July 24. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



75. 



whero roads crossed, and in churchyards, would throw 

 stones at men." 



Can any of your correspondents elucidate these 

 allusions to cross roads f J. P. 



Odyllic Zj^A/.— While reading Gregory's trans- 

 lation of Reichenbach, the following question was 

 suggested to my mind, which perhaps some one 

 among your readers may be able to answer, which 

 will be esteemed by me a favour. 



Heat being a constituent of light, and in pro- 

 portion to its intensity, though light is not in all 

 cases a visible constituent of heat, as may be ex- 

 emplified by a voltaic battery in darkness, I wish 

 to know, if any substance easy of combustion at a 

 low comj)arative temperature, as nitrate of silver, 

 or fine carburetted hydrogen, has been tried in 

 the odyllic light f ^Egrotus. 



Trochilus and Crocodile. — Herodotus (ii. 68.) 

 gives the well-known story of the trocMlus enter- 

 ing into the mouth of the crocodile to pick 

 from liis teeth the hdellce that adhere to them. 

 The same account is to be found (apparently 

 copied from the above-referred- to passaixe) in 

 Aristotle, Hist. An. ix. 6. 6., and Pliny H. N. viii. 

 25. I wish to know whether this fact (if it be 

 one) has ever been confirmed by modern writers. 

 What traveller has seen the trochilus perform the 

 part of a living toothpick, and what species of 

 bird is it ? S. L. P. 



Oxford and Cambridge Club. 



Pichigni. — In an old dictionary, which wants 

 title-page and some pages at the end, and of which 

 I therefore can tell nothing, I find the following : 



" Pickigni f. a word used (like Shibboletli) to dis- 

 tinguish aliens from the native French, as bread and 

 cheese did the English from the Flemings in Wat Tj'- 

 ler's rebellion." 



What is the meaning of this word, and what the 

 truth of the alleged use ? F. A. 



Heywood Arms. — Can any one refer me to an 

 authority for the following arms as borne by a 

 family of the name of Haywood or Heywood : — 

 a chevron between three martlets. E,. W. C. 



Memoires d\ne Contemporaine. — Who was the 

 authoress of this work, published some years since? 

 Is she still living ? Has it been translated into 

 English ? Uneda. 



. Philadelphia. 



Drawbridge. — If any of your correspondents 

 can refer to a perfect mediasval " drawbridge," it 

 will greatly oblige 



One who wishes to build one. 



SauVs Seven Days. — There appears to me a 

 chronological difficulty, which I cannot solve, in 

 the First Lesson in yesterday's Evening Service. 

 It is clear enough that Saul, at the very beginning 



of his reign (1 Sam. x. 1. 8.), was charged by 

 Samuel to go down before him to Gilgal, and 

 "tarry seven days" there, till Samuel himself 

 should come to him. Accordingly, " he tarried 

 seven days, according to the set time that Samuel 

 had appointed" (1 Sam. xiii. 8.). How is the 

 former chronology to be reconciled with verse 1. 

 of this latter chapter, where it is said that Saul 

 ^^ had reigned two years" before the events con- 

 nected with the seven days ? Is the former 

 passage an anticipation of the latter one? 



BcEOTICUS. 

 Edgmond, Salop, July 5. 1852. 



Coudray Family. — I should feel obliged by any 

 of your readers furnishing information as to this 

 family, whose name first appears in the Battle 

 Abbey Roll, in Leland's copy probably as " Souche- 

 ville Coudrey " or " Coubray " (1 am quoting 

 from the lists attached to Lower's Surnames), an(i 

 in Holinshead's copy as " Couderay." I have not 

 referred to Domesday Book for Hants and Berks ; 

 but we find ditFerent members of the fiimily men- 

 tioned in the Testa de Nevill ; also in the four 

 volumes of the Calend. Inq. Post Mart, from 

 Henry III. to Edward IV. After which period I 

 have not been able to find any traces of them, nor 

 at any time of their alliances. In Lipscomb's 

 Bucks there is a slight pedigree drawn from the 

 above sources alone, merely repeating the Chris- 

 tian names of the ladies. They appear to have 

 been a knightly family of some consideration, 

 particularly in Berks, where their principal manor 

 of Pad worth is situate, which they held by the ser- 

 vice of finding a man to manage the ropes of the 

 ship in which the queen should cross the sea. 

 Fulk de Coudray is mentioned in one of Sir H. 

 Nicolas's " Roll of Arms." 



When did the principal line expire ; and what 

 family now represents it ? 



There is a family still extant in Berks which, 

 under the corrupted name of Cordery, claims to 

 lepresent the ancient family, and uses the arms. 



Is there any evidence of this claim ? Any in- 

 formation respecting the family will be acceptable 

 to W. H. L. 



" Oh, go from the window !" — Will any corre- 

 spondent favour a septuagenarian by informing 

 him where the old song can be found, of which the 

 following words are all that he can recollect : 

 " Oh, go from the window, my dear, O my dear! 

 Oh, go from the window, my dear : 

 P'or tlie wind is in the west. 

 And the cuckoo's in its nest, 

 And you cannot be lodged here. 



The wind and the rain 

 Hath driven him back again ; 

 But he cannot be lodged here." 



