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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Xo. 147. 



Crest, a goat's Lead coiipcd charged with three 

 pellets. 



18. Per fesse gu. and az., on the dexter side a 

 £i'ee, on the sinister a lion vamp. Crest, a dragon's 

 head holding in its month a hand. 



19. Crest, a griffin segreant holding a flower and 

 stalk, apparently a roso. 



20. Crest, a sea-lion's head erased charged with 

 a rose. 



21. Crest, between two antlers an eagle rising. 



22. Crest, per fesse erni. and gu. a lion's head 

 era'^ed, ducallv crowned. 



23. A deini-sprcad eagle. Motto, " Nee ge- 

 nerant aquilas columbam." 



24. Arms, az. three arrows. To what family 

 whose name begins with a G does this coat be- 

 long ? 



25. Arms, ar. a fret . . . quartering Middleton 

 of Yorkshire, and impaling gu. a chev. ar. be- 

 tween three birds, a chief erm. 



Reginald De MELMEKnY. 



PASSAGES IN BINGHAM. 



Having at length almost entirely completed the 

 honci fide verification of the 15,000 citations and 

 upwards in the whole works of my learned an- 

 cestor, I am at a loss only for about twenty pas- 

 sages, which lie in a very few scarce works, with 

 Avhich I am unable to meet at any of the great 

 libraries to which I have hitherto had access. 



It occurs to me that some of your numerous 

 readers may be able to inform me where I may be 

 more successful in finding the very few authors I 

 still need. 



I have given the titles and dates, and shall feel 

 very grateful for any resolution of my difficulty. 



1. Cyprianus Galbis s. Toloncnsis, Vita Ccesai-ii 

 Arclatensis. Lugduni, 1613, 4to. 



2. Ma7-c. Ant. de Dominis s. Spalatensis, De 

 Communione Peregrina. Paris, 1645, 4to. 



3. Hallier Fr., De Hierarchia Ecclesiastica 

 con'ra Cellotrum. Paris, 1646, 4to. or 8vo. ? 



4. Henao Gabriel, De Sacrificio Missce. Lugd., 

 1635, fol. 



5. Milletot Bai-thol., De Legitima Indiciim Sacu- 

 larium Potestate in Peisonce Ecclesiasticas. Fran- 

 cofurt, 1613. 



6. Bdbunus Maurus, De Proprietate Sermonis, 

 ^•c, lib. i. cap. 10. 



7. Radidphiis Ardens, Sermones de Tempore, 

 Antwerp, 1576, Svo. 



8. Vedelius (Nicolas'), Exercitationes in IrencEum 

 l^Ignatiumf]. Genev., 1623, 4to. 



9. Homerus Tortora, Historia Francice s 

 Franco7'um [?]. 



10. Catechismus Ursini, cum Epist- Dedicator. 

 David. Parcei. Hanoviae, 1651, 8vo. 



Richard Bingham, Jk. 

 Hampstead, Aug. 11. 1852. 



TWO FULL MOONS IN JULY. 



Perhaps many of your readers are aware that 

 some months ago a paragraph appeared in the 

 daily papers, stating that in the present year 

 occurred a remarkable instance of two full moons 

 in the same month, July ; and that it was found, 

 on referring to the Annual Register, that the last 

 year on which the same occurrence took place, 

 which, if my memory serves me correctly, was 

 1765, was remarkable for the number of thunder- 

 storms and extraordinary falls of rain that visited 

 this country as well as the Continent of Europe ; 

 implying a kind of prediction that we were to ex- 

 pect much the same visitations during the present 

 year. I need hardly say how accurately the weather 

 during the last month or so has verified this con- 

 jecture. 



On referring to Strype {Ann., vol. i. part i. 

 p. 404.: Oxon. 1824) it will be found that the year 

 1561 was famous for the thunderstorms and heavy 

 falls of rain which took place. He says : 



" The 30th (July), about eight or nine, was a groat 

 thundering and lightning as any man had ever lieard, 

 till past ten. After that great rain till midnight, inso- 

 much that the people tliought the world was at an end, 

 and the day of doom was come, it was so terrible. This 

 tempestuous weather was much this summer. Tlm« 

 the 21st of this July it rained sore, beginning on Sun- 

 day night and lasting till Monday night ; and the 5th 

 and 6th of the same month were great rains and thun- 

 derinps in London. What mischief was done by the 

 dreadful thundering and lightning, June 4tli, was 

 told before ; and before tliis April 20th were great 

 thunder, lightning, rain, and hailstones, for bigness the 

 like whereof had scarce ever been seen." 



The storm on the 4th June, alluded to above, is 

 recorded by Strype to have injured " the steeple 

 of St. Martin's church by Ludgate ; " and — 



" The same day, about four or five of the clock at after- 

 noon, the lightnin;:; took St. Paul's Church, and 'set the 

 steeple on fire; and never left till the steeple and bells, 

 and top of the church, were all consumed unto tl)e 

 arches . . . and in divers other places of England 

 great hurt was done with lightning." 



Can any of your readers inform me whether there 

 were two full moons in one month during the year 

 1561 ? I am a complete sceptic in the matter of 

 the moon's influence on the weather, but still 

 curious about this matter. H. C. K. 



— Rectory, Hereford. 



ANOTHER DODO QUERY. 



The following Query is proposed suggestively, 

 not with the view of provoking fruitless discussion ; 

 and as the subject is, I presume, interesting only 

 to a few, who are well acquainted with all the 

 evidence bearing upon it, I shall avoid all unne- 

 cessary explanations and quotations. The Query, 



