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NOTES AND QUERIES.
(.128. V. DEC., 1919.
are not real. In Haslewood's MS. ' List of
Actors and Actresses ' there occurs the name
"Peire Th. R. 1691," which probably indicates that it is printed in the dramatis personce of some play of that date.
G. THORN-DRTJRY.
BLTJECOAT SCHOOLS (12 S. v. 126, 158, 218, 302). A Bluecoat School for both boys and girls was founded at Colchester in 1708 by members of the Church of England, and is still carried on, though there is little competition for the uniform.
Since the formation of the National Society in 1812 their school and the Bluecoat School have been under the same master, but they are a distinct foundation. A Greencoat School was founded here some- what later by Dissenters this is extinct.
Full-length portraits of a Bluecoat boy and a girl in their quaint dress, painted by Mr. Prank Daniell hang in the Town Hall.
G. RICKWORD, F.R.Hist.Soc., Borough Librarian.
Colchester.
CANTRELL FAMILY (12 S. v. 291). The Rev. Thos. Cantrell, M.A., born 1649, was the son of John Cantrell of Repton, co. Derby, and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, on May 28, 1666, aged 17 ; B.A., 1669-70; M.A. Sidney Sussex Coll., Camb., 1681 ; headmaster of Derby School, 1684-97 ; vicar of Elvaston from 1695 ; buried, Mar. 23, 1697-8. There is a monument to him in St. Peter's Church, Derby.
William Cantrell, born in 1715, was the son of the Rev. Henry Cantrell, vicar of St. Alkmund's, Derby. Educated at Derby School, 1725-30,' and at Repton School, 1730 ; matriculated at St. John's Coll., Camb. ; B.A., 1738. Rector of St. Michael's, Stam- ford, Lines. ; and subsequently vicar of Normanton, co. Rutland. There is a monu- ment to him in St. Alkmund's Church, Derby. Died, Jan. 17, 1787. He had a brother Henry (born 1711), who died young. There is also a monument to him in St. Alk- mund's. H. G. HARRISON.
Aysgarth, Sevenoaks.
GEORGE SHEPHERD (12 S. v. 295). Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters and En- gravers ' gives the name of the above water- colour painter as George Shepheard, but no mention is made of his being related to Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. He further states that the latter artist was possibly a brother of George Sydney Shepherd, a well- known water colour painter, but the fact has not been determined definitely. From
1811 to 1830 George Shepheard occasionally
exhibited landscapes from Surrey nac
Sussex ; while George Sydney Shepherc
exhibited chiefly metropolitan buildings
mostly between the years 1830-37, thougl
his name only disappears after 1860.
Shepheard had two sons, George Wallwyi and Lewis, both of whom were artists Perhaps MR. NORMAN is confusing Georgt Shepheard and George Sydney Shepherd. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
Consult British Museum Book of Englisl Drawings. George Shepherd worked cira 1800-30. Thos. Hosmer Shepherd worke< circa 1817-40 ; probably son of George George Sidney Shepherd was son of Georgi Shepherd (died 1858).
E. E. LEGGATT.
DEVONIAN PRIESTS EXECUTED IN 1548-! (12 S. v. 131, 183, 243). There seems to b< no evidence that George Stocker was t priest or that he was executed. In the lis at the end of the ' Concertatio Ecclesiae George Stoker is mentioned as a gentlemai living in exile. The list was probably drawl up about 1588.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
GAVELACRE : PLACENAME (12 S. v. 295).- The word gavel has various meanings according to its derivation :
1. Tribute, toll, custom. Cf. Fr. gabelle
2. Hold, or tenure. So in the wore gavel-kind. In Norfolk a gavel is a sheaf o corn not yet bound, i.e., what can be hel< in the reaper's grasp. Cf. Welsh gavael, i hold or grasp.
3. A fork. Cf. Ger. gabel. Hence gavel = gable, the forked roof.
4. In Northumberland a gavel is a strip o land. This is a mis-spelling of cavel, i strip of tillage land in the common field, i word used as far south as Lincolnshire.
Gavel-dyke is an allotment of fence liabl to be maintained by a farm not adjoining il Allotments of gavel-dyke are mostly agains commons, and seem originally to have bee: intended to relieve the farms next . th commons from a part of the, pressure am trespass occasioned by sheep.
M. E. CORNFORD, Librarian.
William Salt Library, Stafford.
For the explanation of many composit words beginning and ending with gavel se Somner's ' Gavelkynd.' In this case gav*. is simply the Saxon word signifying " rent " and was in general use and confined to n especial localities. Possibly the land referrei
