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and denies the " Judaeus odor," does not notice 

 the opinion that it is removed by baptism. H. 



Lord Lyon King-at-Arms, Scotland. — Where is 

 there an account of the orijjin of this office, and of 

 the different possessors of it ? Scotland does not, I 

 believe, possess any corresponding work to Noble's 

 History of the College of Arms, and I know of no 

 history which contains the above-desired inform- 

 ation collectively. To trace the succession of the 

 Lord Lyon Kings-at-Arms would be interesting, 

 as many celebrated, and even illustrious, indivi- 

 duals held that high office in Scotland. Poets as 

 well as warriors might be mentioned amongst the 

 number. A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



Louisa Lady Gordon of Gordonstoun, N. B. — 

 This lady, who was the only child of Dr. John 

 Gordon, Dean of Salisbury in England, and Lord 

 of Glenluce in Scotland, married, 1653, Sir Ro- 

 bert Gordon, son of the Earl of Sutherland (better 

 known as the historian of that earldom), who was 

 created a baronet in 1625, and died in 1656. Their 

 lineal male descendants became extinct in 1795, in 

 the person of their great-great-grandson. Sir Wil- 

 liam, the sixth baronet. What I desire to ascer- 

 tain is, who was Lady Gordon's father, this dean 

 of Salisbury ; his marriage, death, &c., and more 

 especially how he was Lord of Glenluce ? Per- 

 haps some of your antiquarian subscribers may be 

 able to assist me in these inquiries. A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



Contested Elections. — What book gives an ac- 

 curate account of all the contested elections since 

 the Restoration, and prior to the Reform Bill ? I 

 have one or two wretched compilations ; but it 

 seems no Dod existed before ihQ flood. X. Y. Z. 



Game of the Whetstone. — In Lambarde's Per- 

 ambulation of Kent (page 110., ed. 1596), the 

 author, remarking on Ealred's assertion that King 

 Edward the Confessor saw at mass the seven 

 sleepers at Ephesus turn on one side after having 

 slept seventy years together on the other, says : 



" Which seeing it was within five years of so many 

 as Epimenides slept, Ealred (in my phansie) is worthie 

 to have tlie second game at the whetstone." 



In the margin the note to this is — 



" i Loue Lye or game for the whetstone." 



Halliwell, in his Dictionary, says that in old 

 authors frequent allusions occur to the custom of 

 decorating notorious liars with whetstones ; but I 

 would thank any of your readers for a fuller ac- 

 count of "y" game for y'= whetstone." What is 

 known of Lambarde, or Lambert, as Gervase 



Markham calls him? Was his Topographicall 

 Dictionarie (mentioned, as prepared for' the press, 

 in the Perambidation) ever published, and what 

 other works by him exist ? E. G. R. 



[The extracts from our early writers given by Brand 

 and Nares furnish some clue to the origin and charac- 

 ter of the game of the whetsone ; when the social and 

 convivial combatants sharpened their wits to see wha 

 could gain the satirical prize of the silver whetstone by 

 telling the greatest lie. In Lupton's Too Good to he 

 True, p. 80., is the following passage, somewhat illus- 

 trative of the game : 



" Siuqila. Merry and pleasant lyes we take rather for 

 a sport than a sin. Lying with us is so loved and al- 

 lowed, that there are many tymes gamings and prises 

 therefore purposely, to encourage one to outlye ano- 

 ther. 



" Omen. And what shall he gaine that gets the vic- 

 torie in lying? 



" Siuqila. He shall have a silver whetstone for his 

 labour." 



William Lambarde was born October 18, 1536. 

 He was the eldest son of John Lambarde, alderman of 

 London. In 1570 he resided at West Combe, near 

 Blackheath, a manor he then possessed. He purposed 

 publishing a general account of Great Britain, of 

 which his Perambulation of Kent was but the specimen; 

 and he was only deterred by learning that Camden was 

 engaged on a similar task. His materials were pub- 

 lished from the original manuscript in 1730, under the 

 title oi Dictionarium Anglice Topographicum et Histori- 

 cum, to which is prefixed a portrait of the author, en- 

 graved by Vertue. His first work was Archaionomia, 

 sive de priscis Anglorum legibus lihri, 1568, 4to. He 

 also wrote Eirenarcha ,- or, the Office of the Justices 

 of the Peace, and Duties of Constables : Archeion, a 

 Discourse upon the High Courts of Justice. In 1600 

 he was appointed by Queen Elizabeth Keeper of the 

 Records in the Tower; and in the following year he 

 presented her Majesty with an account of them, under 

 the title Pandecta Rotulorum. He died at his residence 

 at West Combe, August 19, 1601, and was buried in 

 the Church of St. Alphege, Greenwich, where a monu- 

 ment was erected to his memory. In after days this* 

 mortuary memorial was removed to the Church of 

 Sevenoaks, in which parish the family now possesses a 

 seat. Lambarde was the first Churchman after the 

 Reformation who founded a hospital. It was called 

 " The College of the Poor of Queen Elizabeth at 

 Greenwich, Kent," and was opened in 1576.] 



Meals. — On the N.W. coast of Norfolk are 

 certain sandbanks so called. Brancaster Meals, 

 Blakeney Meals, and Wells Meals are among- 

 those most dreaded by the mariner. 



In Bailey's Dictionary occurs, 



" Meales, Malls. The shelves or banks of sand on the 

 sea-coasts of Norway." 



Can Norway be a misprint for Norfolk? It 

 occurs Norway in ten or twelve editions of Bailey 

 which I have examined. I can find no mention of 

 " meals " or " malls " in any map of Norway, ex- 



