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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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jects and different Occasions, chiefly adapted to Rural 

 Entertainment in the United States of America. 8vo. 

 1797. The Preface to this work also gives some ac- 

 count of Searson's residence in Ireland, where, he says, 

 " I lived happily for fifteen years, till another king (or 

 agent) arose, who knew not Joseph, who, in the most 

 inhuman, cruel, and tyrannical manner, made use of 

 his interest to have me put out of my place." The 

 work concludes with the following advertisement re- 

 specting himself: — "Being unemployed at present, 

 should any of my kind subscribers know of any vacancy 

 as tutor in some gentleman's family, a place in some 

 public office, genteel compting-house, or vacancy for a 

 schoolmaster, the author will be grateful for the favour 

 of acquainting him of it. He may be heard of by 

 applying to Mr. Mathew Carey, of Market Street, 

 bookseller."] 



Haberdon, or Hahyrdon. — A manor now belong- 

 ing to the school at Bury St. Edmund's bears this 

 name. Can any meaning be given to the word ? 



The land formerly belonging to the Abbey of 

 St. Edmund, several registers of that monastery, 

 A.D. 1520 and 1533, let the said manor of Habyr- 

 don, on condition the tenant should yearly find one 

 white bull, &c. The leases all describe this manor of 

 Habyrdon, and make it specially necessary to find 

 a white bull. The land is contiguous to the town 

 of Bury, and Is called Haberdon at the present 

 time, presents a hilly appearance, and remains of 

 ancient intrenchments. I have not heard of any 

 other place by this name. C. G. 



Paddington. 



Holies Family. — I am very desirous of obtaining 

 any information that can be procured concerning 

 the Holies family prior to the time of Sir William, 

 who was Lord Mayor of London in 1540. I should 

 also be obliged if any of your numerous correspon- 

 dents can inform me, whether that member of the 

 family who married a lady named Gelks, I think 

 since 1700, left any posterity; from whom he was 

 descended, and in what county he lived ? Also, 

 who the Gelkses were, and whether the family is 

 represented now ; and, if so, of what county they 

 are? 



The arms of the Holleses were — Ermine, two 

 piles conjoining in the points sable. The crest was 

 a boar's head erased, azure, langued gules, pierced 

 with a pheon. 



The Gelks bore — Ermine, three chevrons azure, 

 charged with nine bezents inter nine annulets 

 gules. M. T. P. 



Reading. 



" To lie at the Catch " (Vol. vi., p. 5Q.). — From 

 accidental circumstances I have only lately seen 

 the notice of my Query. Will you excuse my 

 saying that I do not yet understand the meaning 



of the phrase " To lie at the catch," and that I 

 shall be greatly obliged if you or any of your 

 correspondents will explain it further, or, in other 

 words, give me a paraphrase that will suit the two 

 passages I have quoted. M. D. 



Names of Planets — Spade, — Woxild any of 

 your coi-respondents give me some information 

 respecting the names of the different planets of our 

 system, whether their titles are coeval with the 

 apotheosis of the various denizens of Olympus 

 whose names they bear; or whether such names 

 were bestowed upon the heavenly bodies at some 

 later date In honour of those divinities ? 



I should also like to hear explained, how the 

 word spade, which from its affinities In other lan- 

 guages would appear to have originally meant 

 sword, ever came to be transferred from a weapon 

 of war to the useful and harmless Implement It 

 now designates. OuSec. 



Arms in painted Glass. — The following arms 

 have recently been found in some decorated win- 

 dows of the early part of the fourteenth century. 

 Information as to whom belonging would be 

 esteemed a favour. 



1. Gules, a chevron, or. 



2. Quarterly, first and fourth gules, a mullet, 

 or, second and third sable, a cross, or. 



3. Argent, on a chevron, or, three bucks' heads 

 caboshed, tincture indistinct, probably sable. 



QUiERENS. 



The Sign of " The Two Chances."— An inn, at 

 Clun, in this county, bears the unusual sign of 

 " The Two Chances." What can this mean ? 

 Mine host is also Registrar of Births and Deaths 

 for the district. Does it refer to these two 

 chances ? George S. Master. 



Welsh- Hampton, Salop. 



Consecrators of English Bishops. — It may 

 appear a waste of space to insert in your columns 

 my Queries on this subject ; but when you consider 

 that I have been an exile In India for the last 

 eleven years, and consequently unable to refer, in 

 this country', to authorities, which are easily ac- 

 cessible at home, I venture to hope that you will 

 not only give a place to this, but also that you, or 

 some clerical reader of " N. & Q.," will afford me 

 the required information. 



I have continued Mr. Perceval's list of English 

 consecrations, given in his able work, An Apology 

 for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession, 2nd 

 edition of 1841, but have been unable to complete 

 It with the names of the consecrators of the fol- 

 lowing prelates, the objects of my Query ; viz. 

 1. Bishop Gilbert, of Chichester, on 27th Fe- 

 bruary, 1842; 2. Bishop Field, of Newfoundland, 

 28th April, 1844; 3, 4, & 5. Bishops Turton of 

 Ely, Medley of Fredericton, and Chapman of 



