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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 236. 



silver (30 grains to the ounce), and after remaining 

 there for the usual time, is transferred for a second so- 

 lution of the following composition : 



Nitrate of zinc (fused) 

 Nitrate of silver 

 Water - 



2 ounces. 



35 grains. 



6 ounces. 



The plate must be left in this bath until the zinc solu- 

 tion has thoroughly penetrated the film (we have found 

 five minutes amply sufficient for this purpose, although 

 a much longer time is of no consequence) ; it should 

 then be taken out, allowed to drain upright on blot- 

 ting-paper until all the surface moisture has been ab- 

 sorbed (about half an hour), and then put by until 

 required. The nitrate of zinc, which is still retained 

 on the plate, is sufficient to keep it moist for any length 

 of time, and we see no theoretical or practical reason 

 why its sensitiveness should not be retained as long : 

 experiments on this point are in progress ; at present, 

 however, we have only subjected them to the trial of 

 about a week, although at the end of that period they 

 were hardly deteriorated in any appreciable degree. 

 It is not necessary that the exposure in the camera 

 should be immediately followed by the development, 

 as this latter process can be deferred to any convenient 

 opportunity, provided it be within the week. Pre- 

 vious to development, the plate should be allowed to 

 remain for a few seconds in the original thirty-grain 

 silver-bath, then removed and developed with either 

 pyrogallic acid or a protosalt of iron, and afterwards 

 fixed, &c. in the usual manner." 



Bepltea ta Minat <Qutviz$. 



Tippet (Vol. ix., p. 370.). — P. C. S. S. cannot 

 help thinking that tippet is nothing more than a 

 corruption, per metathesia, of epitogium. Such, at 

 least, seems to have been the opinion of old 

 Minsheu, who, in his Guide to the Tongues, 1627, 

 describes it thus : 



" A habit which universitie men and clergiemen 

 weare over their gownes. L. Epitogium, ab sirl and 

 toga." 



P. c. s. s. 



Heraldic Anomaly (Vol. ix., p. 298.). — As your 

 correspondent John o' the Ford wishes to be 

 furnished with examples of arms now extant, aug- 

 mented with a cross in chief, I beg to inform him 

 that on the north side of St. John's Gate, Clerken- 

 well, immediately above the arch, are three shields : 

 the centre one bearing a plain cross (the arms of 

 the order) ; on the right, as you face the gateway, 

 the shield bears a chevron ingrailed between three 

 roundles, impaling a cross flory, over all on a chief 

 a cross ; that on the left is merely a single shield, 

 bearing a chevron ingrailed between three roundles 

 apparently (being somewhat damaged), in chief a 

 plain cross. If the colours were marked, they are 

 indistinguishable, — shield and charges are alike 

 sable now. On the south side are two shields : 



that on the right has been so much damaged that 

 all I can make out of it is that two coats have been 

 impaled thereon, but I cannot discover whether 

 it had the cross in chief or not ; that on the left 

 bears a chevron between three roundles, in chief 

 a plain cross. This shield also is damaged ; but, 

 nevertheless, enough remains to enable one to make 

 out the charges with tolerable certainty. 



Tee Bee. 



George Wood of Chester (Vol. viii., p. 34.). — I 

 think it very probable that this gentleman, who 

 was Justice of Chester in the last year of the reign 

 of Mary and the first of Elizabeth, will turn out 

 to be George Wood, Esq., of Balterley, in the 

 county of Stafford, who married Margaret, relict 

 of Ralph Birkenhead, of Croughton, in Cheshire, 

 and sixth daughter of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, of 

 Eaton, Knight, ancestor of the present noble house 

 of Westminster. If Cestriensis can obtain access 

 to Shaw's History of Staffordshire, the hint I have 

 thrown out may speed him in his investigations. 



T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Moon Superstitions (Vol. viii., pp. 79. 145. 321.). 

 — The result of my own observations, as far as 

 they go, is, that remarkable changes of weather 

 sometimes accompany or follow so closely the 

 changes of the moon, that it is difficult for the least 

 superstitious persons to refrain from imagining 

 some connexion between them — and one or two 

 well-marked instances would make many converts 

 for life to the opinion ; — but that in comparatively 

 few esses are the changes of weather so marked 

 and decided as to give them the air of cause and 

 effect. J. S. Warden. 



" Myself" (Vol. ix., p. 270.).— The inscription 

 from a gravestone, inserted by G. A. C, brought 

 to my mind a poem by Bernard Barton, which I 

 had met with in a magazine {The Youth's Instructor 

 for December, 1826), into which it had been copied 

 from the Amulet. The piece is entitled " A 

 Colloquy with Myself." The first two stanzas, 

 which I had always considered original, are sub- 

 joined for the sake of comparison : 



" As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, 

 And myself replied to me ; 

 And the questions myself then put to myself, 

 With their answers 1 give to thee. 



Put them home to thyself, and if unto thyself, 

 Their responses the same should be : 



O look well to thyself, and beware of thyself, 

 Or so much the worse for thee." 



T. Q. C. 



Polperro, Cornwall. 



I cannotinform G. A. C. by whom or in what year 

 the lines were written, from which the epitaph he 

 mentions was copied; but he will find them amongst 



