Sept. 11. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



249 



In the Journal of the House of Commons, under 

 tlie date " May 8, 1660, 12 Car. II.," we find : 



" Resolved, That the Arms of the Commonwealth, 

 which are now placed on the Speaker's chair, be forth- 

 with taken down, and that the King's Majesty's Arms 

 be set up there, instead thereof; and whereon the Arms 

 of the Commonwealth are set up, that they be taken 

 down, and the King's Majesty's Arms set up instead 

 thereof: And Mr. Pryn Is to take care to see this 

 order put in execution." 



K. 



" MERCHANT OF VENICE," ACT III. SC. 2. 



I have a short rejoinder for j\Ir. Singer, as I 

 do not think he clearly sees the question from my 

 point of view. I do not say that gilding may not 

 be used as a means of deception, or that the same 

 term may not be used figuratively for the same 

 purpose ; but that is not the point. Not even 

 figuratively does or can "gilded" mean "deceitful." 

 A '■'■gilded snake" does not mean a '■'■deceitful 

 snake." Deceit is implied in the contrast between 

 the outward ornament and the supposed concealed 

 bad qualities : hence, an attractive bad woman 

 may be called a '•'■ gilded %n&kQ ;" but the adjective 

 simply figures her beauty, or such qualities as 

 seem beautiful. Thus, too, "deceit" may be 

 "gilded," as in the quotation INIr. Singer fur- 

 nishes from A Lover s Complaint, the adjective 

 in this case being used merely as a figure for 

 " smiling." 



In the case in question, the object is to illus- 

 trate the deceptive nature of "ornament" by 

 known characteristics of other objects : for this 

 purpose we do not need figures, for each illustra- 

 tion itself is a figure ; and the expression " a 

 gilded shore" is therefore incongruous and un- 

 meaning. I do not mean to say that writers of 

 less power than Shakspeare would not make use 

 of metaphors as confused and illogical, and con- 

 found cause and effect ; but we are not dealing 

 with such writers now. Samuel Hickson. 



HUGH LUPUS, EARL OP CHESTER. 



(Vol.vi., p. 100.) 



I beg to inclose you, for the satisfaction of your 

 correspondent A. S. A., all the particulars which 

 I can at present collect (with the authorities for 

 the same) respecting Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, 

 and his brother-in-law, Ranulph de Meschines, 

 Earl of Carlisle. 



Vincent (Discovery of Brooke's Errors, p. 2.) 

 quotes Ordericus Vitalis : "Rex Gulielraus (speak- 

 ing of the Conqueror) Odoni Campaniensi nepoti 

 Theobaldi Comitis, qui sororem habebat ejusdem 

 Regis, filiam scilicet Rodberti Ducis, dedit Comita- 

 tum Holderness£e." 



Yorke (Union of Honour, p. 67.) merely speaks 



of Eudo, " Earl of Albemarle and Holder n esse," 

 as " a valiant knight." 



Anderson (Royal Genealogies, p. 637.) and L'Art 

 de Verifier les Dates (8vo. ed. vol. xi. p. 35o.) give 

 the second marriage of Eudo (Count of Blois, and 

 first Count of Champagne) with Matilda or Maud, 

 daughter of Richard I., Duke of Normandy, but 

 loithout issue. 



Henninges gives, as the third wife of Eudo 

 Count of Blois, and first Count of Champagne,. 

 " Mathildis filia Richardi Intrepidi, Normanniae 

 Ducis, et Gunnorse Dunicae, quibus nuptiis pacem 

 a Normannis redemit. Obiit ctTrais." 



Pere Anselme (vol. ii. p. 857.) says of Eudo, 

 Count de Blois and Champagne, " Le Pere Liron 

 lui donne une premiere Femme, Mathilde, fille de 

 Richard I., Due de Normandie, luquelle mourut 

 sans enfiins." 



Dugdale (Baronage, vol. I. p. 60.), Earl of 

 Albemarle and Holdernesse. " The first who 

 had this honour conferred upon him, was Odo, 

 Earl of Champagne, a person nearly allied to King 

 William by consanguinity, being grandson of 

 Maud, daughter to Richard, Dvdce of Normandy, 

 wife of Odo, Earl of Blois and Chartres." 



From the above extracts, I am disposed to think 

 that Eudo, Earl of Albemarle and Holdernesse, 

 was paternally (and not matei-nally, as stated by 

 A. S. A.) related to AVilliara the Conqueror; but 

 I have been unable to adduce proofs of his being 

 of the family of the Counts of Blois and Cham- 

 pagne, as alleged by Dugdale. 



Legitimate Children of Harlotta and HerJain. 

 Olio, Bp. of Biyeux, Robert, created Emma = Richard, 



created Earl of 

 Kent, by his half- 

 brother William 

 the Conqueror. 



Karl of Mor- 

 taign. 



Count 



of Av- 



ranches. 



Hugh Lupus, created Earl of Chester, 1070. 



Anderson's Royal Genealogies, p. 7-11. 



Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester. 



Richard de Abrincis=Emma, half-sister to Kin? William the 

 Conqueror, daughter of Herloin, a 

 Norman nobleman, by Arlotta, the 

 Conqueror's motlier. 



Hugh, sur-=Ermentrude, danchter Maud, -Ith .s^Ralph de 

 named I.u- of Hugh de Clere- daughter. A Mischines. 



pus. Earl mont, Earlof Sevoys 

 of Chester, in France. 

 Ob. 1101. 



Banks's Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England, 

 vol. i.p. 211. 



Rafe de Medicis, or Meschines (son of the Vis- 

 count of Baieulx, by his wife, base-daughter to 

 Richard III., Duke of Normandy), being Viscount 

 of Baieulx, came into England with the Conqueror,, 

 whose kinsman he seemeth to be by the mother's 

 side, bringing with him two younger brothers, 

 William and Gefii-ey, whom the Conqueror en- 

 riched with many seigniories and large possessions. 



