Nov. 15. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



395 



p. 301." Car. II., Eex. Mr. Grimshawe's version 

 is printed without any brealc or asterisks, as if 

 entire. W. S. T. 



Walpole and Junius (Vol. iv., p. 161.). — Cle- 

 Ricus quotes some paragraphs from the letters of 

 Horace Walpole, dated 1764, wherein Walpole 

 threatens vengeance for the dismissal of Conway ; 

 and Clericus concludes by asking, " If tliese ex- 

 tracts do not prove Horace Walpole to be Junius, 

 &c., &c , tchat can he allude to?" AVhy, to the 

 pamphlet which he was then writing, and which 

 he immediately published, entitled A Counter Ad- 

 dress to the Public, on the late Dismission of a 

 General Officer. W. J. 



Fermilodum (Vol. iv., p. 345.). — I suspect H. E. 

 has not read his seal quite correctly. I surmise it 

 is Fermelioduni. However, no doubt Dunferline 

 is meant ; and the literal translation of the legend 

 is, " Seal of the city of Dunferline." This place 

 was a royal burgh, with a palace ; and the word 

 civitas was not then confined to towns wliich were 

 Bishop's sees. AV. S. AV. 



Middle Temple. 



Finder Stocks (Vol. iv., p. 315.). —In Little- 

 cote Hall, tlie fine old seat of the Pophams, in 

 AViltshire, one of these machines was ])re3erved, 

 and I doubt not but that it is still to be seen there. 



It is of oak, and stands upon a pillar and base 

 like those of a small round table. I always un- 

 derstood that it was employed as an instrument of 

 domestic punishment. W. J. Bernhard Smith. 



Temple. 



Lord Hungerford (Voliv., p. 345.). — The story 

 of the device of a toad having been introduced 

 into the armorial bearings of the Hungerfords, in 

 memory of the degradation of some member of 

 the family, is, in every way, nonsensical. " Argent, 

 three toads sable" is certainly one of their old 

 quarter! iigs ; as may be seen upon one of the 

 monuments in the chapel at Farleigh Castle near 

 Bath. But it was borne by the Hungerfords for a 

 very different reason. Robert, the second Lord, 

 who died a.d. 1459, had marrieil the wealthy 

 heiress of the Cornish family of Botreaux : and 

 this was one of the shields used by her family, 

 being in fact nothing more than an allusion, not 

 uncommon in heraldry, to the name. This was 

 spelled variously, Botreaux or Boterelles : and the 

 .device was probably assumed from the simiLarity 

 of the name of the old French word Botterol, a 

 toad : (see Cotgrave) or the (dd Latin word Bot- 

 tcrclla. The marriage with tiic Holreau.x heiress, 

 and the assum[)tion of her arms, having taken 

 place many years before any member of the Hun- 

 gerford family wa.s attainted or executed (as some 

 of them afterward.s were), Uefoe's story falls to 

 tlic ground. 



I take this opportunity of adding, that, having 



been for many years a collector of materials for 

 a more methodical and accurate account of the 

 Hungerford family and their property, than has 

 hitherto appeared, and having completed the ar- 

 rangement of what I have been able to collect, 

 if any of your readers or correspondents should 

 have it in his power to refer me to any sources of 

 illustration, or to inforni me of the existence of 

 anything that might throw light on the subject — 

 such as old deeds, seals, wills, entries in parish 

 registers, family portraits, or the like — they would 

 be rendering a kind service. J. E. Jackson. 



Rectory, Leigh- Delamere, Chippenham. 



^i^rcn;xiiP0u5. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



Tlie Salisbury To/uine of the ArchcEological Institute, 

 which has just been issued, contains some extremely 

 interesting communications, among which we must 

 particularise for its agreeable character IMr. Hunter's 

 Reminiscences of the Topographical Gatlierinys at 

 Stouihead, — for its learning and originality, Wr. Guest's 

 IMemoir on the Early English Sttdeme.nts in South 

 Britain.* Mr. Smirke contributes a valuable notice of 

 the Custumal of Bieadon, — Mr. Newton, Notes on the 

 Sculptures at Wilton, — Mr. Hawkins on The Mints of 

 Wiltshire ,- and not the least interesting portion of the 

 volume consists of notices respecting Silbury and Ave- 

 bury, by the late excellent and lamented Dean of 

 Hereford. The volume contains many other instructive 

 memoirs, and is well calculated to advance archaeo- 

 logical knowledge. 



The new volimie of Bohn's Standard Library is the 

 fourth of Mrs. Foster's excellent translation of VasarVs 

 Lives of the most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Ar- 

 chitects. It contains no fewer than nineteen lives, 

 including, among many whose names are less familiar 

 to English amateurs, those of .Sebastian del Piombo, 

 and that admirable scholar of Raphael, whom Shak- 

 speare has helped to immortalise by designating him 

 that "rare Italian master Giulio Romano." All lovers 

 of art are under great obligations to the publisher for 

 placing this translation within their reach. — Mr. Cyrus 

 Redding's History and Description of Modern Wines is 

 the new volume of Bohn's Illustrated Library ; and, as 

 the author describes " the art of taking wine" as "the 

 science of exciting agreeable conversation and eliciting 

 brilliant thoughts," and discourses learnedly upon the 

 subject, his book may well find friends. — Lucretius on 

 the Nature of Things, literally translated into English 

 Prose, by the Rev. J. S. Watson, M. A., to which is 

 adiled the Poetical Version^ l)y J. M. Good, is anodier 

 volume of Bohn's Classiad Library; and the scholar- 

 ship of Mr. Watson affords a sufficient justification for 

 his prefatory remark, " that he who wishes to know 

 what is in Lucretius without perusing the original, 

 will learn it from this volume with greater certainty 



■" Mr. Guest's suggestion (p. .30.), that Grimsditch 

 means a boundary, deserves the attention of our corre- 

 spondents. 



