C. H. Cooper.
Cambridge.
Fercett (Vol. vi., p. 292.).—The term Fercett is probably intended as the designation of some collection in MS. of family evidences and pedigrees. It was usual among our ancestors thus to inscribe such collections either with the name of the collector, or that of the particular family to whom the book related. Thus the curious MS. in the library of the City of London, called Dunthorne, and containing ancient municipal records, is so called from its collector, whose name was Dunthorne. Instances of such titles are to be found in the collections of Gervase Holles in the Lansdowne MSS., where one of such books is referred to as Trusbutt.
E. G. B.
Old Satchells (Vol. vi., p. 160.; Vol. vii., p.209.).—Your correspondent J. O. seems not to be aware that another and a fourth edition of Old Satchells' True History ("with copious additions, notes, and emendations," under the editorial superintendence of William Turnbull, Esq., F.S.A.) is in course of preparation 'neath the fostering care of Mr. John Gray Bell, the pro amore publisher of so many historical and antiquarian tracts of interest. Mr. Bell has already given to the world a Pedigree of the Ancient Family of Scott of Stokoe, edited, with notes, by William Robson Scott, Ph. D., of St. Leonard's, Exeter, from the original work compiled by his grandfather, Dr. William Scott, of Stamfordham, Northumberland, then (1783) representative of the family. The latter gentleman left behind him a large and valuable collection of MSS. relative to the family, which, as I learn from the prospectus, will be called into requisition in the forthcoming reprint of the Old Souldier of Satchell. Possibly the publishers of the second and third editions may have been assisted in their labours by the learned doctor in question, whose already quoted Pedigree of the Scotts of Stokoe was issued only a few years prior to the appearance of the Hawick edition of 1786, not 1784, as accidentally misprinted in J. O.'s interesting communication.
T. Hughes.
Chester.
Curtseys and Bows (Vol. vii., p. 156).—In the interlude of The Trial of Treasure, by Purfoote, 1567 (page 14. of reprint), Inclination says to Gredy-gutte:
"Ise teach you to speake, I hold you a pounde!
Curchy, lob, curchy downe to the grounde.