Dec. 6. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



447 



der of Antwerp to the allied armies soon after the 

 battle of Ramillies, May 27, 1706. 

 No. IV. 



" CAROLVS KONIG IN SPANIGEN." 



[Equestrian figure.] 

 [Trophy of arms and banners.] 



" MADRIED." 



[City and gates.] 

 [Batteries with cannon planted.] 

 I presume this must refer to the short-lived 

 triumph of Charles (afterwards Emperor of Ger- 

 many), who was crowned King of Spain at Vienna 

 in 1703, and entered Madrid in 1706. 

 No. V. 

 [City.] 

 [River with boats.] 

 [Cannon and mortars.] 

 [Tents and halberdiers, and arms strewn about on 

 the ground.] 



" KONIG GEOKGE." 



C Crown. "I 

 Harp. J 



rCrown. 

 |_ Harp 



] 



[Equestrian figure holding a sceptre.] 

 Will some one be s« kind as to explain the 

 meaning of this design? 



I may mention that there is little doubt that this 

 cloth, as well as the others, belonged to the son of 

 the gentleman before mentioned, and that it is very 

 unlikely that it ever belonged to the royal house- 

 hold. This may perhaps affect the inference of 

 your correspondent H. W. D. from the inscription 

 " Der Konig Georg II." (Vol. iii., p. 229.). 



No. VI. 

 [A group of figures : — On the right an eastern 

 monarch standing, and in an attitude of com- 

 mand towards a female figure on the left, who 

 is stooping down to put something into the 

 gaping mouth of a dragon, while with her left 

 hand she points towards the king. Behind the 

 woman are three men turning towards the king 

 in attitudes of entreaty.] 



" BABYLON." 



[A man and woman kneeling down, with hands 

 raised as in supplication or astonishment] 



"DANIEL, XIIII." 



[A tree with two birds in it. In front of the tree 

 an angel flying downwards ; and underneath, a 

 man in the same attitude, holding a vessel 

 shaped like a pitch-kettle in the left hand, and 

 what appears to be a small loaf or cake in the 

 right.] 



All the above figures are in oriental costume. 

 The date of this cloth cannot be later than about 

 1720. In each case the pattern is repeated in 

 rows; the alternate rows being reversed : so that 

 on whichever side the cloth is turned, half of the 

 patterns Lave the inscriptions legible. W. S. T. 



VERMIN, PAYMENTS FOR DESTRUCTION OF. 



(Vol. iv., pp. 208. 389.) 



The authority by which churchwardens paid for 

 the destruction of vermin, is by acts of parliament 

 (8 Eliz. cap. 15. and 14 Eliz. cap. 11.), but not as 

 churchwardens ; and the payment for vermin out 

 of the church-rate is illegal : but they are ex njfficio 

 appointed by the statutes quoted, " with six other 

 parishioners," as shown by Franciscus, Vol. iv., 

 p. 389. 



There can be no doubt, that in course of time 

 this assessment got into desuetude ; that church- 

 wardens, being the " distributors," they charged it 

 on the church-rate by way of simplifying the 

 machinery. This, and other duties of church- 

 wardens and other parish officers, many of which 

 have become obsolete, may be seen in Lanibard's 

 Eirenarcha, or Office of the Justice of the Peace, 

 first published in 1581, which passed through many 

 editions from that date to 1637. The work is 

 commended by Blackstone as deserving the pe- 

 rusal of students. 



With regard to the old names of vermin, Glead 

 and Ringteal are described by Osbaldiston, in his 

 Dictionary of Recreation, as a sort of kite ; the 

 latter with whitish feathers about the tail. Greas- 

 head and Baggar he does not notice. May they 

 not be provincialisms ? H. T. Ellacombe. 



Clyst St. George. 



In further illustration of this Query, and of 

 J. Eastwood's reply (p. 389.), may be quoted : — 



" That the distributers of the provision for the de- 

 struction of noysome foule and vermine being chosen, 

 and having money [as before shown by me, Vol. iv., 

 p. 389.], shall give and pay the same money so to them 

 delivered, to every person that shall bring to them any 

 heades of old crowes, choughes, pies, or rookes, taken 

 within the several parishes, for the heads of every 

 three of them a peny ; and for the heades of every sixe 

 young crowes, choughes, pyes, or rookes, taken, as is 

 aforesaid, a peny ; and for every sixe egges of any of 

 them unbroken, a peny ; and likewise for every twelve 

 stares heades, a peny. All which said heads and egges, 

 the said distributers in some convenient place shall 

 keep, and shall every moneth at the least bring tborth 

 the same before the said churchwardens and taxors, or 

 three of them, and then and there to them shall make 

 a true account in writing, what money they have laid 

 fbrthi and paid for such heads and egges, and for the 

 heads of such other ravelnous birds and vermine, as 

 are hereafter mentioned, that is to say : 



" For everie head of merton, haukes, furseklte, 

 moldkite, bussard, scag, carmerant, or ring- 



taile il'' 



For every two egges of them . . . .1'' 



For every iron or ospraies heads . . . iiil* 



For tlie head of every woodwall, pie, jay, raven, 



or kite i"" 



For the head of every bird which is called the 

 kinitsfisher ..... . . i'' 



