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Royal Arms in Churches (Vol. v., p. 559. ; 

 Vol. vi., p. 108.). — In tlie south chancel aisle of 

 Cogjjeshall Church will be found a hatchment 

 bearing the royal arms with the Hanoverian es- 

 cutcheon ; the writer believes it was painted on 

 the occasion of the public mourning for the 

 Princess Charlotte. A nicely carved royal arms 

 has been removed from one of the churches in the 

 Isle of Sheppey to ornament a chemist's shop in 

 Sheerness ; it is not known from which of the 

 churches. Alfeed. 



Roman or British Roads (Vol. vi., pp. 271. 328. 

 423.). — Without entering into the individual ques- 

 tion discussed, I beg leave to record my strong 

 doubt of E. G. K.'s statement, that the British roads 

 were wider than the Roman. I have had some ac- 

 quaintance with the principal Roman roads in 

 England, and, • incidentally, with some few traces 

 of British roads. I am not unacquainted with 

 Stukeley, Ilorseley, and Roy, and the result on 

 my mind is, that the British roads were narrow 

 lanes, and the Roman roads (except when some 

 local accident intervened) not only straight but 

 broad. Of this the most important artery of all, 

 the great Wailing Street, is an existing example. 



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Revolving Toy (Vol. vi., p. 386.). — Probably 

 the images were suspended in the lantern from a 

 broad hollow screen hanging freely over the light; 

 so that the hot air, ascending from the light, made 

 the screen and images turn, after the manner of a 

 smoke-jack. This would be a pretty toy to bring 

 up again. Quaere whether any use could be made 

 of the principle in revolving-lighthouses ? M. 



Parsley-led (Vol. vi., p. 386.). —What Locke 

 said used to be told in the seventeenth century, I 

 say used to be told in the nineteenth. I was told 

 that little girls came out of a parsley-bed, and 

 little boys from under a gooseberry-bush : or per- 

 haps it was the other way. But c'est egal, as the 

 Frenchman said. M. 



Quexpark. — The manor of Quex or Quekes is 

 the south-east portion of the parish of Birchington, 

 Isle of Thanet, co. Kent. (Vide Hasted, folio, iv. 

 p. 332.) A Query upon the family of Crispe of 

 Queekes and Clive Court, and of .Roy ton Chapel, 

 Lenham, all in co. Kent, touching a piece of royal 

 secret history, viz. as to a Crispe beiufj " a natural 

 child of King William the Third," ""by William 

 Winder of Montreal, will be found in p. 598. of 

 the Gentleman's Magazine of June, 1 847. 



Alfred. 



Highlands and Lowlands (Vol. vi., p. 863.). — 

 Your correspondent Mr. C. Forbes asks, if there 

 be any line, running from east to west, dividing 

 Scotland into Highlands and Lowlands. I reply 



there is not. There are large tracts of land in 

 Scotland that fall into a third category. I will 

 explain. Take a map and draw a line from For- 

 far to Oban. Let this line intersect the inter- 

 mediate points of Dunkeld, Crieff, Comrie, Loch 

 Earn Head, Callander, Aberfoyle, Ben Lomond, 

 Tarbet, and Inverary. All south of this line is 

 called the Lowlands ; but it by no means follows 

 that all north of it is the Highlands. For ex- 

 ample : the large tract of agricultural country- 

 lying north of the Grampians, and running into 

 Angus, Aberdeenshire, Murray, Sutherland, and 

 Caithness, is not called " Highlands." Generally 

 speaking, wherever divine service is performed in 

 Gaelic one part of the Sunday, and in English the 

 other, there are the Highlands. In the Lowlands, 

 and in the low territories of the North, the service 

 is always performed in English. I can give your 

 correspondent, if he wishes it, a geographical ac- 

 count of the Gaelic people and their language, but 

 I think I have said enough in reply to his Query. 

 C. Mansfield Ingleby. 

 Birmingham. 



Muffs worn by Gentlemen (Vol. v., p. 560. ; 

 Vol. vi., passim.). — Besides the various extracts 

 from different publications which you have already 

 noticed, the following may, perhaps, be worthy of 

 being mentioned. 



At the end of the comedy. The Mother -in- Law, 

 or the Doctor the Disease (printed in 1734), in the 

 denouement. Sir Credulous is exhorted to become 

 the physician to himself: 



" 'Tis but putting on the doctor's gown and cap, 

 and you'll have more knowledge in an instant than 

 you'll know what to do withall." 

 Then follows : 



Primrose. " Besides, Sir, if you had no other quali- 

 fication than this muff of yours, 'twould go a great 

 way. A muff is more than half in half in the making 

 of a doctor." 



There is a representation of a physician wearing 

 a muff in a caricature upon the endeavours of the 

 Licentiates of the College of Physicians to become 

 incorporated into the College as Fellows, entitled, 



" The March of the Medical Militant to the Siege 

 of Warwick Lane Castle, in the year 1767." 



I do not know who the persons represented are, 

 but only one among several is represented with 

 this appendage, so that I doubt Its being a common 

 dress, though possibly not unusual. S . W. J. M. 

 Brook Street. 



I have often heard a relative, who died In 1 808, 

 speak of having seen Charles Fox walking with 

 his hands in a muff, and with refZ-heeled shoes. 



F. W. J. 



Venom of Toads (Vol. vi., p. 338.). — As the 

 attention of the readers of " N. & Q." has recently 



