Minor Queries with Answers.
Humphry Smith (Vol. vii., p. 80.).—Having heard of a work of his, giving an account of the persecution in his time, will you or one of your contributors be so good as furnish a list of the titles of his works; with a note naming where they may be met with for inspection?
Glywysig.
[The first two in the following list of the works of Humphry Smith, the Quaker, are in the British Museum; the remainder are in the Bodleian: 1. A Sad and Mournful Lamentation for the People of these Nations, but especially for the Priests and Leaders of them, 4to. 1660. 2. Meditations of an Humble Heart, 4to. 3. Something further laid open of the Cruel Persecution of the People called Quakers, by the Magistrates and People of Evesham, 4to. 1656. 4. For the Honour of the King, and the great advancing thereof (amongst men) over all nations in the world, in some proposals tending thereunto; stated in six particulars, 4to. 1661. 5. Sound Things Asserted in the King's own words, from late experience, from Scripture truth, and according to reason and equity, offered in meekness and goodwill unto the consideration of all Kings, Lords, Counsellors, &c., 4to. 1662. 6. Something in Reply to Edmund Skipp's book, which he calles "The World's Wonder, or the Quaker's Blazing Starre," at the end of an Answer to Edmund Skipp's book by R. F. Watt, in his Bibliotheca, has confounded Smith the Quaker with Humphry Smith, Vicar of Tounstal and St. Saviour's, Dartmouth.]
Meaning and Etymology of "Conyngers" or "Connigries."—In the preamble to the statute 13 Rich. II. c. 13., entitled "None shall hunt but they which have a sufficient living," this word occurs; and I am totally at a loss as to its meaning. The passage is—
"Vont chaceants es parkes, garennes et conyngers des seignurs et autres;"
which, in Pickering's edition of the Statutes at Large, is translated:
"They go hunting in parks, warrens, and connigries of lords and others."
Would any reader of "N. & Q." kindly enlighten me on the subject?
A. W.
Kilburn.
[Blount explains Coningeria as a coney-borough, or warren of conies. "Item dicunt, quod idem Dominus potest capere in duabus coningeriis, quas habet infra Insulam de Vecta, 100 cuniculos per annum, et valet quilibet cuniculos 2d." Inq. de anno 47 Hen. III., n. 32.]
Letters U, V, W, and St. Ives (Vol. vii., p. 39.).—Is St. Ives by any possibility connected with St. Jue's, St. Jew's, or St. Jude's? Jve's and Iue's must have been undistinguishable in the ancient confusion of J and I, V and U. If I am here displaying ignorance, I ask, What is the legend of St. Ives?
W. Fraser.
Tor-Mohun.
[St. Ives is named from Iä, who was one of the missionary band that accompanied St. Kiaran, alias Piran, from Ireland in the fifth century. The Cornish have consecrated almost all their towns to the memory of these Irish saints: "witness," says Camden, "St. Burian, St. Ives, St. Columb, St. Mewan, St. Erben, St. Eval, St. Wenn, and St. Enedor." It appears that these missionaries landed in Cornwall at Pendinas, hill-head, now called St. Ives; for in the Legend of St. Ives, contained in Nova Legenda Angliæ, we read that "Tewdor was king at that time, and had a palace at Pendinas; and that Dinan, a greate lord of Cornwall, at the request of St. Iä, built a church at the same place." See Butler's Lives, March 5th; and Haslam's Perranzabuloe, p. 55.]