"Memorandum: Quod die lune xvio die Februarii anno Regis Henrici Septimi Decimo Willius Stanley, Miles, Camerarius regis prædicti receptus fuit apud Turrim London, et ductus usque scaffold et ibidem fuit decapitatus. Johannes Warner et Nicholas Allwyn tunc vic. London."
Could you help me to the true account?
JOHN C. JACKSON.
Cross House, Ilminster, Somerset.
[The memorandum in the Horæ agrees with the date given in Fabyan's Chronicle, p. 685., edit. 1811, viz. February 16, 1495. Fuller, in his Worthies, also states that Allwyn and Warner were sheriffs of London in the tenth year of Henry VII.]
Mires—Somerlayes.
—In the appointment of a pinder for the town of Hunstanton, Norfolk, dated 1644, these two words occur: "No person shall feed any mires with any beast," &c. Mire is clearly the same as meer, i.e. the strip of unploughed ground bounding adjacent fields. "None shall tye any of their cattle upon anothers somerlayes without leave of the owner," &c. I suppose somerlaye to be the same as somerland, explained by Halliwell to mean, land lying fallow during summer. I find neither word in Forby's Glossary.
C. W. G.
[Grass laid down for summer pasture, is called in Kent, lay fields; doubtless somerlayes are such. Probably a corruption of lea, the lesura of Latin charters.]