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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 286. 



or iron, without injury to the seal. He placed a 

 sealed envelope on a piece of lead which was on 

 an anvil ; his assistant struck the envelope directly 

 over the seal a sharp blow with a heavy hammer ; 

 the impression was taken in the lead, the seal 

 remained uninjured. The lead would give any 

 number of impressions. The blow must be quick 

 and violent, else the wax will be broken. S. 



Croydon. 



In answer to the Query of T. S. M. regarding 

 impressions of seals, I find that the best way of 

 copying small seals is by taking an impression in 

 lead. This is done in the following manner. 

 Take a piece of lead, as soft as possible, the size 

 of the seal and about half an inch thick (I use 

 flattened bullets) ; smooth and polish one side, 

 and place it on the seal, which must rest on some- 

 thing solid, as a flagstone. Strike the lead a 

 sharp blow well directed, and the result will be a 

 beautiful impression. If the blow is struck evenly, 

 not the slightest injury will accrue to the seal. 



J. ASHTON. 



" What shadows we are" ^c. (Vol. xi., p. 187.). 

 — It is worthy of noting under this head a 

 nearly similar expression in the Ajax of Sopho- 

 cles, 1. 125. : 



" OaS> yap rnj-a^ ovSev ofTat aXXo nkifv 



t. e. " For I see that all we who are alive are nothing else 

 but phantoms or unreal shadows." 



Henry Moodt. 



Latimer or Latymer (Vol. xi., p. 166.). — Leav- 

 ing the genealogical part of this Query to some 

 correspondent versed in the history of the coun- 

 tries to which it refers, I will endeavour to furnish 

 Y. S. M. with the heraldic information he re- 

 quires. 



Sir William Gouis, of Duntish, county Dorset, 

 bore for arms, " Argent, a lion rampant sable." 

 Ledet of West Warden, Northants, bore " Or, a 

 bend within a bordure gules, bezantee." Sup- 

 posing the arms of Latimer to be correctly given 

 in Harl MS. 1451., I should be inclined to doubt 

 if the Robert Latimer named had any identity 

 with Sir John Latimer, called by Burke second 

 son of Lord Latimer, the roundlets being usually 

 the mark of cadency in i:h& fifth degree. 



T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Joseph Grazehrook (Vol. xi., p. 231.). — The 

 gentleman referred to, Joseph Grazebrook, Esq., 

 who died at Stroud, aged ninety-two, in 1843, 

 had only one daughter, the wife of the late Rev. 

 E. Mansfield, vicar of Bisley, near Stroud, who 

 was killed in 1826 by a fall from his carriage. 

 Mr. Mansfield was the son (illegitimate) of Sir 

 James Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of the Court 

 of Common Fleas ; and left a very large family. 



One of his sons, and a grandson of Mr. Joseph 

 Grazebrook, is the Rev. Joseph Mansfield, rector 

 of Blandford, Dorset. E. S. S. W. 



Author of" Palmyra" Sfc. (Vol. xi., p. 206.).' — 

 The author is the Rev. William E. Ware, an 

 American clergymen of Boston, who died some 

 few years since. Pblicanus Amebicanus. 



Oxford Jew d Esprit (Vol. x., pp. 364. 431.), 

 — The poem entitled Uniomachia, and about the 

 authorship of which there has been some discus- 

 sion in your columns, was written by the Rev. 

 Thomas Jackson, of St. Mary Hall, Prebendary 

 of St. Paul's, and Rector of Stoke Newington ; 

 assisted by the Rev. W. Sinclair, of St. George's, 

 Leeds. B. J. 



Napoleon's Marshals (Vol. xi., pp. 186. 288.). — 



Eugene Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy, Prince 

 of Venice, Duke of Leuchtenburg, Prince of 

 Eichstadt ; born in Brittany, Sept. 3, 1780; died 

 at Munich, 1824. 



Louis GouviAN St. Ctr ; born at Toul, April 

 13, 1764 ; died March, 1830. 



Emanuel Grouchy, Count of the Empire ; 

 born in Paris, Oct. 28, 1766. 



Jean Baptiste Jourdan, Count ; born at Li- 

 moges, April 29, 1762 ; made Governor of Pied- 

 mont, 1800 ; sustained more defeats than any of 

 the other marshals, and has been surnamed " The 

 Anvil;" died, 1833. 



Jean Baptiste Kleber ; born at Strasbourg, 

 1753 ; from his stature and intrepidity, surnamed 

 the "French Hercules;" assassinated in Egypt 

 by an Arab, June 14, 1800. 



Bon. Aprian-Jeanot Moncey, Duke of Cor- 

 negliano; born at Besangon, July 31, 1754. 



Charles Pichegru ; born at Arbois, 1761 ; 

 found strangled in prison, April 6, 1804. 



Suchet, Dukeof Albufera; born at Lyons, 1772. 



Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno ; born at 

 Marche, 1776. Lubin. 



The Fashion of Brittany (Vol. x., p. 146.).— 

 Archbishop Arundel was first cousin to Henry IV., 

 whose mother Blanche was the grand-daughter 

 of the primate's grandfather, through his mother's 

 elder brother ; the king calls him in a letter " his 

 very dear and very entirely well-beloved uncle." 

 In the time therefore of the Plantagenets, first 

 cousins were called uncles or aunts. (See Foss's 

 Lives of the Judges, iv. 146.) 



Mackenzie Walcott, M. A. 



Earthenware Vessels found at Fountains Abbey 

 (Vol. X., pp. 386. 434. ; Vol. xi., p. 275.). — To 

 say nothing of the conjecture of A. M. as to the 

 admissibility of dovecotes, or columbaries, in 

 churches, which is surely un pen trop,^ I would 

 simply observe to him that if he will again refer to 



