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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 228. 



in chief, fess-ways, — is a very rare occurrence. 

 I know of no instance of it in English blazon. 

 Coupled with another and principal charge, as a 

 fess, a chevron, a lion, &c. ; or in a chief, it is 

 common enough. Nor have I ever met with an 

 example of it in French coat-armour. An En- 

 glish family, named Rothfeld, but apparently of 

 German extraction, gives : Gules, two fleurs-de- 

 lys, in chief, ermine. Du Guesclin bore nothing 

 like a fleur-de-lys in any way. The armorial 

 bearings of the famous Constable were : Argent, 

 a double-headed eagle, displayed, sable, crowned, 

 or, debruised of a bend, gules. 



John o' the Ford. 

 Malta. 



P. S. — Since writing the above, I have read 

 three replies (Vol. ix., p. 84.), which do not ap- 

 pear to me to exactly meet the Query of Devo- 

 niensis. 



I understand the question to be, does any 

 English family bear simply three fleurs-de-lys, in 

 chief, fess-ways — without any additional charge? 

 And in that sense my reply above is framed. 



The first example given by Me. Mackenzie Wal- 

 cott would be most satisfactory and conclusive 

 of the existence of such a bearing, could it be 

 verified ; but, unfortunately, in the Heraldic Dic- 

 tionaries of Berry and Burke, the name even of 

 Trilleck or Trelleck does not occur. And in 

 Malta, I have no opportunity of consulting Ed- 

 mondson or Robson. 



Your correspondent A. B. (p. 113.) has mis- 

 taken the three white lilies for fleurs-de-lys in 

 the arms of Magdalen College, Oxford. Waynflete, 

 the founder, was also Provost of Eton, and adopted 

 the device from the bearings of that illustrious 

 school ; by which they were borne in allusion to 

 St. Mary, to whom that College is dedicated. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



BOOKS BURNED BY THE COMMON HANGMAN. 



(Vol. viii., pp. 272. 346. 625. ; Vol. ix., p. 78.) 



The well-known law dictionary, entitled The 

 Interpreter, by John Cowel, LL.D., was burned 

 (1610) under a proclamation of James I. (DTs- 

 raeli's Calamities of Authors, ed. 1840, p. 133.) 



In June, 1622, the Commentary of David Pare, 

 or Paraeus On the Epistle to the Romans, was burned 

 at London, Oxford, and Cambridge, by order of 

 the Privy Council. (Wood's Hist, and Antiq. of 

 Univ. of Oxford, ed. Gutch, vol. ii. pp. 341 — 345. ; 

 Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, vol. iii. pp. 143, 144.) 



On the 12th of February, 1634, Elenchus Re- 

 ligionis Papistical, by John Bastwicke, M.D., was 

 ordered to be burned by the High Commission 

 Court. (Prynne's New Discovery of the Prelates' 1 

 Tyranny, p. 132.) 



On the 10th of February, 1640-1, the House of 

 Lords ordered that two books published by John 

 Pocklington, D.D., entitled Altare Christianum, 

 and Sunday no Sabbath, should be publicly burned 

 in the city of London and the two Universities, 

 by the hands of the common executioner ; and on 

 the 10th of March the House ordered the Sheriffs 

 of London and the Vice-Chancellors of both the 

 Universities, forthwith to take care and see the 

 order of the House carried into execution. (Lords' 

 Journals, vol. iv. pp. 161. 180.) 



On the 13th of August, 1660, Charles II. issued 

 a proclamation against Milton's Defensio pro Po- 

 pulo Anglicauo, his Answer to the Portraiture of 

 his Sacred Majesty in his Solitude and Sufferings, 

 and a book by John Goodwin, late of Coleman 

 Street, London, Clerk, entitled The Obstructors 

 of Justice. All copies of these books were to be 

 brought to the sheriffs of counties, who were to 

 cause the same to be publicly burned by the hands 

 of the common hangman at the next assizes. 

 (Kennett's Register and Chronicle, p. 207.) This 

 proclamation is also printed in Collet's Relics of 

 Literature, with the inaccurate date 1672, and the 

 absurd statement that no copy of the proclamation 

 was discovered till 1797. 



In January, 1692-3, a pamphlet by Charles 

 Blount, Esq., entitled King William and Queen 

 Mary, Conquerors, Sfc, was burned by the common 

 hangman in Palace Yard, Westminster. (Bohun's 

 Autobiography, ed. S. W. Rix, vol. xxiv. pp. 108, 

 109. 113. ; Wilson's Life of De Foe, vol. i. 

 p. 179 «.) 



The same parliament consigned to the flames 

 Bishop Burnet's Pastoral Letter, which had been 

 published 1689. (Wilson's Life of De Foe, vol. i. 

 p. 179.) 



On the 31st of July, 1693, the second volume of 

 Anthony ix Wood's Athena? Oxonienses was burned 

 in the Theatre Yard at Oxford by the Apparitor 

 of the University, in pursuance of the sentence of 

 the University Court in a prosecution for a libel 

 on the memory of Edward Hyde, Earl of Cla- 

 rendon. (Life of Mr. Anthony a Wood, ed. 1772, 

 p. 377.) 



On the 25 th of February, 1702-3, the House of 

 Commons ordered De Foe's Shortest Way with the 

 Dissenters to be burned by the hands of the com- 

 mon hangman on the morrow in New Palace Yard. 

 (Wilson's Life of De Foe, vol. ii. p. 62.) 



In or about 1709, John Humphrey, an aged 

 non-conformist minister, having published a 

 pamphlet against the Test, and circulated it 

 amongst the members of parliament, was cited 

 before a committee, and his work was ordered to 

 be burned by the common hangman. (Wilson's 

 Life of De Foe, vol. iii. p. 52.) 



The North Briton, No. 45., was on the 3rd of 

 December, 1763, burned by the common hangman 

 at the Royal Exchange, by order of the House of 



