ona §, No 14, Apri 5. °56.] 
light, Penthia, or Astrophel are anywhere now 
popular names for this pretty little flower? I 
cannot but think its association with the friend- 
ship of Spenser and Sir P. Sidney far more in- 
teresting than the foolish German legend generally 
appended to it. 
I may mention that one species (M. versicolor) 
exhibits an instance of red, blue, and yellow 
flowers growing simultaneously on the same 
plant (Withering’s Botany and Phillips’ Flora 
Historica, in voc.). Epren Warwick. 
Latin Poem by a Rugbean.— 
“‘ Non ledet teneros barbara virga nates.” 
This pentameter is the concluding line of a 
Latin poem which was written by a Rugbzan, 
about the beginning of the present century; and 
placed on the door of his tutor’s room, just before 
he left the school. Who was the author of it? 
and what is the remainder of the poem ? Crp. 
Armorial.—I have a plaster cast of a coat of 
arms, found amongst ruins at Waterford, which 
are: Ist and 3rd, a lion rampant; 2nd and 4th, 
two bendlets: crest, the Papal tiara and keys. 
Whose arms were they ? H. Bascuer. 
Waterford. 
Longest Siege on Record.—The following pas- 
sage I met with the other day : 
“Herodotus reports (lib. ii. cap. 157), that Psamme- 
ticus, king of Egypt, besieged this city (Azotus) twenty- 
nine years, which, if true, is the longest siege which any 
city or fortress ever endured.”—From Dr. Adam Clarke’s 
Commentary, New Test., vol. i. p. 771. 
Ts this the longest siege on record? or, is there 
any siege at all equalling it in duration ? 
A. A. F. Vierrans. 
Heraldic Query. — I would be much obliged to 
any of your heraldic correspondents who would: 
identify the following arms for me: they are re- 
quired for genealogical purposes? Quarterly of 
six; first, argent three bulls’ heads couped sable ; 
second, argent a chevron between three ravens 
close sable, impaling ermine three bars nebulée 
sable; third, sable two bars dancettées ermine ; 
fourth, checquy, argent and gules; fifth, sable a 
cheveron ermine between three bulls’ heads ca- 
boshed argent, impaling argent on a fess engrailed 
vert, three escalops argent; sixth, gules, a lion 
rampant or, and a border engrailed of the last. 
Francis Roserr Davies. 
Quotation wanted : “In peace of mind,” §c. — 
Can you or any of your correspondents tell me 
where the following lines come from ? 
“In peace of mind, by course of duty run, 
God nothing wills nor suffers to be done 
But what thou would’st thyself; could’st thou but see 
Through all the events of life as well as He.” 
Qu asTorR. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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Gainsborough’s Portrait of Abell. — Can any of 
your readers enlighten me as to the locality of 
Gainsborough’s whole-length portrait of Abell the 
musician ? Epmounp §, Furcuer. 
Sudbury. 
Archbishops’ Degrees. — Will any of your cor- 
respondents favour me with an answer to the 
following questions: —“1. At what period did 
archbishops assume the prerogative of granting 
degrees? 2. What degrees are so granted? and 
by whom, and upon what grounds, was the prero- 
gative conferred? 3. Is any register accessible of 
degrees so conferred ? and what examinations or 
testimonials are required? 4. What fees, if any, 
are charged, and to whom are-they paid?” W. P. 
Papier-Maché Houses. — Some time during the 
course of last year, a notice appeared in the news- 
papers of some portable houses (constructed either 
of papier-maché or a substance similar to it) being 
shipped, I think for Australia. Can you refer me 
to the notice, or inform me by whom they were 
constructed ?* R. W. Hacxwoop. 
Tyttery and Tyzack Families. — Can any cor- 
respondent inform me what were the arms borne 
by the families of Tyttery and Tyzack. They 
were French Protestant refugees, who, towards 
the end of the sixteenth century, settled in Staf- 
fordshire and Worcestershire, and first introduced 
the broad glass manufacture into England. An- 
other family named Henzey also accompanied them 
to England, and bore as a motto, “ Seigneur, je 
te pris garde ma vie,” which motto, a work called 
The Book of Family Mottos, published by Wash- 
borne, asserts to have been used by Tyzack. Is 
this true? Mr. J. Henzey Pidcock, who repre- 
sents one branch of this family, now uses this 
motto; and the “three acorns slipped” of the 
Henzies are also borne by him, incorporated with 
a “ pied cock” (!) for his family coat. Crp. 
Helmet above Crest. — As a practice seems to 
be gaining ground for which I can find, in my 
small way, no sort of authority, perhaps some of 
your correspondents well versed in heraldry will 
be good enough either to place their peremp- 
tory veto upon it, or to point out any ground on 
which it is defensible, —I mean the practice of 
placing the crest under the helmet of a knight. 
If this be an innovation, the sooner it is exposed 
and put an end to the better. I had imagined 
that as the real crest was always borne upon the 
top of the real helmet, so the heraldic crest ought 
always to be placed upon the top of the heraldic 
helmet; but perhaps I may be in this matter 
TGNoRANTISSIMUS. 
Thomas and James Hooper. — Can any of your 
correspondents furnish any information respect- 
ait Information respecting these houses may be obtained 
of C. F. Bielefeld, 15, Wellington Street (North), Strand. } 
