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demand from the resiants within the precincts of 

 his leet, as a contribution towards the expense of 

 his purchase, and that which he incurred in be- 

 ing obliged to claim the franchise at every eyre. 

 And the reasonableness of the demand was justi- 

 fied on the ground of the advantages gained by 

 the resiants through the purchase; one of which, 

 an exemption from attendance at his sheriff's 

 tourn, is mentioned by E. G. R. The sheriff's 

 tourn was held twice in each year within a month 

 after Easter and Michaelmas ; and all persons of 

 every rank in life who had dwelt for a year and a 

 day within the jurisdiction, except archbishops, 

 bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, and religious 

 men and women, and except resiants within the 

 jurisdiction of a private leet, were compelled to 

 attend and be sworn to their fealty and allegiance. 

 It is obvious the necessity of attendance on these 

 occasions, often at a distant part of the hundred, 

 must have been a great grievance. A summary 

 redress in all matters within the jurisdiction of 

 the court leet was another advantage to the re- 

 siants. An Old Pauline. 



Red Uniforms of English Soldiers (2"'* S. vii. 

 130. 184. 223.). — Warriors wore red coats in the 

 twelfth century. In the bard Howel ab Owain's 

 " Ode to Owain Gwynedd, King of North Wales," 

 occurs the following line : — 



" A tlijTchion j-n dut rac reit rut ri." 

 " And 'fore the King's red chief are heaped the mangled 

 throng." 



See Literature of the Kymry, by Thomas Ste- 

 phens, Llandovery, Wm. Rees; London, Longman 

 & Co., 1849, pp. 301, — a book I would recommend 

 to the perusal of those who — I wot it is in igno- 

 rance — speak slightingly of the ancient Kymry. 



Amongst this people red was the colour of 

 honour. Kynddelu, referring to bardic distinc- 

 tion, sings : 



" Gwnawd im ri ruddfeirdd o faraa 

 A rhoddi rhuddwisg am danan." 



" My prince transformed us into red bards 

 By putting red garments about us." 



Welsh markets to this day show how popular 

 this colour continues to be. 



If man symbolises rude warlike arts, and wo- 

 man refined and peaceful, what means this re- 

 cent assumption by her of the warrior's hues? Is 

 it to show us, as in a parable, the near approach of 

 that day when honour shall be transferred from arts 

 of war, and conferred upon arts of peace ? Heaven 

 speed that day's meridian ! 



Mr. Stephens says that the Welsh dragon was 

 red, "and the Saxon ivhite ; and inquires if there 

 was any connexion between that and the red and 

 white roses ? Quasre. Varlov ai> Harry. 



The uniform of the soldiers of (I believe) all the 

 old European nations is taken from the colours of 



their royal arms, as the liveries of our servants 

 are from those of our own armorial bearings. 

 Thus the arms of. England, as every one knows, 

 are gules (or red), charged with golden lions, and 

 our national uniform is red with yellow facings ; 

 in fact, the royal livery, the exceptions being only 

 for regimental distinction. So the French sol- 

 diers, under their legitimate sovereigns, derived 

 their blue coats with yellow facings from the 

 azure field and golden lilies of the Bourbon arms. 

 The bearing of the House of Hapsburgh is argent, 

 a fess gules ; the Austrian army is accordingly 

 clothed in white, horned up with red. 'The 

 Spaniards, I think, wear the Bourbon colours, 

 with a difference. Is not the Sardinian green in 

 like manner the field of their arms ? G. A. C. 



William Whately (2"'» S. vii. 69. 138.) — See 

 Mede's Life, pp. xlii. Ixvi. Ixvii.; an extract from 

 his Life in Wesley's Christian Library (1827), 

 vol. xii. p. 251. ; Clarke's Lives of Divines (1677), 

 pp. 318. 320. 332. ; Fuller's Worthies (8vo. edit.), 

 vol. iii. pp. 4. 22. Banbury was in his days famous 

 for " zeal, cheese, and cakes." (Fuller, vol. iii. 

 pp. 5, 6.) Five preachers maintained its lectures. 

 (Clarke, pp. 169. 318.) J. E. B. Mayor. 



Philosopher quoted by South (2"'' S. vii. 237.) — 

 The known maxim laid down by Aristotle {On 

 Interpretation, pt. i. ch. i.) is that referred to by 

 South (Serm. xxi.), and is thus translated by 

 Nicolaus Gruchius : — 



"Ac voces quidem signa ac notao sunt affectuum animi 

 [scripta vocum]." 



Owen does not appear to render the sense 

 clearly, as the meaning is simply that the voice 

 is the representative of the feelings, as writing is 

 the representative of the voice : — 



" "Ectti ii.iv ovv TO. ei' rp <i>Mvv, tmi/ iv t^ 'pvX'U TraOrjudnov 

 (Tu^/3oAa' Kal to. ypa<i>6fi.eva., tCjv ei> tj; </>(oi7), 



Owen's translation (i. 46.) is: — 



" TBose things, therefore, which are in the voice, are 

 symbols of the passions of the soul, and when written, are 

 symbols of the (passions) in the voice." 



T. J. Bdckton. 



Lichfield. 



Aristotle was always styled the Philosopher icar 

 e'loxVj by the Schoolmen and our early writers. 

 The quotation is from the treatise, in the Orga- 

 non, TTfpl epixTiveias, vol. i. p. 123. line 3. of the 

 excellent edition by Theodore Waitz, Phil. Dr. 

 Lipsise, 1844. ■ Philebus. 



Edinburgh. 



Feria Family (2"^ S. vii. 57.) — Can your cor- 

 respondent A. S. A. favour me with the arms of 

 the Dukes and Counts de Feria? and can he tell 

 if any member of that family, legitimate or ille- 

 gitimate, or if any one of that name (Feria) was 

 in the " Invincible Armada." Non So. 



