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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Silver Bells at Philadelphia. — A few months 

 since, after spending a very pleasant day in and 

 near the pretty town of Totnes, on the Dart, I 

 was proceeding by omnibus to the railway station, 

 whitlier I was accompanied by a friend, and two 

 strangers, ladies. The old church bells were ring- 

 ing a " merry peal," and one of the ladies re- 

 marked to her friend, "How beautiful they sound! " 

 " Yes," her friend replied, " but you should hear 

 our bells at Philadelphia ; they are of pure silver, 

 and were given by Charles I. of England." This 

 sounded very much like Yankee boasting, par- 

 ticularly to my friend : but it was too dark for 

 me to see the face of the fair American, and thus 

 to judge whether or no she was "poking fun" at 

 the two " Britishers ; " her tone of voice did not 

 however lead me to suspect this, though my friend 

 was very much disposed to doubt her veracity. I 

 have no means of proving her wrong ; perhaps 

 some correspondent of " N. & Q." may prove her 

 right, and oblige Henei. 



Henry Fauntleroy. — I have in my possession a 

 very good copy of Dr. Doddridge's Rise and Pro- 

 gress of Religion in the Soul which belonged to 

 Henry Fauntleroy. On the title-page is the fol- 

 lowing ; 



" This book was given to me by my sincere friend the 

 Hon. and Rev. Dr. Stewart. H. Fauntleroy, and pre- 

 sented to Jos'' Bushnan, Esq''«, by his most affectionate 

 friend Henry Fauntleroy. Nov. 24"', 1824." 



This is written in a clear bold hand, and by the 

 date, the presentation to Josh. Bushnan, Esq., 

 took place only six days before Fauntleroy was 

 hung. Who were the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Stewart, 

 and Josh. Bushnan, Esq. ? And did Fauntleroy 

 ever live at Counter Hill, New Cross, Kent ? For 

 I remember when a schoolboy at Counter Hill 

 meeting an old gentleman casually during a walk, 

 who pointed out, uninvited, a house as once the 

 residence of Fauntleroy, whom he knew formerly. 



To collectors of autographs this book might be 

 valuable ; it has a cleverly done portrait of Dod- 

 dridge as frontispiece. ' Henri. 



" Free ships make free goods." — Such was the 

 decision of England in her treaty with France, 

 concluded at St. Germain en Laye, February 24, 

 1676-7. Contraband goods were of course ex- 

 cepted. Is there any earlier instance in English 

 history of a similar clause being found in a treaty 

 with a foreign power ? W. W. 



Malta. 



Tinted Lithographs. — I have a valuable book 

 of lithographs, T. S. Cooper's Cattle ; and one of 

 them, which is a summer subject, and of a pale 

 bufi" or cream colour (what is commonly called a 

 tinted lithograph), has, from some cause or other, 

 I think from damp, turned a dark brown red, or 

 burnt umber colour, the white lights of the pic- 



ture remaining unchanged. This entirely spoils 

 the picture. By what means can the original buflF 

 colour be restored ? A Constant Reader. 



Manuscript Plays. — 1. The Fortune Teller, or 

 Trick upon Trick, performed at Sadler's Wells. 

 2. Miracles, an Operatical Farce, translated from 

 the German, and acted at the Strollers' Theatre 

 (Dublin ?). I have the above MSS. : who are 

 they by ? A. B. C. 



Bell Founders. — Upon the fifth bell of the 

 peal at All Saints' Church, Leicester, is the fol- 

 lowing inscription : 



"J. H. C. Jhohannes de Tafford fecit me in h on ore 

 Be. Marie." 



Query, Is anything known of this founder ? 



T. North. 



Leicester. 



Common Prayer-Book, 1763. — Will any of your 

 correspondents inform ine for what purpose or 

 reason the Oxford University Press should have 

 been allowed to issue their octavo Common-Prayer 

 of 1763 without the proper rubrics, and in the 

 Morning Service omitting the " Benedicite omnia 

 opera," and the "Benedictus ;" and in the Even- 

 ing Prayer, the " Cantate Domino," besides nearly 

 all " The Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several 

 Occasions," and all the " Thanksgivings," with the 

 exception of " The General Thanksgiving." 



W. C. Penny. 

 Frome-Selwood. 



Arms of Spain. — The arms of Spain, as com- 

 monly represented, contain ten quarterings and 

 two escutcheons of pretence ; and I can assign all 

 these quarterings, except three, to the territories 

 to which they belong. The quarterings to which 

 I allude are these, the three last : Sa. a lion ram- 

 pant, ar. ; or, a lion rampant, sa. ; ar. an eagle 

 displayed, sa. What are these ? 



J. W. Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



Armorial Bearings. — I shall feel obliged if any 

 one can inform me whose were the following arms : 

 Party per pale, az. and ar., a pile reversed coun- 

 terchanged ? They occur in a MS. written at 

 Rome about the year 1450, and were probably 

 borne by some Roman family. E. Ventris. 



John Hall of Maidstone (aged thirty-five in 

 1564) was a noted surgeon, and is mentioned by 

 Tanner and Granger. Additional particulars re- 

 specting him will be acceptable, and we especially 

 desire to ascertain the date of his death. 



C. H. AND Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Scarcity: Resentment. — In that rare work Sancta 

 Sophia, Douay, 1657, dedication to vol. ii., the 

 word scarcity is used for abstinence. The sentence 



