Oct. 2. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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formation. It is the figure of a knight in ring 

 mail. It has ailettes, rarely found on stone effi- 

 gies : they are lateral and plain. The surcoat is 

 long in front as well as behind, and entirely hides 

 the knees. The general style of the figure would 

 accord with the latter part of Edward I.'s reign. 

 The shield, I'lowever, says Edward III. ; for on it 

 are arms quartered, which does not occur, I be- 

 lieve, before this reign. Milner (vol. ii. p. 75.) 

 gives the arms, and adds a few words about the 

 knight. 



" Two bulls passant, gorged with collars and bells, 

 quarterly with three garbs, for the princely family of 

 De Foix, of which was Captal de la Buch (Bouch Piers 

 de Greilly), Knight of the Gaiter of the first creation 

 by Edward HI. Hie jacet Willielmus comes de In- 

 sula Vana, alias VVineall. 



" The parish lies upon the river (near Winchester), 

 and may have been formerly insulated." 



" Earl of Wlnnall" (Verger's account). " Wyn- 

 hale " is the name of the place in the Records. It 

 is now called Winnall. John de Foix, son of the 

 Capitan de la Busche, wag, according to Dugdale 

 (Nicolas negat), created Earl of Kendal c. 1449. 

 Can tradition, out of this, have created an Earl of 

 Winnall ? The knight was probably Dominus de 

 Wynhale. 



The Earl of Pembroke, who died 22 Edward III., 

 bore Hastings and Valences quarterly. 



Is there an earlier well-authenticated instance 

 of arms borne quarterly ? Yorke (Union of Honour, 

 p. 319.) so represents the arms of Hugh Despenser, 

 Earl of Winchester (who was beheaded 1326) ; 

 and Mr. Dillwyn (Archaeological Journal, vol. iii. 

 p. 277.) found at Meath encaustic tiles with ar- 

 morial bearings ; among these Despenser quar- 

 terly. Neath was part of the possessions of 

 Gilbert Earl of Gloucester, whose sister and co- 

 heir was married to Hugh Despenser the younger, 

 who was executed 1326. The arms on the tile 

 may be his son's, who married a Montacute, and 

 their arms are on another. This son, Hugh the 

 third, died in 1348. 



According to Yorke, the De Foix arms were 

 Cows, not bulls, as Milner calls them. Perhaps 

 arms were quartered earlier on the Continent than 

 in England, F. L. 



Minox ^mxiti. 



English Nobleman in the Service of Henri 

 Quaire. — A French MS. of 1653, which as 

 authority quotes another MS. journal, a writer of 

 the time of Henry IV. of France, and resident at 

 Dieppe, says that " M. de Vardes left Dieppe the 

 1st August, 1589, to join the king (Henry IV.). 

 He took with him a young English lord, whose 

 train consisted of seven horses very magnificently 

 equipped, and of several men so well armed that 

 every one admired the followers of that stranger." 



Can any of the readers of " N. & Q." inform me 

 who this lord was, and whether the Memoires of 

 the time mention any one who took service with 

 Henr/ IV. in 1589 ? E. N. W. 



Sauthwark. 



" The Shift Shifted"— On the 10th of December, 

 1716, Isaac Dalton being convicted a second time 

 for publishing The Shift Shifted, was sentenced to 

 stand in the pillory in Newgate Street, fined 

 twenty marks, and to be imprisoned a year after 

 his first imprisonment expired. Any one of your 

 subscribers who can state the nature of this pub- 

 lication will oblige your constant reader 



W. D. Haggard. 



The Chaunting of Jurors. — It appears by a 

 petition which was presented to the Court of Ex- 

 chequer in Ireland, in the year 1669, by John 

 Voyle, " a poore distressed Englishman " from 

 Pembrokeshire, stating that he " beinge a young 

 slipp, parted from his friends in England and came 

 to Dublin, where he met with a Captain George 

 Pardon, who took him to the county of Clare, and 

 bound him apprentice to a ship carpenter ; that a 

 difference arose between the captain and the car- 

 penter, and the captain sent the petitioner to 

 gaol, who had no friends to bail him ; that he was 

 accused of perjury by the captain, indicted, found 

 guilty, fined 20/., and committed to the county 

 gaol, where he has remained in irons, living upon 

 tlie charity of good people since the 9th of Ja- 

 nuary, 1667." It further appears by a certificate 

 of several justices of the peace, that the petitioner 

 traversed the ind'ctmant at the quarter sessions, 

 and was found guilty upon the evidence — 

 " of one tliat tooke his oath to give evidence for the 

 King, but said nothin,^ materiall in the least to prove 

 the same, but yet the jury found him guilty, at which 

 the Bench admireing called them to goe back and 

 chaunt further on it, and since there was no evidence, 

 to make a return suitable, but they refused." 

 May I take leave to ask, Is it meant by the word 

 " chaunt" that the jury should further deliberate, 

 and has the word been used in England in that 

 sense ? J. F. F. 



Dublin. 



Bemarhable Voyage. — In Fournier's Hydro- 

 graphy, book iv. chap, v., edit. 1643, is the ibllow- 

 ing passage : 



" Nous scavons que les Anglois ont fait plus de 800 

 lieues sans voir terre dans une chaloupe pour traverser 

 des Isles Bermude en Ireland, par une mer des plus 

 faschieuses que soient au monde, que si une chaloupe de 

 3 tonneau a peu tenir des hommes et de vivres suflfi. 

 sants pour un tel traiet : pourquoi les anciens n'auront- 

 ils pen faire le mesme," &c. 



Is there any mention of any such voyage being 

 performed, and, if so, what was the date, by whom, 

 and on what account was it undertaken ? 



