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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 221. 



which indeed was right : but then France by the 

 same rule was then in the third place, and Ireland 

 in the second ; unless to reconcile it we make a 

 rule contrary to all rule, to take sinister first and 

 dexter second. 



In the coinage of King George I., the re- 

 presentation of the armorial bearings in four 

 separate shields, as upon the milled money of 

 King Charles II., was continued. In the upper- 

 most escocheon, England impaling Scotland ; the 

 dexter the arms of his Majesty's electoral domi- 

 nions ; sinister France ; and in the bottom one 

 Ireland, all crowned with the imperial crown of 

 Great Britain. The marshalling of the four esco- 

 cheons in this manner might and ought to have 

 been objected to by the heralds (has it been 

 brought under their cognizance ?), because it ap- 

 pears by many instances, as well as upon coins and 

 medals of the emperors and several princes of the 

 empire, that arms marshalled in this circular form 

 are blazoned, not in the circular order, but from 

 the dexter and sinister alternately ; and thus the 

 emperor at that time bore eleven escocheons round 

 the imperial eagle. In like manner, upon the 

 money of Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick, we 

 see the crest with a circle of eleven escocheons in 

 the same order. The same order is observed in 

 marshalling the escocheons of the seven provinces 

 of Holland ; and there is a coin of the Emperor 

 Ferdinand, another of Gulick, and a third of 

 Erick, Bishop of Osnaburgh, with four escocheons 

 in cross, and four sceptres exactly resembling the 

 English coins. That it was not altered therefore 

 at that time, the mistake being so evident, can be 

 attributed only to the length of time the error 

 had prevailed ; so hard is it to correct an error in 

 the first instance whereby the arms of his Majesty's 

 German dominions, which occupy the fourth quar- 

 ter in the royal arms, do in fact upon the money 

 occupy the second place ; a mistake however so 

 apparent, as well by the bearing upon other oc- 

 casions as by the arms of Ireland, which be- 

 fore occupied the same escocheon, that nothing 

 was meant thereby to the dishonour of the other 

 arms ; but that being now established, it is the 

 English method of so marshalling arms in cross or 

 in circle, or rather that they have no certain 

 method. 



Until the union with Scotland, the dexter was 

 the fourth escocheon ; from that time the bottom 

 one was fourth ; now the dexter was again the 

 fourth. Such is the force of precedent in per- 

 petuating error, that the practice has prevailed 

 even to the present time : and it may be inferred, 

 that fancy and effect are studied by the engraver 

 before propriety. No valid reason can be ad- 

 vanced for placing the arms in separate shields 

 after their declared union under one imperial 

 crown. J. 



CHRONOGRAMS. 



(Vol. viii., p. 351. &c.) 



The banks of the Rhine furnish abundant ex- 

 amples of this literary pleasantry: chronograms 

 are as thick as blackberries. I send you a dozen, 

 gathered during a recent tour. Each one was 

 transcribed by myself. 



1. Cologne Cathedral, 1722 ; on a beam in a 

 chapel, on the south side of the choir : 



" rLv. VIrgInIs MarI* soDaLItas annos s.<eCV- 

 LarI reno Vat." 



2. Poppelsdorf Church, near Bonn. 1812 : 

 "paroChIaLIs teMpLI rVInIs ^DIeICabar." ] 



3. Bonn ; on the base of a crucifix outside the 

 minster, on the north side. 1711 : 



"glorifiCate 



ET 

 PORTATE DeVM 



In Corpore Vestro. 

 1 Cor. 6." 



4. Bonn ; within the minster. 1770 : 



" CapItVLVM 



patron Is pIe 



DICaVIt." 



5. Aix-la-Chapelle ; on the baptistery. 1660: 



"sacrvM 

 paroChIaLe DIVI johannIs 



BAPtIsT^E." 



6. Aix-la-Chapelle. — St. Michael ; front of west 

 gallery. 1821 : 



"sVM pIa CIVItatIs 

 LIberaLItate renoVata DeCorata." 



7. Aix-la-Chapelle, under the above. 1852 : 



"eCCe 



MIChaeLIs 



aeDes." 



8. Konigswinter ; on the base of a crucifix at 

 the northern end of the village. 1726 : 



"In VnIVs VerI aC In 



CarnatI DeI honoreM 



posVere. 



Joannes Petrus Mumrer kt 



Maria Gengers Conjuges 



2 da. Septembris." 



9. Konigswinter ; over the principal door of the 

 church. 1828: 



" es 1st seInes Men Cher WohnUng sonDem eIn 



herrLIChes haUsz Unseres gottes, i. b. d. ker. 



er. 29. c. v. I." 



10. Konigswinter ; under the last. 1778 : 

 " VnI sanCtIssIMo Deo, patrI atqVk 



fiLIo spIrItVIqVe sanCto." 



