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“The horse, when he found himself clear of pur- 
suers, stopped his course by degrees, and went with his 
rider (fast asleep upon his back) into a pond to drink, and 
there sat his lordship upon the “ sal/y.” (Qy. saddle?) | 
le OS HiSe 
St. Philip and St. James.—“ And near it was 
the house of the apostles Philip and James the son 
of Alpheus.” — Early Travels in Palestine (Man- 
deville), p. 175.; Bohn’s Antiquarian Library. 
This is the only place, except the Church service, 
where I have seen the above-named apostles 
coupled together, and have often wondered whether | : 
_scended from Anglo-Saxon times. 
there was any old legend or tradition to account 
for the Church joining them together in one com- 
memorative festival. A. H. E. 
Sir William Hamilton. — On a tombstone in the 
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burial-ground at St. Hilda’s, South Shields, in | 
the county of Durham, is the following inscrip- 
tion : — 
« Here lieth interr’d y® body of Sir W. Hamilton | 
Knt and Baronet sonne to y® Earle of Abercorne and | 
late servant to Queen Henrietta Maria y® late Queene | 
mother of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles that now 
is over England &c. who departed to y® mercy of God 
June 24" anno Dinni 1681.” 
There was in the possession of an old lady living 
at Durham, in 1836, an original note in the hand- 
writing of King Charles the Second, of which the 
following is a copy :— 
“ Whereas a debte of foure thousande one hundred 
and fifty pounds sterlinge apeares to be remayning dew 
by the king my father to Sir W. Hamilton brother to 
the Earle of Abercorne for the service done to the 
Queene my mother, I do hereby promis to pay y® 
sayde debte of 4150/. to y° sayde Sir William Hamilton 
his heires and assigns or to satisfie him or them to the 
valew thereof when it shall please God to restore me 
to the possession of my dominions. 
“ Given at Brussells 28 Mar. 1660 
“ Cuartes Rex.” 
Is any thing known of Sir William Hamilton, or 
of the services he rendered to Queen Henrietta 
Maria ? A. H. E. 
The Koran by Sterne.— Can you or any of your | 
readers inform me if the work eutitled The Koran, 
printed in some editions of Sterne’s writings, is a 
genuine composition of his, or not? If not, who 
wes its author, and what is its literary history ? | laioimetnboariie <= 
g : 
My reason for asking is, that I have heard it 
asserted that it is not by Sterne. EH. LAN. 
Devices on Standards of the Anglo-Saxons. — 
Can any of your readers inform me what devices 
were borne on the standards of the several Anglo- | 
Saxon kingdoms during the so-called Heptarchy ? 
The white horse is by many supposed to have 
been the standard of Wessex, and to have been 
borne by Alfred; but was not this really the en- 
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sign of the Jutish kingdom of Kent, the county 
of Kent to this day displaying the white horse in 
its armorial bearings? ‘Lhe standard of Wessex 
is by others said to have been the white dragon; 
but Thierry supposes that this, like the contrasted 
red dragon of the Cymbri, was merely a poetical 
designation, and seems to infer that the flags of 
these two contending people were without any 
device. Again, it has been thought that a lion 
was the ensign of Northumbria; in which case we 
may, perhaps, conclude that the lions which now 
grace the shield of the city of York have de- 
The memory 
of the Danish standard of the Raven, described by 
Asser and other Anglo-Saxon chroniclers, still 
remains; but whether, when Northumbria and 
East Anglia fell under Danish power, this device 
supplanted previous Anglo-Saxon devices, is a 
curious question for antiquarian research. The 
famous Norwegian standard —the Landeyda, or 
ravager of the world—under which Harold Hard- 
rada triumphed at Fulford, near York, but to fall a 
few days later at Stanford Bridge, is well known; 
but who can inform us as to the device which it 
bore? These early traces of heraldic usage 
| appear to deserve more notice than I believe they 
have received. e. 
Burning the Dead. — Can any of your readers, 
_who may have attended particularly to the 
funeral customs of different peoples, inform me 
whether the practice of burning the dead has ever 
been in vorue amongst any people excepting in- 
habitants of Europe and Asia? I incline to the 
opinion that this practice has been limited te 
people of Indo-Germanic or Japetic race, and I 
shall be obliged by any references in fayour of or 
opposed to this view. Abe 
Meaning of “' Shipster.” — Can any of your cor- 
respondents inform me what is the business or 
| calling or profession of a Shipster? The term 
occurs in a grant of an annuity of Oct. 19. 
| 2 Henry VIII, 1510, and made between “ H. U., 
Gentilman, and Marie Fraunceys de Suthwerk, in 
com Surr Shipster.” Joun R. Fox. 
55. Welbeck Strect, Jan. 22. 1850. 
Why did Dr. Dee quit Manchester 2—In the 
Penny Cyclopedia, art. Der, Joun, I find the fol- 
“In 1595 the queen appointed Dee warden of 
Manchester College, he being then sixty-eight years of 
age. He resided there nine years ; but from some cause 
not exactly known, he left it in 1604, and returned to his 
house at Mortlake, where he spent the remainder of 
his days.” 
Can any of your correspondents assign the pro- 
bable causes which led to Dr. Dee’s resignation ? 
Burnley, Lancashire, Jap. 21.1650. ol A te 
