Dec. 29. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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crosslets sable. 3. Gules, a lion rampant or, debruised of 

 a bend ermine. 4. Ermine, a chevron, gules. 5. Gules, 

 a cockatrice sejant wings displayed, argent. 6. Ermine, 

 on a chevron gules ; 3 mullets argent. 7. Quarterly ; ] 

 and 4 argent, a fess, sable within a bordure, sable ; 2 ar- 

 gent a stag ( ? a bull or cow, for the drawing is not very 

 distinct) statant sable, within a bordure sable, besanty ; 

 3 argent a chevron between 3 men's heads helmeted, sable, 

 plumed or. For crest, on a wreath of the colours, a demi- 

 iion rampant or, langued gules.] 



Minav ^utvie^. 



James Rees. — There was a work consisting of 

 Tales and Sketches, written by an American 

 author named James Rees, a home missionary : 

 the title I do not recollect, but it was published 

 at Philadelphia.* Can any American reader give 

 me some account of the author ? K. J. 



Vandyke's Portraits: Col. Legge. — Can any 

 one direct me to a list of Vandyke's paintings in 

 England'? Some time ago, I stumbled over a 

 portrait of the Hon. Col. Legge (King Charles's 

 honest Will Legge') in an obscure dwelling, and 

 wondered if the staunch cavalier ever sat to the 

 great master. A. S. 



Burning Heretical Books (Vol. xil., p. 368.). — 

 By what law, or legal authority, was the incom- 

 plete edition of Servetus's Christianismi Restitutio, 

 " seized by John Kent, messenger of the press, 

 and Mr. Squire, messenger in ordinary, at the 

 instance of Dr. Gibson, Bishop of London, and 

 burnt"? &c. Old England. 



Fowls upon all fours. — The eleventh chapter of 

 Leviticus, after specifying various birds as pro- 

 hibited to the Israelites in the way of food, con- 

 cludes with this general injunction in verse 20. : 



" All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an 

 abomination unto you." 



Is there any fowl now existing that answers to 

 this description ? and if so, what is its scientific 

 name, and in what country is it found ? J. A. L. 



Birmingham. 



Hoolie's " Letters and Antidote to Lord Cheste7'- 

 fieldr — There is an old work, entitled The Con- 

 trast, or Antidote to the Principles disseminated in 

 the Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to his Son. 

 It contains " Six Letters to a Lady of Quality," 

 written by Nathaniel Hooke, the Roman historian. 

 The MS. was given by Hooke to Berkeley, the 

 celebrated Bishop of Cloyne. Can any of your 



[* The work is entitled Mysteries of City Life, or Stray 

 Leaves from the World's Book ; being a Series of Tales, 

 Sketches, Incidents, and Scenes, founded upon the Notes 

 of a Home Missionary. By James Rees, author of The 

 Philadelphia Locksmith, The Nighthawk Papers, &c., 12mo. 

 1849.] 



No. 322.] 



readers inform me whether the letters are still 

 in existence? They were reprinted in 1816, by 

 the then Rev. Sir Adam Gordon, but I cannot 

 find a copy even of this little work, excepting 

 in the British Museum. If any of your readers 

 have any of Ilooke's Letters, or can refer me to 

 any library containing them, I should feel much 

 obliged. The only one I have been able to find, is 

 that mentioned by Boydell, addressed to Harley, 

 Earl of Oxford, in 1722, which is in the British 

 Museum. Noel Hooke Robinson. 



" The Public Advertiser ,•" " The Gazetteer."* — 

 Between December, 1765, and April, 1766, there 

 appeared in one or both of these London journals, 

 papers signed " A Virginian." Can any one give 

 the dates of the numbers containing such com- 

 munications ? Where can access be had to these 

 files ? Or is It possible to procure a set ? It is 

 earnestly desired to have an answer to this Query. 

 My name is left with the editor of this journal. 



Serviens. 



Sardinian Motto. — I observe that this motto 

 is represented by the four letters F. E. R. T., and 

 there have appeared two different interpretations 

 of their meaning. The first is thus : "Fortitude 

 ejus Rhodum tenuit."t This is M. Pericaud's in- 

 terpretation in allusion to the succour rendered 

 by the House of Savoy to Rhodes ; but it is 

 urged that the motto was in use prior to that 

 event, and therefore disposes of the probability of 

 this being the correct version. The other is 

 " Foedere et religione teneraur," and is on a golden 

 doubloon of Victor Amadeus I., which appears 

 the more probable. 



I should be obliged by your insertion of this 

 Query, so that the correct version of the letterg 

 above named may be obtained. 



John Nukse Chadwick. 



King's Lynn. 



Norfolk Pedigrees : Bunting. — I have an im- 

 perfect genealogy of the Norfolk Buntings. The 

 Heralds' Visitation of 1563, leaves them at Snettis- 

 ham ; and my next account gives Edward Bunt- 

 ing, of Hilborough, ob. March 20, 1762. I am 

 assured of the continuity of these fragments, and 

 am engaged in endeavouring to fill up the gap. 

 Will any of your Norfolk correspondents kindly 

 furnish me with the date of a birth, death, or mar- 

 riage, or with information respecting the holding 

 of local office by any one of the name during the 

 period in question ? Arms : or, an escallop sa. 

 on a chief wavy of the second, three dolphins em- 

 bowered of the first. S. A. 



[* Is our correspondent correct in his dates? We have 

 glanced through The Public Advertiser between December, 

 1765, and April, 176G, and The Gazetteer from January to 

 April, 1766, preserved in the British Museum, without 

 discovering one paper from "A Virginian." — Ed.] 



[f For another conjecture, see "N. & Q.," Vol. vi., p. 314.] 



