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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"'» S, X. Out. 27. '60. 



since they came to Portsm* and for soap &c and for the 

 Nurse & Servants Living from the third instant. And 

 for washing their Wollen Clothes and other things &c 

 ammounting to nineteen shillings & eightpence More for 

 washing since four shillings & fore pence in all fore and 

 twenty shillins." 



This receipt is signed by Hannah Vine, Ports- 

 mouth, July 20, 1729. The following day 11. 18*. 

 more was paid to Abdrahaman Shreif " for his 

 necessarys and to suply his necessitys in his 

 voyage." 



The last document is a summary of a letter, the 

 original of which is in Arabic, thus : 



" This Letter came from Portsmouth to Abdrahhaman 

 Shreif from Mustafa Shreif the Tripoly Amb" Cousen de- 

 sireing him to come away soon & not to trifle away his 

 time as haveing been long enough in Christendome he 

 writes also to me in this Letter thanking me as also the 

 rest of their Friends for the Favors & kinde usage they 

 received all of them from me and desires me to send him 

 for else he will loiter & spend his mony & his time to his 

 ruin when he had read this Letter he sent it to me y" 

 SS'* of June 1729 & told me as soon as he saw me y' he 

 would not goe to Portsmouth for he knew y* the amb'' 

 intended to poison him ; This jealousie was Lightened by 

 the nurse whose name is Moore who pretends to cast 

 coffee grounds for him in whose confidence he puts his 

 main belief; & will depend upon her as if she were his 

 godess ; he is so deep in love with her, that he frequently 

 threatens ye black woman he will kill her to make Moore 

 his wife, & have white children." 



William Heney Hakt. 

 Folkestone House, 



Eoupell Park, Streatham. 



A HERALD'S NOTE-BOOK. 



Out of the olla podrida of a herald's work book 

 (1648—1666) many a little bit of information may 

 be gleaned, many an elsewhere unrecorded fact be 

 established, or even random readings for the mil- 

 lion may be culled. In exemplification I give you, 

 hap-hazard, a few which I recently stumbled 

 upon : — 



" Lo. Protector Cromwell's Motto, Pax quair.itur bello. 



" Arms of Col. Rowe (the Regicide) of Uarlston, in the 

 parish of Hackney, impaled with those of his wife : She 



was the daur of Hodges of Bristow, ob. 18 Sept. 



1650, and was buried at Hackney. 



" Mr. Wallinges of Grey's Inn, kild with a fall from 



his horse, and bur* at S'. Andrew's, Holborne, 29 July, 

 1651. 



•' Memorandum. Ethelbert Unett runn away on fx*yday 

 morning at five a clock, being the 14 day of May, 1652, 

 and listed himselfe for the service of Ireland. 



" Work done for the funeral of S^ John Danvers, whose 

 body waS conveyed from his house at Chelsej' (26 Aprill, 

 being Thursday, 1655) to be buryed at Dantesey in Com. 

 Wilts." 



After entering an impaled coat of arms for a 

 Mrs. Stringer, of Fulwood's Rents, bur^ at Se- 

 pulchres, 23 May, 1656, he makes the following 

 conscientious addition : " by a hatchment of their 

 own, I believe both false." 



" Sir Tho. (Alderman) Vyner, being troubled with a 



fistula in his thigh, his phisician advised him to weare a 

 hares foott in his pocket, for that would cure it. Soe he 

 took two hares feete and tyed them at the wast band of 

 his breeches on each sj'de within next his shirt. And so 

 weareth them to this day, and is never troubled with the 

 paine." 



Here we have his prices for work executed : — 



" A Pedigree in a booke for the Earle of Strafford, con- 

 teining — 



£ s. d. 



1126 scocheons 28 3 



2 quire and halfe of paper - - - 12 6 

 For binding the booke - - - - 5 

 For the great arms of 80 quarterings - 2 



31 6 

 P<i Jan«. 1664" 



A bill for work at the funeral of the Lord Pro- 

 tector, Nov. 1, 1658, will be not without in- 

 terest. 



£ s. d, 

 6 great Banners at 6'' a peece - - 36 

 5 stanJars 8 yi'. long - - - - 50 

 A guidon - - - - •• -600 



12 Banner rolls 30 



13 Majesties 39 



3 large Achievements, 15" p piece - - 45 

 A coate of armes - - - --3 00 



A Target 2 



A sword 100 



Spurs - - - - - - -068 



Mantles 2 10 



Helmet 2 10 



Creast 1 10 



A great creast at the feete - - - 2 10 

 2 carved Ij'ons guilt - - - - 6 



4 pendants an ell long - - - - 6 

 for painting 2 dragons carved - - 1 

 16 crownes guilt - - - - -200 

 4 sheilds carved - - - - -60 

 for silvering and guilding 4 demy lyons - 2 

 for guilding 4 uprights - - - - 16 

 12 sattj'n scocheons - - - - 6 

 24 dozen of Taffety sco: - - - 144 

 32 dosen of Buck: - - - - 74 16 



485 2 

 Ithubiel. 



THE POONANGS, A NATION WITH TAILS. 



In the Byblad to the Vereeniging Christelt/ke 

 Stemmen for September, 1860, occurs a description 

 of the different nations inhabiting Borneo, And 

 on p. 243. of the Byilad aforesaid, I find a notice 

 respecting the tribe of the Poonangs, which, on 

 account of the singular peculiarity to which the 

 author refers, I think too remarkable for oblivion. 

 The article is inserted in a serious periodical, and 

 I have no reason whatever to doubt of its veracity. 

 It relates as follows : — 



" The Poonangs are very shy, and reside in the most 

 interior part of Borneo. And no wonder they are rarely 

 met with, for, as soon as they are frightened by the ap- 

 pearance of something out of the way, they hide behind 

 the trees, and kill every being that comes under bear of 

 their blow-pipe. They have a most ugly look.^ 



