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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 294. 



three ebecks (or griffins' heads- erased), three 

 flenrs-de-lys, all counterchanged." To what fa- 

 mily does this coat belong ? 



Quei'y, Were the arras of John Wakeman, last 

 Abbot of Tewkesbury and first Bishop of Glou- 

 cester, the same as those of Edward Wakeman, 

 buried at Tewkesbury, 1635, viz. "Vert, a saltier 

 wavy ermine ? " W. K. R. B. 



Lord Washington. — The London Magazine for 

 May, 1774, announces the marriage, on the 8th of 

 April, of the only son and heir of Lord Washing- 

 ton to Miss Challiner, daughter of the late Mr. 

 Challiner, merchant. Who was Lord Washing- 

 ton ? Uneda. 

 Philadelphia. 



Commodore in the British Navrf. — How can I 

 get at correct information concerning a gentleman 

 who filled such a position circa 1760 — 1765 ? 



Thomas Balch. 

 Philadelphia. 



Allan Ttamsay. — Is there any good reason to 

 believe that he was not the author of the poems 

 published in his name ? A writer in the London 

 Magazine for June, 1774, asserts that they were 

 written for him by the students at the universities 

 in Edinburgh, who enjoyed the jest of his being 

 complimented thereon. He asserts that he makes 

 this statement upon the authority of " a gentleman 

 of honour now residing in the highlands of Scot- 

 land, who was informed of the particulars." 



M.E. 



Philadelphia. 



Jonathan Sidnam. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform nie who was Jonathan Sidnam, 

 living in 1630 ? He was a poet of no mean class. 

 I have in my possession a translation of Guarini's 

 Pastor Fido, a paraphrase of three books of 

 Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, and a play in five 

 acts. Have any of them been printed ? T. G. L. 



Lichfield. 



Stained Glass Pictures of Virgin, ^c. — In the 

 nave of a small Early English church in Middlesex, 

 I have seen a stained glass window, in which is 

 represented a figure of the blessed Virgin and 

 Child, differing, however, from the usual repre- 

 sentations, in that the child holds a toy in his 

 hands, towards which he is gazing as if watching 

 its movements. As far as I can recollect, the 

 exact description is as follows : in one hand is held 

 a ball, on the top of which, connected by a pin, is 

 horizontally placed a small cross, and from the 

 side of the ball issues a cord, the end of which is 

 held in the left hand, as if pulling the string to 

 cause the cross on the top to spin round. The 

 kind of toy is common enough even now ; but are 

 instances frequent of our Lord, when represented 



as a_ child, having toys of this or other descriptions 

 in his hands ? The date of the painting is about 

 A.D. 1480; and in anoth(?r compartmeiit of the 

 same window is a fijrure of St. Joseph (at least so 

 it is traditionally called) bearing an Agnus Dei in 

 his hand. Is not this too somewhat unusual ? 



L. J. B. 



Com. Win. 



" De amore Jesus." — The name of the author, 

 and an English metrical version, of the following 

 lines, will much oblige. 



" Jesu, Clemens, pie Deus ! 

 Jesu, dulcis amor mens ! 

 Jesu bone, Jesu pie, 

 Fili Dei et Marise. 



" Quisnam possit enarrnre, 

 Quam jucundum te amare. 

 Tecum fide sociari, 

 Tecum semper delectari. 



" Fac ut possim demonstrare 

 Quam sit dulce te amare ; 

 Tecum pati, tecum flere. 

 Tecum semper congaudere. 



" majestas infinita, 

 Amor noster, Spes, et Vita, 

 Fac nos dis^nos te videre, 

 Tecum semper perraanere. 



" Ut videntes et fruentes, 

 Jubilemus et cantemus. 

 In beata coeii vita, 

 Amen I Jesu, fiat ita." 



Clekicus (D). 

 Army Estimates, 1670—1760. — Where shall I 

 find the official account of the expenses for the 

 army for the period between 1670 and 1760, 

 similar to the present army and ordnance esti- 

 mates ? R. A. 



Dean Sherlock At the end of a work printed 



for W. Rogers in 1706, is a list of books published 

 by Dr. Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul's, and amongst 

 them is one entitled — 



" An Exhortation to the Redeemed Slaves, who came 

 in a solemn Procession to St. Paul's Cathedral, March 11, 

 170J, to give God thanks for their deliverance out of their 

 captivity at Machaness." 



I should be obliged by any correspondent in- 

 forming, first, where is Machaness ? Secondly, by 

 any particulars of the captivity and rescue of the 

 persons addressed, and of the solemnity at St. 

 Paul's. Balliolensis. 



[Machaness, variously spelt Mequinez, Mekinez, and 

 Miknas, lies west of Fez, and is now a Inrge town in Mo- 

 rocco. The Flying Post of March 12, 1701-2, thus notices 

 the service at St. Paul's : " Yesterday about one hundred 

 and forty slaves, lately redeemed from Barbary, came to 

 St. Paul's Cathedral, where his Grace the Lord Archbishop 

 of Canterbury, and some of the aldermen of the city, were- 

 present. The Rev. Dr. Sherlock admonished them to 



