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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Akmorial Queries.— Could any of your cor- 

 respondents oblige me with the names to vvliich 

 the foUowinrr arms, on seals in my possession, are 

 attached. Kos. 1. and 2. are especially curious, 

 the latter being very old : — 



1. Arms. Argent (no tincture engraved) 3 cres- 

 cents barry wavy of 6 azure and argent a 



mullet for diflF. 



Surmounting an esquire's helmet. 

 Crest. On a wreath a stork, heron, or crane 

 rising.* 

 MoUo. " Velis et remis." 



2. No tinctures. On a mound three ears of 

 barley with leaves. 



A knight's helmet. 



Crest. A demi-knight in armour, imperially 

 crowned, and holding in his dexter hand an up- 

 rijrht rod, wreathed above the hand with two sprigs 

 of laurel. 



iST.B. This is a very old seal (cornelian), and 

 is remarkable from the upper portion of the hel- 

 met having been erased to make room for the crest. 



3. Crest. Out of a mural crown, a lion's jamb. 



4. Arms. No tinctures. A cross flory (?) on a 

 chief, 3 oval buckles.f 



Crest. On a mural crown a talbot passant. 



5. C7-est. A man mowing with a scythe ppr. 

 Motto. "Pinkerton of Paledown, the master 



mows his own meadow." | 



6. Arms. (Tinctures uncertain, except of the 

 chevron.) On a chevron or, between 3 fleurs-de- 

 lys, 3 estoiles. 



Crest. A stag courant regardant. 



Spalatro. 



Council OF Ireland. — Where, beside what is 

 contained in the English Privy Council "Proceed- 

 ings and Ordinances," and the Irish Record Com- 

 mission publications, can I find matter bearing on 

 the history of the King's Council (as distinguished 

 from the specially-summoned councils of Mag- 

 nates) in Ireland ? James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



Blakiston or Blackstonb Family. — I shall 

 be very much obliged for any particulars of mem- 

 bers of this family, who do not appear in the 

 pedigrees printed in Surtees's History of Durham. 



In particulai", I wish to obtain information re- 

 specting George Blakiston of Stapleton-on-Tees, 

 CO. York, and of Houghall near T~»»"-^«»' ^^^ 

 married in 1654, Mary, duugnter of Sir John 

 Bourchier of iJeuulugburough, and was grand- 

 father to Sir Matthew Blakiston, Lord Mayor of 

 London. 



In Harl. MS. 1040. is the funeral certificate of 

 •'.Mr. Richard Blackstone of Goodure in the parish 

 of Hornechurch, co. Essex, buried 5 Sept. 1638." 

 The arms there given are those of Blakiston, 



[• Hayues of Hackney. 



J nikington of Tore. 



t Carter? 

 See Burke's Armory. — Ed.] 



quartering Surtees, a trefoil for difference. I can 

 find no connexion between these families in the 

 printed pedigrees. Can you assist me ? 



C. J. Robinson, M.A. 

 Sevenoaks, Kent, 



Antigallican Backstays. — In trade winds, 

 extra backstays are sometimes used to support or 

 "stay" ships' masts. These are called antigallican 

 backstays. Why ? Ravensbourne. 



CocKPENNY. — Can any of your Lancashire 

 readers inform me what is the derivation of this 

 word ? I find that in many of the grammar 

 schools of Lancashire (Cartmel, for example), the 

 scholars, for their teaching, are expected to make 

 present of " a cockpenny at Shrovetide." J. KK. 



Armorial. — The following are three quarters 

 from an old seal ; the tinctures are undistinguish- 

 able. What families do they belong to ? 



1. Three pallets, surmounted of a chevronel : 

 on a chief a crescent between two mullets. 



2. A cross-moline between 4 crescents. 



3. On a chevron 3 billets. Sigma Theta. 



!N"ipa Palm, is the Nipa trecticans, now grow- 

 ing in the Sunderbunds at the mouth of the 

 Ganges, and the nuts of which are found in the 

 tertiary formation at the mouth of the Thames, 

 and occasionally dredged up in that river. Is this 

 palm a native of any other country than the above 

 shores of the Indian Ocean ? F. C. B. 



Norwich. 



H. Mure. — In the Gent. Magazine for Aug. 

 1794, p. 771., is announced the death of Hutchin- 

 son Mure, Esq., " of a broken heart in conse- 

 quence of the unfortunate state of his aflairs.: 

 late partner with Mr. Atkinson, the great rum 

 contractor, on whose death in 1785 should have 

 been taken out the Commission not taken till 

 lately." Can any of your readers tell me what was 

 the history of this affair ? It seems to have been 

 well-known at the time. D. 



" WiSMAR." — Who is the author of this tra- 

 gedy, 8vo. 1830? X. Y. 



Thomas Mohun Lyte. — Can any one oblige by 

 saying who was the father and grandfather of 

 Thomas Mohun Lyte, who married Anna Maria 

 Oliver, and was father of the Rev. H. F. Lyte, 

 A.M. ? H. L. 



God's acre. — vjan you, or one oi j^^^ 



spondents, inform me by whom the term " God's 

 Acre," as applied to a churchyard, was first used 

 in English literature ? 



It appears in the writings of Longfellow, who 

 seems to have adopted it from the German ; but 

 I have some doubts whether it had not been pre- 

 viously used by one of our early writers — George 

 Herbert for instance. Saxok. 



