June 1. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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in vol. xiv. N. S. 142., on the subject, which gave 

 rise to several interesting articles in the same and 

 subsequent vol, from other more able writers. To 

 these I would refer Dr. Rimbault, and it will afford 

 me much satisfaction if he will aid in elucidating 

 what still remains a vexata questio. F. R. A. 



Dr. Magimis Miscellanies (Vol. i., p. 470.). — 

 In reply to J. M. B , I beg to state that the 

 '■'■Magazine Miscellanies " of Dr. Maginn were pub- 

 lished in numbers, at Zd. each, by Dodsley and Co., 

 Crane Court, Fleet St. I have nine numbers of 

 it, all that were published, I believe, containing 

 several tales, serious and humorous Poems, Irish 

 Melodies, Maxims of Mr. O'Doherty, Miscellaneous 

 Papei's, The Tobias Corre.'^pondence, a translation 

 of Lucian's Timon, Shakspere Papers on Sir John 

 Falstaff, Jaques, llomeo. Bottom the Weaver, Lady 

 Macbeth, and Timon ; a Translation of the Batracli- 

 omyomachia, and three or four of the Homeric 

 Ballads. William Cakpentek. 



Adelphi. 



As your correspondent J. ]\I. B. appears to be 

 inquiring into the earliest contributions of Dr. 

 Maginn to the periodical press in England, you 

 may inform him that he communicated a great 

 number of papers, &c., to the Literary Gazette 

 before he left Cork, and wrote articles in JBlack- 

 wood's Magazine. The former were his first ap- 

 pearances in print in England, though the Cork 

 journals published many of his productions whilst 

 yet a mere boy. Teutha. 



Trianon (Vol. i., p. 439.). — The meaning of this 

 word is " a pavilion," and was applied, doubtless, 

 to the elegant structures to which your corre- 

 spondent refers, on account of the light and grace- 

 ful style of their architecture. J. K. R. W. 



Lcs Trianons. — I have always understood that 

 these gardens, &c., took their name from the village 

 of Trianon, tiie site of which they occupy, and 

 which village Louis XIV. purchased from the 

 monks of St. Genevieve. Aredjid Kooez. 



Pimlico (Vol. i. p. 383. and 474.). — Would it 

 not be worth the while of some of your ingenious 

 correspondents to inquii-e whether the following 

 extract may not give a clue to the origin of this 

 word ? 



In an enumeration of "strange birds" to be 

 found in Barbadoe.*!, there is mention of "the 

 Egge Biril, tiie Cahow, the Tropick Bird, the 

 Pemlico which presageth sl(jriHS." America painted 

 to the life. (The True Ilistorij of the Spaniai'ds' 

 Proceedings in America, by Ferdinando Gorges, 

 Esq., Lond, 4to. 1G59.) BR. 



The Arms of Godin. — My atlcntion has been 

 drawn to a Query from Mr. Kersley, in page 439. 

 of Vol. i., relative to the arms of Godin. I have 



Pays-Bas, I find that 

 de Beauvois, was en- 

 J 623, and " les armes 



seen these arms blazoned variously. Mr. Godin 

 Shiffner bears them quarterly with his own coat of 

 Shiffner, and blazons them thus : — Party per f ess, 

 azure and gules, a barr or ; in chief, a dexter and 

 sinister hand gi-asping a cup, all proper. 



I am inclined to think this is an innovation 

 upon the original arms, as I h.ave them painted on 

 an old piece of china azure, a cup or. They are 

 here impaled with the arms of Du Fon, an ancient 

 French family that intermarried with the Godins. 

 In the Thmtre de la Noblesse de Brabant, I find 

 that " Fran9ois Godin, Secretaire ordinaire du 

 Roy Philippe II., en grand conseil seant a Ma- 

 lines," was ennobled by letters patent, dated 

 ^Madrid, 7th January, 1589, and "port les armoi- 

 ries suivantes, qui sont, un escu de sinople a une 

 coupe lasalade, ou couverture ounei-te d'or; ledit 

 escu somme d'un heaume d'argent grille et lish-e 

 d'or ; aux bourlet et hachements d'or et de .tinople : 

 cimier une coupe de Vescu." 



This blazoning is corrected in the index, where 

 the arms are stated to be " un escu de sinople u la 

 coupe couvei-te d'or." 



In the Nobiliaire des 

 Daniel Godin, Seigneur 

 nobled by Philip IV. in 

 sont, de sinople a une coupe couverte d'or." 



In 1642, "Jean-Francois Godin, Seigneur de 

 Baumez, Bailie et haut Justicier de Reumes" (son 

 of Francois Godin, who was ennobled by Philip 11.), 

 obtained permission from Philip IV. to alter his 

 paternal coat, and to carry " un ecu de sinople d 

 trois coupes couvei'tes d'or; cct ecu timbre d''un 

 casque d'argent, grille, lisere, et couronne d'or, 07~ne 

 de ses lambrequins d'or et de sinople, et au-dessus 

 en cimier, une tete et col de licorne au naturel." 



His son, Jaques-Fran^ois Godin, appears after- 

 wards to have obtained the title of Baron. 



The earliest mention I can find of the Godin 

 arms is in 1588, when Christopher Godin carried 

 " de sinople a une coupe couverte d'or'' He was a 

 son of Jacques Seigneur d'Aubrecicourt and of 

 Frantjoise Lettin, and brother to the first-named 

 Francjois Godin. There appears to have been 

 another brother, Jacques ; and they were all throe 

 ennobled by Philip II., probably for tlieir public 

 services, as Christojiher was Coiiseiller et Receveur- 

 general des Domaines et Finances des Pays-Bas; 

 Jacques, Conseiller et Maitre de la Chambre des 

 Comptes en Hollande ; and Franc;ois, Secretaire 

 du Grand Conseil a Malines. 



I am not aware what connection existed between 

 these Godins and the family of that name in Nor- 

 mandy (now extinct); but the cup in the arms, 

 though borne difl'erently, proves that they were of 

 the same race. J. R. C. 



May 'JIJ. 1850. 



The Title of D.D. — The remai-ks of your cor- 

 rcipondent "Brown Rappee" (Vol. i. p. 438.) 



