_Daysman_ (No. 12. p. 188.)-- It seems to me that a preferable etymology may be found to that given by Nares and Jacob. The arbiter or judge might formerly have occupied a _dais_ or _lit de justice_, or he might have been selected from those entitled to sit on the raised parts of the courts of law, i.e. jurisconsulti, or barristers as we call them. I have heard another etymology, which however I do not favour, that the arbiter, chosen from men of the same rank as the disputants, should be paid for loss of his day's work. GEORGE OLIVER. Perhaps the following may be of some use in clearing up this point. In the _Graphic Illustrator_, a literary and antiquarian miscellany edited by E.W. Brayley, London, 1834, at p. 14, towards the end of an article on the Tudor Style of Architecture, signed T.M. is the following:-- "This room (talking of the great halls in old manor-houses) was in every manor-house a necessary appendage for holding 'the court,' the services belonging to which are equally denominated 'the homage,' with those of the king's palace. The _dais_, or raised part of the _upper end_ of the hall, _was so called_, from the administration of justice. A _dais-man_ is still a popular term for an arbitrator in the North, and _Domesday-Book_ (with the name of which I suppose every one to be familiar) is known to be a list of manor-houses." C.D. LAMONT. Greenock. [Our correspondents will probably find some confirmation of their ingenious suggestion in the following passage from _The Vision of Piers Ploughman_:-- "And at the day of dome At the heighe deys sitte." Ll. 4898-9. ed. Wright.] _Saveguard_.--"BURIENSIS" (No. 13. p. 202.) is informed that a _saveguard_ was an article of dress worn by women, some fifty or sixty years ago, over the skirts of their gowns when riding on horseback, chiefly when they sat on pillions, on a _double horse_, as it was called. It was a sort of outside petticoat, usually made of serge, linsey-wolsey, or some other strong material: and its use was to _guard_ the gown from injury by the dirt of the (then very dirty) roads. It was succeeded by the well-known riding-habit; though I have seen it used on a side-siddle by a rider who did not possess the more modern dress. P.H.F. Amongst the bequests to the Clothworkers' Company of London is one by Barbara Burnell, by will dated 27th June, 1630, wherein she directs the company to bestow 4l. 6s. yearly in woollen cloth to make six waistcoats and six _safeguards_ for six poor women.[17]