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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 64. 



the daughter of Ohius, or Olaf, " Kino; of Ncrway^ 

 and not of Sweden" as the Heiins Ki-ingla of SiioiTO 

 Sturleson gives a long account of the betrothal of 

 Jjigigerd or Enguerherde, daughter of Olaf Eric- 

 son, King of Swede?i, to St. Olaf, King of iVoricoy, 

 and of hei- subsequent mai-riage to laroslafi or Ja- 

 rislief. King of Russia. 



Can you say where the best pedigree of the 

 early kings of Sweden is to be found? E. H. Y. 



Robertson of Muirtown (Vol. ii., p. 253.). — In 

 thanking A. 11. X. for his reference to a pedigree 

 of Robertson of Muirtown, I sliould be glad if he 

 can explain to me the connection with that branch 

 of George Robertson, of St. Anne's, Soho, who 

 lived in the middle of the last century, and married 

 Elizabeth Love, of Ornisby, co. Norfolk. He was 

 uncle, I believe, to Mr. Robertson Barclay (who 

 assumed the last name), of Keavil, co. Fife, and 

 nearly related, though I cannot say in what de- 

 gree, to William Robertson, of Richmond, whose 

 (laughter Isabcdla married David Dumlas, created 

 a baronet by George III., and one of whose grand- 

 daughters was married to Sir James Moncreiff, 

 and another to Dr. Sumner, the present Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury. This William Robertson, 

 I believe, sold the Muirtown property. Is he one 

 of those mentioned in the work to which A. R. X. 

 has referred me ? and was he Ih^ first cousin to 

 Roberison the historian? Perliaps A. R. X. can 

 also say whether the arms properly borne by the 

 Muirtown branch are those given to thein in 

 Burke's Armory, viz. Gu. three crescents inter- 

 laced or, between as many wolves' heads erased 

 arg. armed and langued az., all within a bordure 

 of the third, charged with eight mullets of the first. 

 The late Rev. Love Robertson, Prebendary of 

 Hereford (son of the above George Robertt^on), 

 was accustomed to use : Gu. three wolves' heads 

 erased arg., armed and langued az., which are 

 the arms of the original stock of Strowan. As I 

 am entitled to quarter his coat, I should be clad 

 to know the correct blazonry. C R" M. 



Booty sCase. — Where can an authentic report 

 be found of "Booty's case," and before what 

 judge was it tried ? The writer would also be 

 obliged with an account of the result of the case, 

 and a note of the sunmiing up, as far as it is to be 

 ascertained. The case is said to be well known 

 m the navy, Demonologist. 



[We have seen it stated that tliis case was tried in 

 the Court of King's Bench about the year 1687 or 

 IG88.] 



Did St. Fold's Clock ever strike Thirteen. — 

 There is a very popular tradition that a soldier, 

 who was taxed with having fallen asleej) at mid- 

 night, whilst on guard, managed to escape the 

 severe ])unishment annexed to so flagrant a dere- 

 liciion of duty, by positiTcly aveiring, as evidence 

 of his having been " wide awake," that he had 



heard the clock of St. Paul's Cathedral strike 

 thirteen at the very time at which he was charged 

 with having indulged in forbid<len slumbers. The 

 tradition of course adds, indeed this is its point, 

 that, upon inquiry, it was found that the famous 

 horary monitor of London city had, " for that 

 night only," actually treated those whose ears were 

 open, with the, till then, unheard of phenomenon 

 of " thirteen to the dozen." Can any of your 

 readers state how this story originated, or whether 

 it really has any foundation in fact ? 



Jan. 9. 1851. Henhi Campkin. 



lUiiIics'. 



DKAGOWS. 



(Vol. ii., p. 517.) 



The subject on which R. S. jun. writes in 

 No. Gi. is ojie of so much interest in many points 

 of view, that I hope that a few notices relating to 

 it may not be considered unworthy of insertion 

 in " Notes and Queries." 



In JIui-ray's Handbook of Northeini Italy, 

 mention is made, in the account of the church 

 of St. Maria delle Grazie, near Mantua, of a 

 stufl'ed lizard, crocodile, or other rej>tile, which is 

 preserved suspended in the church. This is said 

 to have been killed in the adjacent swamps, about 

 the year 1406. It is stated to be six or seven feet 

 long. 



Eight or ten years ago, I saw an animal of the 

 same order, and about the same size, hanging 

 from the roof of the cathedral of Abbeville, in 

 Picardy. I then took it for a small crocodile, but 

 I cannot say positively that it was one. I am not 

 sure whether it still remains in the cathedral. I 

 do not know whether any legend exists respecting 

 this specimen, or whether it owed its distinguished 

 post to its being deemed an appropriate ornament. 



At the west door of the cathedi'al of Cracow 

 are hanging some bones, said to have belonged to 

 the dragon which inhabited the cave at the foot of 

 the rock (the Wawel) on which the cathedral and 

 the royal castle stand; and was destroyed by Krak, 

 the founiler of the city. I regret that my want of 

 osteological sc'ience prevented me from ascertain- 

 ing to what animal these bones had belonged. I 

 thought them the bones of some small sjiecies of 

 whale. 



I hope that some competent observer may in- 

 form us of what animals these and the lindwurra 

 at Briinn are the remains. 



It has struck me as possible that the real history 

 of these crocodiles or alligators, if they are such, 

 may be, that they were brought home by crusaders 

 as specimens of dragons, just as Henry the Lion, 

 Duke of Brunswick, brought from the Holy Land 

 the antelope's horn which had been palmed upon 



