_Boozy Grass._--What is the derivation of "boozy grass," which an outgoing tenant claims for his cattle? Johnson has, "Boose, a stall for a cow or ox (Saxon)."
_Gradely._--What is the meaning, origin, and usage of this word? I remember once hearing it used in Yorkshire by a man, who, speaking of a neighbour recently dead, said in a tone which implied esteem: "Aye, he was a very _gradely_ fellow."
_Hats worn by Females._--Were not the hats worn by the _females_, as represented on the Myddelton Brass, peculiar to Wales? An engraving is given in Pennant's _Tour_, 2 vols., where also may be seen the hat worn by Sir John Wynne, about 1500, apparently similar to that on the Bacon Monument, and to that worn by Bankes. A MS. copy of a similar one (made in 1635, and then called "very auntient") may be seen in the Harleian MS. No. 1971. (_Rosindale Pedigree_), though apparently not older than Elizabeth's time. With a coat of arms it was "wrought in backside work"--the meaning of which is doubtful. What is that of the motto, "Oderpi du pariver?"
"He that is courtly or gentle, is among them _like_ a merlin after Michaelmas in the field with crows."--_A Brief Character of the Low Countries_, by Owen Feltham. Folio, London, 1661.
As a confirmation of the opinion of some of your correspondents, that monosyllables give force and nature to language, the same author says, page 59., of the Dutch tongue,--
"Stevin of Bruges reckons up 2170 monosillables, which being compounded, how richly do they grace a tongue."
Will any of your correspondents kindly inform me of the titles of Owen Feltham's works. I have his _Resolves_, and a thin folio volume, 1661, printed for Anne Seile, 102 pages, containing _Lusoria, or Occasional Pieces; A Brief Character of the Low Countries_; and some _Letters_. Are these all he wrote? The poem mentioned by Mr. Kersley, beginning--
is printed among those in the volume I have, with the same remark, that it had been printed as Sir John Suckling's.
"[Greek: EIKON BASILIKAE], or, _The True Pourtraiture of His Sacred Majestæ Charles the II_. In Three Books. Beginning from his Birth, 1630, unto this present year, 1660: wherein is interwoven a compleat History of the High-born Dukes of _York_ and _Glocester_. By R.F., Esq., an eye-witness.