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NOTES AND QUERIES, 
[2nd §, No 3., Jaw, 19. °56, 
In this latter instance we find the local designa- 
tion converted into a surname, corresponding with 
that of our English family ; and further researches 
will, no doubt, multiply such instances. 
But, if a coincidence of name authorises,” in 
some measure, the supposition of a French de- 
scent, it cannot perhaps be deduced with the 
same probability from a consideration of the arms 
which this family has so long borne; for, though 
the fleur-de-lis, so far as we are concerned, is 
unquestionably of French derivation, it has been 
(though never considered an ordinary charge) of 
frequent use in many periods of our history. It 
has been so, not only in immediate and levitimate 
connexion with royal alliances, and as an honour- 
able augmentation conceded by the sovereign for 
services rendered in the wars against, or some- 
times with France ; but, as appears at first sight, 
from an almost indiscriminate assumption by 
many hundred families, whose right and title to 
such a distinction may occasionally admit of a 
question. 
During a residence of many months in Paris, 
T have availed myself of the courteous permission 
of the conservateurs of the Biblioth¢que Impériale 
and of the Musée des Estampes, to consult many 
volumes, which might elucidate this subject of 
the Hillier family, particularly in reference to 
their armorial bearings. But, while personally 
much interested in this immediate inquiry, the 
wider and more general subject of the charge, 
commonly: distinguished as the fleur-de-lis, has 
unavoidably forced itself upon my_ attention. 
Many notes, relating to its origin and adoption, 
have been made from Montfaucon, Pére Anselme, 
and others, which may perhaps be deemed worthy 
of preservation in your pages. 
To these notes a much greater extension has 
been given since my return to England; and a 
list has been made from all available sources of 
the English names—royal, noble, and gentle — 
which now make pretensions to the fleur-de-lis. 
This list is long; but, as I perceive from a late 
number, that, in subjects of some interest, length 
is not a ground for exclusion, I may hereafter 
forward for your approval (?) the catalogue which 
has hitherto been prepared solely for my own 
reference. Garo Bs 
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Brighton, 
INTERMENT AT GLASGOW CATHEDRAL, 
Several months since, in the process of reno- 
vating the interior of the cathedral of Glasgow, 
the workmen, in lifting the pavement in that 
part of the choir near the pulpit, where it is 
supposed the high altar formerly stood, came 
upon a grave which was found immediately below 
the pavement, built with stone, and of small 
depth, and covered on the top with a leaden plate 
or slab. The crypt (or ancient burial-place) 
being under this part of the choir, and the space 
or division from the roof of the former to the 
pavement of the latter being but little, seemed to 
preclude giving more depth to the grave. On 
further investigation, the grave was seen to con- 
tain only the dry bones of an individual who 
had been interred without a coffin, but wrapped 
up in cloths of silk (apparently of French manu- 
facture), which, from fragments of the texture, had 
been of a rich quality, interspersed with threads 
of gold, and fringes of a like quality. No orna- 
ments were discovered, nor inscriptions, nor any 
thing in the least from which to conjecture the 
name and rank of the person, The bones, from 
their dimensions, show him to have been a man 
of more than ordinary stature, of great strength, 
with a very large head, denoting, as phrenologists 
would argue, from its particular formation, much 
of the animal propensity ; not a tooth in the jaws 
are wanting, and all of the most beautiful white 
enamel, from which the inference is drawn, that 
he had died in the prime of life. It isa matter of 
considerable curiosity who he was that was thus 
honoured with a grave in such an important site 
of the cathedral, and perhaps some of the corre- 
spondents of “N. & Q.” acquainted with old ec- 
clesiastical usages, may assist towards a solution 
of the problem. No written nor traditional in- 
formation exists to afford any clue. The proba- 
bility is, that he may, have been one of the dignified 
clergy connected with the cathedral before the 
Reformation from popery, cir. 1560, or one of the 
subsequent Episcopalian archbishops who held 
sway, though with occasional disturbance in their 
seats, till the Revolution of 1688. The erypt was 
discontinued as a place of interment in 1595, and 
from that date to 1801, was occupied as a Pres- 
byterian church for the barony parish of ss 
Miinur Queries, 
Public Baptisms in Private Houses. — With 
reference to the quotation from Pepys (‘N. & 
Q.,” 1% S. ix. 399.), let me ask, Whence arose the 
custom of the clergy going to private houses to 
perform the ceremony of public baptism (not 
merely private baptism)? ‘This was done, about 
the year 1792 or 1793, by a Dr. Ashe. Of what 
London parish was he Incumbent ?—Marylebone? 
or St. George’s, Hanover Square ? Re Kh. 
Ode on Sir John Moore. —Can you inform me 
in which of the London newspapers (with the 
date) appeared a letter from the Rey. Dr. Miller, 
author of Modern History Philosophically Ilus- 
trated, wherein he clearly establishes the claim of 
