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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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Fastolf Family (2°'' S. iii. 243, 244.) — Your 

 correspondent E. S. Tatlor mentions the remark- 

 able difference in the bearings of the Norfolk and 

 Suffolk families of the name of Fastolf, and re- 

 quests information thereon. But is he sure that 

 so great a difference really existed ? Parkins 

 says (Blomefield and Parkins' Norfolk^ vol. xi. 

 p. 205.) : — 



" In the church of St. Margaret of Ipswich, about 200 

 years past, were to be seen the arms of Fastolf of Suffolk ; 

 quarterly, or and azure, on a bend, gules, three escallops 

 argent." 



And eight lines below : 



" The Norfolk family for distinction bore on their bend 

 three crosslets or." 



Mb. Taylor will find other notices of the Fas- 

 tolf arms in vol. ii. p. 544., and vol. v. p. 390. of 

 the same work. 



My interest in the matter arises from the fact 

 that I find Thomas Fastolf, Bishop of St. David's, 

 described in Wright's Heylyn as " parson of Fe- 

 kenham, Norfolk;" from which I conclude that 

 he was a member of that ancient family. I there- 

 fore, like Mr, Taylor, would be glad of informa- 

 tion on the subject of their arms or pedigree. 



W. K. R. Bedford. 



Sutton Coldfield. 



Education of the Peasantry (2'"i S. iii. 87. 278.) 

 — In furtherance of the teaching of Vryan 

 Rheged I would suggest to Viator that a " right- 

 handed " law must be adopted, and as far as pos- 

 sible enforced. 



In the " city " of this metropolis a pedestrian 

 rule is especially well adhered to, of passing all 

 who are going in an opposite direction to one's 

 left ; and yet the footways in some places are 

 sometimes very much obstructed, and few (in 

 London) will venture to walk, on the carriage- 

 ways. 



Although I believe it is only a custom of the 

 citizens upheld by the convenience of a common 

 understanding, I think it may have had another 

 reason in its origin, it being the reverse (in Eng- 

 land) of the rule kept in driving — those walking 

 next the curbstones on either side of the street 

 are going in the direction of the carriages, and 

 London is so generally muddy (even when the 

 scavengers have not left a margin of mud to lie in 

 the gutters all day) that the less chance of being 

 splashed is no small advantage. 



On London Bridge a new rule is carried out by 

 the police, that heavy carts and teams of horses 

 driven without reins, and therefore by men walk- 

 ing, keep next to the curbstones each way to 

 facilitate the crowded trafiic of our free bridge, 

 which it does, and also prevents the mud splash- 

 ing on the foot passengers. 



Another reason of our rules being established is, 

 that in the vicinity of city business but few ladies 



are to be found on foot, and one can give the wall 

 now and then by another rule equally well under- 

 stood. Shanks' Mabe. 



London. 



Particulars wanted respecting Hartlib. — (2"^ S. 

 iii. 248.) — 



" Hartlib's letters to Worthington are transcribed by 

 Baker in a volume of his MSS. which is now in the Cam- 

 bridge University Library, and forms Vol. VI. of the 

 Baker MSS. there, and extend from page 193. to 262. in- 

 clusive. From them some extracts were given in Ken- 

 nett's Register, pages 8G8 — 872. I have a transcript of 

 the whole of these letters in the handwriting of Isaac 

 Reed, and another made for Dr. Lort, both of whom ap- 

 pear to have contemplated the publication of them. Dr. 

 Lort observes, with great truth, that they give an excel- 

 lent account of the state of learning at the time when 

 they were written. Twenty-four to Hartlib from Wor- 

 thington were published in Worthington's Miscellanies, 

 and serve to complete this useful and important body of 

 correspondence. 



" In the present publication, the whole of these mate- 

 rials have been thrown into a consecutive chronological 

 series. The MS. in the Harleian Collection forms the 

 staple of the work, and the insertions from other MSS. 

 and printed sources are indicated b}' marginal references. 



" The length of the present (first) volume has rendered 

 it necessary to postpone the Editor's notice of the Lives 

 of Worthington, Hartlib, and Dury, which was intended to 

 have been prefixed to it, until the publication of the con- 

 cluding portion of the work." — From The Diary and 

 Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington, Master of Jesus 

 College, Cambridge, Vice-Chancellor of the University of 

 Cambridge, &c. &c. From the Baker MSS. in the British 

 Museum and the Cambridge University Library, and 

 other sources. Edited by James Crossley, Esq. Printed 

 for the Chetham Society. 



Two volumes have been printed of this rich re- 

 pository of the history of English literature, which 

 I should have much pleasure in sending to Dr. 

 RiMBAULT for his perusal. In the fifth volume of 

 Boyle's Works will be found another series of 

 Hartlib's Letters, pp. 256—296. 



BiBLioTUECAR. Chetham. 



Writing rvith the Foot (2""^ S. iii. 226. 271.)— We 

 have had an instance of foot-writing long since 

 Roger Clarke of 1563. In 1806 was born Cesar 

 Ducornet at Lille, who not only wrote excellently 

 with his foot (which by the bye had only four 

 toes), but even painted tolerably ; he died April 

 27, 1856. This man had no hands. 



There was an instance of a similar kind at Cog- 

 geshall in Essex. A man of the name of Carter 

 was so thoroughly paralysed, that he had quite 

 lost the use of his hands, and was obliged to lie in 

 a recumbent position on his back. He partly 

 supported himself by his beautiful drawings, which 

 be did with his mouth. He could copy an old 

 woodcut or plate, so that you might almost take 

 it for the original. He drew the title-page to 

 Albert Durer's small Passion ; which was cut on 

 wood and printed, and was singularly accurate. 

 I have myself seen him at his work. J. C. J. 



