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F- Mintfv <hutvie^. 



Maps of Rome. —I should be thankful to be 

 informed, through the medium of your columns, if 

 any maps of Rome are extant about the sixteenth 

 century, or previous to that date ? 2. A. 2. 



Disinterment — Can a body be removed from 

 churcb or churchyard by consent of the clergy- 

 man, without application to higher authority? 

 Must there not be some record or legal evidence 

 of such disinterment and removal? and, if so, 

 where will it be found ? , D. I. T. 



Stone Shot. — Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me, or direct me whence any information 

 can be obtained respecting the time when stone 

 shot ceased to be used In our forts ? In the neigh- 

 bourhood in which I live are two castles, St. 

 Mary and Pendennis (temp. Henry VIII. and 

 Edward VI.), near which stone shot have been 

 occasionally found, and several are built In the 

 walls of the latter castle. Those that have been 

 picked up are covered with serpula, which clearly 

 prove that they have been for some time sub- 

 merged in the sea. The stone shot which were 

 commonly used were of granite, marble, or what 

 is called greensand limestone. I shall feel obliged 

 for any communication on this matter which I 

 may receive from any of your correspondents. 



James Coenish. 



Falmouth. 



Arms of Brettell and Needes. — Can any corre- 

 spondent tell me the arms of Brettell ? The 

 crest Is, I believe, a deml-gryphon. The name is 

 common In Worcestershire. Also the arms of 

 Needes ? I find a crest, alone, registered to the 

 latter name, but there are few, if any, families 

 who legally bear a crest without arms. The crest 

 is a buck's head embossed, ppr., pierced through 

 with an arrow, also ppr. C. J. Douglas. 



Heraldic Queries. — Hilton, of Hilton, co. 

 Durham. Crest, on a close helmet, Moses's head 

 in profile glorified, adorned with a rich diapered 

 mantle, all proper. 



Dakyns, of Linton, co. York. Motto, " Strike, 

 Dakyns, the devil's in the hempe." 



Can you, or any of your correspondents, give 

 the origin of this strange bearing and strange 

 motto? C. deD. 



Brian Walton. — Tradition has assigned to 

 Seamer, In Cleveland, the honour of being the 

 birth-place of this eminent scholar. It Is however 

 stated in Boswell's Antiquities, No. 3., that he 

 was born near Hexham in Northumberland, and 

 instructed In classical learning at Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne. I know not whether this statement rests 

 on any reliable authority, but it is worth noting, 



that in 33 Ellz. Brian "Walton of Newby, in the 

 county of York, was apprenticed to William 

 Marley of Newcastle-on-Tyne, merchant. Query, 

 May not this Brian Walton have been the bishop's 

 father ? It cannot be otherwise than interesting 

 to ascertain particulars relative to the family 

 history of one who has deserved so well of litera- 

 ture as the editor of the London Polyglott. Arch- 

 deacon Todd, at p. 160. of his memoirs of the 

 bishop, mentions a person of both his names, a 

 Fellow of Peter House, Cambridge, who took the 

 degree of B.A. in 1676, and that of D.C.L. or 

 LL.D. in 1688. The college registers would pro- 

 bably inform us whether this was a son of that 

 great man. E. H. A. 



Publicans. — The accounts generally given by 

 commentators of the Publicans of the later years 

 of Jewish history are very meagre and unsatis- 

 factory. Where can fuller researches into their 

 religious, as well as civil, position be met with ? 

 Are there any grounds for concluding that they 

 were, as a body, anoa-wdycoyoi, or partially excom- 

 municated? The establishing that fact would 

 throw much light on many passages of the New 

 Testament. William Feaser, B.C.L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



Flodden Field. — Is there any authentic list of 

 the English warriors slain at the celebrated battle 

 of Flodden Field, at which It appears seven gen- 

 tlemen of one family named Bebbington, six sons 

 and a brother, fell ? Cesteiensis. 



" Ould Grouse in the Gun Room." — ^Where can 

 I find the story of " Grouse In the Gun Room," 

 mentioned by Goldsmith in She Stoops to Con- 

 quer ? Ignotus. 



Speechless Deserter. — Can you give me any 

 account of a soldier that deserted in the last cen- 

 tury, and wandered in Ireland for a great number 

 of years, and that when discovered he had lost his 

 speech ? William Staek. 



12. St. James's Square. 



*'■ Crawley, God help us," SfC. — As your corre- 

 spondent Me. E. W. Jacob (Vol. ix., p. 446. &c.) 

 appears to be following the example of Job, de- 

 scribed in the latter part of the 16th verse of the 

 29th chapter of that worthy man's history, I beg 

 to ask him the meaning of the local phrases : 

 "Crawley, God help us," and "Downton good 

 now ?" I am aware that this subject, as to Tick- 

 hill and other places, has been noticed in " N. & 

 Q.," Vol. I., pp. 247. 325. 422. ; but I hope for and 

 anticipate a fuller explanation as to Crawley and 

 Downton. Henet Edwaeds. 



" Tickhill, God help me." — I cannot help think- 

 ing that this expression bears reference, in its 



