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vicinity of the village of which he is styled " por- 

 tioner." He possessed also " ane toure or forti- 

 lace " in the same village (an old border bastel- 

 house, I presume), and occupied, I should fancy, 

 a similar position in society to that of our smaller 

 landed gentry of the present day. Will any of 

 your correspondents be kind enough to say whe- 

 ther I am right in my conjecture ? D. 



Son of Pascal Paoli. — It has been said there 

 never was any whitewash on any part of West- 

 minster Abbey. An old inhabitant tells nje there 

 was formerly one large patch under one of the 

 porches, which was said to hide the marks of a 

 frightful suicide. The unhappy man is stated to 

 have been the son of the celebrated Pascal Paoli ; 

 and to have blown out his brains here, but for 

 what cause my informant did not know. Can any 

 of your readers supply me with the particulars of 

 this tragic history ? A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Assumption of Arms by those who fought at 

 Agincourt. — Some time ago a correspondent, 

 whose Query I am now unable to find, asked on 

 what authority Shakspeare put the following 

 words into the mouth of Henry V. in his cele- 

 brated speech before the battle of Agincourt : — 

 " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; 

 For he, to-day that sheds his blood with me, 

 Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, 

 This day shall gentle his condition." 



Hen. v.. Act IV. So. 3. 

 I met the other day, in the course of my read- 

 ing, Avith an extract from the Ordinance of Henry 

 v., in which occur these words : — 



"Quod nullus cujuscunque status, gradtis seu condi- 

 tionis fuerit, hujusmodi arma sive tunicas armorum in se 

 sumat, nisi ipse jure antecessorio vel ex donatione ali- 

 cnjus ad hos sufficientem potestatem habentis, ea possi- 

 deat aut possidere debeat, et quod ipse arma sive tunicas 

 illas ex cujus dono obtinet, demonstrationis suae personis 

 ad hoc per nos assignatis manifeste demonstret, exceptis 

 illis qui nobiscum apud bellum de Agincourt arma porta- 

 hant," &c. 



I would here take the opportunity of repeating 

 the latter part of your correspondent's Query, as 

 to whether any families can be mentioned whose 

 founder acquired his right to coat armour from 

 having fought at Agincourt, and if any such are 

 recorded, what are their arms ? J. A. Pn. 



William Monney. — Wanted, information re- 

 specting this gentleman. He is author of Con- 

 siderations on Prisons, 1812, and Caractacus, a 

 tragedy, 1816. Z. A. 



Simon Sabba. — May I ask who was the trans- 

 lator of the following ? " J)o7^ Carlos, a Tragedy : 

 translated and altered from the German of Schil- 

 ler, and adopted for the English stage, by Simon 

 Sabba." No imprint, but apparently from the 

 Paris press. As you have ruled that " Anons " 



and " Pseuds " may rest undisturbed, or wear 

 their masks for thirty years, it is necessary to say 

 that the dedication to this is dated " Versailles, 

 1820." 



This translator of Don Carlos looms largely as 

 a dramatist, when he says that, under the influ- 

 ence of an ardent imagination and great facility 

 of composition, " I have written many theatrical 

 pieces, but as yet have not considered one of them 

 sufficiently perfect for publication, but am now 

 completing a series, which, if I have a prospect of 

 success, I shall shortly lay before my fellow coun- 

 trymen." J. O. 



Macaulay^s " Prodigal Nabob." — To whom does 

 Lord Macaulay refer, in his essay on Addison, in 

 the sentence that " he [Addison] regales us after 

 the fashion of that prodigal nabob who held that 

 there was only one good glass in a bottle." 



Glasguensis. 



Heraldic Query : Dichson^s Arms. — Can any 

 reader of" N. & Q.," learned in the old heraldry 

 of the North of England and Scotland, inform me 

 to what family the following arms (or crest?) be- 

 longed ? They exist on a small and defaced im- 

 pression of a seal, formerly affixed to a will (name 

 of testator unknown), executed in Lancashire or 

 Cheshire about 1660. 



" On a wreath, a crescent, issuing from the horns of 

 which a griffin's head erased, all between two mullets 

 (or stars ? "). 



The mullets suggest the DIcksons of the South 

 of Scotland. The arms of Dickson of Lim.erick, 

 as given by Burke, somewhat resemble the above. 



Another seal, probably of the same family as 

 the preceding (date about 1760), bears "a griffin 

 segreant in a lozenge." J. 



The King's Head near St. PauVs, and a Stew 

 in St. Martins, Queenhithe. — 22nd May, 2 & 3 

 Philip and Mary. The King and Queen granted 

 to Humfrey Browne, Knight"", licence to alienate 

 all that great or capital messuage situate in the 

 parish of St. Gregory, in the Ward of Castle Bay- 

 nard, London, called the Kingeshedde, and lately 

 called the Sarsyn's hedde, to Hugh Pope. — Rot. 

 Par. de A°. pt. 6. 



19 June, 2 & 3 Philip and Mary. The King 

 and Queen granted to Richard Hilton and another 

 licence to alienate a tenement called a Stewe, with 

 the appurtenances, situate in the parish of St. 

 Martin at Queenhithe, London, to Alured Michell. 

 —Rot. Par. de A°. pt. 6. 



I wish to inquire where the capital messuage 

 called the King s Head, and previously called the 

 Saracen's Head, was situate in the parish of St. 

 Gregory by St. Paul's. And also if anything is 



* Humphrey Browne, Knight, was one of the Justices 

 of the Qonimon Pleas from 35 Henry YIII. to 1561. 



