Oct. 6. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Did the form of those symbols resemble that of 

 the bardic /\\ ? Do the names of Enoch and 

 Mani appear in any of the astrological works of 

 the fifieeiith or sixteenth centuries, associated 

 with visions of an extraordinary character ? In 

 what work of this class shall I find the complaint, 

 that " the vulgar people mistook the name of 

 god for God himself" ? T. Stephens. 



■ Family of Lee of Alt Hill : Cardinal Fesch. — 

 I extract from Baines's Lancashire the following : 



"At Alt Hill, Ashton-under-Line, stands an old habi- 

 tation, formerly possessed by the Lees, whose heiress 

 married Jonathan Pickford, Esq., of Macclesfield." 



I should be glad to be favoured by any corre- 

 spondent with particulars of the family of Lee 

 referred to, and whether it was a branch of the 

 old Cheshire family of that name. 



Also, whether anything is known of the family 

 connexions of Cardinal Fesch, which eminent in- 

 dividual, it seems unnecessary to add, was uncle 

 by the half blood to the first Emperor Napoleon. 

 I wish to ascertain in what degree of relationship 

 (and I have always understood a very near one) 

 a Col. Fesch stood to the cardinal. I am not 

 aware when Col. Fesch deceased ; but his widow, 

 Mrs. Fesch, then of Devonshire Square, remar- 

 ried, on Aug. 4, 1787, Joseph Green, Esq., of 

 Newington, Surrey. A Constant Reader. 



" Ganapla.'" — We meet in "a Welsh poem with 

 the. words " dysg Ganapla;" which may mean 

 either the learning of a person named Ganapla, or 

 Ganaplic learning. Will any reader of " N. & Q." 

 learned in Rabbinical tradition, or in the Caba- 

 listic lore of the sixteenth century, inform me 

 whether this Ganaplic learning has any relation to 

 the Jewish Cabbala ? T. Stephens. 



Heraldic Query. — Perhaps some of your he- 

 raldic readers may give me a clue to the families 

 to whom the following coats of arms are at- 

 tributable. They are painted on some old por- 

 traits in my possession, which belonged originally 

 to the family of Coghill of Hertfordshire, and are 

 in the panels of a hall, together with many por- 

 traits of that family. 



I have blazoned the arms as correctly as my 

 limited knowledge of the science will allow. 



The first is a gentleman in a white dress, ap- 

 parently of the time of Elizabeth, and if we may 

 suppose the chevron in the first quarter to be 

 wrongly coloured, as the fesse in the second 

 manifestly is (through the ignorance probably of 

 some rash restorer), he may be one of the family 

 of Sutton, whose coheiress the first Henry Coghill, 

 of Aldenham, married. 



He bears quarterly, first, Argent, a chevron 

 gules between three bulls passant (sa ?), sable. 



2nd. Sable, a fesse gules between three birds 

 argent (?), beaked and membered gules. • 



No. 310.] 



3rd. Per chevron, sable and argent, three 

 mullets counterchanged. 



4th. Argent, a fesse gules, between two chev- 

 ronels sable. 



The panel below him contains a young lady 

 dressed much in the fashion of Mary, Queen of 

 Scots, and has in the corner an escutcheon bear- 

 ing. Argent, a lion rampant sable, armed and lau- 

 gued gules, between three fleurs-de-lis sable (?). 



A neighbouring panel has the portrait of Dennis 

 Viel, or Vyrle, whose daughter John Coghill 

 (father of Henry) married, having his arms oa 

 the dexter side, and on the sinister, argent, a 

 bend raguly sable, whose owner I should like to 

 know. 



Beneath the portrait of John Coghill, which 

 bears his arms with those of Vyrle, is a picture of 

 an old lady in a dress of the fashion of Queen 

 Mary of England, and the following arms rudely 

 painted : Quarterly, 1st and 4th, ermine a fesse 

 between three horses courant, sable. 2nd and 3rd, 

 Sable a fesse vair (the blue is obscured or become 

 black), between three boars' heads erased, argent. 



Henbt H. Gibbs. 



Hampstead. 



The Conquest of Ireland. — In the Anglo-Nor- 

 tnan Poem on the Conquest of Ireland by Henry II., 

 edited by Francisque Michel, there are apparently 

 two omissions. At p. 21. there is probably a line 

 wanting between the two following verses : 



" Son demeine latinier, 

 Desque k Gales fud oil pass€." 



At p. 24. another line also appears to be omitted 

 between the following verses : 



" Pur la vile asaillir 

 La cite asailli k tute sa force." 



And at p. 86, another line is perhaps omitted be- 

 tween these verses : 



" Robert i vint de Quencl, 

 De Eidelisford i vint Water." 



The original manuscript is deposited in the li- 

 brary at Lambeth Palace, and I will feel greatly 

 obliged if the librarian or any other gentleman 

 will be kind enough to say whether the copy, as it 

 is printed, is or is not correct. 



James F. Ferguson. 



Dublin. 



First Folios of Shahspeare. — In Dr. JohnsonV 

 Life of Milton I find that " the nation had been 

 satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one 

 years, with only two editions of the works of 

 Shakspeare, which probably did not together make 

 one thousand copies." 



Is any thing more known at this day of the 

 number of copies of which the first two folios of 

 Shakspeare consisted originally ? 



