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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d s. VII. June 18. '59. 



places following are weekly: Paris, Turin, Madrid, 

 and all parts of France, every Thursday, the tide 

 that foUoweth after midnight. Had not Secretary 

 Nicholas some other motive for not sending this 

 letter ? W. D. H. 



The Bev. Oerald Valerian Wellesley (2"'* S. vii. 

 436.) — Dr. Wellesley was buried in the chapel of 

 the Nine Altars, at the east end of the cathedral, 

 at Durham, being the last of the Canons of that 

 cathedral church that was, or will be, burled 

 there; as all future interments within the walls 

 ■ are now forbidden. 



The following inscription is placed on a marble 

 slab, inserted in the wall, eastward of the grave : — 



" Sacred 



to the memory of 



The Honwe and Keyi Gerald Valerian Wellesley, D.D. 



fifth son of 



Garret, first Earl of Mornington, 



for twenty-one years 



Prebendary of this Cathedral Church, 



Kector of Bishop Wearmouth, in this Diocese. 



Born December 1^\ 1770. 



Died October 21", 1848. 



His mortal remains rest beneath this Tablet 



beside those of his two infant grandchildren." 



" We believe in the Resurrection of the dead, 



And the Life of the World to come. 



Amen." 



T. C. 

 Durham. 



Booksellers" Signs (2"^ S. v. 130. 466.; vi. 15. 

 353.) — Allow me to add the following, trans- 

 cribed from a neatly engraved advertisement at- 

 tached to the end leaf of an octavo volume; a 

 small medallion of "Virgil's head" surmounts this 

 inscription : — 



" This Book 



is to be sold at the Shop of 



Abraham Vandenhoeck 



and 



George Richmond, 



the sign of Virgill's Head, 



Opposite Exeter Exchange in the 



Strand." 



Where can I find any account of this bookselling 

 firm? X. A. X. 



Gas: Origin of the Word (2"^ S. vii. 298. 465.) 

 — Although Van Helmont uses the word gas 

 loosely in many senses, he certainly had an idea of 

 the existence of gases, as the following quotation 

 will show : — 



" The word gas, was first introduced into 



chemistry by Van Helmont. He seems to have intended 

 to denote by it everything which is driven off from 

 bodies in the state of vapour by heat. He divides gases 

 into 5 classes." — Thomson, System of Chemistry (1802). 



In general, I think Van Helmont used the word 

 gas to signify a spirit not capable of being coagu- 

 lated. J. A. Pn. 



Cringle ford Bells (2'"i S. vii. 451.)— -Permit 

 me to supply the correct inscriptions : 



Treble, "Anno Domini 1605." 



2nd, " +Sum. Rosa. Pulsata. Mundi. Katerina. 

 Vocata." (Black letter.) 



On the crown are four shields, each bearing a 

 chevron between three lave-pots. The stops be- 

 tween each word are very remarkable. They are 

 of 1^ in. diameter, and bear the device of two 

 birds on a tree, the whole encircled by a legend, 

 " + William ffoundor me fecit." Similar shields 

 and stops occur on a bell at Magdalen College, 

 Oxon, and are figured in Rev. W. C. Lukis' Ac- 

 count of Church Bells, plate xi. (Parker, 1837.) 



Your correspondent has communicated the in- 

 scription on the tenor, with all its faults, from 

 Blomfield. On the bell itself it reads, in Tudor 

 capitals, " Filii (sic) Dei vivi miserere nobis 

 Anno Domini 156x," but badly cast. 



John L'Estbange. 



Norwich. 



Byard (2°* S. vii. 436.) — The following may 

 probably relate to " the family " of the late Capt. 

 Sir Thomas Byard. 



In Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. ii. p. 482., 

 under the " Parish of Owston," co. York, it is 

 stated that, — 



" At a house called Skellow-hall resided Leonard 

 Byard, gentleman, in the time of James I. By Lucy 

 his wife, sister of George Holgate of Stapleton, he had 

 Captain George Byard, an officer in the parliament army, 



who married a daughter of Bury, of Grantham. 



He had no issue, and settled his estate on his wife's 

 nephew, Wm. Rokeby, who married his cousin, another 

 Bury of Grantham." 



At p. 480. : — 



"Here lyeth the body of George Byard of Skellow, 

 Esquire, who died the ninth day of January, 1660." 



Possibly the wills of the above Leonard and 

 George Byard, if such there are, at York, might 

 mention relations. Families of the name, ap- 

 parently in a humbler station of life, existed at 

 Fishlake and BInningley in Yorkshire. If a grant 

 of the arms, which are stated to be assigned to 

 the name, was ever made, some notice of it would 

 most likely be met with at the Heralds' College. 



C.J. 



Talking Fish (2"'* S. vii. 433.) — Allow me to 

 undeceive (if he really needs the process) your 

 correspondent as to the connexion between the 

 Talking Fish (which is, by the way, no fish at all) 

 and Scott's Philomythie. The book is now in my 

 hand (ed. 1616), and is neither more nor less 

 than a kind of political Gay's Fables, in which 

 animals of various kinds acutely and learnedly 

 discuss the topics of the day. Lethkediensis. 



Aldrynton (2°^ S. vii. 455.) — The remarkable 

 coincidence of names, John, Isabella, and Robert 

 H , temp. Rich. II., mentioned under the 



