Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 by Various
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We may take this opportunity of noticing that the Queen's printers
have lately restored the lesser Saints' Days to the kalendar in their smaller editions of the Common Prayer. We are not aware of any other similar editions in which the kalendar appears thus complete.] _Etymology of "Daysman_."--What is the etymology of _Daysman_, which, in the Book of Job, and in some of our provincial dialects, means a mediator or arbitrator? MARK ANTONY LOWER. [NARES defines _Daysman_, an umpire or arbitrator, from his fixing a day for decision; and adds, "Mr. Todd shows that _day_ sometimes meant Judgment." Jacob, in his _Law Dictionary_, tells us, "Days-man signifies, in the North of England, an arbitrator or person chosen to determine an affair in dispute, who is called a _Dies-man_ or _Days-man_." Jacob's definition may be again illustrated from NARES:--"In Switzerland (as we are informed by Simlerus) they had some common arbitrators, or _dayesmen_, in every towne, that made a friendly composition betwixt man and man."--Burton, _Anat_.] _Roland Monoux_.--In answer to your correspondent "M", p. 137., the monumental brass in his possession is, no doubt, from the church at _Edmonton_, Middlesex. Lysons (_Environs of London_, vol. ii. p. 263.), in his description of Edmonton Church, says, "Near the door is a brass plate, with some English verses to the memory of ROLAND MONOUX (no date)." He subjoins, in a _note_, "arms--on a chevron betw. 3 oak-leaves as many bezants, on a chief 2 anchors, a market |
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