2°a S. VI. 131., July 3. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the second edition (1632) is professedly said to 

 hfive been " corrected and nnicli enlarged by the 

 author liimselfe in his lifetime." In 1660 the 

 fourth edition was printed, to which was added 

 "about 300 new coat^ and bearings of eminent 

 families, never before inserted," wliicb were col- 

 lected by Francis Nower, herald-painter. " This 

 edition," says Moule, " had scarcely been issued, 

 when the Restoration brought Heraldry into more 

 request, and rendered a selection of the examples, 

 upon the rise of a new party, necessary, to obtain a 

 side." It was accordingly reprinted, with the 

 following alteration in the title : " Since the im- 

 printing of this last edition many offensive coats 

 (to the Loyal Party) are exploded; with a supply 

 of his Majesties Friends;" and the volume thus 

 amended was dedicated to King Charles II. A 

 new address was prefixed by R. B. (Richard 

 Blome), which is worth transcribing, from its 

 singularity : — 



" To the most concerned, the Nobility and Gentry. 

 " My Lords and Gentlemen, 

 "This inestimable piece of Heraldry, that has past /bur 

 impressions with much approb:ition, had the unhappy 

 fate in the last to have a blot in its escocheon, viz. the 

 insertion of Oliver's Creatures, which as no merit could 

 enter them in such a regiment but usurpation, so we 

 have in Ihisfifth impression exploded them, and incerted 

 the Persons, Titles, and Dignities of such as his Jlajesty 

 (since his blessed Restauration) conferred Honour upon, so 

 that the corn may be intire, of one sheaf, and the grapes 

 of one vine. 



R. B." 



It is evident from this statement that the later 

 editions of 1679 and 1724 are the sixth and 

 seventh, although they are called on their respec- 

 tive title-pages the ffth and .<;ixth. J^either of 

 tiie editions of 1660 are in the library of the 

 British Museum, and I therefore have been un- 

 able to compare them together; but perhaps some 

 of the correspondents of "N. & Q.," who hitve 

 the means of doing so, would take this trouble, 

 and state how many of the 300 coats of Oliver's 

 edition were omitted in Charles's. If the number 

 is not great, it might be desirable to have a list of 

 the names communicated. F. Madden. 



:^tit0r caucrieS. 



Rysheton. — Some time after I had succeeded 

 to the rectory of Raskington First Mediety, I 

 found that it was subject to an annual fee-farm 

 rent of forty shillings. AVishing to ascertain 

 whence this arose, I consulted a friend, whose 

 name often appears in your pages, who happened 

 at the time to be employed in the Augmentation 

 Office. He said that he probably might find 

 something about it in the Records there, and re- 



?ueste<l me to call there in a day or two. AVhen 

 called be told me that he had been unsuccessful 

 in the search, although he had found three or 



four entries relating to Ruskington. "But," said 

 he, "we often find that parties interested have 

 quicker eyes that we ; search for yourself." I did 

 so, and after spending some time I had the satis- 

 faction of ferreting out the following entry : — 



"Com. Lincoln. "Parcell Possession 



Nuper Priorat 

 de AV'orksop. 

 "Annual pension exeund de Rectoria de Riskington ) 



aU Rusherton in dicta com. solvend. ad fest. S'- >iOs. 

 Mich' Arch, tante per ann. - - -J 



" I have made this Particular by virtue of an act of 

 Parliament of March, 1640, for the sale of Fee farm 

 Rents belonging to the late Queen and Prince. 



" Exd per Thorn. Palgrave, Auditor."— il/emft. 17. No. 

 728. 



I have lately found the following in the list of 

 the possessions of Worksop Pfiory, Valor Ecclesi- 

 asticus, vol. V. p. 175. : — 



" Lincoln Comitatus. 



Rysheton. % 



" A pension there by year ... xls." 



I believe this to be the pension in question, as 

 "Rysheton" does not differ much from "Rush- 

 erton." Is my belief correct ? or was any other 

 place known by the name of Rysheton ? And can 

 any of your readers inform me by whom this pen- 

 sion, luckily a money payment, was given to the 

 Priory of Worksop ? "The Rector. 



Tom Davies. — Many years ago I read a thea- 

 trical poem, of which I remember only four lines, 

 describing the ghost of Tom DavieSj which appears 

 to some actor or manager : — 



" Not like that Davies, who, in youthful day. 

 Flamed in the stage's front and gave the play; 

 But shy and shambling as he wont to meet 

 A pennj' customer in Russell Street." 



This must have been written after Davies was 

 dead, and before he was forgotten. He died in 

 1785. I shall be obliged if any one can tell me 

 the title of the work. It is an octavo pamphlet of 

 about fifry pages. 



In La Nouoelle Biographic Generale, xiii. 247., 

 art. Davies, it is said : — 



" TJne satire decoclie'e contre lui, a Poccasion de son 

 mortage avec une hottnete femme, par Churchill, lui fit en- 

 core deserter la scene et reprendre en 17G2 son etat de 

 libraire." 



I have not seen this elsewhere. Had the French 

 biographer any authority for it, or is it an original 

 blunder ? H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Wax-iuork at Westminster Abbey. — Can any of 

 your readers inform me of the period when wax 

 figures of departed greatness were first exhibited 

 in Westminfter Abbey ? 



From a passage in a rhyming account of the 

 tombs there, in jf'Ae Mysteries of Love and Elo- 

 quence (Svo., Lend. 1G58, p. 88.), it would appear 



