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Pleas in 1523, and died in 30 Henry VIII." Fltz- 

 Herbert was never Chief Justice. He was made 

 a judge of the Common Pleas in 1522 ; and so 

 continued till his death at the time mentioned, 

 1538. During that period, the office of Chief 

 Justice of the Common Pleas was successively held 

 by Sir Thomas Brudenell till 1531, by Sir Robert 

 Norwich till 1535, and then by Sir John Baldwin, 

 who was Chief Justice at the time of Fitz-Herbert's 

 death. 



William Rastall (afterwards Judge), in the 

 early part of his career, joined his fatiier in the 

 printing business, and there are several books 

 with his imprimatur. It was during that time 

 probably that he formed the table to the Natura 

 Brevium of Anthony Fitz-Herbert, mentioned in 

 the title-page to Yokk Herald's volume. 



Edwaed Foss. 



'■^Hurrah'" and otlicr Wm^- cries (Vol. vii., 

 pp. 595. 633. ; Vol. viii., pp. 20. 88.). — Hurrah is 

 the war-ci-y of many nations, both in the army and 

 navy. The Dutch seem to have adopted it from 

 the Russians, poeta invito, as we see in the follow- 

 ing verses of Staring van den Wildenborg : 



" Is 't hoera? Is 't hoera ? 

 Wat drommel kan 't u schelen ? 



Brul, smeek ik, geen Kozakken na ! 

 Als Fredrik's batterijiin spelen — 



A\s Willem's trommen slaan 



Blijv' Neerland's oorlogskreet : ' Val aan !* 

 Waar jong en oud de vreugd der overwiiuiing deelen, 



Bij Quatre-Bras' trofee, 



Blijve ons gejuich Hoezee!" 



Accept or reject this doggerel translation : 

 " Is it hurrah ? Is it hurrah ? 

 What does that concern you, pray ? \ 

 Howl not like Cossacks of the Don !' 

 But, when Frederic's batteries pour — 

 When William's drums do roar — 

 Holland's war-cry still be : ' Fall on !* 

 When old and young 

 Raise the victor's song, 

 At Quatre-Bras' trophy, 

 Let Huzzah our joy-cry be !" 



Hoera (hurrah) and hoezec (huzza), then, in 

 the opinion of Staring, and indeed of many others, 

 have not the same origin. Some have derived 

 hoezee from hmcsse, a French word of applause at 

 the hoisting (Fr. haiisser) of the admiral's flag. 

 Bilderdijk derives it from Hussein, a famous 

 Turkish warrior, whose memory is still celebrated. 

 Dr. Brill says, " hoezee seems to be only another 

 mode of pronouncing the German juchhe." Van 

 Iperen thinks it taken from the Jewish shout, 

 "Hosanna!" Siegenbeek finds "the origin of 

 hoezee in the shout of encouragement, 'Hou zee !' 

 (hold sea)." Dr. Jager cites a Flemish author, 

 who says " that this cry (' hou zee,' in French, 

 Hens me?-) seems especially to belong to us ; since 



it was formerly the custom of our seamen always 

 'zee te houden' (to keep the sea), and never to 

 seek shelter fi-om storms." Dr. Jager, however, 

 thinks it rather doubtful " that our hoezee should 

 come from ' hou zee,' especially since we find a 

 like cry in other languages." In old French huz 

 signified a cry, a shout ; and the verb huzzer, or 

 hucher, to cry, to shout ; and in Dutch husschen 

 had the same meaning. — From the Navorscher. 



Major Andre (Vol. viii., p. 174.). — The sisters 

 of Major Andre lived until a comparatively very 

 recent date in the Circus at Bath, and this fact 

 may point Serviess to inquiries in that city. 



T. F. 



In reply to Serviens's Query about Major 

 Andre, I beg to inform him that there is a good 

 picture of the Major by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 

 the house of Mrs. Fenning, at Tonbridge AVells, 

 who, I have no doubt, would be enabled to give 

 him some particulars respecting his life. 



W. H. P. 



Early Edition of the New Testament (Vol. viii., 

 p. 219.). — The book, about which your corre- 

 spondent A. BoARDMAN inquires, is an imperfect 

 copy of Tyndale's Version of the New Testament : 

 probably it is one of the first edition ; if so, it was 

 printed at Antwerp in 1526 : but if it be one of 

 the second edition, it was printed, I believe, at 

 the same place in 1534. Those excellent and 

 indefatigable publishers, Messrs. Bagster & Sons, 

 have within the last few years reprinted both 

 these editions ; and if your correspondent would 

 apply to them, I have no doubt but they will be 

 able to resolve him on all the points of his inquiry. 



F. B w. 



Ladies' Arms home in a Lozenge (Vol. vii., 

 p. 571. ; Vol. viii., pp. 37. 83.). — As this question 

 is still open, I forward j'ou the translation of an 

 article inserted by me in the first volume of the 

 Navorscher. Lozenge-formed shields have not 

 been always, nor exclusively, used by ladies ; for, 

 in a collection of arms from 1094 to 1649 (see 

 Descriptive Catalogue of Impressions from Scottish 

 Seals, by Laing, Edinburgh) are many examples 

 of ladies' arms, but not one in which the shield has 

 any other form than that used at the time by 

 men. In England, however, as early as the four- 

 teenth century, the lozenge was sometimes used 

 by ladies, though perhaps only by widows. Nisbet 

 (St/stem of Heraldr!/, ii. 35.) mentions a lozenge- 

 formed seal of Johanna Beaufort, Queen Dowager 

 of Scotland, attached to a parchment in 1439; 

 while her arms, at an earlier period, were borne 

 on a common shield {Gent. Mag., April, 1851). 

 In France the use of the lozenge for ladies was 

 very general ; yet in the great work of Flacchio 

 {Genealogie de la Maison de la Tour) are found 

 several hundred examples of ladies' arms on oval 



