—In an old precedent (seventeenth century) of a lease of a house, I find the words "divers parcels of wyned waynescott windowes and other implements of household." What is wyned?
C. W. G.
[A friend, who is extremely well versed in early records, and to whom we referred this Query, observes, "I have never met with the word, nor can I find a trace of it anywhere. I suspect that the querist has misread his MS., and that, in the original, it is payned, for paned. In the slovenly writing of that period many a form of pa might be mistaken for w. The upstroke of the p is often driven high. I have seen many a pa like this instance.">[
Cromwell Family.
—Two leaves, paged from 243 to 246, cuttings from an old magazine, seemingly having dates down to 1772, entitled "Account of the Male Descendants of Oliver Cromwell. By the Rev. Mr. Hewling Luson, of Lowestoft, in Suffolk. In a Letter to Dr. Brooke." [Concluded from our last, page 197.] The next article commencing, "On the Knowledge of Mankind. From Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son," having lately come into my hands, I shall feel greatly obliged by being informed through "N. & Q.," or otherwise, where may I meet with the previous part of such account of the Cromwell family, or the title and date of such magazine?
W. P. A.
[Mr. Luson's letter to Dr. Brooke, referred to by our correspondent, will be found in Hughes's Letters, edited by Duncombe, vol. ii. Appendix, p. xxxii. edit. 1773.]
Beholden.
—Is the word "beholden" a corruption of the Dutch "gehouden," or is it a past participle from the verb "to behold?" If the latter, how comes it from signifying "seen," to denote "indebted"?
A. F. S.