Jak. 22. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



83 



The Dodo. — Amonp; the seals, or rather sulphur 

 casts, in the British Museum, is one of Nicholas 

 Sauinares, anno 1400. It represents an esquire's 

 helmet, from which depends obliquely a shield with 

 the arms — supporters — dexter a unicorn, sinis- 

 ter a greyhound ; crest, a bird, which from its un- 

 wieldy body and disproportionate wings I take to 

 be a Dodo : and the more probability attaches it- 

 self to this conjecture, since Dodo seems to have 

 been the surname of the Counts de Somery, or 

 Somerie fqnery Saumarez), as mentioned in p. 2. 

 of Add. MSS. 17,455. in the British Museum, and 

 alluded to in a former No. of " N. & Q." This 

 seal, like many others, is not in such a state of 

 preservation as to warrant the assertion that we 

 have found a veritable Dodo. I only offer it as 

 a hint to Mb. Strickland and others, that have 

 written so learnedly on this head. Burke gives a 

 falcon for the crest of Saumarez ; but the clumsy 

 form and figure of this bird does not in any way 

 assimilate with any of the falcon tribe. 



Dodo seems also to have been used as a Christian 

 name, as in the same volume of MSS. quoted above 

 we find Dodo de Cisuris, &c. Clarence Hopper. 



Francis I. — Mention has been made in " N. & 

 Q." of Francis I.'s celebrated " Tout est perdu 

 horniis I'honneur ! " but the beauty of that phrase 

 is lost in its real position, — a long letter to Louisa 

 of Savoy, his mother. The letter is given at full 

 length in Sismondi's Histoire des Francais. 



M— aL. 



«a«en>iS. 



Dr. ANtHONT MARSHALL. 



In 1662 Anthony Marshall, D.D., was Rector of 

 Bottesford, in Leicestershire. Nichols adds a 

 query after his name ; whether he were of the 

 Bishop of Exeter's fiimily ? and a note, that An- 

 thony IMarshall was created D.D. at Cambridge in 

 1661 by royal mandate {Hist. Leic, vol. ii. p. 77.) ; 

 and apiin. Dr. Anthony Marshall preached a 

 Visitation Sermon at Melton in 1667, Aug. 11. I 

 do not find that any Bishop of Exeter bore the 

 name of Marshall except Henry Marshall in 1191, 

 of course too far back to suppose that the Query 

 could refer to him ; but I have not introduced this 

 Note to quarrel with Mr. Nichols, but to ask if 

 this is all that is known of a man wlio must, in his 

 day, have attained to considerable eminence. I 

 more than suspect that this Dr. Marshall was a 

 native of Staveley in Derbyshire. Sir Peter 

 Prescheville, in his will, dated in 1632, gives to 

 St, John's College, Cambridge, 601 " for the buy- 

 ing of bookes to furnish some one of the desks in 

 the new library lately built and erected in the 

 said college ; and expresses his desire that the said 

 money shall be layed forth, and the bookes bought, 

 provided, and placed in the said library by the 



paines, care, and discression of his two loveing 

 friends, Mr. Robert Hitch, late Fellow of Trinity 

 College in Cambridge ; and Mr. Robert Marshall, 

 Fellow of St. John's College* ; or the survivor of 

 them," — which last Robert, I suspect, should be 

 Anthony. 



In 1677 Anthony Marshall, D.D., Rector of 

 Bottesford, was a subscriber of lOZ. towards a fund 

 then raised for yearly distribution; and there is 

 only one name precedes his, or subscribes a larger 

 amount, and that is Dr. Hitch before named. 



Mr. Bagshaw, in his Spiritttalibus Pecci, 1701, 

 p. 61., referring to Thomas Stanley, one of the 

 ejected ministers, says : 



" Mr. Stanley was born at Dackmonton, tliree miles 

 from Chesterfield, where he had part of his education, 

 as he had another part of it at Staley, not far from it. 

 His noted schoolmaster was one Mr. Marshall, whose 

 brother made a speech to King James I." 



Is there any means of corroborating this incident? 

 In 1682 I observe the name of Dr. Marshall 

 amongst the King's Chaplains in Ordinary, and a 

 Dr. Marshall (perhaps the same individual) Dean 

 of Gloucester ; but whether idenlified in the 

 Doctor about whom I inquire, remains a Query. 



U. J. s. 



Sheffield. 



LINDIS, MEANING Or. 



We are told by Bede that Lindisfarne, now Holy 

 Island, derives the first part of its name from the 

 small brook Lindis, which at high water is quite in- 

 visible, being covered by the tide, but at low water 

 is seen running briskly into the sea. Now I should 

 be glad to know the precise meaning of Lindis. 

 We are informed by etymologists, that Lyn or Lin, 

 in names of places, signifies water in any shape, as 

 lake, marsh, or stream : but what does the adjunct 

 dis mean ? Some writers assert that Lindis sig- 

 nifies the linden-tree ; thus making the sound an 

 echo to the meaning : and hence they assume that 

 Lindesey in Lincolnshire must signify an Isle of 

 Linden-trees. But it is very doubtful that such a 

 tree ever existed in Lincolnshire anterior to the 

 Conquest. The linden is rather a rare tree in 

 England ; and the two principal species, the Tilia 

 Europea and the Tilia grandifolia, are said by 

 botanists not to be indigenous to this country, but 

 to have been introduced into our island at an early 

 period to adorn the parks of the nobles, and cer- 

 tainly not till after the Conquest, 



Dr. Henry, in his History of Britain, vol. iv., 

 gives the meaning of " Marsh Isle" to Lindsey, 

 and of " Lake Colony " to Lincolnia, This I con- 

 sider the most probable signification to a district 



[* There is a Latin epigram, by R, Marshall of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, prefixed to John Hall's 

 Poems, published in 1646, —Ed,] 



