona.. tica,' is stated to be a
citizan of London.
John^de Bellingues went to first Crusade, 1096 '(Dansey's ' English Crusaders '). Arms : Gules, 3 plates, the field sem with crosses crosslets, fitch 6 argent.
Walter da Sellings held land at Porchester, 1268,
Walter de Billing held Manor of Tilbrook, Beds, 1302.
Roger de Bellingges held land at Sprotford, Cambs, 1283.
Henry Billyng held land at Brampton, Hunts, 1329.
Robert de Billyng of Cogenhoe, Northants, King's Clerk, Parson of Knotting, Beds, 1348.
John Billyng of Cogenhoe, pardoner, 1342.
Sir Thomas Billyng was Justice of King's Bench, and J.P. for Beds, Hunts, Cambs, and other counties about 1475.
Thomas Byllyng mentioned in connexion with land at Leveryngton, Cambs, 1476.
Sir John Belynge is mentioned in Acts of Privy Council, Henry IV,, 1399-1413, as Chauntor of "Seynt Patrick.
William Byllinge is mentioned in 'St. Alban's Monastica,' vol. i. p. 47.
FRANCIS BROWN. 2 Capel Road, East Barnet.
CCJLLIDGE -ENDED (12 S. vii. 208). The
- English Dialect Dictionary ' and 'N.E.D.'
state that " cullidge " is derived from French coulisse, furrow, groove, gutter, &c.
- N.E.D.' quotes the following extract from
Parker's 'Concise Glossary of Architecture' :
" Killesse, also cullis, coulisse (Fr.), a gutter, groove, or channel ... .This term is in some districts corruptly applied to a hipped roof by
country carpenters, who speak of a killessed or cullidge roof. A dormer window is also sometimes
-called a killesse or cullidge window."
The ' English Dialect Dictionary ' confines the use of this term to Lincolnshire.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
CAPT. LACY (12 S. vii. 190). A Lieut. - Col. W. Lacy brought the 46th Regiment home from India in 1833, and in 1870 brought out a biblical volume, with facsimile pages by permission of Sir Henry James, R.E., photo-zincographed by his process, under his direction. That may possibly point to some connexion of Col. Lacy and the Ordnance Survey Office ; but I am not sanguine that this reply will assist the querist. W. B. H.
UNDATED BOOKS (12 S. vii. 215. v.s -'In Praise of Indexing"). -I heartily agree with MR. CECIL CLARKE in his protest against the shameless neglect of modern publishers, who omit to print on the title - page the ..year of issue of their books. It is not a
neglect, of course, but a deliberate plan.
They want ephemeral fiction to remain up-
to-date as long as possible. In the case of
more lasting literature this policy must in
the end prove harmful to all concerned, and
calls for a loud protest from all lovers of
books. Could not ' N. & Q. ' be the means
of bringing these publishers who err to their
senses and make them comprehend the
gravity of their misdemeanour ?
W. DEL COURT. 47 Blenheim Crescent, W.ll.
THE " 'UMBLE COMMONS " (12 S. vii. 170, 195, 236). I distinctly remember the teach- ing of my schoolmaster, Dr. Richard Morris, one of the first grammarians of our language, to have been as follows : The word " humble" in "a humble and contrite heart, " .derived from the Latin humilis, should be aspirated as it is in the Latin ; but the word used in the expression "to eat (h)umble pie " and to live on " 'umble commons " is derived from the Latin word umbilicus, which was originally used to denote the internal organs of any animal : thus " 'umble pie " was a large pasty produced in a mediaeval kitchen for the benefit of the humbler members of the household who sat below the salt. His Majesty's Humble Commons are not accus- tomed to eat 'umble pie.
HUGH R. WATKIN.
Torquay.
THOMAS THORPE (T2 S. vii. 232). The surname of Thorpe does not occur among the lists of Free Burgesses of Colchester in the eighteenth century, but the ' Universal Directory 'of 1792 has :
Edward Thorpe, watchmaker ; Thomas Thorpe, clock arid, watchmaker ; and Widow Thorpe, victualler, of the Rose Inn.
'Pigot's Directory,' 1823, has : Edward Thorp, watch and clock maker, East Hill.
The surname does not occur in the post- reform poll- books, nor in ' Kelly's Directory ' of 1845. GEORGE "RICKWORD.
Public Library, Colchester.
PEACOCKS' FEATHERS (12 S. vi. 334; vii. 137). Ths Japanese often deck their desks with, peacocks' feather?. Some of them view them as poisonous, but none would think them to be unlucky. According to the Chinese 'System of " Materia Medica,' by Li Shi-Chin, 1578, torn, xlix., they have a poison able to dim the sight, whence they must never be let into the eyes.
KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA.
Tanabe, Kii, Japan.
