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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 209. 



Temporalities of the Church. — Is there any 

 record existing of a want of money for the main- 

 tenance of the clergy, or for other pious uses, in 

 any part of the world before the establishment of 

 the Christian religion under Constantine ? or of 

 any necessity having arisen for enforcing the 

 payment of tithes or offerings by ecclesiastical 

 censures during that period ? H. P. 



Etymology of " The Lizai-d." — What is the 

 etymology of the name " The Lizard," as applied 

 in our maps to that long low green point, stretch- 

 ing out into the sea at the extreme south of 

 England ? My idea of the etymology would be 

 (judging from the name and pronunciation of a 

 small town in the immediate neighbourhood of the 

 point) lys-ard, from two Celtic words : the first, 

 lys, as found in the name Lismore, and others of a 

 like class in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland; 

 the second ard, a long point running into the sea. 

 In Cornwall, to my ear, the name had quite the 

 Celtic intonation Lys-drd ; not at all like Lizard, 

 as we would speak it, short. C. D. Lamont. 



Greenock. 



Worm in Books. — Can you or any of your nu- 

 merous correspondents suggest a remedy for the 

 worm in old books and MSS. ? I know of a valu- 

 able collection in the muniment room of a noble- 

 man in the country, which is suffering severely at 

 the present time from the above destructive agent ; 

 and although smoke has been tried, and shavings 

 of Russia leather inserted within the pages of the 

 books, the evil still exists. As this question has 

 most likely been asked before, and answered in 

 your valuable little work, I shall be obliged by 

 your pointing out in what volume it occurs, as I 

 have not a set by me to refer to and thus save 

 you the trouble. Alethes. 



Miliar dSlutvitS iuttft ^n^tttcriS. 



Siller Gun of Dumfries. — Can any of your 

 readers tell me the history of the " Siller Gun of 

 Dundee" [Dumfries], and give me an account of 

 the annual shooting for it ? O. L. 11. G. 



[The Siller gun of Dumfries is a small silver tube, 

 like the barrel of a pistol, but derives great importance 

 from its being the gift of James VI., that monarch 

 having ordained it as a prize to the best marksman 

 among the corporations of Dumfries. The contest 

 was, by royal authority, licensed to take place every 

 year ; but in consequence of the trouble and expense 

 attending it, the custom has not been so frequently 

 observed. Whenever the festival was appointed, the 

 4th of June, during the long reign of George III., 

 was invariably chosen for that purpose, being his 

 majesty's birthday. The institution itself may be re- 

 garded as a memorial of the Waponshaw, or showing 

 of arms, the shooting at butts and bowmarks, and 

 other military and gymnastic sports, introduced by our 



ancestors to keep alive, by competition and prizes, the 

 martial ardour and lieroic spirit of the people. In 

 archery, the usual prize to the best shooter was a silver 

 arrow : at Dumfries t!ie contest was transferred to 

 fire-arms. See the preface to the Siller Gun, a poem, 

 in five cantos, by John Mayne, I8S6.3 



Margery Trussell. — Margery, daughter and 

 coheiress of Roger Trussell, of Macclesfield, 

 married Edmund de Downes (of the old Cheshire 

 family of Downes of Taxall, Shrigley, &c.) in the 

 fourth year of Edward II. Query, "What arms 

 did she bear? and were the Trussells of Maccles- 

 field of the same fixmily as that which, in con- 

 sequence of a' marriage with an heiress of Main- 

 waring, settled at Warmineham, in the reign of 

 Edward III, and whose heiress, in later times,, 

 married a De Vere, Earl of Oxford ? 



W. Shetd. 



Denton. 



[In the Harleian MS. 4031. fol. 170. is a long and 

 curious pedigree of the Trussells and their intermar-^ 

 riage with the Mainwarings, in the person of Sir- 

 William Trussell, Lord of Cubbleston, with Maud, 

 daughter and heiress of Sir Vv^arren Mainwaring. The 

 arms are : Argent a fret gu. bezante for Trussell. The 

 same arms are found on the window of the church of 

 Warmineham in Cheshire. These would consequently 

 be the arms of Margery, daughter of Roger Trussell. 

 The arms originally were : Argent a cross formee flory 

 gu. ; but changed on the marriage of Sir William 

 Trussell of Mershton, co. Northampton, with Hose, 

 daughter and heiress to William Pantolph, Lord of 

 Cubbleston, who bore. Argent a fret gu. bezante.] 



Caves at Settle, Yorhshire. — Being engaged on 

 antiquarian investigations, I have found it neces- 

 sary to refer to some discoveries made in the caves 

 at Settle in Yorkshire, of which my friends in that 

 county have spoken. Now, I cannot find any 

 printed account. I have referred to all the works 

 on the county antiquities, and particularly to Mr. 

 Phillips's book lately published (which professes to 

 describe local antiquities), but in vain. I cannot 

 find any notice of them. It is very likely some 

 one of your better-informed readers may be able- 

 to assist me. Bbigantia. 



Battcrsea. 



[See two letters by Charles Roach Smith and Joseph. 

 Jackson in ArcluEohgia, vol. xxix. p. 384., on the " Ro- 

 man Remains discovered in the Caves near Settle in 

 Yorkshire." Our correspondent has perhaps consulted 

 the following work: — A Tour to the Caves in the En- 

 virons of Inglthorough and Settle, in the West Riding of 

 Yorkshire, 8vo. 1781,] 



The Morrow of a Feast. — It appears from the 

 papers, that the presentation of the civic function- 

 aries to the Cursitor Baron at Westminster, took 

 place on Sept. 30. Pray is this the morrow of 

 St. Michael, as commonly supposed ? Does not the 

 analogy of "Morrow of All Souls" (certainly the. 



