NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d s. No 79., July 4. '57. 



approbation ; and on tlie- 12th of December fol- 

 lowing, certain articles and orders were agreed on 

 " to be observed and performed by every person 

 that shall be admitted into the friendly Society of 

 the Exercisers of Armes within the Citty of 

 BristoU." No person was to be admitted into the 

 society until he had produced a certificate under 

 the hands of two of his majesty's justices of the 

 peace, purporting " that such person had before 

 them taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, 

 and the Declaration in the statute." The mar- 

 quis, on the 1st of March, 1679-80, appointed his 

 " dear Son, Charles Lord Herbert, to be Captain 

 and Leader of the said Artillery Company." 

 Their otlier officers were a lieutenant and ensign, 

 appointed probably by the same authority, with a 

 druiu-beater, marshal, and armourer. The In- 

 stitution was probably intended as a royalist or 

 high- party association. They met every Friday 

 for exercise, and on the first Friday in every 

 month they were — 



" to appear in the habits, and to be provided as foUoweth : 

 Every Pikemau habitted in a gray cloth coat lined with 

 scarlet, a scarlet pair of breeches and stockings, and a 

 white hat, a shoulder buff belt, a silk crimson scarf with 

 a good pike, and a sword or rapier; every Musketteer 

 with a graj' cloth coat lined with scarlet, a scarlet pair of 

 breeches and stockings, and a white hat, buff collar of 

 bandeliers, buff girdle and frog, with a good muskett and 

 four and twenty charges of powder, and a good hanger or 

 cutting sword." 



These particulars were extracted from the 

 original paper (signed by 101 members) by the 

 late Rev. Samuel Seyer of Bristol. Anon. 



Epitaph. — I was glad to see the suggestion by 

 J. G. N. (2""^ S. iii. 424.), as to recording in the 

 pages of " N. & Q." anything of interest which 

 may be found in manuscript on the fly-leaves of 

 old books. Many curious old epitaphs have ap- 

 peared from time to time ; the following may add 

 another to the number of them. It is written at 

 the end of a copy of Trapp's Commentary on the 

 Epistles and Revelation, 1647, small 4to. : 



" Epitaphium super Puerulos meos dilectos, Samuel 

 et Sarah Moon. 



" My Children Dear, whom God to me did give ; 

 God here alloted you few daj's to live. 

 Unerring Wisdom see it best for you ; 

 And we your Parents ought to think so too : 

 For God, whose word's infallible and true, 

 Hath promised unto all Believers true, 

 That he unto their infant Seed will be 

 A Covenant God, as we in Scripture See.* 

 No matter then, what, though j'ou Lived not long : 

 If fit for God and Christ, it is all one, 

 As if a hundred years or more you'd Seen ; 

 Death's the Conclusion of the longest Scene. 

 And though your Bodies unto dust resolve ; 

 Being united unto Christ your head, 

 The Grave shall not for ever them involve. 

 You with his Saints at Last being gathered." f 



* Gen. xvii. 7. ; Acts ii. 39. 



t rs. I. 



If the above is deemed worthy of insertion in 

 " N. & Q.," 1 shall be induced to send you several 

 other extracts from fly-leaves of old books in my 

 possession worth making " a note of." J. N. 



Bangor, N. Wales. 



Uffington Family. — I have in my possession an 

 old Bible, " imprinted at London by Robert 

 Barker, 1610." This must have belonged to a re- 

 spectable family : there are many of the names and 

 birth-dates of the family of Uffingtons of Wood- 

 ford, CO. of Northon, I suppose Northamptonshire. 

 It is a very curious book, with a great number of 

 plates. If this should meet the eye of any of the 

 family, they may communicate to you if they wish 

 to possess it. Geokge Searle. 



18. Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. 



<auer(E^. 



PORTRAITS OF MARY STUART. 



Amongst the numerous and valuable portraits 

 of Queen Mary now on view at the apartments of 

 the Archaeological Institute, 26. Suffolk Street, 

 there is none equal in singularity of design to 

 that noticed in the Hawthornden MSS., to which 

 Mr. Peter Cunningham has kindly called my at- 

 tention : 



" Queen Marie having sent upon ane brode the portrait 

 of her Husband Henry and her owne, w' the portraite of 

 David Kicci in prospective, to the Cardinall of Lorraine 

 her Uncle, he praised much the workmanship and cun- 

 ning of the Painter; but having asked what he was that 

 was drawen bj' thera, and hearing it was her Secretarye, 

 ' Je voudrois (said he) qu'on oistoit ce petit Vilain de la ! 

 Qu'a il h, faire d'estre si pres?' After the slaughter of 

 Ricci, one told him that the Scots had done what he de- 

 sired: 'Car ils avoyent ost^ le petit Vilain auprfes de la 

 Royne.' " 



Can any of your readers supply a clue to this 

 singular "brode," signifying, of course, a painting 

 on panel ? Albert Way. 



Reigate. 



George Washington an Englishman. — An ar- 

 ticle, under the above heading, appeared a short 

 time since in the correspondence of the Morning 

 Post, in which the writer, after alluding to a 

 statement in Stars or Stripes, or American Im- 

 pressions, that " General VV ashington never went 

 to England," proceeds to show that he had good 

 grounds for " wishing to do so, because he was 

 born in England," viz. " at Cookham in Berkshire, 

 nineteen miles from Windsor," where, he says, 

 " he was assured that the books of the parish have 

 been desti-oyed by Americans." He further adds, 

 " The case was slightly mentioned at the time of 

 the election of Mr. Washington to the Presidency, 



