REPLY1850
Porkership
By T. R. F. (Spring Gardens)
Accept my best thanks for your ready insertion of my observations in No. 18.; but I regret to say that the printer has unfortunately made a mistake in one word, and that, as it mostly happens, the principal one, on which the gist of my illustration in regard to the Pokership depends. The error occurs in the extract from the Pipe Roll, where the word has been printed Parcario instead of Porcario; added to which the abbreviations in the other words are wanting, which renders the meaning doubtful. It should have been printed thus: —"Et [i+] li[b+]ae const Porcario de [h+]eford,"—being, *in extens…
Topics: Genealogy, Historical Customs