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times, he had hed the maistery. And all that treasoun 

 thou didst for the somrae of gold and silver, that thou 

 underfeng of James Duglas, a Scot, the King's enemee. 

 And our Lord the King his will is, that the ordre of 

 Knighthode, by the which thou underfeng all in honour 

 and worship upon thy body been all brought unto nought, 

 and thy state undone, that other Knights of lower degree 

 now after the beware, the which Lord hath advanced 

 hugely in diverse countrees of England. And all now 

 take ensample by the, there Lord afterward for to serve.' 

 Then commanded he a knave anoon to hew off his spurres 

 off his heeles, and after he let breke the sword over his 

 head, the which the King him gafe to keep and defend 

 his land therewith, when he made him Erie of Cardoill. 

 And after he let him unclothe of his furred taberd, and 

 his hood, and of his furred cotys, and of his girdle, 

 and when this was done, ' Andrew,' quoth he, ' now ert 

 thou no Knight, but a Knave ; ' and so gave judgement on 

 him, that he should be drawne, hanged, and quartered, 

 and his head set on London Bridge ; which was executed 

 the last day of October, 1322." — Holing&lied, p. 334. 



Arms of Sir Andrew Harkley : — Ar., a cross 

 gu. ; in the first quarter a martlet sa, E. C. 



Saint Swithin (Vol. xii., p. 137.). — The rain- 

 ing saint in Flanders is St. Godelieve, and in 

 Germany there are three raining saints. One of 

 the days is the Seven Sleepers., 



The legend for the raining for forty days attri- 

 buted to a saint, is perhaps a substitution for one 

 belonging to a Wedenite or Wodenite god, as the 

 phenomenon rests on a meteorological fact. Christ- 

 mas became a substitute for Yule, the Paschal 

 Feast for Easter, St. John's Day for Midsummer, 

 and so forth. Hyde Ci-akke. 



Dial Inscriptions (Vol. iv., p. 507.; Vol. v., 

 p. 155. ; Vol. viii., p. 224.). —I saw two dials lately 

 in Yorkshire, one over the porch of Melsonby 

 Church, the other in a house in the villrge of Mid- 

 dleton Tyas. On the former is inscribed " The 

 night Cometh ; " on the latter, " Maneo nemini." 



Melsonby Church is remarkable for its tower, 

 resembling in the massiness of its masonry the 

 keep of a Norman castle, and possessing this singu- 

 lar peculiarity, that the loopholes through whTch 

 light is admitted into it are in the buttress. 

 Amongst the heirlooms at the rectory is a portrait 

 of the Rev. Wm. Smith, sometime rector, and 

 author of The Annals of University College. Here, 

 dunng Dr. Swire's incumbency, Lord Chancellor 

 Eldon was a frequent guest, and in this house I 

 believe he signed some important state documents. 

 ^ The church of Middleton Tyas, of which the 

 vicar has been non-resident during the whole of 

 his fifty years' incumbency, stands at a distance 

 from the village, and is in a sad state of decay and 

 dilapidation. On the chancel wall is the following 

 most extraordinary inscription : 

 "This Monument rescues from oblivion the remains of 

 ,? ^®'j xt"*"" ^^^^r, D.D., late Vicar of this parish, 

 who died Nov 18, 1763, aged sixty ; as also of Hannah 

 Mawer, his wife, who died Dec. 22, 176G, aged seventy- 

 two ; buried in the chancel. They were persons of enii- 

 No. 309.] ^ 



nent worth. The Doctor was descended from the Royal 

 Family of Mawer, and was inferior to none of his illustri- 

 ous ancestors in personal merit, being the greatest lin- 

 guist this nation ever produced. He was able to speak 

 and write twenty-two languages, and particularly excelled 

 in the Eastern tongues, in which he proposed to His 

 Eoyal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales, to whom he 

 was firmly attached, to propagate the Christian religion 

 in the Abyssinian Empire ; a great and noble design, 

 which was frustrated by the death of this amiable Prince, 

 to the great mortification of this excellent person, whose 

 merit, meeting with no reward in this world, will, it is to 

 be hoped, receive it in the next, from that ISeing which 

 justice only can influence." 



E. H. A. 



Humphrey de Bohun (Vol. xii., p. 146.). — 

 L. M. M. is informed that Humphrey de Bohun, 

 the fifth of that name, could not be a " companion " 

 of the Conqueror, as he was living in the year 

 1241, and William died in 1087. He might be 

 termed a connexion, through his mother Maud, 

 daughter of Geoffrey Fitz-Fiers of Ludgarshall, 

 Earl of Essex. The Earl of Ewe or Angle, 

 whose daughter Maude Humphrey de Bohun 

 married, was Ralph de Isodon (son of Geoffrey de 

 Luzigna, Earl of Aquitaine, and brother of Hugh 

 le Brun), who married Alice, daughter and heir of 

 Henry Earl of Angle in Normandy, and in her 

 right was Earl of Ewe and Angle. 



Arms of Earl of Ewe : — Barry of ar. and az. ; 

 over all a label of nine points. E. C. 



Tree cast on the French Coast (Vol. xii., p. 204.). 

 — The description of Prudentius appears to cor- 

 respond with that of a tree to which were attached 

 specimens of the Lepas anatifera of Linuteus, the 

 bernacle shell, of which a representation is given 

 in the Useful Knowledge Society's work, entitled 

 Habits of Birds (p. 376.). Colonel Montague 

 mentions his having seen a fir plank more than 

 twenty feet long, which drifted on the coast 

 of Devonshire, completely covered from end to 

 end with bernacle shells. This is stated on the 

 authority of Mr. Rennie. I have seen them 

 detached from a vessel which had not been cop- 

 pered, and had just arrived from the Mediterra- 

 nean, When 1 first saw them on the dock quay, 

 I took them at a distance for flowers, from the 

 brilliancy of their colours and tufted appearance ; 

 but on examination, discovered the shell, which I 

 had mistaken for a flower, attached to the very 

 long stalk which forms the foot of the bernacle, 

 and the tufts proved to be tentaculse. (See " N. & 

 Q.," Vol. viii. p. 224.) T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Knewstuhs (Vol. xii., p. 205.). — Of John 

 Knewstubs (born at Kirby Stephen, Fellow of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, Rector of Cockfield, 

 Suffolk, who died 29th May, 1624) an account 

 may be seen in Brook's Lives of the Puritans., 

 vol. ii. p. 308. See also Strype's Life of Whit- 



