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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 264. 



this is called a "faggot- vote?" Is the word of 

 merely local use ? Altked Smith. 



Dudbridge. 



Etiquette Query. — Miss Smith marries the 

 Hon. Mr. Fergusson ; after his death she marries 

 Mr. Jones, and styles herself the Hon. Mrs. Fer- 

 gusson Jones. Has she any authority for so 

 doing, or for taking precedence as the wife of an 

 Honorable ? Y. A. S. 



Cornwall. 



^ Kyrie Eleison. — In denominating the responses 

 after the Commandments by an English form of 

 the Greek initial words Kvpu ixerja-ot/, musical 

 nomenclature seems to countenance an anomaly in 

 our Liturgy. 



The Latin titles have always distinguished the 

 Psalms (some of them not very intelligibly, e. g. 

 xxxvi. and Ixxxiii.), as well as the Hymns, and 

 other portions of the Church Service ; and it ap- 

 pears to me, that it would be more in uniformity, 

 that these canticles should be known by their 

 Latin initial " Miserere," as in Psalms li. Ivi. and 

 Ivii., than in a language not recognised in the 

 Liturgy. Wheatly gives me no information on 

 the subject ; I would therefore wish to know, 

 through "N. & Q.," whether the Roman missal, 

 from whence the term came to us, derived it from 

 an early Greek ritual, which would seem the most 

 probable supposition ; and whether the name, as 

 a musical term, can claim antiquity. J. R. G. 



Saint John Pedigree. — If any person can give 

 information, as to names and dates, of a connexion 

 of the name of Barry, Bernard, or Barnet, in the 

 Heighley branch of the Saint John pedigree, 

 about 1700, or shortly before, the information 

 •will be thankfully received if sent to William 

 D'OiLT Baylet, Coatham, near Redcar, York- 

 shire. 



Weldons of Cornwall. — Information is required 

 respecting a family of the name of Weldon, which, 

 about fifty years ago, was located in Cornwall. 

 The branch of the Weldons to which I particu- 

 larly refer, was of the Quaker denomination. 

 Any particulars of the present condition and lo- 

 cality of the family would be thankfully acknow- 

 ledged. H. E. W. 



Sydney. 



Water-serpent. — Do adders like water ? I saw 

 apparently a serpent one day, darting about in a 

 pond of stagnant water abounding in frogs, a mile 

 or so from Geneva. The country people say it is 

 a poisonous species. Is this not likely to have 

 been the common snake (Natrix torquata), men- 

 tioned by White in his Natural History of Sel- 

 lome, and Mr. Jesse in the Supplementary Notes, 

 or else a water-snake ? E. W. J. 



Odd Custom. — The Emperor of the French was 

 (when I saw him) preceded by two soldiers with 

 cocked pistols. It was also done when the King of 

 Portugal recently arrived at Boulogne. Is this 

 custom a modern idea ? Anon. 



Froissart. — I am told that the edition of Frois- 

 sart, published by W. Smith of late years (1839) 

 in imperial 8vo., is imperfect and incorrect. Is 

 this the case ? and if so, in what do the imperfec- 

 tions consist ? H. E. W. 



Legends on Sword-blades. — I have a sword- 

 blade, twenty-seven inches long, straight, and 

 double-edged, along which there runs an Arabic 

 legend in large letters, but not distinct. I can 

 read only part of it, as follows : 



^ <d!l ^i jr 



all . . . in God. 



AiJl 



L5 



■' ^ 



All in God. [There is] not 

 Towards the hilt is a shield, surmounted by an 

 uncertain crest. On the shield two swords en 

 saltier, with the points upwards. At the sides 

 "H. B." Below the shield several lines of writing, 

 which run across the blade. I read the first three, 

 "Henrich Bil ai? Juncer? Henry .... knight;'* 

 but the rest baffles me. The letter on the shield 

 is apparently B, but that commencing the name 

 below is more like D. Can any of your corre- 

 spondents interested in foreign heraldry, or the 

 devices of swords, furnish the name of the owner, 

 or a complete reading of the legend ? 



W. H. Scott. 

 Edinburgh. 



William Gurnall. — Where is there to be found 

 a life or biographical notice of William Gurnall, 

 A.M., formerly of Lavenham, Suffolk, the author 

 of The Christian in Complete Armour ? A. 



Wol verb amp ton. 



[In "N. & Q.," Vol. vi., p. 414, we have already no- 

 ticed the absence of the name of William Gurnall from all 

 our biographical dictionaries. In 1830 there was pub- 

 lished at Woodbridge the following work: An Inquiry 

 into the Birth-place, Parentage, Life, and Writings of tM 

 Rev. Wm. Gurnall, by H. M'Keon. This work never 

 found its way into the British Museum Catalogues, al- 

 though it is to be seen in the Bodleian. We subjoin, 

 from MS. sources, a few particulars respecting him. His 

 parents, Thomas Gurnall and Etheldrida Fowles, were 

 married June 8, 1616, at the church of Walpole St. Peter 

 in Norfolk, at which place their sons William and John 

 were born. In 1G44, William was appointed to the living 

 of Lavenham, as appears from the Journals of the House of 

 Commons, vol. iii. p. 725. : "Whereas the church of Laven- 

 ham, in Suffolk, is lately void by the decease of Ambrose 

 Coppinger, D.D., rector, and that Sir Simon D'Ewes, the 

 patron, hath conferred the same upon William Gurnall, 

 M.A., a learned, godly, and orthodox divine, It is ordered 

 bv the House of Commons, Dec. 16, 1644, that the said 

 VVilliam Gurnall shall be rector for his life, and enjoy the 



