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firmly united, and afterwards availed themselves 
of obtaining the sanction and cereiiony of the 
kirk; so powerful becomes the force of habit in a 
nation. G.N. 
Banns of Marriage (2" S. i. 201.) —On look- 
ing again at the Marriage Act, I observe that 
Sundays are alone specified. It would not, there- 
fore, be legal to publish them how on holidays; but 
in other respects the old rubric is untouched. 
Ma ss Wises 
Patrick Ker (2" S. i. 33.) —I have been trying 
to look up Patrick Ker, but have not hitherto 
been successful. I think, however, he must be 
identical with the author of a little volume in my 
library, entitled : , 
“The Map of Man’s Misery : or the Poor Man’s Pocket 
Book; being a perpetual Aimanack of Spiritual Medita- 
tions: or a Compleat Directory for one Endless Week.” 
In which the seven days are made to answer to 
the four periods of man’s life, with Death, Judg- 
ment, on Eternity ; these furnishing the author 
with headings for his seasons and earnest medita- 
tions. The bordered frontispiece represents a 
triangle within a circle, typical of the Trinity and 
Eternity, with enigmatical lines ; an Epistle Dedi- 
catory “to the Rt. H. Rachel, Lady Russell,” 
signed P. Ker, follows; and the book closes with 
a poem, entitled “The Glass of Vain Glory, or a 
View of Man’s Vanity.” London. 12mo. J. 
Lawrence. 1690. In“ N.& Q.” (1*S. xi. 225.), 
I brought this Wap of Man’s Misery to notice, 
and in support of my belief that the author was a 
Scot can only repeat, that when he would illustrate 
his subject by temporal examples, they are gene- 
rally Scottish manifestations of God's judgments, 
he I think it will turn out that P. Ker was an 
Episcopalian, who, like many more of the prelatic 
party, found his native country too hot for him at 
the period when Presbyterianism had reached its 
greatest height and compelled the rabbled curates 
to seek refuge in the South. J.O. 
Gainsborough the Painter (2°28. x. 200.) — 
Mr. Furcuer (who, it may be observed, is not a 
bookseller) is much indebted to J. S. for his kind 
offer of the loan of Thicknesse’s Sketch of the Life 
and Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough; but as he, 
possesses a copy, he has no occasion to avail him- 
self of the kindness of J. S. Who Thicknesse 
was, how he became acquainted with Gains- 
borough, and what reliance is to be placed on his 
statements, Mr. Fuxcuer hopes shortly to show. 
Sudbury. 
Paul Jones (2 §. i. 199.) — Mr. Hotmes must 
be commended in his intention to do an act of 
Justice to the character of Jones. He seems to 
think that his penitential letter to Lady Selkirk 
was good evidence that he had no control over 
the men under his charge, and hints that the pro- 
perty abstracted was in part returned with the 
letter. This act may be taken for what it is 
worth, and as Mr. Hoximgs refers to it with doubt, 
it may gratify him to know that, having purchased 
the plunder from the crew, the whole was trans- 
mitted after the lapse of some years, viz. in 1783, 
“ precisely in the same state in which it had been 
carried off, to all appearance never having been 
unpacked, the very tea-leaves remaining in the 
teapot as they were left after breakfast on the day 
of capture.” 
Mr. Hormzs will perhaps remember the severe 
rebuke these “ piratical proceedings ” drew forth 
from Dr. Franklin, the American representative 
in Paris, Cuaries Reep. 
Paternoster Row. 
Son’s Right to the Mother's Arms (1* S. ix. 
398.) —In your 1* S, ix. 398. is a Query by me 
to the following effect: Whether the descendants 
of “ A.” who (having no arms of his own) married 
the heiress and sole representative of a family 
bearing arms, might bear the arms and quarter- 
ings of the family whose heiress “ A.” married. 
This was answered by several correspondents, 
whose opinions inclined to the negative. Since 
sending this Query I have met with the following: 
“A gentlewoman borne, wedded to one, hauying no 
cote armout; they hauying issue a sonne, which is termed 
in the lawe of armes, her sonne: The same sonne I say, 
maye beare her cote armour, durynge his life, with a dif- 
ference cynquefoyle, by the curtesy of armes, and this is 
called alased cote armour.” — Legh’s Accedens of Armory, 
ed, 1563. fol. 98. 
Can any instance of arms thus borne be ad- 
duced ? Crp. 
P.S. Apropos to Legh, what is the meaning of 
the cut at the end of the Accedens? On the top 
of a spire is a bear statant, muzzled and chained, 
on a helmet calmly surveying three xondescripis, 
which appear somewhat like paws, and seem to be 
falling upon the head of a savage-looking gentle- 
man, who with his dexter hand supports a shield 
of arms (query whose ?), whilst his sinister tightly 
grasps a book ? 
_ Use of the Verb “To care” (2°78. i. 242.) — 
The word care in the sentence quoted from Pope, 
evidently means like, or wish: “ Lshouldn’t like to 
have an old post pulled up which I had recollected 
since a boy.” Exactly in the same sense was it 
commonly used by writers of that time; as, for 
instance, by Sterne, who says: “No man cares 
(that is, likes) to have his virtues the sport of 
contingencies.” F. C. Hi 
Clint (1* S, xii, 406.5 2™2 §, i. 189. 203.) — 
This assuredly is the Dan. and Norweg. Klint, en, 
pl. er, a cliff, as Stevns Klint on thie sea-shore of 
Zealand, and Speil Klint on that of the neighbour- 
ing island of Méen. It is a term commonly used, 
