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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n'* S. X. Sept. 22. '60. 



yearly into his exchequer 601. for all services. 

 By a second charter he gave them the church of 

 St. John Baptist, of New Windsor, with his 

 chapel of Old Windsor, and the church of All 

 Saints in Hertford, as also the churches of Alri- 

 chesey and Nasing. Other charters (all in the 

 Appendix) are of the manors of Thorndon and 

 Theydon Boyl, and the churches of Badburgeham, 

 Kateram, Gaist and Gaisthorp, and the third 

 part of that of Nortone, Hartford, and Sude- 

 campes. 



The gross income of this abbey, 26 Henry 

 Vni., was 1079?. 12s. Id., and the clear revenue 

 900Z. 4s. 3d. R. F. Sketchley. 



Marshal Due de Berwick (2°'^ S. x. 108. 

 174.) — In a former communication to " N. & Q." 

 (2°* S. ii. 296.) I mentioned the arms of Fitz 

 James as given by W. K. R. Bedford as above, 

 with the addition of the motto, which he has not 

 given. It was Ortu et Honore, F. C. H. 



Arms (2°'> S. ix.484.)— 



2. Sable, a cross flory argent. 



Burke gives to family, name of Favencourt. 



R. J. F. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



The Fables of Babrius. In Two Parts. Translated 

 into English Verse from the Text of Sir G. C. Lewis. Sy 

 the Rev. James Davies, M.A., some time Scholar of Lin- 

 coln College, Oxford. (Lock wood & Co.) 



This may be said to be another attempt to efface from 

 our minds the stereotyped error that it is to Jisop, and 

 not to Babrius, that we owe the collection of Fables which 

 charmed our youth. In 1844, M. Minoides Menas, the 

 learned Greek, found in the convent of St, Laura, on 

 Mount Athos, a MS. of Babrius, supposed to be of the 

 tenth centurj', lost in the Middle Ages: and the same 

 was, after the publication of several Continental editions, 

 given to English scholars under the masterly editorship 

 of Sir George Cornwall Lewis. From the appearance of 

 that edition may be dated the restitution to Babrius of 

 the literary honour so long usurped throughout the litera- 

 ture of Europe by iEsop. The little volume now before 

 us is based upon Sir G. C. Lewis's edition ; and after a 

 Preface, in which the history of Babrius and his writings 

 is treated of with much learning and ingenuit}', contains 

 a poetical version of his Fables ; in which Mr. Davies has 

 endeavoured, and very successfully, to combine a literal 

 translation with the elegance and terseness of the original. 



The Life of the Blessed Virgin, together ivith the Apology 

 of the Author, now first printed. By Anthony Stafford. 

 A. New Edition, with Seven Illustrations after Overbeck. 

 (Lumley.) 



This reprint of the first edition of " The Female Glory," 

 and of the only MS. of the Apology known to be in exis- 

 tence, is a beautiful specimen of typography. It has been 

 republished in order " to show that a staunch member 

 of the English Church has written a Life of St. Mary of 

 a Catholic type, which has commanded the approval of 

 such eminent prelates as Laud and Juxon." 



On its first appearance, the " Female Glory " was vio- 

 lently attacked ; and we doubt if the beautiful Illustra- 

 tions by Overbeck which accompany the present edition, 



will save it from the like fate, from those who entertain 

 the views of its original assailants. 



Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King Jameses 

 Irish Army List (1G89). Second Edition, eidarged. By 

 John D'Alton, Esq., Barrister, 8fc. In Two Volumes. 

 (Dublin. Published by the Author for Subscribers.) 



The words " Second Edition " on the title-page of these 

 very curious volumes, and the fact of our having pointed 

 out the value of King James's Irish Army List in a gene- 

 alogical point of view, when Mr. D'Alton first gave it to 

 the public, would alone justify us in confining our present 

 notice to the fact of such second edition having been 

 called for. But as we understand that such edition is 

 already nearly exhausted, we need only congratulate Mr. 

 D'Alton on the manner in which the value of his most 

 important contribution to an important period of Irish 

 History has been recognised. 



We must dismiss in this paragraph a small parcel of 

 books somewhat akin to the volume which we have just 

 noticed. First among these, we may call the attention of 

 our friends in the West of England to the fifth and sixth 

 Parts of Tuckett's Devonshire Pedigrees recorded in the 

 Herald's Visitation of 1620, with Additions from the Har- 

 leian MSS., and the printed Collections of Westcote and 

 Pole. We may next announce the issue of the fifth Part 

 of Mr. Papworth's Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of 

 Arms belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, 

 and forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials ; 

 and, lastly, we would direct attention to a nice little 

 volume published by Messrs. Bell & Daldy, entitled A 

 Hand-book of Mottoes borne by the Nobility, Gentry, Cities, 

 Public Companies, §-c., translated and illustrated with Notes 

 and Quotations by C. N. Elvin, M.A. 



While on this subject, we may notice a report, con- 

 nected alike with genealogy and literature, which has 

 reached us, and at which all our readers will rejoice, 

 namely, the discovery of another portion of the Paston 

 Correspondence, which we understand to have been made 

 by a gentleman, to whom students of Antiquarian Litera- 

 ture owe already many and great obligations. 



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Hf.ll is 'paved with oood intentions — such was Johnson^s saying 

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