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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. NO 114., Mar. 6. '58. 



of thought and speech ; seldom, if ever, to the 

 bodily appearance. 



It is probable that this expression is derived 

 from a story related by Conrad Weiser, a famous 

 trader amongst the American Indians, in the last 

 century. He states that an Indian who arrived in 

 Albany one Sunday morning called upon a trader 

 of his acquaintance at once to sell his furs. He 

 found the trader on the point of setting out for 

 church, who told him that he could only give him 

 two-and-sixpence a pound for his skins, but that, 

 as this was their day of rest, they must postpone 

 trading until the next day. The Indian had to 

 acquiesce, and accepted an invitation to accom- 

 pany his friend to church, where, he was told, the 

 white people went once a-week to learn good 

 things. The Indian got along very comfortably 

 until the time for the sermon came. He then fancied 

 that the clergyman looked at him angrily, and 

 spoke of him to the congregation. Upon which he 

 retired, and smoked his pipe upon the steps until 

 the meeting broke up. He then spoke to other 

 traders of his acquaintance, but the only price that 



was offered to him was the same old two-and-six- 

 pence. Whence he concluded that the white men 

 attended church, not to learn good things, as was 

 pretended, but to learn how to cheat Indians in 

 the price of beaver-skins. Uneda. 



eauerted. 



BEVETT ARMS. 



Though it is not an uncommon thing to find 

 the same family using two or more different 

 crests, instances of coat-armour entirely different 

 in character, yet borne by the same person, and 

 in conjunction with the same crest, are, I believe, 

 somewhat rare. One example at least of such a 

 custom has received the highest heraldic sanction, 

 for the following pedigree has been extracted 

 from three MSS. of Heralds' Visitations in the 

 Bodleian and Queen's College Library, Oxford; 

 viz. Camden's, in 1619, for Cambridgeshire, and 

 Harvey's, in 1561, for Suffolk : — 



Thos. Ryvett, of Stowmarket, Esq.=Jane, daughter of Thos. Raven, Esq. 



James=Dorothy, 

 daughter 

 of John 

 Soome, 

 Esq. 



Mirabell= 



=Wra. Burd, 

 of London, 

 Esq. 



Alice, daughter=Sir Thos.=Griselda, youngest 



of Sir John 

 Cotton, ofLan- 

 wade, Knt. 



Wr 



Revett, 

 Knt, of 

 London. 



daughter of Wm. 

 Lord Paget. 



Revett. 



John. 



Thomas=Catharine, daughter 

 to Wm. Cotton, 

 Esq., of Essex. ' 



Susan. 



Mirabell. 



Alice=Thos. Gerard, Esq. Anne=:Lord Windsor. 



Elizabeth=Sir William Russel, Bt. 



Thomas. 



Anne=:Sir Henry Clowell, Knt. 



Edward. 



In the margin of both copies of the Suffolk Visi- 

 tation are tucked these arms : per pale, argent 

 and sable, on a chevron between three mascles as 

 many martlets, all counterchanged ; in the Cam- 

 bridgeshire Visitation, argent, three bars sable, in 

 chief as many trivets of the last quartering the 

 former coat and raven, or, on an orb, gules, a raven 

 proper. Another branch of this family was seated 

 at Brandeston Hall, in Suffolk, from the year 

 1548 to 1809, when the direct male line became 

 extinct, and I believe always bore the second 

 coat, that with the trivets. The same coat is also 

 found upon the monument of James, eldest son of 

 Thos. Kyvett. He was a man of some note in his 

 day, and had the honour of entertaining Queen 

 Elizabeth in her progress through Norfolk and 

 Suffolk in 1578, of which Churchyard gives this 

 description: — "From Sir Thomas Hidson's (Hen- 

 grave Hall) to Maister Kevet's, where all things 

 were well and in very good order, and meate 

 liberally spent." He lies buried in the chancel of 

 Battlesden church, with this inscription : " Here 



lyeth James Ryvett, Esqurre, and Dorothy his 

 wife. He was Councellor in y^ Lawe, Custos Ro- 

 tulorum, and Justis of Peace, and Quorh in y" 

 County of Suff. He departed this life the 30 of 

 January, a.d. 1587. She the 23rd of August, 

 1617. 



"'Paternes of virtue imytable ever 

 Yet ymytated sild, but equalled never, 

 An orphane chyld w*out or meed or merit 

 Onely her hopes their Virtues to inherit, 

 This to her Parents' fame so dedicates 

 That their Renowne might overturne their Fates. 



Pia Proles unicaque Filia hoc monumentum posuit 

 memoria; ergo.' " 



Indeed, the arms, as given in the Suffolk Visita- 

 tion, appear to have been seldom or never used 

 by any Suffolk branch of the family. I have seen 

 the other coat in stained glass of the seventeenth 

 century at Preston church, on the roof of Parhara 

 church, on monuments at Bildeston, Great Saxham, 

 and Stoke by Nayland : all in that county. The 

 monument in the last-mentioned church is a very 



