2°<' S. VI. 156., Dec. 25. 68.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Registry of Private Baptisms. — Will any of 

 your correspondents skilled in ecclesiastical law 

 inform me if it is not equally binding on a clergy- 

 man to enter private baptisms in the register- 

 book, as well as public baptisms administered in 

 the church? Also if it is a legal entry of a bap- 

 tism if the initials of the officiating minister alone 

 are affixed, instead of his name ? And, lastly, if a 

 rector enters a baptism performed by a curate, 

 and signs his (i. e. the curate's) name, is the entry 

 legal, and would it be valid in law ? These cases 

 have all come across me during the last few years, 

 and I should be glad of an answer to them on 

 which I might depend. Alfked T. Lee. 



Ahoghill Eectorj-, Ballymena. 



Quotation. — In an article on Payne Knight's 

 Inquiry into the Principles of Taste, contained in 

 the Edinhurgh Review for Jan. 1806 (vol. vii. p. 

 311.), the following lines are quoted : — 



" Ac veluti melicse voces, quando auribu' sese 

 Insinuant, aninriEeque resignant mollia claustra, 

 Composuere metus omneis, faciuntque dolorum 

 Obliviscier, ac dulci languescere leto." 

 The reviewer speaks of them as "lines which, 

 had they, and those among which they stand, been 

 found in Lucretius, would have been quoted as 

 among the loftiest efforts of his genius." 



Who is the author of the lines, and where are 

 they to be found ? C. 



Richardsons of Cheshire. — Will any contribu- 

 tor to " N. & Q." kindly favour me with a pedi- 

 gree of John Richardson, who was fourth in 

 descent from William Belward, feudal Baron of 

 Mai pas ? R. W. Dixon. 



Seaton-Carew, co. Durham. 



Poem on Pulpit- Gowns being first worn by the 

 Seceders. — Could any correspondent of " N. & 

 Q." supply me with a copy, or inform me where 

 I could get one, of a poem written on the occasion 

 of the late Dr. Hall of Edinburgh wearing, for the 

 tirst time, a pulpit-gown ? The late Rev. David 

 Ure, of the U. P. church in Ayton, once repeated 

 to me, many years ago, a number of the lines of 

 the said poem, of which I can only remember the 

 following : — 



" O what wad Ralph and Eben * said 

 To have seen a Seceder so array'd — 

 They'd surely thought a good Scots' plaid 

 Wad set him better." 

 ^ Menvanthes. 



Marshall Family. — I wish to ascertain what 

 families bear "az. a fesse between three chess- 

 rooks, or." Gwillim gives this coat to a family of 

 the name of Bodenham. Have the Marshall family 

 any right to this coat (the tinctures may differ) 

 and crest ? My Query in particular is about the 

 Marshall family. Belater-Adime. 



• Rev. Kalph and Ebenezer Erskine, the Fathers of the 

 Secession Church in Scotland, 



Frith, Bunney : Derivation of. — What is the 

 derivative meaning of two words I often hear 

 used by working men hereabouts, viz. " Frith" 

 and " Bunney ? " at least they are so pro- 

 nounced. The former term they apply to green 

 branches of trees laid between posts, driven into 

 the hard beach, and fastened down by cross pieces 

 of wood nailed thereto, or mortised through them, 

 as a tenon, — twenty sets or so of these making a 

 " frith groyne " to arrest the shifting of the 

 shingle on my beach. 



The second term is applied to the stone slab, 

 or coarse stone arch, which they throw over a 

 nari'ow watercourse, such as a ditch or arterial 

 land-drain, where the same has to be crossed by 

 a footway, or even by a bye road. H. E. A. 



Aldwick. 



Faithorne's Map of London. — In the Illustrated 

 London News of 8th December, 1855, it was stated 

 that "a second .copy of Faithorne's celebrated 

 Map of London, engraved by him in 1618, had 

 been accidentally discovered. It is in London, 

 and is to be engraved in facsimile. Till this copy 

 was discovered, the impression in the Imperial 

 Library at Paris was looked upon as unique." 

 Has it ever been published ? Anaximandee. 



Ermonie. — In many old rolls of arms, parti- 

 cularly the elaborate one called " Charles' Roll," 

 printed in Leland's Collectanea, vol. ii. p. 612., ed. 

 1774, mention is made of "le roy dermenye." 

 The arms given to him are, or, a lion rampant, 

 guies, within a bordure indented of the second. 

 As he is named shortly after the King of Cyprus, 

 some have thought a King of Armenia is intended. 

 The word, however, is found in some of the Round 

 Table Romances. I met with it in Sir Tristretn, 

 where It is said : — 



" Too yere he sett that land, 

 His lawes made he cri, 

 Al com to his hand, 

 Almain, and Ermonie." 



May it not be that Ermonie is Germany, or 

 Yermany as it is pronounced to this day? The 

 arms point clearly to Sir Tristram le Leonnois. In 

 the same roll mention is made of " L'empereur de 

 Alemaine," and also of " le Roy Dalmayne." 



A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



The Grotto at Margate. — Can any of your 

 readers inform me what is the probable age of 

 the curious grotto which was discovered a few 

 years ago at Margate ? It consists of passages 

 and a room at the end, the whole being covered 

 with shells arranged with great skill and taste. I 

 will not attempt a description, though it well de- 

 serves one. It is situated at a spot called Danes 

 Hill. Is it likely that it was constructed by that 

 people? QtEBisT. 



