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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 282. 



January 13. As I find from that answer that the 

 political tracts published under the pseudonym of 

 Menenius are, in the Catalogue of the British 

 Museum, attributed to Digby P. Sarkie, I feel 

 myself obliged to give the surname correctly, and 

 to claim them as my own, which I should not 

 have thought it worth while to do, but for the 

 half-disclosure of the Catalogue, and of your 

 journal. Digbt P. Stabket. 



Dublin. 



County Histories (Vol. xi., p. 187.).— Mr. 

 Sims of the British Museum, compiler of the 

 Index to the Heralds Visitations, and Handbook to 

 the Library of the British Miisenm, has long been 

 preparing a Manual for Genealogists and Anti- 

 quaries, which will contain an account of all the 

 public records, registers of wills, parochial and 

 other registers, heralds' visitations, manuscript 

 and printed, lists of family histories, manuscript 

 and printed, the county and principal local his- 

 tories, monumental inscriptions and epitaphs, &c. 

 With my assistance, I hope the book when pub- 

 lished will meet the wishes of your correspondent 

 Y. S. M. John Russell Smith. 



36. Soho Square. 



The Eight of bequeathing (devising) Land 

 (Vol. xi., p. 145.). — The information required on 

 this subject will be found in note 1. to Coke Litt. 

 111b., and in the following passage from Sir 

 Martin Wright's Introduction to the Law of Te- 

 ■nures, p. 172. : 



" It was likewise, as is before observed, altogether as 

 much against the nature of a feud, that the leudatorj'- 

 should dispose of it by will, as that he should otherwise 

 alien it. Upon this ground it was, that though lands 

 were devisable until the Conquest, or rather until the es- 

 tablishment of tenures ; yet then, or soon after, the power 

 of disposing by will generally vanished, except of socage 

 lands in some cities and boroughs, where it was retained, 

 or rather indulged; it being of little consequence into 

 what hands such tenures fell. And thus far it is true, 

 that milium testamentum apud nos mansit pro lege, until the 

 statutes 32 and 34 Hen. Vlll. gave a testamentary power 

 over lands, subject only to the restrictions of those 

 statutes. But though lands were not, as is suggested, 

 devisable from the time of the Conquest until the time of 

 Henry VIII., yet upon a distinction started soon after the 

 statute Quia Emptores Terrarum, between the land and 

 the use or profits of the land, feoffments to tcses were in- 

 vented; by means whereof a man might, before the 

 statute 27 Hen. Vlll. cap. 10, by will dispose of the profits, 

 though he could not dispose of the land itself." 



In Madox's Formulare Anglicanum, a copy of a 

 will of lands is given in Saxon, with a Latin 

 translation, of the year 998. J. G-. 



Exon. 



''The Visions of Sir Heister Riley,'' 1710 

 (Vol. viii., p. 9.). — This is one of the numerous 

 anonymous publications of that remarkable cha- 

 racter, Charles Povey, and is claimed by him in 

 the introduction to his Virgin in Eden, 2nd edit., 

 1741. J. O. 



Justice George Wood (Vol. ix., p. 430. ; Vol.x., 

 pp. 103. 194.). — I much regret my suggested 

 reference to Shaw's Staffordshire should have cost 

 Cestriensis so much bootless trouble ; and I 

 have deferred replying to his appeal until I could 

 fall in with the authority on which that suggestion 

 was founded. I now find it was in Ormerod's 

 Cheshire that I had originally met with the evi- 

 dence on which I grounded my reply to Ces- 

 triensis' Query ; and I hasten with much plea- 

 sure to refer him to p. 64. of the second volume of 

 that invaluable work, where he will find a full 

 confirmation of all I then advanced. Mr. Foss 

 having given a clue to the arms of the Wood 

 family, I dare say Cestriknsis has amply satisfied 

 himself by referring to Berry's Visitation of Hamp- 

 thire ; if not, I may usefully append to my present* 

 communication the arms of two or three families 

 of Staffordshire Woods, from which Cestriensis 

 may make his selection. 



Wood of liiltwood. Argent, a lion rampant 

 purpure. 



Wood of Staffordshire. Argent, a lion rampant 

 gules. 



Ditto. Ditto. Argent, a wolf salient 



sable. 



I cannot find that Justice George Wood left 

 any issue by his wife Margaret, widow of Ralph 

 Birkenhead. T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Works on Logic (Vol. ii., p. 199.; Vol. xi., 

 p. 169.). — Mk. Ingleby has overlooked my state- 

 ment, that I take the exposition of Petrus His- 

 panus from Ilain, and Paulus Venetus from in- 

 spection. And moreover, without answering for 

 other M.'s, I, the original M. (tenant in capite, 

 since the letter was assigned me by the Editor), 

 always state my authority when I describe a book 

 which I have not examined. And this because I 

 know the catalogues. Paulus Venetus is now 

 before me. Some one of those reprobates who cut 

 out illuminated letters has carried away the first 

 words, but at the end are verses beginning, — 

 " Quid ratio possit logices arguta probandi 

 Dogmata : de Veneto littore Paule doces." 



And also "mcccclxxiui. Die vero Decima-quarta 

 Mensis Decembris." I suppose that the earliest 

 printed work on logic is one of the undated editions, 

 either of Petrus llispanus (afterwards Pope 

 John XXI. ; why do popes never take the name 

 of Peter, even when baptisraally entitled ?) or of 

 Paulus Venetus ; but which of the two is probably 

 past all settlement. . M. 



" Our means secure us " (Vol. xi., p. 153.). — I 

 am pleased to see that the suggestion which I 

 made about two years ago as to the meaning of 

 this passage, and which was inserted in " N. & 

 Q," is confirmed by Sttlites. It is obvious that 



