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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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still it is in itself, strictly, neither more nor less 

 than the object of pursuit. Again : 



" How you shal undo a harte. 



" , . . . take the midriffe from both sides and so, like 

 a huntsman, make up the umbles with all of them to- 

 gether,- only keep the lightes uppon the shinne and bid 

 (bide) the querre .... taking out the tongue and the 

 braines, laying them with the lightes, the smal guts, and 

 the blood, uppon the shinne, to rewarde the houndes, 

 which is called the querry." 



This last use of the term, as it seems to me, is 

 secondary and accidental, and an arbitrary appli- 

 cation of the original by huntsmen ; it is that part 

 of the querre or quarry destined for the hounds ; 

 while the primary meaning of the term is the 

 object sought for or hunted, the game, the 

 chase. 



As I find then that the hounds' perquisites, in- 

 dicated by the French curce, is in English identical 

 with the querre, or quarry, or object of pursuit, 

 queri ; and as I find no French word, of a similar 

 form, from which curee could naturally have been 

 derived ; and since qu and c are used somewhat 

 indifferently in old French ; — I have little dif- 

 ficulty in believing that as the modern quarry is 

 unquestionably identical with the old querre, so 

 the French curee is identical with queri, the past 

 participle of querir. 



I do not think there can be a doubt that our 

 word "qicarry" meant, primarily, the object of 

 pursuit ; technically and subordinately the reward 

 given to the hounds ; and that it came to mean 

 generally the hunted animal, alive or dead. 



I cannot therefore subscribe to Mr. Keight- 

 ley's notion that the French curee is the original 

 word ; or that Corlolanus when he said that he 

 would 



" make a quarry 



With thousands of these quartered slaves," 



intended to say that he would make them a tit- 

 bit for the dogs ; or that Spenser, or indeed any 

 one, is chargeable with inaccuracy in applying the 

 term quarry, figuratively or literally, to hunted 

 game. 



With regard to the disputed passage in Mac- 

 heth, I agree with Ma. Keigutley that quarry 

 cannot be the true reading ; and I think no one 

 can read the passage in Holinshed from which 

 Shakspeare derived his material, without being 

 convinced that quarrel is the word which the poet 

 wrote, and which he uses again in this play under 

 precisely similar circumstances : 



" . . . . the chance of goodness 

 Belike our warranted quarrel." 



Act IV. Sc. 3. 



Rectory, Hereford. 



H. C. K. 



ARMS OF GROSS. 



(2°^ S. HI. 289.) 



I have lying before me impressions of two seals, 

 each containing the arms of Gross or Le Groos. 

 The larger is circular, about the size of a half- 

 crown ; siGiLLVM CAROLi LE GRos MiLiTis J Quar- 

 terly, — and — , on a bend — 3 martlets — (the 

 tinctures are not expressed). The smaller, pro- 

 bably a secretum, is oval ; sigillvm thome le 

 GROOS ; arms the same. This family was anciently 

 seated at Sloley In Norfolk, and copious notices of 

 it, with a pedigree from Sir Reginald le Gross 

 (temp. Steph.) to the extinction of the family in 

 1656, with the ancient arms of the family (1137), 

 Quarterly ar. and az., on a bend sa., 3 mullets, or 

 (changed apparently in 1440 to martlets), are 

 given In Original Papers of the Norfolk and Nor- 

 wich Archceological Society, vol. Hi. pp. 88 — 93., 

 and communicated by the Rev. William Tylney 

 Spurdens. The seals given above are those of 

 Sir Charles le Groo?, or Gros, Knt., High Sheriff 

 of Norfolk, A.D. 1628, and Thomas le Groos, Esq., 

 of Crostwick, In the same county, 1656. There is 

 a fine altar-tomb In the church of Sloley, that of 

 Oliver Groos (will dated 1439), inarched in the 

 wall of the south aisle. 



"In the spandrils are shields of his arms (with the 

 martlets instead of the mullets) : that on the left of the 

 spectator being contained within a sort of collar of SS., 

 from which depends an eagle displayed, buckled to th6 

 collar with two mascles ; the other is surrounded by a 

 common chain ; and behind each shield passes a thong, 

 inscribed, the one — 



OLIVER : GHoos : swYer : here i lyeth : he : 

 On the other, — 



OFF : Qwoos : soul ; god : haub : mcy : and : pete." 



E. S. Taylor. 



I forward you some extracts of my MS. Ivd^x 

 Nominum, relative to this family, with the re- 

 ferences, and if they are of any use to J. K. they 

 are quite at his service. 



" Groos, iv. 267. — These appear to have been seen on 

 a gravestone in the south aisle of St. Laurence's Church 

 at Norwich, but are not described." 



" Groos le, x. 444. — These arms occur on a monument 

 in Horstead Church, in Norfolk, but are not described." 



" Gros le, v. 7. — Quarterly ar. and az. on a bend sab,, 

 3 martlets, or. This occurs on the monument in memory 

 of Richard Skottowe (who married Bridget Le Gros), on 

 the north wall of the chancel in Little Melton Church, 

 Norfolk." 



" Gros le, v. 515. — These are mentioned on marriage 

 with a White, but not described." 



" Gros le, vi. 164. — These arms are thus described; 

 Le Gros quarterly, arg. and az., on a bend sab., 3 mart- 

 lets or, impaling Turner." 



" Gros le, vi. 308. — The arms of this family are stated 

 with others to have been in the windows of Colteshall 

 Church, Norfolk." 



" Gros le, vi. 306. — The arms of this family are also 



