"_Hebrun_, _heburn_, are also synonymes.
"_Averie_, live-stock, as including horses, cattle, &c.
"'Calculation of what money, &c. will sustain their Majesties'
house and _averie_'--_Keith's Hist._
"'_Averia_, _averii_, 'equi, boves, jumenta, oves, ceteraque
animalia quae agriculturae inserviunt.'"--Ducange.
Skene traces this word to the low Latin, _averia_, "quhilk signifies
ane beast." According to Spelman, the Northumbrians call a horse
_aver_ or _afer_.
See much more learned disquisition on the origin of these evidently
congenerous words under the term _Arage_, in Jamieson.
EMDEE.
_Mowbray Coheirs_ (No. 14. p. 213.).--Your correspondent "G." may
obtain a clue to his researches on reference to the _private_ act
of parliament of the 19th Henry VII., No. 7., intituled, "An Act for
Confirmation of a Partition of Lands made between _William_ Marquis
Barkley and Thomas Earl of Surrey."--Vide _Statutes at Large_.
W.H. LAMMIN.
_Spurious Letter of Sir R. Walpole_ (No. 19. p. 304.)--"P.C.S.S."
(No. 20. p. 321.) and "LORD BRAYBROOKE" (No. 21. p. 336.) will find
their opinion of the letter being spurious confirmed by the appendix
to _Lord Hervey's Memoirs_, (vol. ii. p. 582.), and the editor's
note, which proves the inaccuracy of the circumstances on which the
inventor of the letter founded his fabrication.
Pages:
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55