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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 180. 



Then comes the passage to which I beg to call 

 especial attention, and on which I have to invite 

 some information : 



" Upon her head a small crown, reported to he made of 

 some of the gold of the celebrated Lunehurg table." 



What was this table ? The work from which I 

 quote (Recollections of Royalty, vol. ii. p. 119,) has 

 a note hereon, merely remarking that, " at this 

 distance of time, it is difficult to say what this 

 was." If, anything, however, can be gleaned on 

 the subject, some of the readers of " N. & Q." 

 in some one of the " five quarters " of the world 

 will assuredly be able to answer this Query. 



J. J. S. 



Middle Temple. 



P. S. — Since the above was written, I find that 

 Elizabeth's christening gift from the Duchess of 

 Norfolk was a cup of gold, fretted with pearls; 

 that noble lady being (says Miss Strickland) 

 "completely unconscious of the chemical anti- 

 pathy between the acidity of wine and the mis- 

 placed pearls." Elizabeth seems thus to have 

 been rich in those gems from her infancy upwards, 

 and to have retained a passionate taste for them 

 long after their appropriateness as ornaments for 

 her had ceased. 



:fiflin0r ^ucit'eiS. 



St. Dominic. — ^Was St. Dominic, the founder of 

 tLe Dominican order, a descendant of the noble 

 family of the Guzmans ? Machiavelli wrote a 

 treatise to prove it ; but in the Biographie 

 Universelle it is stated (I know not on what 



her, however, when about twenty, which shows the 

 same taste as existing at that age. She is there de- 

 picted in a black dress, trimmed with a double row of 

 pearls. Her point-lace ruffles are looped with pearls, 

 &c. Her head-dress is decorated in front with a jewel 

 set with pearls, from which three pear-shaped pearls 

 depend. And, finally, she has large pearZ-tassel ear- 

 I'ings. In the Henham Hall portrait (engraved in 

 vol. vii. of Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of 

 England), the ruff is confined by a collar of pearls, 

 rubies, &c., set in a gold filagree pattern, with large 

 pear-shaped pearls depending from each lozenge. The 

 sleeves are ornamented with rouleaus, wreathed with 

 pearls and bullion. The lappets of her head-dress also 

 are adorned at every "crossing" with a large round 

 pearl. Her gloves, moreover, were always of white 

 kid, richly embroidered with pearls, &c. on the backs 

 of the hands. A poet of that day asserts even that, 

 at the funeral procession, when the royal corpse was 

 rowed from Richmond, to lie in state at Whitehall, — 



" Fish wept their eyes of pearl quite out, 

 And swam blind after," 



doubtlessly intending, most loyally, to provide the de- 

 parted sovereign with a fresh and postlmmous supply 

 of her favorite gems I 



authority) that Cardinal Lambertini, afterwards 

 Benedict XIV., having summoned that lawyer to 

 produce the originals, Machiavelli deferred, and 

 refused at last to obey the order : and further, that 

 Cuper the Bollandist wrote on the same subject to 

 some learned men at Bologna, who replied that the 

 pieces cited in Machiavelli's dissertation had been 

 forged by him, and written in the old style by a 

 modern hand. A Bookworm. 



" Will " and " shall." — Can you refer me to any 

 grammar, or other work, containing a clear and 

 definite rule for the distinctive use of these auxi- 

 liaries ? and does not a clever contributor to 

 " N. & Q." make a mistake on this point at Vol. vi., 

 p. 58., 1st col., 16th line ? W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



Sir John Fleming. — What was the coat of arms 

 borne by Sir John Fleming, or Le Fleming, of 

 St. George's Castle, co. Glamorgan, a.d. 1100? 

 Where is it to be found sculptured or figured ? 

 And does any modern family of the name of 

 Fleming, or Le Fleming, claim descent from the 

 above ? Caret. 



Deal, how to stain. — I should be much obliged 

 if some one of your correspondents would inform 

 me what is the best composition for giving plain 

 deal the appearance of oak 'for the purpose of 

 church interiors ? C. 



Winton. 



Irish Characters on the Stage. — Could any of 

 your correspondents inform me of the names of 

 any old plays (besides those of Shadwell) in which 

 Irishmen are introduced? and which of the older 

 dramatists have enrolled this character among 

 their di-amatis personce ? Was Shakspeare an 

 Irishman ? Phii^obiblion. 



A7'ms on King Robert Bruce' s Coffin-plate. — 

 Can any of your heraldic readers give me any in- 

 formation as to whom the arms found on King 

 Robert Bruce's coffin-plate in 1818 belonged? 

 They are a cross inter four mullets pierced of 

 the field. They are not the arms given in Nisbet 

 to the families of Bruce ; neither does Sir Wra. 

 Jardine, in his report to the Lords of the Exche- 

 quer on the finding of the king's tomb, take any 

 notice of them further than to mention their dis- 

 covery. Alexander Carte. 



Chaucer s Prophetic View of the Crystal Palace 

 (VoLiii., p.362.).— 



" Chaucer it seems drew continually, through Lyd- 

 gate and Caxton, from Guido di Colonna, whose Ljitin 

 Romance of the T'rojan War was, in turn, a compilation 

 from Dares, Phrygius, Ovid, and Statins. Then 

 Petrarch, Boccacio, and Proven9al poets, are his bene- 

 factors ; the Eojnaunt of the Ease is only judicious 



