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but be this as it may, ere he retired to his couch 

 — "vino ciboque gravatus" — the articles were 

 signed, and the courteous stranger became pos- 

 sessed of one of the finest estates in the county ! 

 Francis Robert Davies. 



CANTING ARMS. 



In the introduction to a work entitled A Col- 

 lection of Coats of Arms borne by the Nobility and 

 Gentry of the County of Gloucester, London, 

 J. Good, 159. New Bond Street, 1792, and which 

 I believe was written by Sir George Nayler, it is 

 asserted that — 



" Amies parlanles, or canting arms, were not common 

 till the commencement of the seventeenth century, 

 when they prevailed under the auspices of King 

 James." 



Now doubtless they were more common in the 

 seventeenth century, but I am of opinion that 

 there are many instances of them centuries pre- 

 vious to the reign of King James ; as, for example, 

 in a roll of arms of the time of Edward II. 

 (a.d. 1308-14), published by Sir Harris Nicolas 

 from a manuscript in the British Museum, there 

 are the following : 



" Sire Peres Corbet, d'or, a un corbyn de sable. 



Sire Johan le Fauconer, d'argent, a. Yufaucouns de 

 goules. 



Sire Johan Heroun, d'azure, a iii herouns d'argent. 



Sire Richard de Cokfeld, d'azure, a une crois e 

 iiii coks d'or. 



Sire Richard de Barlingham, de goules, a iii ours 

 (bears) d'argent. 



Sire Johan de Swyneford, d'argent, a un cheveroun 

 de sable, a iii testes de cenglers (swines' heads') d'or." 



Sire Ammon de Lucy bore three luces ; Sire 

 William Bernak a fers between three barnacles, 

 &c. There are many other examples in the same 

 work, but as I think I have made my communica- 

 tion quite long enough, I forbear giving them. 



Gib. 



Minor $att$. 



Selleridge. — The story of the author who was 

 charged by his publisher for selleridge, and thought 

 it for selling his books, whereas it was storing 

 them in a cellar, is given by Thomas Moore in his 

 Diary, lately published, upon the authority of 

 Coleridge. It is to be found, much better told, 

 in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Tombs of Bishops. — The following bishops, 

 whose bodies were interred elsewhere, had or have 

 tombs in the several cathedrals in which their 

 hearts were buried: — William de Longchamp, 



William de Kilkenny, Cardinal Louis de Luxem- 

 bourg, at Ely ; Peter de Aqua, Blanca, at Aqua- 

 blanca, in Savoy ; Thomas Cantilupe, at Ashridge, 

 Bucks (Hereford) ; Ethelmar (Winton), at Win- 

 chester ; Thomas Savage (York), at Macclesfield ; 

 Robert Stichelles (Durham), at Durham. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 

 Durham. 



Lines on visiting the Portico of Beau Nash's 

 Palace, Bath. — 



And here he liv'd, and here he reign'd, 

 And hither oft shall strangers stray ; 



To muse with joy on native worth, 



And mourn those pleasures fled for aye. 



Alas ! that he, whose days were spent 



In catering for the public weal, 

 Should, in the eventide of life, 



Be destin'd sad distress to feel. 



An ever open heart and hand, 



With ear ne'er closed to sorrow's tale, 

 Exalts the man, and o'er his faults 

 Draws the impenetrable veil. 



L. M. Thornton. 

 Bath. 



Acrostic in Ash Church, Kent. — The following 

 acrostic is from a brass in Ash Church, Kent. It 

 is perhaps curious only from the fact of its being 

 unusual to inscribe this kind of verse on sepul- 

 chral monuments. The capital letters at the 

 commencement of each line are given as in the 

 original : 



" «-i John Brooke of the parish of Ashe 



O Only he is nowe gone. 



K His days are past, his corps is layd 



^ Now under this marble stone. 



W Brookstrete he was the honor of, 



pi Robd now it is of name, 



O Only because he had no sede 



O Or children to have the same ; 



p$ Knowing that all must passe away, 



H Even when God will, none can denay. 



" He passed to God in the yere of Grace 

 One thousand fyve hundredth flfower score and two 



it was, 

 The sixteenthe daye of January, I tell now playne, 

 The five-and-twentieth yere of Elizabeth rayne." 



Fras. Brent. 

 Sandgate. 



A Hint to Publishers. — The present period is 

 remarkable for its numerous reprints of our poets 

 and standard writers. However excellent these 

 may be, there is often a great drawback, viz. that 

 one must purchase an author's entire works, and 

 cannot get a favourite poem or treatise separately. 



What I would suggest is, that a separate title- 

 page be prefixed to every poem or treatise in an 



