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Flectatas sagittns may be translated arrows 

 ready dressed, or fletched. A fiecher is one who 

 fashions and prepares arrows ; hence the common 

 use of the word as a proper name now-a-days. 



H. G. R. 



Preston. 



Ruffles, when room (Vol. v,, p. 12.). — These ap- 

 pendages to our ancient costume were originally 

 termed handruffs. They may be traced in some 

 of our early jnonumental effigies. The earliest 

 written notice of them, that I remember, is in 

 the following extract from an inventory of 

 Henry VIII.'s apparel quoted by Strutt : 



" One ])ayer of sieves, passed over the arme with 

 gold and silver, quilted with black silk, and rvffled at 

 the hand with strawberry leaves and flowers of gold, 

 embroidered with black silk." 



In the reign of Elizabeth, the handrvffs are 

 seen pleated and edged with rich lace ; and in the 

 three succeeding reigns, they were generally worn 

 of fine lawn or cambric. When the Hanoverian 

 race ascended the English throne, many changes 

 took place in the national costume ; but the riiffle 

 was retained, and continued during the century. 



Some of your readers may recollect the print of 

 Garrick's Macbeth, with cocked hat of the last 

 London cut, bag-wig, full court dress and ruffles ! 



In 1762, the rage for large ruffles was beginning 

 to decline. A writer in the London Chronicle for 

 that year (p. 167.) says (speaking of the gentle- 

 men's dress) : — 



" Their cuffs cover entirely their wrists, and only 

 the edffe of their ruffles are to be seen ; as if they lived 

 in the slovenly days of Lycurgus, when every one was 

 ashamed to show clean linen." 



The French Revolution of 1789 very much 

 influenced the English fashions in costume ; the 

 cocked-hat and ruffles were discarded to make 

 room for the ugly " round hat" and "small cuffs" 

 of the Parisian butchers. 



It would be difficult to fix upon the period for 

 the total disuse of any particular fashion. Fashions 

 of a " hundred years ago " may still be seen in 

 some of our country churches ; and I should not 

 be surprised to find ruffles among their number. 

 Edward F. Rimbault. 



Allen of Rossull (Vol. v., p. 11.). — There seems 

 some little doubt about the arms of Allen of Rossull. 

 A MS. at Burton Constable, Yorkshire, gives the 

 following as the arms of the family : — Allen, RossaZZ 

 (not RossmZ/, though sometimes Rushall, Rossal, 

 &c.) : argent, a chevron engrailed azure, between 

 three griffins' heads erased ; on a chief of the se- 

 cond an anchor, or, between two bezants. 



The windows of Ushaw College, Durham, how- 

 ever, frequently present a coat far different from 

 this, surmounted by a cardinal's hat. The arms 

 there are Argent, a cross gules for the college of 

 Douay ; — impaling for the founder, William Allen, 



argent, three conies in pale sejant, sable. The 

 first seems to have belonged to the family ; the 

 last — if assumed by the cardinal himself — seem 

 singularly indicative of his peculiar propensity for 

 endeavouring to undermine sound doctrine by his 

 heretical works and acts. G. S. A. 



Serjeants^ Rings (Vol. v., pp. 59. 92. 110.). — 

 The happiest motto which comes to my recollection 

 is that adopted by the first Serjeants who were 

 called after the decision of the Court of Common 

 Pleas in January, 1840, overturning the warrant 

 Issued by King William IV., which opened the 

 court to all members of the bar. Five new Ser- 

 jeants were then called, who gave rings with this 

 motto, in allusion to the restoration of their 

 rights : — 



" Honor nomenque manebunt." 



Is your correspondent E. N. W. right as to 

 Serjeant Onslow's motto? As all the Serjeants 

 called at the same time have the same motto in- 

 scribed on the rings they respectively give, it is 

 not likely, if others were joined in the same call 

 with him, that a motto should have been adopted 

 which applied only to one of the number. If in- 

 deed he happened to be called alone. It is possible 

 he may have used it ; but I am inclined to think 

 E. N. W. has confounded the motto i/ the family 

 with that of the Serjeant. Edwabd Foss. 



Clerical Members of Parliament (Vol. v., p. 11.). 

 — John Home Tooke, the reformer, who was in 

 priest's orders, having been presented to the 

 borough of Old Sarum by Lord Camelford, in 

 February, 1801, an act was passed (41 Geo. III. 

 c. 73.) to exclude the clergy from parliament ; but 

 as it did not vacate the seat of any member then 

 elected, Mr. Tooke remained In the house till the 

 dissolution in June, 1802. In the course of the 

 debate, the case of Mr. Edward Rushworth, 

 member for Newport, in the Isle of Wight, in 

 1784, was referred to. He was in deacon's orders, 

 and a petition presented against his return, but 

 was allowed to retain his seat. He is supposed to 

 have been one of the two ministers of the Church 

 of England alluded to by Sir James Johnstone in 

 his speech in the debate on the Test and Corpora- 

 tion Acts, 8th May, 1789, as then being members 

 of the House. W. S. S. 



Cabal (Vol. iv., pp. 443. 507.). — The following 

 extract from a curious book in my possession, 

 entitled Theophania; or severall Modern His- 

 tories represented by way of Romance (see " N. 

 & Q." Vol. i., p. 174.), shows a much earlier use 

 of this word than that of Burnet's. The date of 

 Theophania is 1655 : 



" He was at length taken prisoner, and, as a sure 

 token of an entire victory, sent with a strong guard into 

 Sicily; where Glaucus and Pausanias, fearing time might 

 mitigate the queen's indignation, caused his process to 



