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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2'"i S. Ko 27., JttLY 5. ♦56. 



other well-authenticated recent cases, among which 

 is one of a small pewter flask, which had been 

 dropped accidentally overboard on the south-west 

 coast of Ireland, and having been subsequently 

 recovered in the stomach of a fish, was displayed 

 nt a meeting of the Dublin Natural History So- 

 ciety, and subsequently presented to an inspector 

 of fisheries well known for his attention to ichthy- 

 ological studies. I should give the entire of the 

 annotation, which I could readily augment by 

 some more recent cases, only that the editor has 

 announced his intention to reprint the book for 

 publication in a series of similar hitherto unpub- 

 lished legends. 



Besides this Dublin edition of the Vita S. Cain- 

 nici, there is another, but also privately printed, 

 the cost of which was entirely defrayed by the 

 late Marquis of Ormonr), who munificently pre- 

 sented the copies to the Kilkenny Archaeological 

 Society. Artebus. 



Dublin. 



The fish and the ring in these arms refer to an 

 old legend in connection with St. Mungo, or 

 Kentigern, the founder of the see. A Imly lost 

 her ring while crossing the Clyde, and her hus- 

 band thinking she had bestowed it upon some 

 favoured lover, became very jealous and angry. 

 In this dilemma she sought the advice of St. 

 Kentigern, who, after fervent devotions, asked 

 one who was fishing to bring him the first fish 

 he caught ; this was done, and in the mouth of the 

 fish was found the lady's lost ring, which being 

 restored to her husband, he was convinced of the 

 injustice of his suspicions. This device appears 

 on the seal of Bishop Wishart, of Glasgow, as 

 early as the reign of Edward II. 



This legend of the fish and the ring, like many 

 others, is to be found in most countries : it is re- 

 lated in the pages of Herodotus and Pliny, and 

 occurs in the Koran ; one instance of it is re- 

 corded at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and another 

 carved on a monument in Stepney Church. 

 Moule's beautiful and interesting volume on the 

 Heraldry of Fish notices the subject at length. 



NoRRis Deck. 



Cambridge. 



A tradition given by Archbishop Spottiswoode 

 professes to explain the fish and the ring in these 

 arms : 



" In the daj's of St. Kentigern, a ladj' having lost her 

 wedding-ring, it stirred up her husband's jealousv, to 

 allay which she applied to St. Kentigern, imploring his 

 help for the safety of her honour. Not long after, as St. 

 Kentigern walked by the river, he desired a person that 

 was fishing to bring him the first fish he could catch, 

 which was accordingly done, and from its mouth was 

 taken tlie lady's ring, which he immediately sent to her 

 to remove her husband's suspicion." 



In confirmation of this Bishop Wishart's official 

 seal, as seen from the chartulary of Glasgow, in 

 1279, has been noticed. One compartment showed 

 the bishop seated, while before him knelt a person 

 holding a fish with a ring in its mouth. In the 

 middle division stood the king with a drawn sword 

 in his right hand, and on his left the queen 

 crowned, and having in her right hand a ring. The 

 bishop in his robes knelt praying, in the lower 

 compartment. The legend circumscribed was 

 " Rex furit, haec plorat, patet aurum dum sacer 

 orat." 



If the Glaswegians of a former day had been 

 fiXmous for their imaginative faculties, the follow- 

 ing lines by Dr. Main, once professor of the 

 theory and practice of physic in our Universitj', 

 might be taken as expressive of the thoughts 

 which led them to fix on the present armorial 

 bearings : 



" Salmo maris, terrieque arbor, avis aeris, urbi, 

 Promittunt, quicquid trina elementa ferunt: 



Et campana, frequens celebret quod numinis aras [ 

 Urbs, superesse Polo non peritura docet : 



Neve qnis dubitet sociari aeterna caducis, 

 Annulis id pignus conjugiale notat." 



" As s3'mboled here, the sea, the earth, the air, 

 Promise unto our town whate'er thej' bear. 

 To worship at the shrine the bell doth call, 

 Our queenly town, thus guarded shall ne'er fall. 

 Let no one doubt that thus are linked to heaven 

 The things of earth : the union pledge is given." 



The derivation most generally accepted of the 

 word Glasgow is the Gaelic clais-ghu, a black or 

 dark ravine ; this name being given, it is supposed, 

 originally to a glen, on a little stream east of the 

 cathedral, in which St. Mungo set up his abode. 

 Another etymology is Eaglais-dhu, the black 

 church, i.e. church of Blackfriars; while Glas's 

 dhii, grey and black, points to a period also of 

 monkish rule. Universitatis alumnus. 



Glasgow. 



I have a copper coin or penny-token with these 

 arms on one side, and the motto "Let Glasgow 

 Flourish " around it. On the other side a river- 

 god, with "Clyde" inscribed on his urn, from which 

 a stream issues, and "Nunquam arescere mdccxci" 

 as motto ; but the remarkable point is that around 

 the edge, instead of milling, are the words "Cam- 

 bridge, Bedford, and Huntingdon x.x.x." 



How can the occurrence of these words on a 

 Glasgow token be explained ? I took the coin as 

 change in a village shop in Norfolk. E. G. R. 



MUSICAL NOTATION. 



(2"" S. i. 470.) 

 I have long intended to point out that in a case 

 of distress for want of musical type, it is perfectly 



