Sept. 17. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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speech be makes one of the witches utter in Mac- 

 beth : 



" By the pricking of my thumbs. 

 Something wicked this way comes." 



Francis Robert Davies, 



Davonshire Cures for the Thrush. — " Take 

 three rushes from any running stream, and pass 

 them separately through the mouth of the infant : 

 then plunge the rushes again into the stream, and 

 as the current beai's them away, so will the thrush 

 depart from the child." 



Should this, as is not unlikely, prove ineffectual, 

 " Capture the nearest duck that can be met with, 

 and place its mouth, wide open, within the mouth 

 of the sufferer. The cold breath of the duck will 

 be inhaled by the child, and the disease Avill gra- 

 dually, and as I have been informed, not the less 

 surely, take its departure." T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



HERALDIC NOTES. 



Arms of Granville. — The meaning of the pecu- 

 liar bearing which, since the thirteenth century, 

 has appertained to this noble family, has always 

 been a matter of uncertainty to heraldic writers : 

 it has been variously blazoned as a clarion, clavi- 

 cord, organ-rest, lance-rest, and sufHue. The 

 majority of heralds, ancient and modern, term it 

 a clarion without quite defining what a clarion is : 

 that it is meant for a musical instrument (pro- 

 bably a kind of hand-organ), I have very little 

 doubt ; for, in the woodcut Mrs. Jameson gives 

 in her Legends of the Madonna (p. 19.) of Piero 

 Laurati's painting of the " Maria Coronata," the 

 uppermost angel on the left is represented as car- 

 ryiiig_ an instrument exactly similar to this charge 

 as it is usually drawn. The date of this painting 

 is 1340. This is probably about the date of the 

 painted glass window in the choir of Tewkesbury 

 Abbey Church, where Robert Earl of Gloucester 

 bears three of these clarions on his surcoat ; and 

 upon a careful examination of these, I was con- 

 vinced that they were intended to represent in- 

 struments similar to that carried by the angel in 

 Laurati's painting. 



Arms of Richard, King of the Romans. — This 

 celebrated man, the second son of King John, 

 Earl of Cornwall and Poictou, was elected King 

 of the Romans at Frankfort on St. Hilary's Day 

 (Jan. 13th) 1256. His earldom of Cornwall was 

 represented by — Argent, a lion rampant gules 

 crowned or ; his earldom of Poictou by a bor- 

 dure sable, bezantee, or rather of peas {poix) in 

 reference to the name Poictou; and as king of 

 the Romans he is said to have borne these arms 

 upon the breast of the German double-headed 

 eagle displayed sable, which represented that dig- 

 nity. I do not recollect having seen them under 



this last form, but I have "made a Note of" several 

 other variations I have met with : — 



1. InDorchester Church, Oxfordshire, in painted 

 glass : Argent, a lion rampant, gules crowned or, 

 within a bordure sable bezantee. 



2. On the seal of a charter granted by the 

 earl to the monks of Okeburry : a lion rampant 

 crowned. No bordure. 



3. On an encaustic tile in the old Singing-school 

 at Worcester : A lion rampant not crowned, with 

 a bordure bezantee. Another tile has the eagle, 

 single-headed, displayed. 



4. Encaustic tiles at Woodperry, Oxfordshire : 

 A row of tiles with the lion rampant, apparently 

 within a bordure, but without the bezants ; fol- 

 lowed by another row which has the eagle dis- 

 played, but not double-headed. 



5. On an encaustic tile at Ilailes Abbey, Glou- 

 cestershire, founded by him : The double-headed 

 eagle only, countercharged. 



6. On a tile in the Priory Church of Great Mal- 

 vern : The double-headed eagle displayed, within 

 a circular bordure bezantee. 



7. On a tile which I have seen, but cannot just 

 now recollect where : The double-headed eagle^ 

 bezantee, without any bordure. 



A curious instance of ex-officio arms added to 

 the paternal coat, occurs on the monument of 

 Dr. Samuel Blythe, at the east end of St. Edwai'd's 

 Church, Cambridge. He was Master of Clare Hall, 

 and in this example his paternal arms — Argent, a 

 chevron gules, between three lions rampant sable — 

 occupy the lower part of the shield, being divided 

 at the fess point by something like an inverted 

 chevron, from the arms of Clare Hall, which thus 

 occupy the upper half of the shield. The date is 

 1713. Is this way of dividing the arms a blunder 

 of the painter's, or can any of your readers point 

 out a similar instance ? Norris Deck. 



SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE. 



Difficidty of avoiding Coincident Suggestions on 

 the Text of Shakspeare. — A correspondent in 

 Vol.viii., p. 193., is somewhat unnecessarily severe 

 on Mr. Collier and Mr. Singer, for having over- 

 looked some suggestions in Jackson's work : the 

 enormous number of useless conjectures in that 

 publication rendering it so tedious and unprofit- 

 able to consider them attentively, the student is 

 apt to think his time better engaged in investi- 

 gating other sources of information. I think, 

 therefore, little of Mr. Collier overlooking the 

 few coincident suggestions in Jackson, which are 

 smaller in number than I had anticipated ; the 

 real cause for wonder consisting in the ignoring 

 so many conjectures that have been treated of 

 years ago, often at great length, by some of the 



