Aug. 21. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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for his execution the following morning. The governor 

 was so shocked, that he could not see tlie boy, hut 

 threw up his office : the boy, on returning from his 

 mother's house in the evening, was taken to the con- 

 demned cell, and garotted the next morning." — P. 64. 



K. P. D. E. 



More Gold — Meaning of '■^ Nugget.''' — I have 

 received by last mail a letter from George Town, 

 Demerary, in which my friend says : 



" Gold has been discovered in a state of great purity 

 in one of the tributaries to the Cayenne, I have seen 

 sixteen ounces in grains and nuggets." 



Is Sir Walter Raleigh's El Dorado to be at 

 length discovered? May I ask, whence comes the 

 word nugget? E. N. AV, 



Southwark. 



Acrostic on the Napoleon Family. — The names 

 of the male crowned heads of the extinct Napo- 

 leon dynasty form a remarkable acrostic : 

 N-apoleon, Emperor of the French. 

 I-oseph, King of Spain. 

 H-ieronymus, King of Westphalia. 

 I-oachim, King of Naples. 

 L-ouis, King of Holland, 



Clericus (D.) 



Literati. — The word which now confers honour, 

 had at one time a very different signification. 

 Among the Romans it was usual to affix some brand- 

 ing or ignominious letter on the criminal, when 

 the crime was infamous in its nature ; and persons 

 so branded were called inscripti, or .stigmatici, or 

 by a more equivocal term, literati. The same ex- 

 pression is likewise adopted in stat. 4 Henry VIH., 

 which recites " that diverse persons lettered liad 

 been more bold to commit mischievous deeds," &c. 



Clekicus (D.) 



Names of Places (Vol. v., pp. 196. 375., &c.). — 

 At the end of A Guide to Wohurn Abbey, London, 

 8vo., 1850, is a table of the "various ways of 

 spelling Woburn, collected from letters and par- 

 cels by the Postmaster." It seems almost incre- 

 dible, but yet it is the fact, that no less than two 

 hundred and forty-four diffl-rent modes of spelling, 

 or rather misspelling, the simple word Woburn, are 

 there recorded. It is worth noting that this place 

 is always called Wooburn. The following are a 

 few of the ingenious struggles of the unlearned in 

 their endeavours to commit to paper the name of 

 this delightful spot : 



" Houboun Hourbon Houbone Hawhurn, 

 Holbourn Hooben Noburn Owburn, 



Oohuin Uhoru Whrbourn Woubon, 



Woabbern Wubawrn Wolarn VVoswrin, 



WBun Whoobowen Wouboarene Wwoo Burn." 

 Sixty- one examples have H as the initial letter, 

 and twenty-two have O. 



W. Sparrow Simpson, B,A. 



HER.\LDIC QUERIES, 



I should feel very much obliged to any of your 

 heraldic readers who wouM be so kind as to 

 supply the names of the families to whom the 

 following arms and crests belong. 



1. Gu. a chev., ar. three pheons reversed. 

 Crest, a pheon within a wreath of olive or laurel. 



2. Ar. on a fesse, az. three cinquefoils. Crest, 

 a cornucopia. Motto, " Impendo." 



3. Ar. on a fesse, az. three pelicans vulning 

 themselves on a canton . . , two ragged staves in 

 saltire surmounted by a coronet. Crest, a ragged 

 stave encircled by a coronet, 



4. Or on a fesse dancette, az. three ermine 

 spots, in chief three crescents, all within a bordure 

 engr. gu. Crest, a hand and arm erect, habited 

 chequy and charged with a fesse dancette, in the 

 hand a crescent. Motto, " Donee totum impleat 

 orbem." 



5. Az, a fesse dancette, or between three mart- 

 lets, on a canton, gu, a lion pass, guard. . , [Page?] 



6. Per pale or, and gu. two lions ramp, atfrontee. 

 Crest, a dove. Motto, " Fide et fortitudine." 



7. A foreign shiehl, a fesse chequy az. and gu., 

 the upper portion of the shield tenne or sanguine 

 in the base, ar. a fleur-de-lis, , , . Crest, a cat's 

 head erased, round its neck a collar, apparently 

 chequy. 



8. Erm. on a bend, gu. three spread eagles. 

 Crest, a spread eagle. Motto, "Par mer par 

 terre," 



9. Az. a chev. erm. between three martlets. . . . 

 Crest, a cock. 



10. Gu. a cross or, between four birds (un- 

 known). . . , Quartering, 1, or on a bend, gu, 

 three crosses pattee fitchee ; 2. ar, on a fesse, gu, 

 three wolves' heads; 3. ar, a cross patunce az. be- 

 tween four spread eagles , , . , ; 4. az. on a bend, 

 or between six lozenges or fusils, three escallops 

 , . , ; 5. ar. on a bend sa. three annulets. . . . Im- 

 paling, sa. on a bend, ar, three cross crosslets. 

 Motto, " In alta tendo." 



11. Or a griffin segreanf. Crest, a demi-griffin. 

 Motto, " Esto quod esse videris," 



12. Ar. a chev., gu. surmounted by another erm. 

 between three slips of some shrub with lerries. 



13. ... a chev. chequy . . . between three foxes' 

 heads erased. Crest, a fox's head erased. 



14. Az. on a chev, ar, between three bucks' 

 heads erased, four roses. Crest, a buck's head 

 erased, 



15. Gu. a lion ramp. . . , double-queued within 

 a bordure engr. or. Crest, a lion as in the arms. 

 Motto, " Vive ut vivas." 



16. Az. a chev. ar., in base a spur rowel pierced 

 of the field. 



17. Or on a fesse engr, az, between three 

 horses' heads erased ... as many fleurs-de-lis. . . . 



