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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 66. 



Queen, with the legend ansa dei gratia— reverse, 

 BRITANNIA around the trite figure of Britannia 

 with the spear and olive-branch: the date 1714 

 in the exergue. Those with Peace in a car, 

 Britannia standing with olive-branch and spear, 

 or seated under an arch, are patterns ; the second 

 has the legend bello et pace in indented letters, 

 a nio '.e revived in the reign of George III. It 

 is said that many years ago a lady in the north of 

 England lost one of the farthings of Queen Anne, 

 which she much prizi?d as the bequest of a de- 

 ceased friend, and that having offered in the jjublic 

 journals a large reward for its recovery, it was 

 ever afterwards supposed that any farthing of this 

 monarch was of great value. J. Y. Akerman. 



rOLK LORE. 



Lammer Heads. — Does any one know the 

 me:ining of" Lammer beads ?" They are almost 

 alwavs made of amber, and are considered as a 

 charm to keep away evil of every kind ; their 

 touch is believed to cure many diseases, and they 

 are still worn by many old people in Scotland 

 round the neck. The name cannot have anything 

 to do with " Lannnermuir," as, alth(mgh ihey are 

 well known among the old people of Lamuiermuir, 

 yet they are ecnially so all over Scotland. 



L. M. M. R. 



On the Lingering of the Spirit. — Perhaps you 

 may think the following story worthy of insertion 

 in your paper. 



There is a common belief among the poor, that 

 the spirit will linger in the body of a child a long 

 time when the parent refuses to part with it. I 

 said to Mrs. B., "Poor little H. lingered a long 

 time ; I thouglit, when I saw him, that he must 

 have died the same day, but he lingered on ! " 



" Yes," said Mrs. B., " it was a great shame of his 

 mother. He wanted to die, and she would not let 

 him die : she couldn't part with him. Tliere she 

 stood, fretting over him, and couldn't give him up ; 

 and so we said to her, ' He'll never die till you give 

 him up.' And then she gave hlin up; and he died 

 quite peaceably." 



Rich. B. Machell. 



Vicarage, Barrow-on-Humber, 

 Jan. 13. 1851. 



Mai/ Cats (Vol.iii., p. 20.). — In Hampshire, to 

 this day, we always kill May kittens. Cx. 



Mottos on Warming-Paiis and Garters. — It 

 seems to have been much the custom, about two 

 centuries ago, to engrave more or less elaborately 

 the brass lids of warming-pans with different de- 

 vices, such as armoriiil bearings, &c., in the centre, 

 and with an inscription or a motto surrounding the 

 device. A friend of the writer has in his posses- 

 sion three such lids of warming-pans, one of which 

 has engraven on the centre a hart passant, and 



above his back a shield, bearing the arms of 

 Devereux, the whole surrounded by this in- 

 scription : — 



" THE . EARLE . OF . ESSEX . HIS . ARMES." 



Another bears the arms of the commonwealth, 

 (as seen on the coins of the Protectorate,) en- 

 circled with an inscription, thus : — 



"ENGLANDS . STATS . ARMES." 



The third bears a talbot passant, with the date 

 above its back, 1646, and the motto round : — 



" IN . GOn . IS , ALL . MT . TRUST." 



It appears to me that the first two, at least, 

 belonged to inns., known by the respective signs 

 indicated by the moltos, &c. ; the first probably 

 in honour of the Lord-General of the Parliament's 

 army, who was the last Devereux bearing the 

 title. 



That last described affords a curious illustration 

 of a passage cited in Ellis's Brand (ed. 1849, vol.i. 

 p. 245.), from The Welsh Levite tossed in a Blanket, 

 1691. 



" Our fjarters, billows, and warming-pans wore godly 

 mottos," &c. 



In further illustration, I may mention that the 

 owner of the warming-pans has in his possession 

 likewise a beautifully manufactured long silk 

 garter, of perhaps about the same date, in which 

 are woven the following words : — 



WORLD .IN . WHICH. THOU . MUST. NOT, 



• LOVE . NOT . THE . 

 STAV. 

 BUT . LOVE . THE . TREASURE . 



THAT . ABIDES. 



AI.WAT. 



H.G.T. 



NOTES ON Jesse's " London and its celebrities." 

 During my perusal of Mr. Jesse's pleasant vo- 

 lumes, I marked two or three slips of the pen, which 

 it may not be amiss to make a note of. 



In vol. i. pp. 403, 404, 405., there is a curious 

 treble error regarding Thomas Sutton, the muni- 

 ficent founder of the Charter House. He is suc- 

 cessively styled Sir Thomas, Sir Richard, and Sir 

 Robert. Sutton's Christian name was Thomas. 

 He was never knighted. Of the quaint leaden 

 case which incloses his remains, and of its simple 

 inscription, an accurate drawing, with accompany- 

 ing particulars, by your able correspondent ]\Ir. 

 E. B. Price, was inserted in the Gent. Mag. for 

 January, 1843, p. 43. The inscription runs thus: 

 " 1611. Thomas Sutton, Esquiar." 



Vol. ii. pp. 34, 35, 36. Mr. Jesse's ingenious 

 suggestions relative to the tradition of the burial 

 of Oliver Cromwell in Red LifkH --Square, merit 

 the careful attention of all Londoii antiquaries. 



lb. p. 316. : 



" Tliere is no evidence of Clement's Inn having been 

 a Court of Law previous to 148()." 



For " a court of law," read " an inn of court." 



