2-a S. IX Feb. 11. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



113 



witb chalk lodgings claimed for the use of royalty, 

 was observed at a much later period than that at 

 which John Carpenter compiled the White Book 

 of London (a. d. 1419). In the History of the 

 Entry of Mary de Medicis in 1638, printed in 

 the Antiquarian Repertory, vol. iv., there are se- 

 veral allusions to the custom. During the pro- 

 m-ess of the Queen Mother to the metropolis, the 

 quarter-master put his chalk mark on all houses 

 which he deemed requisite for the convenient 

 lodging of the Queen's retinue. No sooner had 

 her Majesty landed at Harwich, than Sieur de 

 Labat, valet-de-chambre and quarter-master to 

 the Queen, began to use his chalks, and in obtain- 

 ing suitable lodgings he found no difficulty, " be- 

 cause every one vied with his neighbour in 

 offering his house, as if they had considered it as 

 a mark of honour to see their door chalked, since 

 it was for the service of so great a princess " (p. 

 524.). When the Queen Mother arrived at Col- 

 chester, Sieur de Labat was again busy " marking 

 the doors of all sorts of houses, which were the 

 most commodious for him to appoint for lodg- 

 ings " (p. 526.). 



This usage was one that feudalism had intro- 

 duced at an early period in France. Although I 

 cannot just now refer to it, I have read an allusion 

 to the custom in an old romance. 



F. SoMNER MeRRYWEATHER. 



Colney Hatch. 



Flower de Luce and Toads (2 Dd S. viii. 471.) 

 — Extract from La Science Heraldique du Blazon, 

 a Paris, m.dc.lxxv. — 



" Robert Guaguin et Jean Naucler ont donne pour 

 Armes a nos premiers Roys, predecesseurs de Clovis, de 

 Gueules u trois Crapaux d'argent. Et Paul iEmile les a 

 blazonne d'argent a trois Diademes de Gueules. Et Mon- 

 sieur de Tillet dit que la fable (qui raconte que l'Escu des 

 trois Fleurs de Lys envoye" au Roy Clovis en l'Abbaye de 

 Joyenval, de 1'ordre de Premontre) fut inventee du temps 

 de Roy Charles VI. Les Blazonneurs de l'Escu des Ar- 

 moiries de France, au dire de Fauchet, voulans montrer 

 que les premiers Francois estoient sortis des Sicambres 

 habitans des Marais de Frise vers le Pais d'Hollande, 

 donnerent a nos Roys, la iieur de Pavile'e, qui est un petit 

 Lys jaune, qui croist sans les Marais de ce Pais, en champ 

 d'azur, qui ressemble a l'eau, laquelle estant repose'e, prend 

 la couleur du Ciel, l'an 1381. Le Roy Charles VI. redui- 

 ttit l'Escu des Lys sans nombre, h, trois; pour symbole de 

 la Sainte Trinite." 



E. C. Gresford. 



Radicals in European Languages ('2 ai S. ix. 

 63.) — A categorical answer cannot probably be 

 given to this Query ; but some considerable ad- 

 vance has been made in approximation. Adelung, 

 in his Mitliridates, says the radicals in no language 

 exceed a few hundreds. The radicals in any of 

 the principal languages of Europe have not, I be- 

 lieve, been ascertained or numbered ; nor in so 

 far as they are derivative languages can they be 

 properly said to possess any radicals. Eichhoff 

 (Kaltschinidt's translation, 196 — 245.) has enu- 



merated 550 radicals in Sanscrit, to which he 

 reduces 1288 Greek words and 947 Latin, besides 

 a large number of French, Gothic, German, 

 English, Lithuanian, Russian, Gaelic, and Celtic 

 words. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Greek Word (2 nd S. viii. 88.) — The Greek 

 word which signifies " that which will endure to 

 be held up to and judged by the sunlight," is 

 eiAiKpiWjs. The received etymology derives it from 

 el\y]. L. 



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