Mar. 3. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



167 



is correct ? This Robert was father of Sir Robert 

 Latymer of Fittiford, Dorsetshire, Knt., in 1379. 

 What arms did Gouis or Goude bear ? And what 

 were the arms of Walter Ledit, Baron of Warden, 

 in Northamptonshire, grandfather of Sir John 

 Latimer ? The Latymer arms in the above MS. 

 are given as " Gules, a cross patoncee or, charged 

 with five roundlets sa." Y. S, M. 



Edicard Gibbes. — A Genealogist would be 

 obliged by any information respecting the ancestry 

 and burial of Edward Gibbes, Esq., Deputy- 

 Governor of Chepstow Castle, and major in the 

 army ; he is described as of Gloucestershire, and 

 left a son, Edward Gibbes, Esq., of the city of 

 Gloucester, born 1666, and buried at Barrow in 

 1703, aged thirty-six. He is supposed to have 

 had a younger son. 



Reviews of Charles Auchester, — Can any of 

 your correspondents tell me where I can find a 

 book called Chai'les Auchester reviewed, which 

 was published in 1853? A Cecilian. 



[It was reviewed in The AthencBum of Nov. 12, 1853, 

 p. 1352., and in the Literary Gaz. of Oct. 1, 1853, p. 953.] 



" Where Scoggin looked for his Knife" ^c. — 

 Trial of Elizabeth Cellier for writing and pub- 

 lishing a libel. 



" Cellier. I desire George Grange may be called. (Who 

 was sworn.) 



_ Mr. Baron Weston. What can you say for Mrs. Cel- 

 lier? Tell me what questions you will ask him? 



Cellier. I desire to know whether I did not send Jiim 

 to find witnesses? Who he went for? What answers 

 they returned ? And where they be ? 



Mr. Bar. IVeston. Well, what witnesses were 3-ou sent 

 to look for? 



Grange. I went to look for one Mrs. Sheldon, that lives 

 in Sir Joseph Sheldon's house ; they told me she was in 

 Essex. I went to the coach to send for her. 



Mr. Bar. Weston. Why, Scoggin looked for his knife 

 on the house-top." — State Trials, vol. iii. p. 97., second 

 edition, 1730. 



The learned baron here evidently quotes a pro- 

 verb, and one which I cannot find in Ray, or 

 any collection that I have consulted. Can you, 

 Mr. Editor, or any of your numerous correspon- 

 dents, point out whei-e it is to be found, or give 

 any clue as to what its allusion is ? C. db D. 



[This seems to be one of Scoggin's jests, and will pro- 

 bably be found in the following scarce work, « The First 

 and Best Part of Scoggin's Tests : full of witty Mirth and 

 pleasant Shifts, done by him in France and other Places : 

 being a Preservative against Melancholy, gathered by 

 Andrew Boord, Doctor of Physicke, London, 12mo., 1626.'" 

 Some notices of Scogan, or Scoggin, will be found in 

 Warton's Hist, of English Poetry, vol. ii. p. 335., edit. 

 1840 ; Malone's notes to Shakspeare, 2 Hen. IV., Act HI. 

 So. 2.; and Nares's Glossary, s. v.] 



Hats. — Can you tell me the meaning of the fol- 

 lowing entries in the book of the churchwardens' 

 accounts of the parish of Woodbury, in Devon- 

 shire ? 



_ " Mich' 1576 to Mich' 1577.— Paid to the Commis- 

 sioners for Avearing of hattes, 12s." 



"Mich' 1577 to Mich' 1578. — To Gregory ^toke as 

 concerning hattes, 18d." 



Henry H. Gibbs. 

 Frognal. 



[These entries seem to relate to the act passed in 1571, 

 13 Elizabetli, c. 19., for the continuance of making and 

 wearing woollen caps, in behalf of the trade of Cappers, 

 when it was enacted, that " every person (except ladies, 

 peers, &c.) shall on Sundays and holidays wear on their 

 head a cap of wool, made in England, by the Cappers ; 

 penaltv, 3s. 4d. per day." This act was repealed by 

 39 Eliz. c, 18.] 



Booh-worm. — I am desirous of information as 

 to the nature, &c. of the worm which injures old 

 books, and any means of checking and destroying 

 it. B. W. 



[Among other means to prevent the ravages of this 

 insect, it has been recommended that the book be shut up 

 in a box along with some camphor or hartshorn ; the 

 leaves opened, so as to allow the vapour to penetrate 

 {Gent. Mag., Feb. 1844, p. 114.). Another correspondent 

 recommends a solution of corrosive sublimate of mercury 

 in clean rain-water, applied with a pen or feather to the 

 covers (76. June, 1844, p. 596.). Other directions are 

 given in Rees's Cydopcedia, s. v., where will be found 

 some notices of the different species of this mischievous 

 insect. See also " N. & Q.," Vol. viii., p. 526. ; and 

 Vol. ix., p. 527.] 



Sir Francis Stonor. — Sir Francis Stonor, Knt., 

 of Stonor, CO. Oxford, left money wherewith the 

 stone rail about the King's Bath, Bath, was 

 erected. Can any of your correspondents supply 

 me with information concerning him or his family ? 

 R. WixBKAHAM Falconer, INI. D. 



Bath. 



[Some notices of the Stonor family will be found in 

 Magna BritannicB, vol. iv. p. 425. ; and Beauties of Eng- 

 land and Wales, vol. xii. part ii. p. 322.] 



THE " DICTIONARIUM ANGLICUM " USED BT 

 SKINNER. 



(Vol. xi., p. 122.) 



It is singular that the question put by Mr._ Way 

 has never been raised before, for Skinner, in his 

 Etymologicon, has availed himself so largely of 

 this " English Dictionary," as naturally to lead to 

 inquiry ; perhaps it was to some, who would take 

 interest in its identification, considered too ob- 

 vious for remark. For myself I must confess, 

 without ever attempting to verify the quotations, 

 I concluded that they were made either from 

 Blount's Glossographia, or Phillips's New World 



