menial services were lighter than those of the villan, and, as already stated, were not performed by the tenant in person, or by those of his household. This tenure existed in Tynedale at the close of the thirteenth century, as appears from _Rot. Orig. 20 Edw. I._, vol. i. p. 70., where the "consuetudinem partium prædictarum" are mentioned. "A _drengage_," says Blount, in his _Fragmenta Antiquitatis_, "seems to have consisted of sixteen acres, to be ploughed, sown, and harrowed." The word _drengage_ is derived, by the Rev. Wm. Greenwell, in the glossary to his recent valuable edition of _Boldon Book_, from the Anglo-Saxon _dreogan_, to do, work, bear; the root, according to Tooke, of our English word _drudge_. _Drengage_ is, in Kelham's _Norman-French Dictionary_, explained to be "the tenure by which the _drenges_ held their lands." In Lye's _Saxon Dictionary_ I find "_Dreng_, miles, vir fortis." WM. SIDNEY GIBSON. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. [Footnote 8: Spelman says they were "E genere vassallorum non ignobilium," and such as, being at the Conquest put out of their estate, were afterwards restored.] * * * * * CHATTERTON. (Vol. vii., p. 14.) The following account of the whole of the proceedings at the inquest which was held at the Three Crows, Brook Street, Holborn, on Friday, Aug. 27, 1770, before Swinson Carter, Esq., and ten jurymen, whose names are mentioned, is from a MS. copy in my possession. I am not acquainted with any printed work which contains a report of the inquest. It is not in the large collection of Chatterton's _Works_ and _Lives_, and the innumerable newspaper and magazine cuttings, which fill several volumes, and which belonged to Mr. Haslewood; nor is it in Barrett's _Bristol_, or Herbert Croft's _Love and Madness_. "Account of the Inquest held on the body of THOMAS CHATTERTON, deceased, at the Three Crows, Brook Street, Holborn, on Friday, the 27th August, 1770, before Swinson Carter, Esq., and the following jury:--Charles Skinner, ---- Meres, John Hollier, John Park, S. G. Doran, Henry Dugdale, G. J. Hillsley, C. Sheen, E. Manley, C. Moore, ---- Nevett.