_Heronsewes_ (Vol. iii., p. 450.).--A probable derivation is given in Tyrwhitt's note on the passage in the _Squire's Tale_ from the French _heronçeaux_, which would probably, in English usage, become either _heronsewes_, or _heronshaws_. It is of course a diminutive, like "lioncel," "pennoncel," &c.