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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. N<» 44., Nov. 1. '56. 



me. I have some suspicion that the quartering 

 is of an Italian family. Mc. C. 



[We know of no such bearing in heraldry as eggs in 

 cups, or eggs at all ; our correspondent has probably been 

 misled by some partially obliterated engraving.' The 

 bearings are most likely to be three sacramental cups 

 having the representation of the holy wafer in them ; or 

 thej' may be three covered cups, as in the arms of Butler, 

 either indistinctly engraved, or almost worn out through 

 age.] 



Early Edition of Terence. — I have a copy of 

 Terence printed "in imperiali ac libera urbe Ar- 

 gentina, per magistrum Joannem Griininger," in 

 1496. It has a great many woodcuts. I want to 

 know who the printer, " J. G.," was, and where 

 the " urbs " alluded to was ? R. S. T. 



[Our correspondent is the fortunate possessor of a vo- 

 lume nearlj' as rare as it is remarkable for the highly 

 spirited and singular woodcuts which it contains. It is 

 the first and best of the editions printed bj' John Grii- 

 ninger at Strasbourg on the Lower Rhine. In the Bib- 

 liotheca Spenceriana, vol. ii. pp. 426 — 438., numerous fac- 

 similes and a very elaborate description is given of it. 

 Prosper Marchand, in his Diet. Hist. Typog., vol. i. pp. 

 289 — 294., has a valuable account of the productions of 

 Griininger, and places this impression as the ixth in the 

 copious list of his works.] 



Office of Fihzer.—ln " N. & Q." (2"^ S. i. 46.) 

 in a communication respecting Hugh Speke, I 

 find the following sentence : 



" This young man (Charles Speke) was Filazer for 

 Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, and Poole : an office, I 

 presume, of honour and profit, as he had given 3000/. for 

 it." 



Can you tell me what the exact nature of the 

 duties of a " Filazer" was ? VEsrEHTiLio. 



[A filazer (from Lat. Jilum, Fr. file, filace, a thread) is 

 an officer of the court of Common Pleas, and so called, 

 because he files those writs whereon he makes out pro- 

 cess. There are fourteen of those filazers in their several 

 divisions and counties, and thej' issue all writs and pro- 

 cesses upon original writs issuing out of Chancery, as well 

 real as personal and mixed, returnable to that court. B}' 

 2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 110. § 2., the filazer is declared to be 

 one of the five principal officers of the plea side of the 

 court, exclusive of the clerk of the pleas. Consult Tom- 

 lins's Law Dictionary, by Granger.] 



Quarterings and Origin of Grants. — "When 

 a man bears several quarterings on his coat of 

 . arms, are his younger sons entitled to bear the 

 same, or to bear their paternal arms alone, with- 

 out the other quarterings ? 



How can it be found out for what reason cer- 

 tain arms were granted to, or assumed by, certain 

 families ? R. S. T. 



[All the children, males and females, of any person en- 

 titled to quarterings are equally entitled to bear whatever 

 their father was entitled to bear. There is no distinction 

 made between elder and younger sons. It is not alwavs 

 stated in grants of arms why certain bearings are adopted 

 by the grantee; sometimes in cases of public services, or 

 to commemorate particular family circumstances, the 

 reason and motive are stated, but ordinarily not so.] 



iaei)itfS, 



THE OLD HUNDREDTH, BY WHOM COMPOSED. 



(2"" S. ii. 34. 317.) 



I am amazed that Mr. J. W. Phillips cannot 

 see the resemblance between Luther and the 

 Huguenot. To trace the unlike in the like, and 

 the like in the unlike, is not always easy, but to 

 make a labour of seeing the like in the like ap- 

 pears very strange. In Bach's Chorals, edited by 

 Dr. Becker, 1831, the Luther tune in diverse 

 shapes appears in pp. 8. 13. 67. 155, and 171. I 

 refer Mr. Phillips to pp. 13. and 155., in which 

 are the tunes numbered 14. and 268. I take G 

 major as the key-tone and the bass from Bach's 

 arrangement. The first, third, and fourth lines 

 of the Old Hundredth will be found in the tune 

 numbered 14. For example : 



First Line, 

 Air - - G|G|F|E|D|G|A|B || 

 Bass - - G I E I B I C I D I E I D I G II 

 This line is identical with the old Hundredth. 



Third Line. 

 G I A I B I A* I G I E 



G II 



G I D I G I C I B I C sh. I D sh. I E II 

 In the Luther tune the a marked with the aste- 

 risk is G, and the antepenultimate and penultimate 

 sound E and f appear in the alto part of Bach's 

 arrangement ; and it is manifest the composer of 

 the Old Hundredth produces the variation by an- 

 swering the ascent to the third of the key-sound 

 with a descent to the third below the key-sound. 

 Fourth Line. 

 D_|J3 I G* I A I C I B I A I G II 

 B jE I G I F I E I D'I'D I G jj 



With the exception of the g this line is identical 

 with the true form of the fourth line of the Old 

 Hundredth. 



For the second line of the Old Hundredth turn 

 to No. 268., another and expanded version of 

 Luther's tune. In the first bar of the second line 

 of this tune appear the following sounds, which I 

 transpose from the key of c to that of g : 

 B I B *| B I A 

 G I D sh. I E I C 

 The second half of this second line of the Old 

 Hundredth will be found in the tenth and eleventh 

 bars of this version of Luther : 



G I C I B I A II 

 B I A I D E I A II 



It must be noticed that the bass of Bach to 

 Luther's tune runs throughout the four lines of 

 the Old Hundredth without any change. 



The abbreviation sh. stands for the word shnrp. 



It is certain that if any man take one whole line 

 from the tune of another composer to eke out a 

 short composition of four lines, he must have that 



