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side. Even-body is much pleased with it. For, whereas 

 before Coaches could not be had but at great rates, now a 

 man may have one much cheaper." 



This letter is dated 1st April, 1634; and from 

 it mav I think be inferred that hackney coaches, 

 at a regular scale of fares, and stands at certain 

 appointed places, were first introduced at this 

 early period. W. Noel Salisbury. 



©iter ted. 

 Mr. Bright and the British Lion. — Mr. 

 Bright is stated to have given utterance to the 

 following characteristic burst of sentiment : "The 

 British Lion ! would to God the Brute were dead ! ' 

 Can any reader of " N. & Q." inform me on what 

 occasion it was that Mr. Blight's zeal so far over- 

 came his discretion ? William J. Thoms. 



Dimidiated Coronets. — In Segoing's Armorial 

 Universel (Paris, 1679), plate 82., are engraved 

 the arms of the governors of the Duchies of Bur- 

 gundy, Normandy, and Guyenne, and of the 

 counties of Flanders, Champagne, and Toulouse, 

 impaling the arms of those provinces. In four 

 cases out of the six the coronets placed above the 

 shield are dimidiated : the dexter half (containing 

 the personal arms of the governor) being orna- 

 mented with the fieur-de-lisee coronet appro- 

 priated to " les fils de France ;" while the sinister 

 half is surmounted either by the strawberry leaves 

 or pearls of that of a duke or count. The office 

 of governor of the county of Flanders appears to 

 have been vacant at the time, as the dexter half 

 of the shield is left blank, and the coronet of a 

 count surmounts the whole. The Due d'Espernon 

 was governor of the Duchy of Burgundy, so that 

 in his case there is no disparity between his per- 

 sonal and official rank. Dimidiated arms are not 

 very common, but I think dimidiated coronets are 

 ■till less frequently met with. Can any of your 

 correspondents furnish other examples ? J. W. 



Cole Arms. — Of what family of Cole are these 

 arms ? " Per pale ermine and sable a fesse coun- 

 tercharged." They are given in all the printed 

 Dictionaries of Arms, but without any county or 

 other designation. Possibly some of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." may be able to give answer to 



Scorpio. 



The Bi in Prescriptions. — Has Dr. Millingen 

 good authority for what he asserts with regard to 

 this symbol '< — 



" Not only did the Ancients consider the Animal Crea- 

 tion as constantly under Planetary Influence, but all 

 Vegetable productions and Medicinal substances were 

 subject to its laws. . . . Medicine at that period might 

 have been called an Astronomic Science ; every medicinal 

 substunce was under a specific influence, and to this day 

 the B; which precedes prescriptions, and is admitted to 

 represent the first letter of .ReWpe, was in fact the Symbol 



of Jupiter, under whose especial protection Medicines 

 were exhibited. Every part of the body was then con- 

 sidered under the influence of the Zodiacal Constellations, 

 and Manilius gives us a description of their powers, 

 Astron., lib. i." — Curiosities of Medical Experience, Lond., 

 1837, vol. i. p. 119. 



Eirionnach. 



Heraldic. — To what family belong the arms 



arg. a chev. sa. between three bucks'' heads ca- 



bossed ? H. 



Flambard Brass at Harrow. — In the church 

 of Harrow, Middlesex, still remains a fine sepul- 

 chral brass presenting the figure, in life size, of 

 John Flambard, one of an ancient family that left 

 their name to a manor in that parish. He is re- 

 presented in armour of about the date 1390. The 

 inscription consists of the two following strange 

 and enigmatic verses: — 



"Jon me do marmore Xuminis ordine flam tum'lat' 

 Bard q"3 verbere stigis E fuu'e hie tueatur." 



The name of the deceased, it will be perceived, 

 is to be picked out by syllables ; but, when that is 

 done, what sense is there to be made of the rest ? 

 Mr. Gougii (Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii. p. 

 eclxxvii.) offered the following translation : " John 

 Flam is buried under the middle of this marble, 

 by order of the Deity ; and Bard by the stroke of 

 death by burial is here kept." 



But the original reads me do not medio. Numi- 

 nis ordine may have been intended for " by the 

 will of the Deity," and "Stigis e funere" for "from 

 the death of hell." The second word of the second 

 line is read quoque by Weever, Lysons, and Gougb. 

 Can it h;ive stood for cujus f In that case it would 

 refer to Naminis, and cujus verbere might allude 

 to the Mediator, " by whose stripes we are healed." 



John Gough Nichols. 



Original Quartos or Shakspeare. — The Sale 

 Catalogue of David Mallet's library, 1766, con- 

 tained nearly a complete series of the original 

 quartos of Shakspere's plays. They had formerly 

 belonged to Dr. Warburton, who on Steevens' 

 publication in 1766, sold them to Payne the book- 

 seller, from whom it is presumed Mallet procured 

 them. 



The auction Catalogue from which I derive this 

 Note (T. Jolley's, Part vi. p. 46.) records that 

 the sei-ies of quartos sold in Mallet's sale for 

 31. 3s. ! ! \ 



Can this be confirmed by reference to a marked 

 Catalogue ? Edward F. Bimbault. 



Heights or Mountains. — The heights of 

 British mountains, hills, and table lands are fre- 

 quently expressed in figures, and quoted as having 

 been copied from the Ordnance Survey. Now, 

 such heights are not expressed in the Ordnance 

 Maps, or in only a few instances. Does any book 

 exist entitled the " Ordnance Survey ? " if so, 

 what is its price, and where can it be obtained ? 



w. w. 



