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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 96. 



the time of Milton ? 2. What is the earliest au- 

 thority for " outburst ? " Charles Thirioxd. 

 Cambridge, July 29. 1851. 



On the Letter "«" (Vol. Iv., p. 55.).— I have 

 read with pleasure the paragraphs in your "Notes 

 AND Queries " on " the letter v" and beg space 

 for a further notice, with an especial reference to 

 the patronymic of Hay or Wra;/. One family uses 

 the motto, " Juste et Frai," whose name JsWraT/; 

 and another the same motto, whose name is Hay. 

 And it will be remembered that John Ray, the 

 naturalist, changed the orthography of his name 

 from Wray to Ray, as he concluded it had been 

 formerly written ; and in one of the letters pub- 

 lished by the Hay Society*, allusion is made to 

 the adjective or substantive v?-ai, as if that distin- 

 guished philosopher and divine had either derived 

 his name thence, or it had the same signification 

 as that French word. Are we then to take this as 

 an instance of the silent v or double it or v ; and 

 as any proof that families writing their names 

 Wray and Ray were originally of one patronymic 

 and one common root, and that presumptively 

 Norman ? 



Under a separate heading, perhaps you will also 

 indulge me with a Query as to the coat of arms, 

 under the portrait by Bathon, 1760, after AV. 

 Ilibbart, of Joannes Rajas, A.INI., prefixed to 

 Dr. Derham's Life of John Ray, published by 

 George Scott, M.A. and F.R.S. : London, 1760. 

 The shield is, gules, on a fesse, between three 

 crescents, three cross crosslets. Is it inferable 

 that that coat was ever borne by patent or admis- 

 sible prescriptive right, by any of his ancestors ? 

 Several families in the north of England, whence 

 his father came, also have registered in respectable 

 armories crescents against their names. The poor 

 origin of John Ray is obviated, in some degree, by 

 what is said in a Life of him, published in The 

 Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, by Charles 

 Knight. I suppose he himself used the armorials 

 in question, and was related to the family of nearly 

 the same name, bearing crescents, viz. Reay. 



The glasses of some of your correspondents may 

 assist one more shortsighted than themselves. 

 H. W. G. R., Presbyter, 

 and Member of the Ray Society. 



1. Mead Place, Derby, Aug. 2. 1851. 



I beg leave to correct a remark of AV. S. AV***. as 

 to Tiverton, Devon, which was never pronounced 

 Terton; it is Twiverton, near Bath, which is pro- 

 nounced Twerton. S. b. 



" Whig"" and " Tory'' (Vol. iv., p. 57.). —The 

 name " AVhig" is derived from the Celtic ?/5-/(a/n, a 

 sort of large saddle, with bags attached to it, in 



* Vide the Correspondence of John Ray. Edited by 

 Edwin Lankester, M.D. London, 1848, pp. 65, 66. 



use among the freebooters of the borders of Scot- 

 land : hence those robbers were known to the 

 Highlanders by the name of W higgam-more, or 

 "big-saddle thieves;" and when the Civil AVar 

 broke out, the Highlanders and Irish, who sup- 

 ported the king, called themselves a taohh Righ, 

 i. e. " the king's party," and gave the name of 

 Whiggamore thieves to their opponents. Whiggam- 

 mnre and taobh Righ soon became shortened to 

 Whig and Toiy, and in aftertimes served to dis- 

 tinguish tiie supporters of the rival houses of 

 Hanover and Stuart. The modern signification of 

 the terms is different. Whig being taken to mean 

 " liberal," and I'ory " exclusive." 



Fras. Ceossley. 



Planets of the Months (Vol. iv., p. 23.). — I do 

 not understand this Query. What is meant by 

 "planets for the months?" There are twelve 

 months, and in common parlance only seven 

 planets. Nor do I see what is meant by " precious 

 stones symbolizing those planets." In heraldry, 

 the arms of sovereigns and royal personages are 

 blazoned by the names of the sun, moon, and 

 planets, for colours, as those of noblemen are by 

 precious stones. If this is what is asked after, the 

 following table will explain it : — 



C. 



Baronets of Lreland (Vol. iv., p. 44.). — The 

 two following extracts may throw some light ujion 

 the origin of the title of baronet. James I. j)robably 

 adopted this title, which he found to have been so 

 long existing in Ireland, for the new order of 

 nobility he was about to establish. And it should 

 be remembered that the order of baronet was in- 

 stituted for the purpose of promoting the planta- 

 tion of Ulster. ' 



The names mentioned in the second extract are 

 probably those of the bai-onets whom Spenser 

 iHpntions as being in existence in his time. There 

 was, thirty years ago, a "Baron of Galtrim;" per- 

 haps there is still. 



Eunox : " You say well, for by the increase of Free- 

 holders, their numbers hereby will be greatly augmented ; 

 but how should it passe through the higher house, 

 which still must consiste all of Irish ? " 



Iren : " Marry, that also may bee redressed by en- 

 samjile of that which I heard was done in the like case 

 by King Edward III. (as I remember), who being 

 greatly bearded and crossed by the Lords of the clcargie, 

 they being there \_i. e. in the Parliament of Ircla?id'\ 

 by reason of the Ijords Abbots, and others, too many 

 and too strong for him, so as hee could not for their fro- 



