April 8. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



325 



Heraldic Query. — Names of the families bear- 

 ing the following coats of arms are requested: 



1. Ermine, on a chief sable, two griffins segre- 

 ant combatant argent. Crest, a demylyon affrontee 

 or. 



2. Azure, a bend or, between three spear-heads 

 argent. Crest, an armed arm, embowed, grasp- 

 ing a broken spear. 



3. Barry of six or and sable (with quarterings). 

 Crest, on a coil of rope a dog sable collared 

 argent. E. D. 



Christmas Ballad. — Perhaps some of your cor- 

 respondents may be able to throw some light 

 upon the following verses, which are sung by the 

 •waits at Christmas in the neighbourhood of Fal- 

 mouth : 



■" Twelve is twelve as goes to hell, 

 Eleven is eleven as goes to heaven, 

 Ten is the Ten Commandments, 

 Nine is nine so bright to shine, 

 Eight is the gable angels, 

 Seven is the seven stars of the sky, 

 And six is the six bold waiters, 

 Five is the flamboys under the bough, 

 And four is the Gospel preachers ; 

 Three of them is thrivers (sh rivers?), 

 Two of them is lilywhite babes, and clothed all in 



green oh ! 

 And One is One, and all alone, and ever more shall 



be so." 



That the first line alludes' to the fate of the 

 twelfth apostle is evident. The meaning of the 

 second, third, sixth, ninth, and last lines, is also 

 Apparent. The others I am quite at a loss to ex- 

 plain. C. M. G. 



Hay-bread Recipe. — The Query of your cor- 

 respondent G. D. (Vol. ix., p. 148.) has reminded 

 me of a question which I wish to ask. By what 

 chemical process may hay be converted into 

 bread? E.W.J. 



Te Deum. — We read frequently of this hymn 

 being sung in the Russian Church after victories. 

 Can any of your correspondents inform me in what 

 language it 'is used in the Eastern Churches ? It is, 

 I believe, generally admitted that it was originally 

 composed in Latin for the use of the Western 

 Church; but if the Emperor Nicholas, in his 

 famous manifesto (vide Vol. viii., pp. 585. 655.), 

 quotes front this hymn and not from the Psalms, 

 the one being quite as likely as the other, it 

 would almost appear that the Latin version is the 

 one with which he is the most familiar. 



HoNORE DE MaREVILLE. 

 Guernsey. 



Mary Queen of Scots at Auchincas. — Auchin- 

 cas is an interesting ruin on the bank of the 

 Evan in Dumfriesshire, the residence of Randolph, 



Earl of Murray, Regent of Scotland in 1329. I 

 have heard a tradition to the effect that when 

 Mary Queen of Scots was fleeing towards Eng- 

 land, she paused to rest here. Can any of your 

 readers confirm or contradict this tradition ? 



And can any of them furnish farther particu- 

 lars regarding the history of the same castle, in 

 addition to those given in the ordinary gazetteers, 

 and in Black's Guide to Moffat ? Annandaxe. 



Right of Refuge in the Church Porch. — In one 

 of J. H. Parker's Parochial Tales, a custom is 

 spoken of as existing at the present time in Nor- 

 folk, by which every parishioner has a right to 

 make the church porch his temporary home until 

 he can find a lodging elsewhere. Is this a fact ? 

 In the parish register of Flamstead, Herts, is an 

 entry under the year 1578, of the burial of a child 

 and its father, "w h bothe died in y e church 

 porche." Cheverells. 



Christopher Lemying of Burneston. — The un- 

 dersigned would be obliged to any of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." who would furnish him with the 

 names of the children and grandchildren of Chris- 

 topher Lemying of Burneston, nigh Lemying, in 

 Richmondshire, com. York, who lived about 

 a.d. 1600 and 1640 ? And also with any informa- 

 tion concerning the births and deaths of the same ? 

 The Heralds' Visitations for the seventeenth cen- 

 tury would probably afford the information, but 

 the writer has no access to them at present. 



C. P. L. 



Ralph Ashton the Commander. — Your answer 

 to my inquiry relative to "Isabella, the wife of 

 Ralph the Commander " (Ashton, Vol. ix., p. 272.), 

 induced me to refer to the work you quoted, 

 Baines's Lancashire ; but in the list of her sons I 

 did not find named one who is mentioned in the an- 

 cient document I have spoken of, namely, "James, 

 the son of Isabel, the wife of Ralph the Com- 

 mander." Did she survive her husband and marry 

 a second time ; and, if so, what was his name ? I 

 ask this because, probably, that would be the name 

 of the son here alluded to. A reply to this Query 

 would oblige* Jaytee. 



Minav €tutxiti foffl) SfatftoMtf. 



Roman Roads in England. — Whose is the best 

 treatise on the Roman roads in England ? 



Pkestoniensis. 



[Although the credit and fidelity of Richard of 

 Cirencester have frequently been attacked, still, as 



[* We cannot discover that Elizabeth Kaye, the wife 

 of Ralph the Commander, married the second time. 

 See Burke's Extinct Baronetcies, pp. 21. 285., ed. 1838. 

 — Ed.] 



