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NOTES AND QUEBIES. 



[No. 295. 



not Lave been theological, or rather idolatrous, 

 and, if not, I suppose the Israelites would be 

 under no obligation to destroy the books which 

 they found. In that case, the title "Debir" 

 might continue to be appropriate after the in- 

 ieritance. P. H. Gossb. 



•58, Huntingdon Street. 



Seasickness (Vol. xi., p. 221.). — In the Itine- 

 rary of Richard I., by Geoflfrey de Vinsauf (temp. 

 twelfth century), there is mention made of this 

 disagreeable malady. I quote from Bohu's edition, 

 one vol., 1848, p. 178. : 



" And as the ships were tossed to and fro, and dispersed 

 divers ways, men's stomachs began to feel a qualm, and 

 were afi'ected by a violent nausea ; and this feeling of 

 sickness made them almost insensible to the dangers 

 around." 



J. H. A. Bone. 



Cleveland, U. S. 



Sarsen Stones (Vol. xi., p. 369.). — M. asks '.vhy 

 the Druidical sandstones in Wilts and Berks are 

 ■called sarsens ? The question itself suggests a 

 solution. As the Saxons apnlisi t,he term Saresyn 

 ito pagans or heathen in general, and as the prin- 

 cipal specimens of these blocks of stone were per- 

 ceived to be congregated into temples popularly 

 .attributed to heathen worship, it naturally came to 

 pass that the entire geological formation acquired 

 the distinctive appellation of Saresyn (or heathen) 

 stones ; that is to say, after the conversion of the 

 Saxons to Christianity. The same epithet the 

 -Saxons also applied to their invaders the Danes or 

 [Northmen, who on their coming hither were all 

 heathen. Thus Robert Rlcart (quoted in Roberts' 

 History of Lyme) says, "Duke RoUo le fort was a 

 Saresyn come out of Denmark Into France." And 

 a spot in Guernsey is still designated, I believe, 

 the Saracen's Hill, from having constituted the 

 temporary stronghold of certain Norman free- 

 booters, iji- W. 



Superstition respecting the Tremella Nostoc 

 (Vol. xi., pp. 219, 220.). — In compliance with 

 Mr. Macmillan's request to be furnished with an 

 extract from James's Medicinal Dictionary, re- 

 lating to the superstitious uses of the substance 

 called Ccelifolium, I have here written the passage 

 referred to : ., 



* *' Uncommon virtues are by some ascribed to the cceli- 

 folium. The country people in Germany use it to make 

 their hair grow. It is also accounted excellent in cancers 

 and fistulas. A Swiss physician reduced it to a powder, 

 of which he exhibited two or three grains, in order to 

 lessen and allay internal pains. He also applied it ex- 

 ternally for the cure of ulcers." 



BiBLIOTHECAR. ChETUAM. 



Paget Arms (Vol. xi., p. 385.). — If Jaytee 

 will turn to Guillim (edit. 1724, pp. 243. 423.) he 

 will read that the arms he mentions were " con- 



firmed" to Thomas Pagitt of the Middle Temple, 

 by Cook, Clarencieux, Feb. 24, 1575 ; ?oy confirmsd 

 we must read granted, as heralds often flattered 

 the new gentleman by the use of the former term ; 

 vide the grant to Shakspeare's father. The Pagets 

 of Leicestershire also bore these arms, but, as 

 appears from a note to their pedigree, enrolled at 

 Leicester, March 26, 1681-2, on insufficient 

 grounds. The rightful owners of the cOat Jaytee 

 mentions, are the Pagltts (generCiViy so written : 

 their motto was " Deo Psig'it "), originally of 

 Barton Seagrave, Nortl;iamptonshire, and subse- 

 quently of Hadley and Tottenham, Middlesex. I 

 believe they at'^i now extinct, as I have not been 

 able to trace them below 1705. There is a meagre 

 pedigroo of this family in Harl. MS. 1468., folio 

 129 6. Should Jaytee desire a more complete 

 one, mine is at his service. 



Other arms have been borne by families of this 

 name. James Paget, Sheriff of Hampshire in 

 1580 (see " N. & Q.," Vol. vi., p. 534.), bore. Ar- 

 gent, a chevron vair between three talbots passant, 

 sable. These arms were, I believe, granted to his 

 father, Robert Paget, who died 1541 ; he was one 

 of the Sheriffs of" London in 1536. To William 

 Paget, ancestor of the present ennobled family of 

 that name, Hawley granted (June 1, 1541) — 



"Asur a crosse engrailed golde betweene fower close 

 eglets siluer, on a wrethe siluer and gules, on a demy 

 tiger gold, and sable party p pali, fower droppes en- 

 trechluiged of y" same, langued and armed gewles, sup- 

 porting in his paues a branch of a pech tree leuyd vert, 

 the pechys in their kinde." 



I shall be glad to know when and why they ex- 

 changed this coat for the one they use now. The 

 name of Paget is doubtless of French origin ; I 

 have seen it adorning several shop fronts in a 

 village of the Jura, though my searches for it in 

 French heraldic works have hitherto been fruitless. 

 In England I have not met with the name before 

 1359, in which year a survey was made of the 

 manor of Mendham in Suffolk ; under which a 

 certain John Paget paid for a messuage and four 

 acres, three shillings and a hen a year, and, more- 

 over, was to mow eleven days and reap four for 

 the lord of the said manor; and these conditions 

 were considered hard ! Arthur Paget. 



Old Dutch Song (Vol. xi., p. 384.). — For a 

 copy of this jeu d'esprit, see Macaroneara,^ ^c, 

 par M. Octave Deleplerre, public aux frals de 

 G. Gancia, Libraire, :\ Brighton, Paris, 1852. It 

 will be found in p. 28., and is there said to be 

 taken from Nug(s Venales. Arthur Paget. 



''Sanlegue" (Vol. xi., pp.342. 433.). — Your 

 correspondent will find a notice of Louis de San- 

 legue, or, as his name is there spelled, Sanlecque, 

 tvvo pages In length, in the Biographic Universelle, 

 vol. xl.°p. 332. 'AMevi. 



Dublin. 



