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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'i S. X. Oct. 6. 'GO. 



15. 

 " Down to Cas, then, they sate 

 Without any debate, 

 But how stranp;e is the game I record! 

 The Knaves soon pair'd off 

 Of all cards the scoff, 

 And in triumph the King clear'd the board. 



16. 

 " John, rubbing his ej'es. 

 At length, with surprise, 

 Dlscover'd the tricks of the crew ; 

 And gaining in sense 

 What he'd just lost in pence. 

 From the Wolves in Sheep's clothing withdrew." 



Henrt Frater. 

 {To be continued.) 



Figures in Weston Church (2°^ S. x. 108. 

 155.) — These figures are in Weston Lyziard 

 church, Stafibrdshire, and not in Weston, Shrop- 

 shire. If the arms of the female be those of Brom- 

 ley, the coat has in the glazing been reversed. 

 Harl. MSS. 1077., states : " By evidences it sholde 

 seenie that Bromleigh, Leighton, and Beysyn took 

 their arms, quarterly indented per fess, as de- 

 scended of the heires general! of Burwardesleigh." 

 Thus : Bromley, quarterly per fess indented, gu. 

 and or ; Leighton, quarterly per fess indented, or 

 and gu. ; Beysin, quarterly per fess indented, gu. 

 and or, — in the first quarter a lion passant gar- 

 dant or. • W. A. Leighton. 



Shrewsburj'. 



Yepsond (2"'' S. X. 210.) — Coles has "yeepseyi, 

 yeapsen, E. (Essex), as much as can be taken up 

 ■with both hands together." Bailey also has " A 

 yeepseuy as nxuch as can be taken up in both hands 

 together. Essex^ Neither gives the derivation ; 

 but both agree in considering it a word peculiar to 

 Essex. Query, Is it still in use, or would it be 

 now even understood in that county. 



John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



Wit (2"'' S. X. 208.) — The late Dr. Archer's 

 " wit," if it deserves to be called so, would have 

 been none the worse if he had quoted the lines 

 of Goldsmith correctly, " Man wants but little," 

 &c. Besides, it was no mark of effeminacy in a 

 stripling to wear his hair down upon his shoulders 

 at the beginning of the present century. The hair 

 was universally so worn at that period ; by men it 

 w^as gathered and tied in a queue, or put into a 

 bag, and in the case of youths it was allowed to 

 hang naturally. S. H. M. 



The story related by your correspondent C. of 

 the late Dr. Archer, reminds me of an amusing 

 version which I used to hear from the pupils of 

 an Eton Master now deceased, who would drop 

 a heap of papers from his desk, and select a cer- 

 tain Long from the class to gather them all up 



again, a task requiring a somewhat leisurely per- 

 formance. The happy moment was not to be lost, 

 and a voice from the chair would echo the poetic 

 personality — 



" Man wants but little here below, 

 Nor wants that little long." 



The aforesaid Long was of course a " Lower 

 Boy ; " we may also presume his stature justified 

 the designation, an accident which would contri- 

 bute materially to the success of the quotation. 



F. Phillott. 



Charles Martel (2"^S. x. 230.)— From Koch's 

 Tableau des Revolutions de VEurope (Table x.) 

 it appears, that the great grandfather of Charles 

 Martel was St. Arnoul, bishop of Metz, and mayor 

 of the Palace under Dagobert I. ; died 640. His 

 grandfather was Anschise, mayor of the Palace 

 under Sigebert II. ; killed in 674. His father was 

 Pepin d'Heristol, who became mayor of the Pa- 

 lace of Austrasia, and by becoming master of the 

 monarchy by the victory atTestry in 687, he took 

 the title of Duke- and Prince of the Franks ; dying 

 in 714. He had Grimoald, mayor of the Palace 

 of Neustria (assassinated in 714), by his first wife 

 Plectrude, whom he repudiated about 688 ; and 

 by his second wife, Alpaide, he had Charles Mar- 

 tel, father of Carloman and Pepin le Bref. 



T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



His ancestry will be found in Pere Anselme's 

 Histoii'e Genealogigue, etc., British Museum. 



G. V. 



Toads found in Stone (2"-* S. x. 10. 56. 135.) 

 — The following paragraph, which appeared in 

 our local papers of the 7th and 8th instant, is 

 worth placing on permanent record in the pages 

 of "N. & Q.," as there appears to be no reason to 

 doubt the fact of the discovery : — 



" Remarkahle Phenomenon. — On Fridaj' morning last 

 (August 31st.). as a party of workmen were employed at 

 the Coleorton Collier}', getting coal in a stall of that pit, 

 which is 130 yards deep, they came upon a live toad 

 which was inclosed in the middle of the bed of solid coal. 

 He was brought out of the pit by the workmen, who 

 prize him very much. How long he has reigned alone in 

 his glory it is hard to say, but to use the phrase of a 

 workman, they fancied he had been there since ' Adam ' 

 was a gentleman." 



William Kelly. 



Leicester. 



Can any correspondent from the neighbourhood 

 of Ashby-de-la-Zouch speak to the truth of the 

 above paragraph from personal observation ? As 

 if so it might tend to set at rest the doubts that 

 have been expressed by some persons as to the 

 reality of these phenomena. G. (1 .) 



Withers and Johnson (2°'^ S. x. 222.)— Dr. 

 Bliss's report upon the " peculiar rarity " of the 

 Description of Love, Sfc, induced me to look up a 

 copy which has lain by me for some time ; and I 



