_Nattochiis and Calchanti_ (Vol. ix., pp. 36. 84.).--The former of these
words being sometimes spelt _natthocouks_ in the same deed, shows the
ignorance or carelessness of the scribe, the reading being clearly corrupt;
I would suggest _cottagiis_, cottages, and by "g^anis" I should understand
not _granis_, as F.S.A. supposes, but _gardinis_, gardens. The line will
then run thus:
"Cum omnibus gardinis et cottagiis adjacentibus."
It will be seen that this differs from the solution proposed by MR. THRUPP
(p. 84.).
With respect to the latter word, _calchanti_, I regret that I cannot offer
a satisfactory solution. Possibly the word intended may have been
_calcanthi_, copperas, vitriol, or the water of copper or brass; but I find
in the _Index Alter_ of Ainsworth, the word--
"CALECANTUM. A kind of earth like salt, of a binding nature. _Puto pro
Chalcanthum, Vitriol, L._"
Will this tally with the circumstances of the case? I presume that the
words _liquor_, _mineral_, &c., following _calchanti_ in the grant, are
contractions for the genitive plural of those words; the subject of the
grant being the tithes of all those substances.