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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Aug. 25. 1855. 



Of John Lewd Tiptoft, — • Argent, a saltire en- 

 grailed gules. 



Of Ingaldesthorpe of Burgh Green, co. Cam- 

 bridge, — Gules, a cross engrailed argent. 



Sir Philip de Spencer of Nettlested, co. Suffolk, 

 married in the former half of the fifteenth century 

 Elizabeth, sister of John Lord Tiptoft, and aunt 

 of John Tiptoft, who was created Earl of Wor- 

 cester in 1449, and whose second wife was Eliza- 

 beth Hopton. Joanna Tiptoft, sister and co- 

 heiress of the Earl of Worcester, married Sir 

 Edmund Ingaldesthorpe of Burgh Green, who 

 died in 1456. 



Your correspondent will learn farther details 

 respecting the Tiptoft, De Spencer and Ingaldes- 

 thorpe families in Banks's Extinct Baronage of 

 England, Edmondson's Baronagium, Dugdale's 

 Baronage, Blomefield's Norfolk, and Gough's 

 Sepulchral Monuments. 



I should feel much obliged to any of your cor- 

 respondents who could furnish me with the family 

 coats of Richard Milbourne, who became bishop 

 of St. David's in 1615, and of Carlisle in 1621; 

 of William Roberts, who became bishop of Bangor 

 in 1637 ; and of John Towers, who became bishop 

 of Peterborough in 1638. 



Wm. Magan Campion. 



Queen's College, Cambridge. 



Ladies and Wives (Vol. xii., p. 61.). — M.'s 

 anecdote of the bishop and his " lady " reminds 

 me of a similar story. A lady of rank came to be 

 churched after the birth of her first child, when 

 the obsequious clergyman, thinking ivoman too 

 common a term to apply to her, thus altered the 

 petition : " O Lord, save this lad^ thy servant." 

 The clerk, resolving not to be outdone in polite- 

 ness, immediately responded, " Who putteth her 

 ladyship's trust in thee." Alfred Gattt. 



" Cock and pye" (Vol. xii., p. 104.). — "By cock 

 and pye ! " was apparently a common exclamation 

 in the time of Shakspeare. He puts it into the 

 mouth of Page, in the Merry Wives of Windsor, 

 Act I. Sc. 1 . ; and of Justice Shallow, in the 

 second part of King Henry IV., Act V. Sc. 1. 

 Douce explains it thus : 



" In the days of ancient chivalry it was the practice to 

 make solemn vows or engagements for the performance of 

 some considerable enterprise. This ceremony was nsually 

 performed during some grand feast or entertainment, at 

 which a roasted peacock or pheasant, being served up by 

 ladies in a dish of gold or silver, was thus presented to 

 each knight ; who then made the particular vow which 

 he had chosen, with great solemnity. When this custom 

 had fallen into disuse, the peacock, nevertheless, con- 

 tinued to be a favourite dish ; and was introduced on the 

 table in a pie, the head, with gilded beak, being proudh- 

 elevated above the crust, with the splendid tail expanded. 

 Other birds of smaller value were introduced in the same 

 manner, and the recollection of the old peacock-vows 

 might occasion the less serious, or even burlesque, imita- 

 tion of swearing, not onlv by the bird itself, but also by the 



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pie; and hence, probably, the oath by cock and pie, for the 

 use of which no very old authority can be found." — 

 Knight's Shakspeare, vol. iv. p. 290. 



It seems to me more likely that the signs at 

 Ipswich and Woodbridge, in Suffolk, were derived 

 from this "dainty dish" (like the "haunch of 

 venison," and the " leg of mutton and trimmings," 

 which we find in other localities), than from cock- 

 fighting, which was not confined to that county. 



But if any allusion to that amusement is insisted 

 upon, may it not refer to some traditionary con- 

 test between a " cock and a pye" which Avas famous 

 in the neighbourhood ? This is rather a sugges- 

 tion than an answer. Edwakd Foss. 



" Cock and pye " seems sufficiently explained in 

 Nares's Glossary, in the articles on those words 

 respectively. Pye, however, has another signifi- 

 cation, viz. the magpie ; or, as it is sometimes 

 called, pynot. About three miles from here is the 

 house in which the Earl of Danby, the Earl of 

 Devonshire, and Mr. D'Arcy, met to consult about 

 the revolution then in agitation. The sign of the 

 house at that time was the " Cock and Pynot." 



J. Eastwood. 



Eckington. 



Oblation of a White Bull (Vol. viii., pp. 1. 2.).-;- 

 This singular custom not having yet been eluci- 

 dated, I beg leave to offer the following passages 

 as in some degree accounting for it : 



" Gregory further directs him [Austin] to accommo- 

 date the ceremonies of the Christian worship, as much as 

 possible, to those of the heathen, that the people might 

 not be much startled at the change ; and in particular he 

 advises him to allow the Christian converts, on certain 

 festivals, to kill and eat a great number of oxen to the 

 glory of God, as they had formerly done to the honour of 

 the devil."— Henry's History of Great Britain. 



This tolerance of superstitious ceremonies re- 

 sembles the practice of the Jesuits in China. In 

 reference to the colour, an extract from Aldro- 

 vandus (De Quadrupedibus, p. 222.), explaining a 

 passage in Propertius, will perhaps he acceptable 

 in the absence of anything more satisfactory : 

 « ' Hinc Taciens, Kamnesq. viri Luceresq. coloni 

 Quatuor hinc albos Romulus egit equos.' 



"Quod vero albis potius quam alterius coloris equis 

 triumpharent, non sine aliquo mysterio factum fuisse 

 videtur. Livius ad Solis et Jovis imitationem fecisse 

 Romanos non obscure indicat, Camillum scribens captis 

 Veiis, ita triumphantem ingressum urbem, cives aliens© 

 insuetos insolentiag oflFendisse quod Solis ac Jovis currura 

 sequiparasse moliretur. Legimus autem apud Herodo- 

 tum Jovis Currum, qui in exercitu Xerxis, Xerxen ipsum 

 prsecedebat, ab octo equis albis tractum." 



BiBLIOTHECAR. ChETHAM. 



Kymerton (Vol. xii., p. 104.). — There is a 

 village called Kemerton near Tewkesbury, co. 

 Gloucester, which seems sufficiently near both 

 orthographically and geographically to answer 

 Mb. Steinman's Query. J. Eastwood. 



