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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[224 S. Ne22., May 81. 756. 
furnish me with a more detailed blazon of Bishop 
Horsley’s arms, than his mention of ‘a horse’s 
head bridled” would enable me to note. 
In reply to his Query, I beg to say, that I do 
not think any attempt was ever made to trace the 
late Bishop of St. Asaph togthe Saxon leader ; 
and that the bearing of horses’ heads bridled is, as 
he will see, by reference to any heraldic dic- 
tionary, common to several families of the name 
of Horsley and Horsey. W. K. R. Beprorp. 
Sutton Coldfield. 
* A sunbeam passes through pollution unpolluted” 
(2™4 §. i. 114. 304.) — The same idea is expressed 
in Lilie’s Huphues. I quote from the edition of 
1617, in which, at sign B. 2., occurs the passage : 
“ The sunne shineth upon the dunghill and is not cor- 
rupted.” 
I know not whether it occurs in the earlier 
editions, of -which four appeared previous to 
Bacon's Advancement of Learning. J.¥F. M. 
Crafty Innkeeper at Grantham (2°48. i. 232.) — 
Did this practical joke originate at Grantham ? 
I have heard two or three versions of the tale, 
neither of which correspond with that given by 
H. Kensrneton ; unfortunately I omitted making 
any note of them: but I recollect that one, the 
most ludicrous, set forth how an elderly gentle- 
man, who had long been kept to his room by an 
attack of the gout, was instantaneously cured—at 
least so far, as to enable him to take to his heels— 
through witnessing the sudden descent of an imp 
of darkness similar to that mentioned by your 
correspondent, into his bedroom ; such imp having, 
after a lengthened tour of observation on the roof 
of the house, mistaken, on his return to the lower 
regions, the pot from which he emerged on his 
ascent. 
Whether the fact narrated by H. Knnstneron 
gave rise to this version, or whether some such 
story as this enabled “mine host” to decide on 
what may be called the most sootable method of 
expelling his unwelcome customers, deponent 
knoweth not. R. W. Hackwoop. 
Signal Whistle (2™° 8. i. 374.) —This instru- 
ment, on its introduction to the public, was called 
the “Proteus whistle;” and Prerrer is quite 
right in saying that it was a powerful one. I be- 
lieve it is still to be procured at most shops where 
articles for the use of sportsmen are sold, gun- 
smiths, &c. ; and if my memory serves me rightly 
as to place, I have seen it very lately at a gun- 
makers on the south side of Cornhill. 
I do not know about the “ three miles,” that is 
a long whistle; but I can say thus much, that 
when they first came out, [ had the pleasure of 
hearing the effect produced by one at a distance 
of about three yards; and I sincerely hope, that 
the next time I am treated to any exhibition of 
their power, I may be not far short of three miles 
distant from the performer. 
Although they are really so effective, from what 
I recollect, I do not think that any purchaser has 
to pay dearly for his whistle, the price of course 
varying as the power, make, &c. 
R. W. Hacxwoop. 
Sardinian Motto (1* §. xii. 509.) —The letters 
¥F. E. R. 'T. were stamped instead of a motto on 
each of the fifteen links of the collar worn by the 
Knights of the Annunciada, which order was insti- 
tuted by Amadeus VIIL., first Duke of Savoy, 
“at what time he defended Rhodes from the 
Turks, 1409.” 
Heylin says, and he takes them to stand for 
“ Fortitudo,” &c., adding afterwards : 
“So from this victory (for every repulse of the be- 
sieger is a victory to the besieged) there arose a double 
effect. First, the institution of this order; second, the 
assumption of the present arms of this duchy, where are 
gu. a cross arg; this being the Cross of St. John of 
Jerusalem, whose knights at that time were owners of 
the Rhodes.” 
R. W. Hacxwoop. 
Captain McCluer (2™ §. i. 353.) —In 1803, a 
thin quarto volume of seventy-two pages, intitled 
A Supplement to the Account of the Pelew Islands, 
by the Reverend John Pearce Hockin, of Exeter 
College, Oxford, M.A., was printed by Messrs. 
W. Bulmer & Co., for Captain Henry Wilson 
(sold by Messrs Nicol, and J. Asperne) ; in which 
your correspondent Unepa will find the sequel of 
Captain M°Cluer’s history. It appears that the 
East India Company, in the month of August, 
1790, sent two vessels under his command to the 
Pelew Islands; and after some intercourse with 
the natives and other occurrences, one of these 
having sailed for China, Captain M*Cluer, from 
whatever cause, in February, 1793, gave up the 
command of the other for the express purpose of 
remaining as a settler on the islands. After con- 
tinuing in them, however, about fiffeen months, 
he contrived to get over to the English factory at 
Macao, hoping to be again employed, and in 1797, 
having regained his health which had suffered, 
and procured a vessel, removed his family and pro- 
perty from .the islands, a part of which, having 
been transferred to another ship, arrived in safety 
at Bombay; with the remainder he proceeded in 
his own vessel to Bengal, “ from whence he again 
sailed, and was never more heard of, nor any of 
his crew.” —P. 55. Ours. 
Hydrophobic Patients Smothered (2"4 S. i. 362.) 
—From the nature of the calamity and the 
secrecy sometimes observed in regard to it among 
the relations of the deceased, it is diffieult to ad- 
duce specific instances; but in Scotland I believe 
that it was once held more than a “ popular de- 
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