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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 276. 



were soon discovered by the inquisitors and 

 burnt. 



The celebrated treatise of Aonio Paleario, On 

 the Benefits of the Death of Christ, was prose- 

 cuted with great rigour, and whenever found 

 destroyed ; and though no less than 40,000 

 copies of it were sold in six years, it is now a 

 scarce book. 



" The Index Expurgatorius is well known ; and as the 

 condemned books were consigned to the flames, we form 

 some idea of the amount of destruction caused by theo- 

 logical bigotry and hate." 



In A.D. 849, Godeschalk was condemned at 

 Chiersey, and sentenced to be deprived and to 

 be whipped, until he should throw the statements 

 he had made at Mentz the year before in his own 

 defence into the flames. It is said he submitted, 

 under torture, to throw into the fire the texts he 

 had collected in support of his own opinions, 



B. H. COWPEB. 



(To he continued.) 



IjANSALLOS beli,. 



In many parishes in Cornwall an annual allow- 

 ance of Is. Qd. is made to the ringers, who, on the 

 night of Nov. 4, remind us of the Gunpowder 

 Plot. Now ringers are proverbially thirsty souls : 

 and the crazy discord, or no less expressive silence 

 of some of the belfries, plainly tells how this item 

 of the churchwarden's account is expended. 

 " Cracked one ringing night," concludes the his- 

 tory of many of our bells. 



The tower of Lansallos"Church contains the 

 fragments of two bells scattered on the floor of 

 the belfry ; while a third, still hanging, barely 

 serves to notify the hour of service to the inha- 

 bitants of the adjoining hamlet. A few particulars 

 respecting the latter may interest some of your 

 correspondents, and furnish two or three Queries 

 to those learned in heraldry. 



There is nothing remarkable in the shape or 

 size of the bell, but it bears the words, in an old 

 black-letter character : " Sancta Margareta ora 

 pro nobis," and also three coats of arms which I 

 will attempt to describe. 



The first is a chevron between three fleurs-de- 

 lys. The second is an octagonal shield, charged 

 with a very curious crosslet. Tiie third is a chev- 

 ron between three remarkable-looking vessels with 

 spouts, more like the modern coffee-pot than any- 

 thing I know besides. The tinctures, if there 

 were ever any, are obliterated. 



Can any of the readers of "N, & Q." inform 

 me — 1. To whom the arms belong? 2. Whether 

 the character of the legend indicates the age of 

 the bell ? 3. What are the vessels with which 

 the third of the shield is charged ? I 



It has been supposed that the latter is the coat 

 of Pincerna (a family which afterwards took the 

 name of Lanherne), whose ancestor, William de 

 Albany, held lands from the Conqueror on the 

 service of attending the king as chief butler on 

 the day of coronation. But the Pincerna arras, as 

 displayed among seven-and-thirty of the alliances 

 of the Trelawnys, over the fire-place in the hall 

 at Trelawny, are : Gules, on a bend or, three 

 covered cups sable. 



This bell, I have thought, may be coeval with 

 the re-edification of the church, which was dedi- 

 cated to St Ildierna, or Hyldren, October 16, 

 1331. (Oliver's Monasticon Dioc. Exon., Ap- 

 pendix.) 



On putting together the fragments of one of the 

 other bells, it was found to bear the initials of the 

 donors ; and an inscription in modern characters, 

 of which I could only discover these words : 



" In Maj- we cast this — 

 To pray and hear his word divine." 



It will be unnecessary for me to confess my 

 ignorance of tlie gentle science ; but as an atone- 

 ment for my heraldic offences in this note, I shall 

 be happy to make a {q\y tracings of my sketch of 

 the legend and arms for those of your readers 

 whom the subject may interest, and who will 

 apply to Thomas Q. Couch. 



Polperro, Cornwall. 



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