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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«"i S. V. 130., June 26, '58. 



heads covered in the church : for in the Queen's 

 injunctions it is ordered that whenever the name of 

 Jesus is pi-onounced in the service, " due rever- 

 ence be made of all persons, young and old, with 

 lowliness of coursie, and uncovering of the heads 

 of the Men-kind, as thereunto doth necessarily 

 belong, and heretofore hath been accustomed." — 

 Rushworth's Hist. Coll. vol. ii. pt. 2., App. 123. 

 How is this custom to be reconciled with 1 Cor. 



Xi. 4. 7. 16. ? EiRIONNACH. 



Heralds of Scotland {2^'^ S. v. 377. 424.) — The 

 Appendix to the First Report of the Select Com- 

 mittee on the Public Records, 1800, contains at pp. 

 402-5. much information concerning the office of 

 "Lord Lyon King-of-Arms " at Edinburgh, — a 

 summary of the documents on record there, a 

 table of fees, &c. Consult also Moule's Bihlio- 

 theca Heraldica, p. 607. 



Subsequent Record Commissions appear, like 

 Mr. Sims in his valuable Manual for Genealogists, 

 ^c, to have taken no notice of this department, 

 and the fact would seem to be that its contents 

 are of little importance. 



The Advocates' Library probably contains a 

 more valuable collection of heraldic and genealo- 

 gical MSS. 



I think your Querist will have some difficulty 

 in meeting with a copy of Mr. Riddell's Salt-foot 

 Controversy, with Remarks on the Present State of 

 the Lyon- Office, Edin. 1818, to which T. G. S. has 

 referred him, as only one hundred copies of that 

 tract were printed : I may, therefore, note that 

 the letters originally appeared in Blackwood's 

 Magazine, vol. i.-iii., though I have not been able 

 to find the remarks on the Lyon- Office in that 

 periodical. John Ribton Garstin. 



Dublin. 



Pitancia (2"<* S. v. 437.)— This is the Latinised 

 form of the well-known word pittance, which ori- 

 ginally meant the allowance of meat distributed 

 in a monastery. The following quotation given 

 by Spelman (voc. Pitanciarius), illustrates your 

 correspondent's Query : — 



"Johannes Dei Gratia, &c. . . . Noveritis, &c. Nos 



assensum nostrum praebuisse, &c de manerio de 



Mildehall . . . . ita quod qui pro tempore Sacrista fuerit 

 12 de reddita Altaris annuatim persolvat Hospitali S. 

 Salvatoris .... in usum pauperum, &c. et 40s. ad re- 

 fectionem Monachorum qui illis diebus officia divina pro 

 defunctis celebrabunt ; quae refectio Pitancia vocatur." 



J. Eastwood. 



Poplars leaning towards the East (2""^ S. v. 493.) 

 — This inclination is not peculiar to the poplar, 

 but may be observed in other trees. It is more 

 conspicuous in the poplar than in other trees be- 

 cause of its quicker growth and greater softness 

 and flexibility. The cause is the prevalence of 

 westerly winds, which preponderate in England. 

 Betwixt Selby and Leeds I have observed poplars 



growing at angles of 20 to 30 degrees out of per- 

 pendicular, all inclining to the east. Travellers 

 in other countries should note the inclination of 

 trees flexible like the poplar, as a certain indica- 

 tion of the prevalent direction of the wind. In 

 the Geography of Great Britain by the Useful 

 Knowledge Society (p. 105.), there is a table of the 

 winds prevalent in various parts of this country ; 

 from which it will appear that, on the average, 

 there are nearly two days winds from a westerly 

 direction for one day with winds from an easterly 

 direction. This ratio applies to the city of York 

 from observations made by Jonathan Gray, Esq., 

 during a period of fifteen years, as follows ; — 



The Beresford Ghost (2"-^ S. v. 487.) — It would 

 be exceedingly obliging if Mr. F. A, Stewart 

 could give in " N, & Q." an outline of the narra- 

 tion he finds in Lyons's Grand Jai'ies of the 

 County Westmeath.^ 



H. Daveney appears to be mistaken in saying 

 that the 33rd regiment fought at Bunker's Hill ; 

 but it was in America in 1784, and perhaps later, 

 thus possibly covering the time when Wynyard 

 and Sherbroke were together in the regiment, and 

 coming near to fixing the date of the occurrence. 



Candidus, 



Talking on the Fingers (2"'* S. v. 416.) — There 

 is an Illustrated Vocabulary for the use of the Deof 

 and Dumb, published during the past year by the 

 Committee of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Old 

 Kent Road, which perhaps will meet your corre- 

 spondent's needs. A. E. W. 



Arms ofBertrand du Guesclin (2°^ S. v. 494.) — 

 Bertrand du Guesclin, who served in 1342 at the 

 siege of Rennes, accompanied in 1351 Jean de 

 Beaumanoir in his embassy to England, and was 

 made Constable of France, Oct. 2, 1370, according 

 to Anselme, bore "d' argent a I'aigle eploye ou a 2 

 tetes de sable couronnees d'or a la bande de 

 gueules brochant sur le tout." But a woodcut in 

 a rare gothic folio printed at Lyons anno 1490, 

 and preserved in the Bibliotheque Royale at 



* Piazzi Smith (Teneriffe, 110.) refers to the N.-E. as 

 " that effete, unwholesome, used-up, polar stream." 



[f We have received a copy of this narrative from a 

 correspondent, and propose to insert it in an early num- 

 ber. — Ed. « N. & Q."] 



