The humble Petition of John Lowerance of Stoxley. Whereas the humble petitioner was a soldier in the service of King Charles I., under the command of Sir Will. Pennyman (in his own company), and in the said service suffered great dammage and now, being very old and not able to gitt out of doores to relieve myself and family, therefore humbley requests the honourable Bench to comiserate the poor condition of the humble petitioner, who shall ever pray for the &c. To the Right Worshippfull their Majesty's Justices now assembled at the General Sessions at Beedall the humble petition of Ellen Winn, now wife of Henry Winn of Fingall. Humbly sheweth that your petitioner was born at Aisgarth of good and honest parents, daughter of one Michaell Tunstall, deceased, was a person of very good repute, of civil and honest carriage and behaviour and as far as we know carried herself quietly, honestly, and civilly here amongst her neighbours as long as she continued at Aisgarth, insomuch we veryly believe the report, slander or aspersion now laid upon her by one Susannah Edmundson of Fingall to be false because as long as she was with us we knew no such thing by her. We the inhab'. of Aisgarth whose names are hereunto subscribed do certify the truth of the abovesaid petition, witness our hands, 19th day of July, 1691. Timothy Lancaster, Vicar of James Thompson. Geo. Reynoldson. Dethrak Tunstall. Robert Ianson. Marmaduke Durham. James Bowes. William Simpson. John Beckwith. John Atkinson. Tristram Walker. Bryan Lyster. George Atkinson. The humble Petition of the inhab's. of the Constablery of Beedall sheweth that one George Harrison an inhab'. whoe formerly gott an Order of Sessions that the said Constablery should pay him 6d. a week towards his maintenance when he was in distress, and hath paid him till now now the said Geo. Harrison is now able to work and has received every day when in work 9d. a day all this barke time, for chopping of barke, besides working of the tanner* traid, and now at this very time is with a sister of his at Lartington, who would maintain him without any allowance of his pention. The 6d. a week not to be paid. LIST OF PAPISTS (UNDATED). North Riding, County of York: an Alphabetical Table of the Sirnames of Papists and of the Place where their Lands lye within the said Riding. (No date.) Aspinwell, Richard. Anderson, George. Allan, James. Belasyse, Rowland. Busby, Dorothy. Belasyse, Rowld. Allen, Will. Atkinson, James. Arden, Amy.. Allen, Anthony. Briggs, Richard. Bendlowes, Joseph. Binks, Margaret. Blenkinsop, Peter. Burgis, Richard. 66 ་་ * This petition involves a somewhat curious question. The man is, one will hardly gainsay, a tanner by trade." And yet he works during the "barke time" at chopping of barke." If we look into Bardsley's " English Surnames," or Lower's "Patronymica Britannica," or any of the books of the authors who copy blindly from them, what we find is BARKER. A tanner, from his using bark of trees in his trade.' Surely the present entry betokens a difference, at least a distinction, between a tanner by trade and one who worked at the bark employed in the trade. It is quite true that we have in "Promptorium Parvulorum" "Barkyn lethyr" defined by Latin words which mean "to tan leather," and "Barkare," by words meaning "tanner," and "tannare idem quod Barkare": so that there can be no doubt that Barker and Tanner had come to be synonymous by the date of the Dictionary quoted. But still, our entry shows that a man who "worked at the barke " was not necessarily a tanner ; nor yet that the converse was true. The true account seems to be that the verb "to bark leather," seems to have given origin to the noun "barker," the man whose trade it was to bark leather, tan and bark being really perfectly synonymous: the mistake made by both the authorities named, and their obsequious followers, being that they allow no other origin for the English surname Barker, than that suggested by the trade of the tanner: the truth being that nine out of ten of our English Barkers spring from men whose businessdesignation in the middle ages was Bercarius, or sheep-fold-man. Fauconberg, Tho., Lord Viscount. Fairfax, Charles, Lord. Frankland, Anthony. Fairfax, Will., Lord. Fauconberg, L. Fairfax, Charles, Esq. Galloway, Mary. Greenwood, Cha. Hardcastle, John. Harrison, Henry. Hodgson, John. Hodgson, Francis. Heddon, Thomas. Houseman, Jane. Huntley, Anthony. Jackson, Anthony. Kearton, John. Kearton, George. Kingsley, Will. Leach, Will. Langdale, Marmaduke, Esq. Lodge, Anne. Miles. Lawson, John, Esq. Sir Henry. Will., Esq. Lodge, Chr. John. Lawson, Elizabeth. Sir John, Bart. Meynell, Roger, Esq. Mayes, John, Esq. Monday, Andrew. Metcalf, Henry. More, Zach. Stewart, Esq. Thomas, Esq. Maire, Thomas, Esq. Meynell, Geo., Esq. Pole, John, Esq., and his Wife. Paston, John, Esq. |