2°d S. X. Nov. 24. '60.1 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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5*, leaving large dominions to bis son prince Phillip, was 

 desirous to make him absolute in government, who 

 was now entering y« way to be supereminent in au- 

 thority. Furnishing him rather w'i» deepe counsell then 

 w"i infinite treasure. W"^ observations, many of y»" yf 

 not all not unfitting to y"" Lordship's place & wisdome, 

 though I be y" unworthiest among many to offer unto 

 3'ou, yet hapning to my view, and tendered to my reading, 

 I was desirous to p'ferre them to yC favo^ and good liking. 

 " Being fully perswaded, y* yo'' Lordship, being given 

 to ys advancement of learning, will never think amisse of 

 schollers labours, being principally devised as neere as 

 might be aimed for yo^ [Lordships] behoof. Comitting 

 myself and my labours to yo' Lordships frendly censure, 

 and favourable good meaning, 



" Yo"^ Lordships, 



" in all duty to command, 



«' Samuel Jeynens." 



Maby, Queen of Scots, A^D Douglas of 

 LocHLEVEN. — Robert Douglas, a celebrated Co- 

 venanting divine, is said, in many of the books of 

 the time, to have been a natural son of Queen 

 Mary and Douglas of Lochleven. Has this ever 

 been investigated by any writer ? or is thei'e the 

 slightest evidence in support of it ? The divine 

 left, I believe, an only son, who left one or more 

 daughters. I should like to see an accurate ver- 

 sion of the pedigree. Sigma Theta. 



Flints in the Drift. — Have any marks of 

 glacier action been discovered at Hayne ? The 

 Athenceum, 1840, p. 79, mentions boulders and 

 glacier marks in Norfolk ; and it has struck me 

 that a catastrophe like that at Martigny might 

 account for human implements, yet no human 

 bones. The country through which the " county 

 river " flows, not far from Hayne, must have un- 

 dergone great changes even within the historic pe- 

 riod. We have Klint^ Danish for cliff, at Diss, 

 where certainly there is no cliff now. This is near 

 the river, and a part of the bank of Diss Mere is 

 called the Klint in old deeds. The river must 

 have silted up considerably since the time of the 

 Danes. The appearance of that neighbourhood is 

 interesting, but difficult to read. In the vicinity 

 of the river it is much broken, though on a small 

 scale, and is well worthy the attention of a geolo- 

 gist. F. C. B. 



Armorial Book Stamps. — I think it will be 

 generally admitted that anything which adds to 

 the pleasure of an acquisition is worth considera- 

 tion. I crave the assistance of the bibliographic 

 correspondents of " N. & Q." in furtherance of an 

 object of this kind, which, without cooperation, 

 could not be achieved, and yet involves no ex- 

 pense and very little trouble. The eagerness 

 with which the magnificent specimens of book- 

 binding of the Libri Collection were purchased at 

 very high prices shows the increasing attention 

 which is paid to the tasteful decoration of book 



covers as practised by the binders attached to 

 celebrated libraries, both mediaeval and modern. 

 But besides this there are other considerations 

 which form the scope of these present remarks : I 

 mean the associations connected with the former 

 owner, which give a value to the volume quite 

 independent of its intrinsic merit. What book- 

 collector, for instance, would not feel his satisfac- 

 tion at the possession of some literary treasure 

 greatly enhanced by knowing that its pages had 

 aforetime engaged the leisure hours of De Thou 

 or Mazarin ? For want, however, of the neces- 

 sary knowledge to determine the ownership of the 

 various devices and cognisances, chiefly armorial, 

 stamped and gilt most generally on the sides of 

 the books in these princely collections, this plea- 

 sure is often lost ; and there is no manual to my 

 knowledge which would serve as a book of re- 

 ference on the subject. 



Having made heraldry (chiefly foreign) my 

 study for many years, my intention is to solicit 

 the favour of rubbings of these book-stamps where- 

 ever they are distinctive in character, and even- 

 tually to publish from these such a manual as will 

 enable a connoisseur to detect the stamp of any 

 celebrated library at once. 



The rubbings are easily taken on thin paper, 

 either with lead pencil or heel-ball, according to 

 the clearness of the stamp. 



The paper read by G. Scharf, Esq., Jun., be- 

 fore the Society of Antiquaries on the 8th Dec. 

 1859, serves to show the interest these hitherto 

 unrecorded memorials are capable of exciting. 



My collection already numbers more than 

 ninety examples, and I shall feel much obliged 

 for any assistance rendered to me in the matter. 

 In making the rubbings it is useful to write on 

 them the date and place of publication of the 

 book from which the rubbing is taken. 



A. W. MoBANT. 

 Great Yarmouth. 



Savoy and Gotha. — What is the family name 

 of the House of Savoy ? and of the House of 

 Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ? T. E. S. 



Windlesham. 



Chinese Collection. — Looking over my 

 " odds and ends " the other day, I chanced to fall 

 upon the Catalogue of the Chinese Collection ex- 

 hibited at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, 

 in 1842. Can you tell me what was the fate of 

 that wonderful assemblage of " Ten Thousand 

 Chinese Things ? " Was it dispersed by auction ? 

 If so, where, and by whom ? Centurion. 



Archbishop Juxon. — I lately saw two gold 

 cups, which the owner informed me had descended 

 to him from his ancestor Bishop Juxon. Can any 

 reader of "N. & Q." trace the descent to Bishop 

 Juxon's grandchildren from the following data : — 



On the larger cup is a shield bearing the fol- 



