The North Riding Record Society, Vol. 1: For the Publication of Original Documents Relating to the North Riding of the County of York; Quarter Session Records (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The North Riding Record Society, Vol. 1: For the Publication of Original Documents Relating to the North Riding of the County of York; Quarter Session Records

It only remains to add a few words touching the Index and the principle and mode of its compilation. With every effort to compress it within reasonable limits it has still assumed undue proportions. In compliance with the requisition of the Council, no personal name has been (otherwise than accidentally, if at all) omitted. On the contrary, place names where they only occur as those 'of the residences of this or that person presented, have been systematically omitted, as matters of no sensible interest. Special local names, and the names of places where notable incidents occur, are for the most part inserted. Where ever an offence of any given kind, such as brewing without license, keeping an unlicensed alehouse, taking in an undersettle, inmate or by-tenant, not giving in the names, ages, and pay of servants engaged or retained, &c. - wherever any offence of these or other denomina tions occurs, the page in which it occurs is noted in the Index, but not the number of times in which it occurs. For instance, in p. 93, there are three cases of default of bowe and arrowes, nine of breaking the assise of ale, seven of erecting or contynuing a cottage contrary to the Statute, three of suffering play at cardes, but the reference in the Index merely indicates that an instance (or instances) of each such offence occurs (or occur) in the specified page. On the same principle, the names of the residences of the several Jurors (except when two or more of the same name occur) are not printed, economy of space in an Index that, with all possible efforts at compression, takes up nearly three sheets and a half out of the twenty-one sheets the book consists of, to the utmost allowable degree, being obviously imperative.

The words of Philological interest which occur, and the notes upon them by the Editor, must speak for themselves; and by grouping them together, all under one head in the Index, reference to them is greatly facilitated. Either from the purely Philological point of view, or from the more special Glossarial point, the interest of not a few of the words or phrases noted is instantly seen to be very great. Two or three of them even seem never before to have been recorded in any collection of words as English vocables, or forms of vocables. Such are, for instance, waver ing, javelette, and undersettle.

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