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.]