2"* S. VIII. July 16. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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which occurs in my Note on this subject. The 

 topmost candle of the triangle is not taken out till 

 the canticle Benedictus is finished. During that 

 canticle, the six candles on the altar are extin- 

 guished, one at each alternate verse. Then the 

 sole remaining light is removed from the top of 

 the triangular candlestick, and concealed behind 

 the altar, as before described. F. C. H. 



The Arrows of Harroio.—ln "N. & Q." (2"« S. 

 vii. 463.) you did me the favour to insert a com- 

 munication of mine on this subject, and as two 

 replies to J. M.'s Query have appeared in your 

 paper since which might lead many of your 

 readers to think that I was in error, I trust I 

 may be allowed to repeat that " The device or 

 ornament of the crossed arrows over thn arms was 

 added by Dr. Butler when Head Master of Har- 

 row School." 



A device consisting of crossed arrows with a 

 broken how was placed at the head of some of the 

 lists of the speakers on the speech days, instituted 

 after the discontinuance in 1771 of the shooting 

 for a silver arrow, and probably "before Dr. 

 Butler was Head Master. But what I contend 

 is, that neither these crossed arrows, nor those 

 added to the backs or sides of prize-books, were 

 considered as forming any part of the school 

 arms. I think it would be impossible to bring to 

 light any prize books before Dr. Butler's time 

 with the arms of the school, viz., " a lion ram- 

 pant," surmounted by two crossed arrows, stamped 

 on them. No one, I think, would doubt the 

 correct taste, in such a matter as this, of Mr. 

 Decimus Burton. He is the architect to the 

 governors of the school, and designed the present 

 Head Master's house, over the porch of which are 

 prominently displayed the school arms. They are 

 simply a lion rampant on a shield, with the motto 

 " Donorum Dei Dispensatio Fidelis " on a scroll 

 underneath. H. 



JEagle and Arroio (2"'' S. vi. 178. ; vii. 118.) — 



" Like a young eagle who has lent his plume, 

 To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom ; 

 See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing tlie dart, 

 Which rank Corruption destines for the heart." 

 Moore's Satire, Corruption, published 1808. 



English Bards appeared in 1809. 



T. C. Anderson, 

 H. M.'s 12th Reg. Bengal Army. 



" Sketches of Irish Political Characters. (Lond. 

 1799.) (2"" S. viii. 28.) — The author was Henry 

 M'Dougall, B.A., of Trinity College, Dublin. 



'A\l6l5s. 



Dublin. 



Salaries to Mayors (2"'* S. vi. 311.)— The 

 mayor of Berwick-on-Tweed is paid 100/. a-year, 

 and is expected to give four dinners, i. e. at the 

 quarter sessions. H* farther receives a sum of 



11. to defray the expenses of a fifth dinner given 

 to those who accompany his worship in " the 

 riding of the bounds" on the 1st of May. 



W. H. Logan. 

 Berwick. 



Celtic Remains in Jamaica (2"'* S. viii. 24.) 



The term celt, as applied to a bronze axe-head or 

 chisel, was first given by Hearne, 150 years ago; 

 and Wright {Celt, Roman, and Saxon, p. 73.), 

 advises adherence to this name in the proper 

 sense of a Roman chisel (celtis*), cautioning his 

 readers not to confound the Roman chisel with 

 the Celtic peoples. The stone implements men- 

 tioned by your correspondent may be compared 

 with Wright's engraving (p. 70.) ; and may be 

 illustrated by the passages in Joshua (v. 2.), and 

 Exodus (iv. 25.). The universality of stone im- 

 plements in ancient and modern times, over most 

 parts of the world, amongst people gradually 

 emerging out of barbarism f, precludes us from 

 considering the discovery of such in Jamaica as 

 any proof or indication whatever of the existence 

 of Celtic tribes there, which must be established, 

 if at all, by other proof more peculiar and appro- 

 priate to that race. T. J. Bcckton. 

 Lichfield. 



Stocks (2"'' S. vii. 485.) — The stocks here are 

 stationary, ranged by the side of the flight of steps 

 leading to the Town Hall. They have not been 

 used for seven or eight years. The last offender 

 on whom they were exercised was a woman. 



W. H. Logan. 



Berwick-on-Tweed. 



NOTKS ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Fabric Rolls of York Minster, with an Appendix of 

 Illustrative Documents. (Surtees Society.) 



In this volume, for which the Surtees Society and the 

 public are indebted to the able Secretary of the Society, 

 the Rev. James Raine, we have materials of the greatest 

 interest alike to the antiquary and to the architect. The 

 Fabric Rolls, which commence about 1300, and end with 

 the accoinpte of the then clerk of the works in 1639, oc- 

 cupy the lir^t 120 pages of the volume. These are fol- 

 lowed by an Appendix, containing no less than sixty-two 

 illustrative documents, many of them of the twelfth and 

 thirteenth centuries. These, like the rest of the volume, 

 are accompanied by notes full of most varied and valu- 

 able information, and are followed bj' a Glossary, an 

 Index of Names, and one of places. The volume is one 

 most creditable to the Surtees Society and to its Editor ; 

 and every reader of it will look forward with great in- 

 terest to the time when Mr. Raine will be enabled to 

 realise the pleasant hope which he holds out to us, of 

 weaving out of these materials a history of York's noble 

 Minster in a more popular form. 



* I am not aware, however, of any Latin authority for 

 this word. 



t Herodot. ii. 86. ; Ovid, Fasti, iv. 237. ; Juven. vi. 

 513. ; Ludolf, Ethiopia, iii. 1, ^ 



