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appear in a subsequent edition, and for the last 

 time in the fifth edition published in 1723. In 

 the subsequent edition of that work the arras of 

 the episcopal sees only are given. Attempts have 

 been made to introduce the arms and some ac- 

 count of the families of the prelates of our Church 

 into the Peerages of the day, but abandoned from 

 tlie difficulty of accomplishing it in any satisfac- 

 tory manner, and from an objection taken by 

 some of the distinguished dignitaries themselves. 



Monastery of Nutcelle (Vol. x., p. 287. ; Vol. xi., 

 p. 152.). — There are at least two objections to 

 the conjecture proposed by LuElius. 1. That 

 although the second syllable of the name is written 

 celle, scelle, stelle (see Pertz, ii. 336.), there does 

 not appear to be any MS. authority for the form 

 Nutweil, which surely would have occurred among 

 the variations, if it were the true form. 2, That 

 the monastery was under Daniel, Bishop of Win- 

 chester, the patron and correspondent of Boniface ; 

 whereas, from the year 705, Devonshire was under 

 the Bishop of Sherborne. (See Godwin De Pra>- 

 sulibus, ed. Richardson.) J. C. R. 



Serpents' Eggs (Vol. x., p. 508.). — Serpents 

 are, strictly speaking, to be classed as viviparous 

 rather than oviparous. True, their young are 

 formed in a sort of shell or loose skin, and con- 

 tinue in the egg state till the time of parturition ; 

 but the eggs are, so to speak, hatched internally, 

 and the young ones are brought forth like those 

 of any viviparous animal. The shells are always 

 produced as an after-birth. Sometimes eggs are 

 found which, from their resemblance to those of 

 the serpent, are mistaken for the latter ; but, on 

 a closer examination, they invariably turn out to 

 be the eggs of the lizard, which is oviparous. 



In this island we have serpents, boas, and 

 snakes of almost every variety ; and no species 

 of them has ever been known to produce eggs and 

 hatch them in the ordinary manner. This fact 

 might be verified from the specimens sent some 

 years ago to the Zoological Gardens, London. 

 The only way to procure the eggs is to kill a 

 female with young, care being taken in the opera- 

 tion not to cut open the shell or sack. I was 

 present once when a female serpent of the venom- 

 ous kind received a blow of a cutlas across the 

 belly, and there immediately issued from the 

 wound several young ones, all alive. They were 

 about ten inches long, and remarkably vivacious, 

 protruding their little tongues, and snapping their 

 fangs at every object that was presented to them. 



It would be easy for me to gratify the wish, 

 expressed by L. M. M. R., to become possessed of 

 a serpent's egg ; and if, after what I have stated, 

 he should still be of the same mind, I shall be 

 glad to do so on his favouring me with his address. 

 I am persuaded, however, that the egg would 



reach him in a totally different state from that of 

 the eggs of oviparous animals. 



Henrt H. Bbeen. 

 St Lucia. 



Lord Mayors (Vol. xi., p. 207.). — There was 

 a Sir Richard Lee, Knt., twice Lord Mayor of 

 London ; his son was Richard Lee, of Lee Magna, 

 Kent, and his grandson Edward Lee, Archbishop 

 of York. Possibly they may be of the same 

 family as Sir William. 



Sir Leonard Holliday, Lord Mayor, 1605, when 

 the Gunpowder Treason was discovered, was 

 buried in the church of St. Michael, Basinghall. 

 His arms were — Sable, three helmets argent, 

 within a bordure of the second. 



In the church of St. Peter le Poor was a monu- 

 ment with this inscription : 



"Thomas Lowe, eques auratus. D. majoris cibit. 

 Londin. a.d. 1604, vir probus et prudens. Obiit 11 Apr. 

 A». 1623. 



"Accessit Anna lectissima foemina, ex eodem Thomft, 

 mater xv liberorum, vixerunt suavissimfi conjunctione, 

 ann. xlviii." 



Arms : Arg., three cocks gu. Seven coats quar- 

 terly, impaled with Arg., a chevron sa., and a fleur- 

 de-lys for difference. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Block Book : " Schedel Cronik " (Vol. xi., 

 p. 124.). — I should be glad to know the printer's 

 name, if it appears on the above curious old book 

 described by Thos. Leadbitter. For I also 

 possess a very curious book, printed at Augsburg 

 in 1477. Mine is printed by John Bamler ; should 

 the Schedel Cronik bear the same printer's name, 

 the date will no longer be doubtful. My book is 

 printed with movable type, but of a singular form, 

 neither like modern German, nor Roman, nor 

 Italic, but sui generis, as is the language of the 

 book also. It consists of legendary lives of saints 

 for the summer-half of the year, beginning with 

 St. Ambrose, and ending with St. Wendelin, 

 whom it calls " Sant Wendel." It begins thus : 

 " Hie hebt sich an das Sumerteyl, der heyligen 

 leben." Every inquiry after a corresponding 

 winter-half has failed ; and it is not known that 

 any was ever published. The present volume 

 belonged to the late Duke of Sussex, and has his 

 book-plate. At the end is the following : 



"Hie ehdet sich der heyligen leben das Summerteyl. 

 Das hat gedrucket und volendet Johannes Bamler zu 

 Augspurg an sant Lucas tag. Anno mcccclxxvij." 



This book is a very thick quarto of 912 pages. 

 It contains a great number of rude wood-cuts, in 

 a clear, bold style, but brightly coloured, which 

 I suppose to be of very rare occurrence. The 

 frontispiece is a large cut of the B. V. Mary, 

 crowned and enthroned in an elaborate Gothic 

 chair of state, with the Holy Infant on her knee, 

 to whom she is presenting a fruit. The inscrip- 



