Chapter C: W. B

_Arms of Manchester_ (Vol. v., p. 59.).--The arms of Manchester (gules 3 hindlets enhanced or) are those attributed to the family of Grelle, De Greslet, or Grelly, feudal Barons of Manchester under the Normans. The town has used them for years; long before the charter of incorporation.

P. P.

_Sir Thomas Frowyk_ (Vol. v., p. 295.).--Thomas Frowyk was, in all likelihood, of a family long connected with the government of London. According to Fuller, he was born at Ealing in Middlesex, and was son of Thomas Frowyk, Esq. [if I do not greatly err he was knighted in or before the reign of Richard III.] of Gunnersbury, by the daughter and heiress of Sir John Sturgeon, knight. He was "bred in the study of our municipal law," and read on the statute Prerogative Regis (17 Edw. II. stat. 1.), but in what inn of court, or in what year, I have not seen stated. He was (with others) made serjeant-at-law, by writ tested 10th September, 1496. The feast was kept on the 16th of November following, at Ely House in Holborn, "where dined the King, Queen, and all the chief lords of England." He was afterwards one of the King's serjeants. On the 11th July, 1502, he (with Mr. Justice Fisher and Humphrey Conyngsbye, one of the King's serjeants) made an award between the University and town of Cambridge adjusting disputes between the two bodies, and defining in minute detail their respective jurisdictions. On the 30th September, 1502, he was constituted Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and was, at or about the same time, knighted. In 19 Hen. VIII. he was, by Act of Parliament, appointed one of the feoffees to the use of the King's will. He died 17th October, 1505, being, as it is said, under forty years old. He was buried, with Joan his wife, in the church of Finchley. He left a large estate to his two daughters, of whom Elah, the eldest, was married to Sir John Spelman, Justice of the King's Bench, "grandfather to Sir Henry, that renowned knight." Sir Thomas Frowyk's arms (azure a cheveron between 3 leopards' faces or) were in a window of the hall of Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street; and the same coat (quartering Sturgeon and another) was in a window at St. Dunstan's in the West. (Fuller's _Worthies in Middlesex_; Dugdale's _Origines Juridiciales_, 47. 128. 328.; _Chronica Series_, 74. 76.; _Bibliotheca Legum Angliæ_, ii. 192.; _Excerpta Historica_, 119. 121. 123.; _Plumpton Correspondence_, 152, 153. 161. 165.; Cooper's _Annals of Cambridge_, 258. 260.; _Rotuli Parliamentorum_, vi. 522.; _Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica_, iv. 107.)

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge.

_John Goldesborough_ (Vol. v., p. 294.).--John Goldesborough, or Goldesburgh, was born 18th October, 1568, studied at Oxford, and went thence to the Middle Temple, where he was called to the Bar. In or about 1613 he was constituted Second Prothonotary of the Common Pleas, which office he held till his death, 9th October, 1618. He was buried in the Temple Church, where there is, or was, a monumental brass to his memory, having thereon his and his wife's effigies, with an inscription in English. His Reports were printed several years after his death. (Wood's _Athenæ Oxonienses_, i. 293. 369.; Dugdale's _Origines Juridiciales_, 63. 178.; _Bibliotheca Legum Angliæ_, i. 236. 242., ii. 213.; _Reports of Deputy Keeper of Public Records, Second Report, Appendix_, ii. p. 73.; _Fourth Report, Appendix_, ii. p. 37.)

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge.

_Corrupted Names of Places_ (Vol. v., p. 285.).--I beg to offer a few additions to mispronounced names of places:

Rampisham Dorset Ransom
Beaminster Do. Bemmister
Portisham Do. Possum
Portishead Somerset Posset.

In Sussex the names of places ending in _ly_ are pronounced with the accent on the last syllable; _e.g._ West Hoath_ly_, Helling_ly_, &c. In Gloucestershire, a place written Newland is unexpectedly called Newlànd.

C. W. B.

My memory enables me to make the following small additions to the list of "Popular Dialects" requested by your correspondent P. M. M. The names of the towns are derived exclusively from my native county, Essex:

Spelling. Pronunciation.
Bradwell Bradell
Brentwood Burnt'ood
Brightlingsea Bricklesea
Chelmsford Chensford
Coggeshall Cockshall
Colchester Cou'chester
Davenham Dagnum
Kelvedon Kelldon
Margaretting Margretten
Mersy Island Masy Island
Mount Nissing Money's End
Toulleshunt Darcy Toussent Darcy.