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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2° d S. IX. Feb. 11. '60. 



to the remedies to be adopted for staying the evils 

 thereby caused, directs especial attention to the 

 statute law which bears upon the case. In so 

 doing his only reference is to an act which he 

 states had then become obsolete, of 7 Jas. I. c. 

 20., continued by 3 Charles I. c. 5., and farther 

 continued by 16 Charles I. c. 4., intituled " An Act 

 for the speedy Recovery of many ThousandAcres 

 of Marsh Ground and other Ground within the 

 Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, lately surrounded 

 by the Rage of the Sea in divers Parts of the said 

 Counties, and for the Prevention of the danger of 

 the like surrounding hereafter." 



Note of Interrogation, if not already acquainted 

 with the provisions of this statute, may easily 

 perhaps become so ; and I will only farther state, 

 that, on 27 Dec. 1791, very extensive sea-breaches 

 occurred at Winterton, Horsey, and Waxbarn, 

 when destruction was threatened to all the level 

 marshes between those places and Yarmouth, 

 Beccles, &c, and that again, in Nov. 1800, the 

 sea broke through the banks in tke-same localities, 

 on which occasion the King's Arms Inn, on Sher- 

 ringham Cliff, fell a prey to the waves. 



Wm. Matthews. 



Cowgill. 



Heraldic Drawings and Engravings (2 nd S. 

 viii. 471.) — I am much obliged to Mr. Peacock 

 for his reference to Petrasancta (2 nd S. viii. 523.), 

 but this only informs me when the lines to indi- 

 cate tinctures were invented, not when they were 

 first used in this country. 



Your correspondent Ache says (2 nd S. ix. 53.), 

 that the earliest instance of the use of these lines 

 in England, is " the death-warrant of King Charles 

 I., to which the seals of the subscribing parties 

 are represented as attached." Were not real wax 

 seals affixed to so important a document ? Or 

 does Ache mean that mere sketches of the seals 

 were drawn on the original ? 



I am still desirous of a farther reply to my 

 Query. It seems hardly possible that the inven- 

 tion of Petrasancta, in the sixteenth century, 

 should never have been adopted in England till 

 1649. 



Perhaps your correspondent, the Rev. Herbert 

 Haines, so learned in all that relates to monu- 

 mental brasses, would kindly inform me, through 

 your pages, what is the earliest instance he has 

 met with in which the tinctures of heraldry are 

 indicated by lines on a monumental brass. 



Jaydee. 



Crowe Family (2 nd S. ix. 46.) — Your corre- 

 spondent will find an account of the lineage of Sir 

 Sackville Crowe in Burke's Extinct Baronetage, 

 s. v. C. J. Robinson. 



King Bladtjp and his Pigs (2 od S. ix. 45.) — 

 In a book which I possess, entitled A Discourse of 

 Bathe, by Th. Guidot, M.B., London, 1676 (p. 



55.), mention of Bladud is made, and a general 

 reference to William of Mabnesbury given ; and, 

 in pp. 60-1., a quotation from Lidgate's transla- 

 tion of Boccace's Riming History of Unfortu- 

 nate Princes, fol. 31. I shall be happy to lend 

 Mr. Barham Guidot's book, if he should be de- 

 sirous of seeing it. C. J. Robinson. 



Robert Keith (2 nd S. ix. 64.) — In Lawson's 

 edition of Bishop Robert Keith's History of the 

 Scottish Episcopal Church, Edin. 1844 : — 



" It is asserted that Bishop Keith published, about 

 1743, or 1744, some Select Pieces nf Thomas a Ketnpis, 

 translated into English. In the Preface to the second 

 volume he is alleged to have introduced several addresses 

 to the Virgin Man', for which he was required to give an 

 explanation by his brethren. As the present writer has 

 failed to obtain any information regarding this perform- 

 ance, lie cannot offer an opinion to the reader. Tt is 

 mentioned in a letter written to Bishop Halt, and in the 

 Scots Mag., vol. xix. p. 54." 



The book of your correspondent, is, no doubt, 

 a later edition of the work here referred to, ori- 

 ginally published at Edinburgh in 2 vols. 12mo. 

 1721. J. O. 



Academy of Comtli- 

 The title in full of this 



The Yea-and-Nay 

 ments (2 nd S. ix. 12.)- 

 book is as follows : — 



" The Quakers Art of Courtship ; or, the Yea-and-Nay 

 Academy of Compliments, containing Several Curious 

 Discourses, by Way of Dialogues, Letters, and Songs, 

 between Brethren artdGreen-apron'd Sisters. As also, many 

 Bare and Comical Humours, Tricks, Adventures, and 

 cheats of a Canting Bully. With several other Matters 

 very Pleasant and Delightful. Calculated for the Meri- 

 dian of the Bull and Mouth, and may indifferently serve 

 the Brethren of the WtndmiU-order, for Noddification 

 in any Part of Will- a- Wisp-Land. By the Author of 

 Teagueland Jests. London, Printed, and are to be sold 

 by most Booksellers, 1710. Price bound, One Shilling." 



Collation : A (including woodcut, frontispiece, 

 and title) to G, in twelves. The book, I believe, 

 may be considered scarce. I do not recollect 

 having seen any copy but my own. On referring 

 to Teagueland Jests (London, printed in the year 

 1690) I find they are anonymous. The Jests are 

 not less rare than the Courtship. R. S. Q. 



Bavin (2 nd S. ix. 25.) — Here is an example of 

 the use of this word : A Bavin of Bays : containing 

 various Original Essays in Poetry by a Minor 

 Poet, Lond., 1762. The poet, evidently a Kentish 

 one, says : 



" This Bavin will be found only to contain a little of 

 the spray -wood carelessly pilfered from about the precincts 

 of Parnassus." 



J. o. 



Taylor the Platonist (2 ni S. ix. 28.)— Some 

 curious particulars respecting him will be found 

 in Barker's Literary Anecdotes, vol. i. p. 261. 



Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



