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quary who would give me information as to the 

 family of Knapp formerly settled in those counties, 

 especially at Ipswich, Tuddenham, and Needham 

 Market in the latter county. My inquiries have 

 not discovered any person of the name at present 

 residing in any of these places; and my wish is to 

 learn how the name was lost in the locality ; 

 whether by migration — and if so, when, and to 

 what other part of the county; or if in the female 

 line, into what family the last heiress of Knapp 

 married; and, as nearly as may be, when either of 

 these events occurred ? G. E. F. 



To learn by '■'■Heart.'' — Can you give any account 

 of the origin of a very common expression both in 

 French and English, i. e. " Apprendre par cosur, 

 to learn hij heart?" To learn hy memory would be 

 intelligible. A Subscriber to your Journal. 



Knights. — At some periods of our history the 

 reigning monarch bestowed the honour of kniirht- 

 hood, 1306, Edward I.; at other times, those in 

 possession of a certain amount of property were 

 compelled to assume the order, 1254. Query, Was 

 there any difference in rank between the two 

 sorts of knights? B. de. M. 



Supposed Inscription in St. Peter s Church, 

 Rome. — When at school in France, some twenty 

 years ago, I was informed that the following in- 

 scription was to be found in some part of St. Peter's 

 Church in Rome : 



" Nunquam amplius super banc cathediam cantabit 

 G-iUus." 



It appears that the active part taken by the 

 French in fomenting the great schism of the Church 

 during the fourteenth century, when they set up 

 and maintained at Avignon a Pope of their own 

 choosing, had generated an abhorrence of French 

 interference in the Italian mind ; and that, when 

 the dissensions were abated by the suspension of 

 the rival Popes, the ultramontane cardinals had 

 posted up this inscription to testify their desire for 

 the exclusion of French ecclesiastics from the Papal 

 chair. In one respect the prediction remains in 

 force to this day ; for I believe I am correct in 

 saying that no Frenchman has worn the triple 

 crown for the last 450 years. But that portion of 

 it which is implied in the second meaning of 

 " Callus," has been woefully belied in our time 

 by the forcible occupation of Rome by a French 

 army, on which occasion the Gallic cock had all 

 the " crowing" to himself. 



I have never had an opportunity of ascertaining 

 the existence of this inscription, and shall be 

 obliged to any correspondent of " Notes and 

 Queries" who will afford information on the 

 subject. Henry II. Breen. 



St. Lucia, April, 1 8.") I. 



Rag Sunday in Sustex. — Allow me to ask the 

 explanation of " Rag Sunday " in Sussex. I 



lately saw some young gentlemen going to school 

 at Brighton, who had been provided with some 

 fine white handkerchiefs, when one observed 

 they would not stand much chance of escape on 

 " Rag Sunday." He then told me that each boy, 

 on the Sunday but one preceding the holidays, 

 always tore a piece of his shirt or handkerchief 

 off and wore it in the button-hole of his jacket as 

 his " rag." When a boy, I remember being com- 

 pelled to do the same when at school at Hailsham 

 in Sussex, and all boys objecting had their hats 

 knocked off and trod on. H. W. D. 



Northege Family. — Can any one tell me the 

 county and parish in which the family of Northege 

 were located in the sixteenth century ? E. H. Y. 



A Kemhle Pipe of Tobacco. — In the county of 

 Hei efordshire, the people call the last or con- 

 cluding pipe that any one means to smoke at a 

 sitting, a Kemhle pipe. This is said to have origin- 

 ated in a man of the name of Kemble, who in the 

 cruel persecution under Queen Mary, being con- 

 demned for heresy, in his walk of some miles from 

 the prison to the stake, amidst a crowd of weeping 

 friends and neighbours, with the tranquillity and 

 fortitude of a primitive martyr, smoked a pipe of 

 tolacco! Is anything known of this Kemble? and 

 where can I find any corroboration of the story 

 here told ? Edward F. Rimbault. 



Durham Sword that killed the Dragon — In the 

 Harleian MS. No. 3783., letter 107., Cosin, in de- 

 scribing to Sancroft some of the ceremonies of his 

 reception at Durham, mentions ^'^ the sirord that 

 killed the dragon" as a relic of antiquity intro- 

 duced on the occasion. I shonld feel obliged, if 

 you, or any of your antiquarian readers, could 

 kindly refer me to some tolerably full account of 

 the ceremony alluded to, or throw any light upon 

 the meaning of the custom in (piestion, the origin 

 and history of the sword, and the tradition con- 

 nected with it. J- Sansom. 



" At Sixes and Sevens " (Vol. iii., p. 118.).— May 

 not this expression bear reference to the points in 

 the card-game of piquet ? G. F. G. 



May not this expression have arisen ft-om the 

 passage in Eliphaz's discourse to Job ? 



" He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven 

 there shall no. evil touch thee." — Job., v. 19. 



A.M. 



Mr. Ilalliwell, in his Dictionary of Archaic and 

 Provincial Words, vol. ii. p. 724., thus explains 

 this phrase : 



" The Deity is mentioned in thf Townvlet/ Mysteries, 

 pp. 97. 118., as He that ' sett allc on seven,' i. e., set or 

 appointed everything in seven day.-;. A similar phrase 

 at p. 85. is not so evident. It is explained in the 



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