NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 271. 



12° Item. For y* same reasons, that S"" Edward 

 Bering do gather and compose a full compleate 

 booke of armes by way of ordinary. 



13° Item. For y* same reasons, that M"^ Dugdall 

 do collect and coppy all armoriall seales with a 

 breuiate of y*^ deedes, and y'' true dimensions of 

 J* seales. 



14° Item. For y" same reasons, that S' Edward 

 Dering do sometime this soinr beginne a new 

 system or body of armory, with such brevity, 

 pspicuity, and proper examples, as may best be 

 chosen ; to which purpose y^ other associates haue 

 promised to send unto him such helpe, by way of 

 originalls or coppyes of all extraordinary formes 

 of sheildes, charges, supporters, augmentations, 

 diminutions, differences, &c. as they can furnish 

 forth; the same to be reveiwed att y* next 

 chapter. 



15° Item. For y^ same reasons, that S' Thomas 

 Shirley do gather y® names and armes of all (or 

 as many as can be had) mayors, sheriflfes, and 

 aldermen of London and Yorke, and of all other 

 cittyes and townes throughout all ages. 



16° Item. For y° same reasons, that S''jChris- 

 topher Hatton do collect together all y" names and 

 armes of knightes, to which purpose, all y* rest of 

 y* society are to send unto him such supply as 

 they haue, except itt be for y" knightes of King 

 James and King Charles, which are by y' paynes 

 of Mr. Anthony Dering allready putt into good 

 order, for which S' Edward Dering undertaketh. 



17° Item. Whereas many usefuU and pleasur- 

 able notes are passed and comunicated betweene 

 J® fores^ [schoUers] students of antiquity. Now 

 to y* intent that continuall recourse may euer (as 

 occasion shall arise) be had to y* study, bookes, and 

 collections of him that shall so send or impart y" 

 same, for y" iustifying of any transcript so received, 

 and for y* more quicke finding and reveiwe of y" 

 same, itt is further concluded and agreed, that 

 every one shall forthwith fayrely marke every 

 severall booke, roll, treatise, deede, &c., in his 

 library : First, with one gnll note or marke of 

 appropriation, whereby att first veiwe to know y* 

 owner thereof: and then with such other addi- 

 tional! marke as shall be thought fitt, that is to 

 say,— 



S' Edward Dering to marke all such as belong 

 unto him in this forme [on a shield, a saltire]. 

 S' Christopher Hatton [a garb]. S'' Thomas 

 Shirley [on a shield paly, a canton ermine]. And 

 M"^ Dugdall thus [a cross moline]. And for petty 

 small marks, these, in order as above, X — H — 

 S— D. 



18° Item. IWhen any pson receiueth any tran- 

 script or note from another of this society, which 

 he is to keepe as his owne, and thereof to make 

 use, he shall imediately marke y* same note, and 

 all future transcripts thereof, with y* cheife cha- 



racter or marke of y' sender as aboue, — and y" 

 sender of euery note shall take care that all notes 

 by him sent, shall be written (as neare as may be) 

 in y" same paper for size of bignesse as he shall 

 first use, whether y° note sent do fill y* whole 

 sheete, or but a line therein. 



19° Item. Least that too much care of sending- 

 one to another may begett some mistake in lend- 

 ing one thing twice, itt is resolved and agreed that 

 he who sendeth or lendeth any booke, note, or 

 roll, &c., to any other of this society, shall att y* 

 sending or returne of the same, marke the same 

 with y" principal! character or marke of the person 

 to whom he shall so lend itt, — and, if itt be 

 coppyed out of any of his bookes, then to sett a 

 little marke of y" same forme in y* margent of y* 

 s^ booke. 



20° Lastly. To preuent y" hazard of loosing 

 time, by y^ trouble of seuerall mens taking 

 coppyes of one and y* same thing : itt is concluded 

 and agreed that whosoeuer peruse any booke, 

 treatise, or deed, &c., and do transcribe y* same, 

 he shall, att y® very last line, if itt be booke or 

 treatise, &c. — or on y* dorse or y® labell, if itt b^^ 

 a deede, sett one of these two markes D or d, — 

 that is to say, if y" coppy be taken verbatim, then 

 y* capitall letter D, but if breviated, then d. 



Edward Dering, Christopher Hattox,. 

 Thomas Shirley, Wm. Dugdale. 



Notes. 



Sir Edward Dering was the first baronet of his house ;; 

 his mark, the saltire, was his coat armour, or rather the- 

 coat of Morini adopted by him. 



Sir Christopher Hatton was probably the first Lord 

 Hatton, so created 1643, and great-great-grandson of 

 John Hatton, brother of the Lord Keeper, temp. Eliz. 

 The garb, his mark, was from his coat of arms. 



Sir Thomas Shirley. His mark is the coat of Shirlej 

 Paley, a canton ermine. 



Dugdale, the Dugdale, his mark was from his coat of 

 arms, a cross moline. 



POPIANA. 



77ie Rev. Alexander Pope, Caithness. — In tie 

 Life of Pope I have mentioned a namesake and 

 acquaintance of the poet who was minister of the 

 parish of Reay, In Caithness. A snuff-box is in 

 existence which Pope Is said to have presented to 

 his clerical friend In the north. It is a handsome 

 gilt box with an allegorical scene in relief on the 

 lid. This interesting relic is believed to have been 

 sent to the Rev. A. Pope by the poet, accom- 

 panied by a note, in which he claimed a distant 

 relationship to the minister. The box Is in the" 

 possession of the grandson (by the mother's side) 

 of the Rev. W. Pope, namely, James Campbell, 

 Esq., Assistant Commissary-General, Edinburgh. 

 The poet's autograph has been lost (to Mr. Camp- 

 bell's great regret), but an elder brother of thia 



