Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 | Page 9

the analogy of vairths,
or O.H.G. virahi, also signifying people. Grimm's _Deutsche Gram._ iii.
472., note. "Es konnte zwar _unlêds_ (pauper) aber auch _unlêths_
heissen."--_D. Gr._ 225.]
[Footnote 2: Sir F. Palgrave has given this extract in the Appendix to
his _Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth_, p. ccccvii.,
where, by an error of the press, or of transcription, the word stands lich.
It may be as well to remark, that the corresponding word in Latin
formulas of the same kind is "catallis," _i.e. chattels_. A passage in
Havelok, v. 2515., will clearly demonstrate that lith was at least one
kind of _chattel_, and equivalent to fe (fee).
"Thanne he was ded that Sathanas Sket was seysed al that his was, In
the King's hand il del, Lond and _lith_, and other _catel_, And the King

ful sone it yaf Ubbe in the hond with a fayr staf, And seyde, 'Her ich
sayse the In al the lond in al the fe.'"]
[Footnote 3: The author of _Tripartita seu de Analogia Linguacum_,
under the words "Leute" and "Barn," says:--"Respice Ebr. Id. Ebr.
ledah, partus, proles est. Ebr. lad, led, gigno." A remarkable
coincidence at least with Grimm's derivation of léôd from the Goth.
liudan, crescere.]
[Footnote 4: Thus, Anthon, _Teutschen Landwirthschaft_, Th. i. p.
61.:--"Das Land eines jeden Dorfes, einer jeden Germarkung war
wirklich getheilt und, wie es sehr wahrscheinlich, alsdan verlost
worden. Daher nannte man dasjenige, was zu einem Grunstüke an
Äkern, Wiesen gehörte, ein Los (Sors). Das Burgundische Gesetz redet
ausfdrücklich vom Lande das man in Lose erhalten hat (Terra sortis
titulo acquisita, Tit. i. § 1.)" Schmeller, in his _Bayrishces Wort. B._ v.
_Lud-aigen_, also points to the connection of Lud with hluz-hlut, sors,
portio; but he rather inclines to derive it from the Low-Latin,
ALLODIUM. It appears to me that the converse of this is most likely to
have been the case, and that this very word LEDS or LÆDS is likely to
furnish a more satisfactory etymology of ALLODIUM than has
hitherto been offered.]
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BP. COSIN'S MSS.--INDEX TO BAKER'S MSS.
Your correspondent "J. SANSOM" (No. 19. p. 303.) may perhaps find
some unpublished remains of Bp. Cosin in Baker's MSS.; from the
excellent index to which (Cambridge, 1848, p. 57.) I transcribe the
following notices, premising that of the volumes of the MSS. the first
twenty-three are in the British Museum, and the remainder in the
University Library, (not, as Mr. Carlyle says in a note in, I think, the 3d
vol. of his _Letters. &c. of Cromwell_ in the library of Trin. Coll.).
"Cosin, Bp.-- Notes of, in his Common Prayer, edit. 1636, xx. 175.
Benefactions to See of Durham, xxx. 377-380. Conference with Abp.
of Trebisond, xx. 178. Diary in Paris, 1651, xxxvi. 329. Intended
donation for a Senate-House, xxx. 454. Letters to Peter Gunning,
principally concerning the authority of the Apocrypha, vi. 174-180.
230-238. Manual of Devotion, xxxvi. 338."
As the editors of the Index to Baker's MSS. invite corrections from
those who use the MSS., you will perhaps be willing to print the

following additions and corrections, which may be of use in case a new
edition of the Index should be required:--
Preface, p. vii. _add_, in _Thoresby Correspondence_, one or two of
Baker's Letters have been printed, others have appeared in Nichols's
Literary Anecdotes.
Index, p. 2. Altars, suppression of, in Ely Diocese, 1550, xxx. 213.
Printed in the _British Magazine_, Oct. 1849, p. 401.
P. 5. Babraham, Hullier, Vicar of, burnt for heresy. _Brit. Mag._ Nov.
1849, p. 543.
P. 13. Bucer incepts as Dr. of Divinty, 1549, xxiv. 114. See Dr. Lamb's
_Documents from MSS. C.C.C.C._ p. 153.
Appointed to lecture by Edw. VI., 1549, xxx. 370. See Dr. Lamb, p.
152.
Letter of University to Edw., recommending his family to care, x. 396.
Dr. Lamb, p. 154.
P. 14. Buckingham, Dr. Eglisham's account of his poisoning James I.,
xxxii. 149-153. See _Hurl. Misc._
Buckmaster's Letter concerning the King's Divorce, x. 243. This is
printed in _Burnet_, vol. iii. lib. 1. collect. No. 16., from a copy sent by
Baker, but more fully in Dr. Lamb, p. 23., and in Cooper's Annals.
P. 25. Renunciation of the Pope, 1535. See Ant. Harmer, _Specimen_,
p. 163.
P. 51. Cowel, Dr., charge against, and defence of his Antisanderus.
_Brit. Mag._ Aug. 1849, p. 184.
Cranmer, extract from C.C.C. MS. concerning. _Brit. Mag._ Aug. 1849,
p. 169, seq.
Cranmer, life of, xxxi. 1-3. _Brit. Mag._ Aug. 1849, p. 165.
P. 57. Convocation, subscribers to the judgment of, xxxi. 9. _British
Magazine_, Sept. 1849, p. 317.
P. 68. Ely, Altars, suppression of, 1550, xxx. 213. _Brit. Mag._ Oct.
1849, p. 401.
P. 77. Several of the papers relating to Bishop Fisher will be found in
Dr.