Oct. 15. 1853.] 



J^OTES AND QUERIES. 



365 



Did not Sir R. K. Porter write an account of 

 Sir John Moore's campaign in the Peninsula? — 

 What is the title of the book, and where can it be 

 procured ? * 



Who was Charles Lemprlere Porter (who died 

 Feb. 14, 1831, aged thirty-one), mentioned on the 

 Porter tombstone in St. Paul's churchyard at Bris- 

 tol ? — Who was Phcebe, wife of Dr. Porter, who 

 died Feb. 20, 1845, aged seventy-nine, and whose 

 name also occurs on this stone ? 



Did this f\imily (which is now supposed to be 

 extinct) claim descent from Endymion Porter, 

 •the loyal and devoted adherent of King Charles 

 the Martyr? 'D. Y. N. 



Lord Ball of Bagshot. — Coryat, in his Cru- 

 dities, vol. ii. p. 471., edit. 1776, tells us that at 

 St. Gewere, near Ober- Wesel — 



" There hangeth an yron collar fastened in the wall, 

 with one linke fit to be put upon a man's neck, with- 

 out any manner of hurt to the party that weareth it. 



" This collar doth every stranger and freshman, the 

 first time that he passeth that way, put upon his neck, 

 which he must weare so long standing till he hath re- 

 deemed himself with a competent measure of wine." 



Coryat submitted himself to the collar " for no- 

 velty sake," and he adds : 



" This custome doth carry some kinde of affinity 

 with certain sociable ceremonies that wee have in a 

 place of England, which are performed by that most 

 reuerend Lord Ball of Bagshot, in Hampshire, who 

 doth with many, and indeed more solemne, rites imiest 

 liis brothers of his vnhallowed chappell of Basingstone 

 •(Basingstoke?) (as all our men of the westerne parts 

 of England do know by deare experience to the smart 

 of their purses), then these merry burgomaisters of 

 Saint Gewere vse to do." 



Will any of your readers state whether the 

 custom is remembered in Hampshire, and aflford 

 explanation as to the most Rev. Lord Ball ? The 

 writers that I have referred to are silent, and I do 

 not find mention of the custom in the pages of 

 Mr. Urban. J. H. M. 



Marcarnes. — In Guillim's Display of Heraldry 

 (6th edit., London, 1 724), sect. 2. chap. v. p. 32., 

 occurs the following description of a coat of arms : 

 ■" Marcarnes, vaire, a pale, sable." 



There is no reference to a Heralds' Visitation, 

 or to the locality in which resided the family 

 bearing this name and coat. It is only mentioned 



corporation ; it was hung up in the Guildhall a few 

 years since. 



* In 1808, Sir R. K. Porter accompanied Sir John 

 Moore's expedition to the Peninsula, and attended the 

 campaign throughout, up to the closing catastrophe of 

 the battle of Corunna. On his return to England, he 

 published anonymously. Letters from Portugal and 

 Spain, tvrittcn during the March' of the Troops under Sir 

 John Moore, 1809, 8vo Ed.] 



as an instance among many others of the use of a 

 pale in heraldry. I have searched many heraldic 

 books, as well as copies of Heralds' Visitations, 

 but cannot find the name elsewhere. Will any 

 herald advise me how to proceed farther in tracing 

 it ? G. R. M. 



The Claymore. — What Is the original weapon, 

 to which belongs the name of claymore (claidh 

 mhor') ? Is it the two-handed sword, or the 

 basket-hilted two-edged sword now bearing the 

 appellation ? Is the latter kind of sword peculiar 

 to Scotland ? They are frequently to be met 

 with in this part of the country. One was found 

 a fQVT years since plunged up to the hilt in the 

 earth on the Cotswold Hills. It was somewhat 

 longer than the Highland broadsword, but exactly 

 similar to a weapon which I have seen, and which 

 belonged to a Lowland Whig gentleman slain at 

 Bothwell Bridge. If these swords be exclusively 

 Scottish, may they not be relics of the unhappy 

 defeat at Worcester ? Fbancis John Scott. 



Tewkesbury. 



Sir William Chester, Kt. — It Is said of this 

 gentleman in all the Baronetages, that " he was a 

 great benefactor to the city of London in the time 

 of Edward VI., and that he became so strictly re- 

 ligious, that for a considerable time before his 

 death he retired from all business, entered himself 

 a fellow-commoner at Cambridge, lived there some 

 years, and was reputed a learned man." Did he 

 take any degree at Cambridge, and to what college 

 or hall did he belong ? ISlust there not be some 

 records in the University which will yield this in- 

 formation ? I observe the " Graduati Cantabri- 

 gienses " only commence in 1659 in the printed list ; 

 but there must be older lists than this at Cam- 

 bridge. Collins mentions that he was so con- 

 spicuous in his zeal for the Reformed religion, 

 that he ran great risk of bis life in Queen Mary's 

 reign, and that one of his servants was burnt in 

 Smithfield. Can any one inform me of his au- 

 thority for this statement ? Tewars, 



Canning on the Treaty of 1824 between the 

 Netherlands and Great Britain. — When and under 

 what circumstances did Canning use the following 

 words ? — 



" The results of this treaty [of 1 824 between England 

 and Holland, to regulate their respective interests in 

 the East Indies] were an admission of the principles 

 of free trade. A line of demarcation was drawn, 

 separating our territories from theirs, and ridding them 

 of their settlements on the Indian continent. All these 

 objects are now attained. We have obtained Sinca- 

 pore, we have got a free trade, and in return we have 

 given up Bencoolen." 



Where are these words to be found, and what 

 is the title of the English paper called by the 



