30 ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



in Britayne are now stirred up to maintain the veritie of 

 tlie British Historie.' 



"Tlie author seems to bave speit his name iudifFerently 

 — Lyta and Lite ; but the place always Lytes-carie. 



" The swans of course are in aUusion to the faniily arms, 

 which remain on the house, and are given on a large wood 

 cut to back the title page of the first edition of his work 

 on botany. A chevron between three swans,* with a swan 

 for a crest standing on a trumpet, ' Ltetitia et spe immor- 

 talitalis' is written beloAV, which may probably be the 

 motto. Above is written, in allusion to the arms : — 

 Tortilis hie lituus niveusque olor arguit in te 

 Leite aninium niveum pictus f et intrepidum, 

 and below : 



Like as the swanne doth chaunt his tunes in slgne of 

 ioyfuU mynde, 



So Lyta by learning sheAves him seife to Prince and 

 countrie kinde. 



" There ara lots of other conceits in Latin and English 

 on a name so provocative of puns. I am sorry to have to 

 add, for the honour of English printing, that this handsome 

 book, which is füll of curious woodcuts of plants, was 

 printed at Antwerji. 



"I am sorry I cannot give you any better account of 

 Lyta's Gary to accompany the south and south-east views 

 of the house Avhich will appear in our Journal, which may 

 serve at least to remind some of the members of the 

 Society of the pleasant day we spent there last year. 

 " Believe me, yours very truly, 



"F. H. DiCKINSON." 



* Edmondson gives— gules, a chevron between 3 swans argent. Crest, a 

 demi swan argent, wilb wings expauded gules, against a plume of 3 feathers, 

 the middle one of the hrst, tlie other two of the second. 

 t What does this mean ? 



