_Suem._--Allow me to suggest to your correspondents C. W. G. (Vol. iii., p.
7.) and [Delta]. (Vol. iii., p. 75.), that _suem_ is probably a form of the
A.-S. word _seam_, a _horse-load_, and generally a _burden_. For cognates,
see Bosworth's _A.-S. Dict._ {213} I may add, that the word is written
_swun_ in a charter of Edward the Confessor, printed by Hickes in his
_Thesaurus_, vol. i. p. 159., as follows:
"--ic ann [þæt] ðridde treow. [et] [þæt] ðridde swun of ævesan ðæs
nextan wudes ðe liþ to kyngesbyrig," &c.
Which Hickes thus renders:
"Dono tertiam quamque arborem, et tertiam quamque sarcinam jumentariam
fructuum, qui nascuntur in sylva proxime ad kyngesbyrig sita," &c.