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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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aware that, although some of the paraphrases 

 claimed by the Rev, Dr. Mackelvie for Michael 

 Bruce may have been written by him, and only 

 altered by Logan, others were composed, as I 

 have been informed, before either of these were 

 born, and only slightly modified by each in his 

 own way. The late Itev. Principal Lee of Edin- 

 burgh, I believe, satisfied Dr. Mackelvie of this, 

 but not till after he had published his Life of 

 Bruce in 1837. Had another edition been called 

 for, Dr. M. would in all probability have modified 

 some of his statements. The late Principal Lee 

 had acquired more correct information on such 

 points than any other of the present century ; and 

 although willing to communicate when requested, 

 has, it is understood, left behind him little to afford 

 a clue to others. W. A. 



Knights made hy Cromwell (2"^ S. viii. 18. 31.) 



— In Harl. MS. (6146.) is a trick of the arms of 

 one of Cromwell's knights : " Collonell S"" Tho. 

 Pryde knited per y^ Protector Oliver, 1657." 



Gu. on a chev. between 3 lions' heads, erased 

 arg. two eels naiant respecting each other. Crest. 

 A lion's head erased or, between two palm 

 branches disposed in orle vert. Cl. Hopper. 



Richard Pepys (2'"i S. viii. 46.) — The Richard 

 Pepys born 1643 was no doubt son of Richard 

 Pepys of Ashen in 4he county of Essex, by Mary, 

 daughter of John Scott of Water Belchamp in the 

 same county. He is said to have been a student 

 at Cambridge, but his college has not been as- 

 certained. He ultimately settled at Warfield, 

 in Berks, and died at Hackney in May, 1722. 

 The Pepys of Pembroke Hall, B.A. 1662, was 

 named Robert. C. H. & Thompson Coopee. 



Woodroof {Asperula odorata) (2""^ S. viii. 13. 35.) 



— Having carefully compared a specimen in my 

 herbarium, gathered at the Okelei Lake, in the 

 Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, province Eutin, with 

 a British one gathered at Brixton, I find that there 

 is no material difference in them, except that the 

 German Waldmeister grows in general a little 

 larger than our British woodruff. S. K. 



Inn Signs by Eminent Artists (2"*^ S. vii. 522.) — 

 The city of Norwich affords another instance in 

 addition to that given by Mb. Woodward. The 

 elder Crome, who commenced life as a house- 

 painter, painted a sign for " The Sawyers" in St. 

 Martin's. After doing duty for several years, it 

 was taken down by the owner of the house, the 

 late Peter Finch, Esq., and by him carefully pre- 

 served till the time of his death, some seven or 

 , eight months since. Mr. Finch's personalty being 

 dispersed on that event, the present writer has 

 lost all farther traces of it. T. B. B. H. 



"■Englishry" and '^ Irishry" (2"-^ S. viii. 12.)— 

 These words, employed by Lord Macaulay and 



queried by your correspondent, are terms recog- 

 nised in our language ; and both of them may be 

 found in Wright's excellent Universal Pronouncing 

 Dictionary. " L-ishry, the people of Ireland." 

 " Englishry" is the modern representative of a 

 very old word. "Englecarie, Englicherie, Engle- 

 seyre. [Old law term] the being an Englishman." 

 (Bailey, Die. Britan.) In Cowel's Law Dic- 

 tionary may be found a full account of the word 

 in its legal sense, under the various forms of 

 " Englecery, Englechery, Englechire, or Eng- 

 lishery, in Latin, Engleceria." Thomas Boys. 



Rev. Richard Lu/kin (2"* S. viii. 53.) — AVe 

 doubt not that he is identical with Richard Love- 

 kin of Jesus College, Cambridge, who commenced 

 M.A. 1615. The statement that he lived to 110 

 seems to us highly improbable. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Water7narhs in Paper (2"^ S. vi. 434. 491.; vii. 

 110, 265.) The Illustrirtes Familien- Journal 

 (Ister Band, No. 276. s. 159.) brings home to 

 Suabia the invention of making paper from linen 

 rags, and says it was first put into practice by the 

 Hollaein family of Ravensburg. The oldest docu- 

 ment on this kind of paper is dated a. d. 1301. 

 Now, as the Holbein arms bore a bull's head, we 

 find this symbol imprinted as watermark in all 

 the paper from the old Ravensburg mill. And 

 in Pomerania, in Friesland, in Paris, in Bohemia, 

 records are extant, written on this so-called bull's- 

 head-paper, the oldest linen paper existing, Faust 

 and Schoeffer used it to their first impressions. 

 On many sheets we also find a clapper or rattle, 

 such as, in olden time, the lepers carried, to warn 

 the approaching wayfarers of their dangerous 

 neighbourhood. Tliis symbol is related to the 

 Holbein Hospital for Lepers at Ravensburg, to 

 which a part was assigned in the Flatterbach 

 papermill. From the identical family sprang the 

 two painters Holbein, of whom the last became 

 one of the greatest ornaments of the German 

 School. The town of Ravensburg to this time 

 has kept on with paper-making. 



From the Navorschers Bijblad* for 1853, pp. 

 xiv. and xv., it however appears that linen-paper 

 was already known in the twelfth century. Thus 

 the question arises, does the paper from before 

 1301 exhibit a watermark ? and, if not, does not 

 the mark only denote a progress in paper-making ? 

 For, if the first query could be replied to aflirm- 

 atively, we should have the means at least to guess 



* The Navorsclier's Bijblad, or Appendix to the Navor- 

 scher, was started in 1853, in order to receive the subse- 

 quent answers to questions which had already been treated 

 in the Navorscher. Thus more room was given in the 

 mother-paper for going on with fresh subjects, and, at 

 the same time, an opportunity was opened for once more 

 reverting to an old subject and more fully elucidating 

 what had been said. 



