510 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 86. 



Birth of Spe7iser (Vol. i., pp. 489. 482.). — Is not 

 lolO a mistake for 1550 ? The figures 1 and 5 

 are often confounded in manuscripts of Spenser's 

 age. The mistake was probably that of the 

 sculptor. D. X. 



Petworth Registers (Vol. iii., pp. 449. 485.). -— 

 The period over which these Registers extend is 

 thus shown in the Accounts and Papers printed by 

 order of Parliament in the year 1833, vol. xxxviii. 

 p. 335. : — 



" County of Sussex. — Arundel Rape. 



" Parish Register Books earlier than the new Re- 

 gisters commencing with A. n. 181,3 (according to 52 

 Geo. III. c. 146.), remain at the following places: — 



"Petworth R. No. I. Bap. Bur. 1559—1794, 

 Marr. 1559— 1753 ; No. II. Bap. Bur. 1795—1812; 

 Nos. III.— VI., Marr. 1754-1812." 



The earlier register-book used by Heylin must 

 have been removed from the proper custody before 

 the year 1831. If still preserved in any public or 

 private library it may perhaps reward some reader 

 of "Notes and Queries " in the next century by 

 turning up when unsought for. lu the mean 

 time, however, is there no otHcial copy to be found 

 in the Archbishop's courts at Canterbury ? 



Llewellyn, 



Arms of the Isle of Man (Vol. iii., p. 373.). — 

 The symbol of three legs conjoined no doubt de- 

 notes the triangular shiipes of the Isle of Man, and 

 Sicily or Trinacria. The rpia inc^ia from which 

 the name of the latter is derived are the promon- 

 tories of Lilyba?um, Pachynus, and Pelorns, now 

 Capes S. Vito, Passaro, and Faro (Virg. ^n. iii. 

 384.). It is somewhat curious that the earliest 

 coinage of this island, a. d. 1709 (which by the 

 bye is cast, and not struck in the usual way: Obv. 

 The crest of the Earls of Derby, the Eagle and 

 Child, SANS CHANGER ; Rcv. The three legs), 

 has the motto qvocvnqve • gesseris • stabit. The 

 coinage of 1723 is exactly simil.ar, but struck ; 

 whereas that of 1733 and all the succeeding 

 coinages have QUOCUNQUE • jeceris " stabit, which 

 is clearly the correct reading. I may add that I 

 am engaged on a work on the Copper Coinage of 

 Great Britain and her Colonies, and shall be 

 thankful for any information on the subject 

 lespecting rare types, their history, &c. 



E. S. Ta-slgr. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



Messrs. Longman have commenced the publication, 

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Books Received. — Ilhistrations of Mediaval Cos- 

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An Essay of the Authenticity of the Four Letters of 

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Engraved Portraits of Bishop Butleb. 



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