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letters dns johannes. The female figure wore a 

 surcoat of arms, viz. quarterly per fesse indented 

 or and gules. Underneath were the letters dne 

 ISABELLA.. The arms of the lady are those of 

 •Leighton, but the MS. pedigrees I possess of the 

 family do not give me any alliance corresponding. 

 My query is, who are parties represented ? 



W. A. Leighton. 

 Shrewsbury. 



River Jordax. — Has any route been conjec- 

 tured for the River Jordan through Palestine, 

 before the destruction of the cities of the plain, 

 since which time it has emptied itself into the 

 Dead Sea. J. M. S. 



Kant's Wig. — 



" La perruke de Kant s'est vendu S0,000fl. k la mort 

 du philosophe, et n'a phis ^te pay^e que 1200 ecus a la 

 dernifere foire de Leipsick; ce que prouverait k mon sens, 

 que Tenthousiasme pour Kant et son ideologic diminue 

 en Allemagne. Cette perruke dans les variations de sou 

 prix pourrait etre consideree comme le tliermometre des 

 progies du systfeme de Kant." — Victor Hugo, Litterqiure 

 et Philosophie Melees, Bruxelles, 1837, t. i. p. 140. 



The date of publication is " Avrii, 1819," and it 

 is reprinted eighteen years after without any ap- 

 pearance of joke or correction of error. Is the 

 statement to be found elsewhere ? Its authenti- 

 city is, I presume, on a leyel with the sale of Sir 

 Isaac Newton's tooth noticed in "N. & Q.," P' S. 

 vii. 207. Victor Hugo, in 1819, was a young man, 

 and perhaps not very rigid in verifying historical 

 facts; for at p. 148. he says: "Louis XIV. se 

 serait cru deshonore si son valet de chambre I'eut 

 vu sans perruke ! " H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Colciiesteb. — Formerly in this venerable old 

 town used to be held a charter fair called Scald- 

 codling fair, in which the grand amusement was 

 to throw half-boiled large codling apples at one 

 another, in the same manner as snowballs, which 

 of course bespattered the individual receiving the 

 missile. Wanted to know if this relic of anti- 

 quity has now become obsolete ? 



While alluding to Colchester I might as well 

 make a Note respecting the boyhood of Daniel 

 Whittle Harvey, Esq. When under articles to 

 a solicitor there, named Daniels, the aspiring 

 youngster scrawled upon a wall this inscription : — 

 " D. W. Harvey, Esq., M.P. for Colchester* It 

 must be so." This ambitious dream was sin- 

 gularly enough verified, and I am informed the 

 inscription is still sedulously preserved. Some of 

 your Essex correspondents may probably be in a 

 position to corroborate this. Ithuriel. 



Ward of Farringdon. — Will any of your 

 numerous correspondents oblige me, if they can, 

 with a list of the aldermen of the ward of Far- 

 ringdon Without, from the time when William 

 Farendon, Citizen and Goldsmith and Sheriff in 



1281, purchased (according to Stow) " all the 

 aldermancie and the appurtenances " which An- • 

 kerirus de Avene held during his life, by grant of 

 Thomas Averne, unto the succession of Sir Francis 

 Child, Knight, to the Aldermancy in ] 689. 



T. C. N. 

 "The Cloak Knavery." — Has there been any 

 copy printed of a political ballad of the time of 

 Charles I. ? which commences — 



" Come buy my new ballett, 

 I have in my wallett, 

 But 'twill not I feare please every pallett," 



and of which the burthen is — 



" Then lett us indeaver to pull this Cloak down, 

 That crompt all the kingdome and cripled the Crown." 



(I do not perceive the meaning of the word 

 " crompt " *, but It is plainly so written twice in 

 the MS. before me.) 



It consists of eleven stanzas, each of eight verses, 

 besides the burthen ; and the second point? nearly 

 to the time of its composition : — 



" lie tell you in briefe 

 A story of grief. 

 Which happned whenCloake was commander in chief, — 

 It tore Common Prayers, 

 Imprisoned Lord Mayors, 

 In one day it voted down Prelates and Players, 

 It made people perjurd in point of obedience. 

 And the Covenant did cut off the Oath of Allegiance." 



John Gough Nichols. 

 Kentish Mij-ler. — About the year 1815, as 

 near as I can remember, an account of a Kentish 

 miller's funeral was given in the papers. He left 

 handsome legacies to his executors, on condition 

 that they should bury him under the mill, and 

 place the following epitaph, his own composition^ 

 above him : — 



"Underneath this ancient mill 

 Lies the body of poor Will ; 

 Odd he lived and odd he died. 

 And at his funeral nobody cried. 

 Where he's gone and how he fares, 

 Nobody knows and nobody cares." 



The last two lines are much older than the 

 miller. I am told that there is a Latin original, 

 which I shall be glad to see, and also to have 

 some reference to the story, and the means of 

 knowing whether it Is true, or a newspaper fic- 

 tion. Names and localities were fully given, but 

 I have forgotten them. Senbx. 



Marquis de Sabran. — Upon the failure of the 

 mission of the Comte de Harcourt In favour of 

 Charles I., the French Court In 1644 sent the 

 Marquis de Sabran to convey assistance to the 

 King. It is believed that the Marquis de Sabran 

 married an English lady, and I should feel obliged 

 If any of your correspondents could inform me of 

 her name and family. P. P. 



"* r * ? Crampt. — Ed, " N. & Q."] 



