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22 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
that anybody can take any name they please. It is said that a Mr .Bugg,
naturally dissatisfied with his patronymic, assumed the name of Norfolk
Howard, and then wrote to the Duke of Norfolk of that day, expressing
his hope that he did not object to what he had done. "By no means,"
Grace, " if
you do not expect me to take the name of Bugg in
replied his
return." But the association thus established between two things
so. widely
different is
not easily dissipated, for in a slang dictionary recently published
you will find " Norfolk Howard " given as the soubriquet of that exceedingly
unpleasant insect.
If Mr. Bugg had, however, been skilled in Heraldry, he would have
known that his name had an historical and not entomological significance,
being a corruption of budget or bouget, from the French word bougette, the
diminutive of bouge, a leather bag or sack, the Gaelic word being builg or
bolg, from whence are derived bellows and belly. The word budge
is
frequently used for a lamb's skin with the wool dressed outwardly, as we
shall see when we come to speak of furs.
These leathern bottles or bags were slung on either side of the saddle
like holsters, or hung at each end of a yoke over the shoulder, and thus
gave a name to men who discharged
a most useful
duty in those days, viz., water-bearers to the
army during the sultry marches of the Crusades.*
Many distinguished families have been proud to
bear the device of the water-bottles, indicating,
no doubt, their origin, upon their shields, amongst
many others the family of Bourchier, who formerly
lived at Beningbrough, near York, whose arms
were " Argent a cross engrailed gules between
"four water-bougets sable "f; Roos, whose arms
are to be found in many places in stone and glass
through the Minster, " viz., Gules three water-
" bougets argent." Planche, in his Pursuivaunt of
Anns, says that a member of the family of
De Roos, or probably a member of a family
de Roos, i.e., of Roos, a village in Holderness,
married the daughter and heiress of Trusbut,
Baron of Wartre in Holderness, who bore " Trois
" " boutes d'eau as his arms, which with the heiress
passed to
her husband.
*
Upon the font in Hook Norton Church there is a rude sculpture
which shews the manner in which the hottles were carried.
tin an old political song referring to the wars in France, written
about 1449, the badge of Lord Bouchier is described as " the water-
"bowge." Cotton MS., n, 23