May 1. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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vestments. I should be much obliged by any of 

 your correspondents favouring me with their opi- 

 nion as to the meaning of Scologlandis and Scologi, 

 which are used in the " Inquisicio"as follows : 



". . . . Qui jurati deposuerunt quod tcrre Eccle- 

 slastice de Ellon que dicuntur ie Scologlandis 



". . . . Item quod heres cujuslibet Scologi defuncti 

 intrare consuevit hereditatem suam." 



G. J. R. G. 



Ednowain ap Bradwen. — Can any of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." give me information respecting this 

 person, or the family descended from him, which 

 is supposed to have lived in North Wales during 

 the reign of Henry VII. ? His armorial badge is 

 figured in p. 250. of Enderbie's Cambria Trium- 

 phans, and is described as Gules, three snakes 

 braced, Arg. There is an ancient font in our 

 church, which, when restored to it in the year 

 1841, after having been put to vile uses for many 

 years, did bear this badge, but it does not bear it 

 now. The gentleman who undertook the direc- 

 tion of the repair of the sculpture on the font, not 

 having been inspired by the Professor of History 

 at Oxford with a due reverence for antiquities, 

 ordered Samuel Davies, a stone-mason (who is 

 still living in this town), to make the three snakes 

 as much like one dragon as he could. This he 

 attempted to do by chiselling away the head of 

 one snake, inlaying in its place the head of a 

 dragon; and making the other heads and tails 

 into legs with claws. The result of these opera- 

 tions has been a dragon of a very singular appear- 

 ance. There is a portcullis with chains sculptured 

 on one of the eight sides of the font ; and it has 

 been conjectured that the motive to the conver- 

 sion of the three snakes, braced, into a dragon, was 

 to make it appear probable that the font had been 

 presented to the church by Henry VII. Ap John. 



Wrexham. 



Mummy Wheat. — As you have afforded space 

 for a Query on " Wild Oats," you will not, I hope, 

 deny me a corner for one on Mummy Wheat. 



In the year 1840, a letter appeared in 7'Ae Times, 

 signed " Martin Farquhar Tupper," which detailed 

 minutely the sowing, growing, and gathering of 

 some mummy wheat. Mr. Tupper, it seems, had 

 received the grains of wheat from Mr. Pettigrew, 

 who had them from Sir Gardner Wilkinson, by 

 whom they were found on opening an ancient 

 tomb in the Thebald. Mr. Tupper took great 

 pains to secure the identity of the seed, and had 

 no doubt that he had gathered the product of a 

 grain preserved since the time of the Pharaohs. 

 The long vitality of seeds has been a popular be- 

 lief; I was therefore surprised to find that that 

 interesting fact is now pronounced to be no fact 

 at all. It appears, in The Year- Book of Facts for 

 1852, that Prof. Henslowe stated to the British 

 Association, that " the instances of plants growing 



from seeds found in mummies were all erroneous." 

 Can any one tell me how this has been proved ? 



H. W. G, 



Elgin. 



The Trusty Servant at Winchester. — The sin- 

 gular emblematic picture of a " Trusty Servant^" 

 in the vestibule of the kitchen of Winchester Col- 

 lege, is too well known to require a description. 

 I remember once hearing a gentleman refer to 

 some author as giving a description of a similar 

 figure, and speakmg of such representations as of 

 great antiquity. Unfortunately I took no note of 

 it at the time, and I now hope to recover the 

 reference by a query ; and shall feel obliged to 

 any of your correspondents who may be able to 

 furnish me with an answer : " Who was the author 

 referred to?" M. Y. R. W. 



Anecdote. — Can you tell me the names of the 

 clergyman and noble lord referred to in the fol- 

 lowing anecdote ? 



" A noble lord distinguished for a total neglect of 

 religion, and who, boasting the superior excellence of 

 some water-works which he had invented and con- 

 structed, added, that after having been so useful to 

 mankind, he expected to be very comfortable in the 

 next world, notwithstanding his ridicule and disbelief 

 of religion. ' Ah,' replied the clergyman, ' if you 

 mean to be comfortable there, you must take your water- 

 works along with you.' " — Daniel's Sports, Supplement, 

 p. 305. 



H. N. E. 



St. Augustine. — What is the best edition of his 

 Confessions. Dupin mentions his six Treatises on 

 Man. Do these exist, and do they appear In any 

 edition of St. Augustine's works ? E. A. H. L. 



Ghost — Evidence of one not received. — In Acker- 

 man's Repository, Nov. 1820, is a short account of 

 a remarkable instance of a person being tried ou 

 the pretended evidence of a ghost. A farmer ou 

 his return from the market at Southam, co. War- 

 wick, was murdered. The next morning a man 

 called upon the farmer's wife, and related how on 

 the previous night, as he lay in bed, quite^ awake^ 

 her husband's ghost had appeared to him, and 

 after showing him several stabs on his body, had 

 told him that he was murdered by a certain per- 

 son, and his corpse thrown into a certain marl-pit. 

 A search was instituted, the body found in the pit, 

 and the wounds on the body of the deceased were 

 exactly in the parts described by the pretended 

 dreamer ; the person who was mentioned was 

 committed for trial on violent suspicion of murder^ 

 and the trial came on at Warwick before Lord 

 Chief Justice Raymond. The jury would have 

 convicted the prisoner as rashly as the magistrate 

 had committed him, but for the interposition of 

 the judge, who told them that he did not put any 

 credit in the pretended ghost story, since the pri- 

 soner was a man of unblemished reputation, and 



