Cross House, Ilminster, Somerset.
[The memorandum in the _Horæ_ agrees with the date given in
Fabyan's _Chronicle_, p. 685., edit. 1811, viz. February 16, 1495.
Fuller, in his _Worthies_, also states that Allwyn and Warner were
sheriffs of London in the tenth year of Henry VII.]
_Mires--Somerlayes._--In the appointment of a pinder for the town of
Hunstanton, Norfolk, dated 1644, these two words occur: "No person shall
feed any _mires_ with any beast," &c. _Mire_ is clearly the same as
_meer_, i.e. the strip of unploughed ground bounding adjacent fields.
"None shall tye any of their cattle upon anothers _somerlayes_ without
leave of the owner," &c. I suppose _somerlaye_ to be the same as
_somerland_, explained by Halliwell to mean, land lying fallow during
summer. I find neither word in Forby's _Glossary_.