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>rOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n'« S. No 56., Jan. 24. '67. 



Antiquary. He supposes it to be a "salmont" 

 length, or the standard length of a salmon weir — 

 the lenj^th of a full jjrown salmon ; but bow can 

 this be ? for, in the Morte U Arthur, the knight is 

 said to be wounded in the thigh the length of a 

 sJiathmon. Of course, no man ever had a thigh 

 the length of a salmon. The passage runs thus : 



" How in the rn'ght came in an armed knight, and 

 fought with Sir Gauth, and hurt him sore in the thigh ; 

 and how Sir Gauth smote off the knight's head," 



" And when the knight saw Sir Gauth come so fiercely 

 upon him, he smote him with a foin through the thick of 

 the thigh, that the same wound was a shaftmon broad, 

 and had cut in two many veins and sinews." — Morte 

 d' Arthur, chap. 139. 



Ahthtjk Ashpitel. 



Poet's Corner. 



Gower's " Napoleon, and other Poems." — There 

 was a volume published in 1821, by a Mr. Samuel 

 Gower, entitled Napoleon, and other Poems. At 

 the end of the volume there is a list of works pre- 

 paring for the press (by the same author) on 

 various subjects : poetical, dramatic, political, &c. 

 Could you pblige me by giving the names of the 

 Poetical and Dramatic Works in this list ? * X. 

 Glasgow. 



Edridge and other early Water-Colour Artists. 

 — Can any of your readers, conversant with the 

 early history of the fine arts in England, inform 

 me where is to be found a collection of the works 

 of Edridge, a landscape and miniature painter in 

 water-colours, contemporary with Girtin, Turner, 

 and the other old worthies ? A few years since, a 

 rather large collection of them was publicly sold. 

 Were tliey much dispersed or did they fall into a 

 few hands ? They are works of much excellence, 

 and those which are fully coloured are rarely to be 

 seen. The pencil sketches are more common. 

 Also, what were the names of the early English 

 artists in water-colours, prior to Paul Sandby, 

 Hearne, Rooker, and Cozens? And where can 

 a collection, or specimen of their works, be seen ? 



J. Sewell. 

 Islington. 



Heraldic. — Can any correspondent of " N. & 

 Q." tell me to what families these arms belong ? 



1. Or, 3 trefoils sable. 



2. Barry of 15 pieces, argent and gules. 



Has No. 1 . any crest or motto ? if so, what are 

 they ? J. A. S. 



Medical Attendance on Domestics and Agricuh 

 tural Labourers. — Probably many of your readers 

 are general practitioners in medicine, and I should 

 be greatly obliged by information from chem what 

 would be a fair remuneration per head per annum 

 for medicines and attendance upon my domestic 



[• This work is not in the British Museum. — En.] 



servants and agricultural labourers. I believe 

 such arrangements are not uncommonly made by 

 respectable practitioners in rural districts. 



Vryan Rheged. 

 Pope's Letters. — In the Memoir of Pope pre- 

 fixed to the "Aldine Edition" (p. cxii.), I find 

 the following passage : — 



"Pope chose (however) to put forth the volume [of 

 his Letters'] by subscription; and having obtained a 

 sufficient number of names, it appeared both in quarto 

 and octavo, early in 1737. It was shortly after reprinted 

 in three vols, octavo, with the addition of all those letters 

 from Curll's publications which were genuine, and of 

 several never before committed to the press." 



This second publication, in three volumes 8vo., 

 I have never met with or heard of elsewhere. I 

 should be glad to know if any of your readers 

 have seen it. W. M. T. 



^^ Arminestall Countenance.'" — What is the mean- 

 ing and derivation of this phrase : it is found in 

 the Morte d" Arthur, chap. Ixxiv. : 



"Then said Morgan: 'Saw ye my brother Sir Arthur?' 

 ' Yea,' said her knight, * right well, and that ye should 

 have found, and we might have stirred from our steed: 

 for, by my Arminestall countenance, he would have 

 caused us to have fled.' " 



A. A. 



Poet's Comer. 



The Prince of Wales at Cabinet Councils and 

 in the House of Commons. — The autiior of the 

 I' History of the Life and Reign of George IV.," 

 in Lardner's Cabinet Library, speaking of the 

 Rockingham Ministry, in 1782, has the following 

 remarks : 



"The Prince of Wales's intimacy with Mr. Fox turned 

 his mind to politics. He frequently sat through a debate 

 of five hours in the House of Commons, and ivas some- 

 times present at the Cabinet Councils."— Vol. i. p. 85. 



The Prince of Wales was born August 12, 1762, 

 and, therefore, during the Rockingham adminis- 

 tration, he was less than twenty years old. It is 

 not conceivable that any person who was not a 

 responsible adviser of the Crown could have at- 

 tended meetings of the Cabinet. Is there any 

 proof that the Prince of Wales, at this, or any 

 subsequent time, was present in the House of 

 Commons, and sat through debates five hours in 

 length ? L. 



Watfs Monument. — Would any of your readers 

 be so kind as to inform me if a monument is ,%till 

 to he seen in St. Martin's Church, described by a 

 Glasgow historian, in 1736, as follows : 



" I must here make mention of Mr. William Watt, Esq., 

 our countryman, who was a taylor, and lies buried in St. 

 Martin's Church in the Fields, London, in a white marble 

 monument, adorned with seraphims, with this inscrip- 

 tion : — 



" ' Here lies, expecting a joyful resurrection, the body 

 of William Watt, Esq., taylor to his majesty, and at his 



