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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2ad S. N" 43., Oct. 25. '56. 



" And for to speke how that it stood, 

 Of Thaise his doughter, wher she dwelleth. 

 In Tliarse as the cronique telleth ; 

 She Avas well liept, she was well loked, 

 She was well taught, she was well boked, 

 So well she sped her in her youth. 

 That she of every wisdom couth, 

 That for to secke in ever}- londe 

 So wise an other no man fonde 

 Ne so well taught at marines eye." 



6. 

 " And prively withoute noise, 

 He bringeth this foule great coise 

 To his castell in suche a wise, 

 That no man might her shape avise." 



7. 

 " And after him I finde thus 

 Southward fro Alisaundre forth, 

 Tho signes, whiche most ben worth 

 In governaunce of that doaire. 

 Libra they ben and Sagittaire 

 With Scorpio, which is conjoint. 



8. 

 « . . . he made a vow. 

 With manful herte, and thus he saide, 

 That Rome shulde never abraide 

 His heires, whan he were of dawe, 

 That her auncester brake the lawe. 



9. 

 " My sone, if that thou well bethought, 

 This toucheth the, forj'ete it nought. 

 The thing is torned into was, 

 The which was whilome grene gras 

 Is welked heie, as time now. 



10. 

 " With that upon a grene bough 

 A ceinte of silke, which she there had, 

 She knette, and so her self she lad. 

 That she about her white swere 

 It did and henge her selven there. 



11. 



" The wind stood thanne nought amis. 

 But every topsailcole it blewe, 

 Till Ulixes the marches knewe, 

 Where Lichomede his regne had. 



Minav €i\xtvit&. 



Truant Felice. — In one of Hearne's mediaeval 

 chroniclers, I find a monastery at Byzantium or 

 Constantinople mentioned as Timant Felice. Now 

 there is little doubt that this is an incorrect read- 

 ing. Can any of your readers help me to find the 

 real name ? Henry T. Riley. 



Artillery. — Two hundred years ago in some of 

 our towns butts were provided by the authorities 

 for the practice of " artillery." What was the 

 kind of artillery then in use ? D. W. 



Hampshire Topography. — What are the best 

 books to consult for the early history of a parish 

 in Hampshire bordering on Sussex ? H. S. T. 



Octave at Magdalen College, Oxford. — At the 

 election of Demies at this college, it is customary 

 to nominate one of the unsuccessful candidates as 

 Octave ; and he is to take the place of any Demy 

 who may chance to die within eight days of the 

 election. Can any of your Oxford correspondents 

 tell me if there has been any instance of an Octave 

 so succeeding to a Demyship? Henry T. Rilet. 



Seven Fleurs-de-lis, and Buslingthorpe Family, 

 — Can any of your contributors, skilled in he- 

 raldry, kindly mention a family bearing for arms 

 Ou. 7 jfteurs'de-lis (viz. three rows of tioo, and 

 one,') or? 



Such a coat is indistinctly perceptible in the 

 east window of Buslingthorpe Church, co. Lincoln, 

 surmounted by a crest, which I take to be a 

 peacock. 



The arms of " Sire Richard de Boselingthorp," 

 as given in Pari. Writs (Sir F. Palgrave), vol. i. 

 p. 416., are totally different, viz. " de argent od 

 le chef endente de sable a un cheveron de gout." 



I should also be glad to learn, whether there is 

 any evidence of Sire John de Boselyngthorp, 

 father or grand^SiihQv of the Sire Richard men- 

 tioned in Pari. Writs, having been connected with 

 the fifth (or any) crusade, or of his having under- 

 taken a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. His monu- 

 ment exhibits him cross-legged on an altar-tomb ; 

 and, as there is a tradition of his having received 

 a grant of land from the king in reward for his 

 having slain a dragon, it is probable that he was 

 a "man of mark" in his day. Either his son 

 Richard, who is still commemorated by a half- 

 length brass in good preservation, — or (more pro- 

 bably) ?i, grandson of the same name, — is said at 

 his death to have held the manor of Bothumsell, 

 in Notts, "of the inheritance of Isabella, his 

 quondam wife." See Thoroton v. Bothumsell. 



Query, Who was this Isabella ? Was she an 

 heiress of the St. George, or of the Furntaux 

 family ? Probably, of the former. J. Sansom. 



Buslingthorpe. 



P.S. Does the name of Buslingthorpe occur is 

 any list of Knights Templars ? 



Wolves eating Earth. — 



" And as a wolfe, beeing about to devoure a horse, doth 

 balist his belly witli earth, that he may hang the heavier 

 vpou him, and then forcibly flyes in his face, neuer 

 leaning his hold till he had eaten him vp." — Pierce 

 Pennilesse, p. 32. (Shakspeare Soc. edit.) 



On what authority does this wolfish trait rest ? 

 and are there other allusions to it in old writers ? 



J. H. A. Bone. 

 Cleveland, Ohio. U. S. 



Waterspouts on Land. — On the first of Sep- 

 tember last, a thunderstorm, accompanied by hail 

 and rain, burst with unparalleled fury upon this 

 village and its vicinity, and continued from 5*30 



