Feb. 25. 1854.] 



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a lyon, with his taile towards the east and his head to 

 the west; and some others (Eusehius, Nieremb. Hist. 

 Nat, lib. vm. c. xv.) have thought it to be very much 

 like a fox, and certainly 'tis as much like a lyon as that in 

 the zodiake, or as Ursa Major is like a beare. ... It 

 may be probable enough that those spots and brighter 

 parts may show the distinction betwixt the sea and 

 land in that other world." — Bishop Wilkin's Discovery 

 of a New World, 3rd edit., Lond. 1640, p. 100. 



" Does the Man in the Moon look big, 

 And wear a huger periwig ; 

 Show in his gait, or face, more tricks 

 Than our own native lunatics?" 



Hudibras, pt. n. c. iii. 767. 



To judge from liis physiognomy, one would say 

 the Man in the Moon was a Chinese, or native of 

 the Celestial Empire. Eirionnach. 



Arms of Richard, King of the Romans (Vol. viii., 

 p. 653.). — With respectful submission to Mr. 

 Norris Deck, and notwithstanding his ingenious 

 conjecture that the charges on the border are pois, 

 and the seal which he mentions in his last commu- 

 nication, I think the evidence that the border be- 

 longs to Cornwall, and not to Poictou, is perfectly 

 conclusive. 



1. The fifteen bezants in a sable field have been 

 time out of mind regarded as the arms of Corn- 

 wall, and traditionally (but of course without au- 

 thority) ascribed to Cadoc, or Caradoc, a Cornish 

 prince of the fifth century. They occur in juxta- 

 position with the garbes of Chester, upon some of 

 the great seals of England, and I think also upon 

 the tomb of Queen Elizabeth ; and they are, to 

 the present day, printed or engraved on the 

 mining leases of the duchy. 



2. Bezants on sable are extremely frequent in 

 the arms of Cornish families ; but crowned lions 

 rampant gules do not occur in a single instance of 

 which I am aware, except in the arms of families 

 named Cornwall, who are known or presumed to 

 be descended from this Richard, and bear his 

 arms with sundry differences. Bezants on sable 

 are borne (e.g.) by Bond, Carlyon, Chamber- 

 layne, Cole, Cornwall (by some without the lion), 

 Killegrew, Saint-Aubyn, Treby, Tregyan (with a 

 crowned eagle sable, holding a sword), Treiago, 

 and Walesborough, all of Cornwall ; and it is to 

 be remarked that bezants are not a common bear- 

 ing in other parts of England, especially not on 

 sable. 



3. When Roger Valtorte married Joan, daugh- 

 ter of Reginald de Dunstanville (who was natural 

 son of Henry I., and Earl of Cornwall nearly a 

 century before Richard, King of the Romans, but 

 never Earl of Poictou), he added to his paternal 

 arms a border sable bezantee. 



This is but a small portion of the evidence 

 which might be adduced ; but it is, I think, quite 

 enough to justify the statements of Sylvanus 



Morgan, Sandford, Mr. Lower, and others, that 

 the bezants pertain not to Poictou, but to Corn- 

 wall. H. G. 



Brothers with the same Christian Name (Vol. 

 viii., pp. 338. 478.). — If your various correspon- 

 dents, who adduce instances of two brothers in 

 families having the same Christian names (both 

 brothers being alive), will consult Lodge's Peerage 

 for 1853, they will find the names of the sons of 

 the Marquis of Ormonde thus stated : 



" James Edward WE Theobald, Earl of Ossory, 

 born Oct. 5, 1844. 



" Lord James Hubert Henry Thomas, born Aug. 20, 

 1847. 



" Lord James Arthur Wellington Foley, born Sept. 23, 

 1849. 



" Lord James Theobald Bagot John, born Aug. 6, 

 1852." 



The Christian name of the late Marquis was 

 James ; and whichever of his grandsons shall suc- 

 ceed the present possessor of the title, will bear 

 the same Christian name as the late peer. 



JUVERNA. 



Arch-priest in the Diocese of Exeter (Vol. ix., 

 p. 105.). — Haccombe is doubtless the parish in 

 the diocese of Exeter, where Mr. W. Eraser will 

 find the arch-priest about whom he is inquiring. 

 Haccombe is a small parish, having two houses in 

 it, the manor-house of the Carew family and the 

 parsonage. It is said that, by a grant from the 

 crown, in consequence of services done by an an- 

 cestor of the Carews, this parish received certain 

 privileges and exemptions, one of which was that 

 the priest of Haccombe should be exempt from 

 all ordinary spiritual jurisdiction. Hence the 

 title of arch-priest, and that of chorepiscopus, 

 which the priests of Haccombe have claimed, and 

 perhaps sometimes received. The incumbent of 

 Bibury, in Gloucestershire, used to claim similar 

 titles, and like exemption from spiritual juris- 

 diction. J. Sassom. 



Since sending my Query on this subject, I have 

 obtained the following information. The Rectory 

 of Haccombe, which is a peculiar one, in the 

 diocese of Exeter, gives to its incumbent for the 

 time being the dignity of arch-priest of the 

 diocese. The arch-priest wears lawn sleeves, and 

 on all occasions takes precedence after the bishop. 

 The late rector, the Rev. T. C. Carew, I am told, 

 constantly officiated in lawn sleeves attached to 

 an A.M. gown, and took the precedence due to 

 his spiritual rank as arch-priest of the diocese. 

 The present arch-priest and Rector of Haccombe 

 is the Rev. Fitzwilliam J. Taylor. Does such an 

 office, or rather dignity, exist in any other case in 

 the Anglican Church ? Wm. Fraser, B.C.L. 



Tor-Mohun. 



