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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 249. 



is probable that the arms attributed by several 

 heraldic writers to " Thompson of Lancashire " 

 were used by the latter Henry and his de- 

 scendants. Sir Henry Thompson of Esholt was 

 buried at Colne in Lancashire, where an inscribed 

 stone to his memory was extant some years ago. 

 A grant of arms was made to Sir Henry Thomp- 

 son by Laurence Dalton, Norroy, about the year 

 1559, and the coat is substantially the same as 

 that claimed by the branches of the ancient and 

 respectable family of the same name, settled in 

 various parts of Yorkshire and the north of Eng- 

 land ; but on referring to Burke's Landed Gentry, 

 I do not find that any of these trace to the original 

 grantee. It would appear, therefore, that there 

 is some assumption here, though possibly the cir- 

 cumstance may be accounted for. Tee Gee. 



Latin Treatise on whipping School-hoys 

 (Vol. ix., p. 148,). — The antiquity of this laudable 

 custom, honoured at once in the breech and the 

 observance, is treated of by the celebrated sophist 

 Libanius : see his Sophistce, prceludia oratoria, 8fc. 

 (Paris, 1606-27, two vols, folio), or at. xii. ad 

 Theod. torn. ii. p. 400. I should feel inclined to 

 doubt the existence of a modem Latin treatise on 

 the subject, especially as no allusion to it is found 

 in Boileau's original work, the Historia FlageU 

 lantium, 12mo., Paris, 1700; or the French trans- 

 lation of the same, Histoire des Flagellans, 12mo., 

 Amsterdam, 1732 ; and the note in which it is 

 mentioned, and which has given rise to the Query 

 of Betula, occurs for the first time in the English 

 Paraphrase and Commentary of 1777. 



William Bates. 

 Birmingham. 



Fauntleroy (Vol. ix., p. 454.). — A person of 

 great respectability and remarkable accuracy once 

 informed me that he had himself seen and recog- 

 nised in Paris, Fauntleroy, whom he had known in 

 London, after his supposed execution. I. H. A. 



Old Dominion (Vol. ix,, p. 468.). — How far 

 the heraldic grant, spoken of by your corre- 

 spondent Penn, is to be regarded as authentic, no 

 printed American state paper, that I know of, de- 

 termines. That, however, the colony of Virginia 

 was governed after the martyrdom of Charles I. 

 by Sir William Berkeley, under a royal commis- 

 sion despatched by Charles II,, then a fugitive in 

 Breda ; that this state of things lasted until the 

 arrival of the Parliamentary fleet and land forces, 

 intended to subjugate the colony (1650) ; that the 

 preparedness of the colony for resistance, and the 

 judiciousness of the commissioners, resulted in 

 articles of a treaty as between equals pro hac vice, 

 whereby the rights of the colony were preserved ; 

 and that the Assembly of March, 1660, was sum- 

 moned in the name of the king, though Charles 

 was not yet acknowledged as such in England, — 



are matters of history. Virginia, then, which 

 continued loyal to her prince long after his exile, 

 and which acknowledged him again in form earlier 

 than the denizens of his own island did, has always 

 been considered, even on this side of the Atlantic, 

 as justly earning the title of the " Ancient Do- 

 minion ; " a phrase which, although I cannot now 

 substantiate it by any documentary reference, it 

 is quite possible the restored king, by writing or 

 speech, used himself. I. H. A. 



The Crescent (Vol. viii., p. 196.). — Some time 

 ago a correspondent wished to ascertain at what 

 period the Crescent became the standard of Ma- 

 hometanism. In the appendix to the late Elliot 

 Warburton's work, entitled The Crescent and the 

 Cross, the following incident is related : 



" The Crescent was the symbol of the city of Byzan- 

 tium, and was adopted by the Turks. This device is of 

 ancient origin, as appears from several medals, and took 

 its rise from an event thus related by a native of Byzan- 

 tium. Philip, the father of Alexander the Great, meeting 

 with great difficulties in carrjing on the siege of this city, 

 set the workmen one dark night to undermine the walls. 

 Luckily for the besieged, a young moon suddenly appear- 

 ing, discovered the design, which accordingly miscarried, 

 in acknowledgment whereof the Byzantines erected a 

 statue to Diana, and the Crescent became the symbol of 

 the state." 



The above account, if correct, points out'the 

 period when the device was adopted, probably 

 antecedent to 336 b. c, when the death of Philip 

 took place. 



In Leland's Life of Philip of Macedon, it is 

 related that at the siege of Byzantium, a bright 

 meteor appeared in the air. 



" The meteor which had appeared so opportunely to 

 direct their motions, the Byzantines ascribed to the 

 peculiar favour of the gods, and in the ardour of their 

 acknowledgments dedicated a statue to Hecate*, before 

 which a lamp was kept burning continually by night and 

 day to express their gratitude to the goddess, who had 

 been pleased, in so effectual and seasonable a manner, to 

 supply the absence of her luminary." 



Anon. 



Foreign Fountains (Vol, ix., p, 516.). — I pos- 

 sess a folio volume (18 inches by 10) entitled Les 

 Fontaines de Paris, anciennes et nouvelles, par 

 M.Amaury Duval, Membre de ITnstitut Imperial 

 de France, contenant soixante planches, &e., Paris, 

 1812, which is quite at the service of AauARius. 

 ^ E.D. 



The 28th Regiment, why called " The Slashers ? " 

 (Vol. ix., p. 494.). — 



"Slashers, a nickname which was given during the 

 American war to the 28th regiment of foot, and which 

 took its origin from the following circumstance. One 

 Walker, a magistrate in Canada, having during a severe 

 winter, with great inhumanity, refused to give comfort- 



* The same as Proserpine or Diana. She was called 

 Luna in Heaven, Diana ou earth, and Hecate or Proser- 

 pine in hell." 



