2»° s. IX. Atkil 7. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



261 



" Cross " the arms of Villiers : and under " Sal- 

 tier " Fitz-Gerald. 



Next, the subordinaries in rotation, following 

 the order usually given to them by heralds. Then 

 the common ordinaries. For instance, all shields 

 having lions must come together. First, all those 

 bearing one lion ; then those having two ; then 

 those with three ; then those with more. The 

 same with birds, or fish, or all other animals ; and 

 lastly, devices of less pretence. 



The frequent questions for names unknown, as 

 pertaining to known arms, prove that such a Dic- 

 tionary of Arms is needed. At one time I seri- 

 ously contemplated the compilation myself; but 

 in the way of arts and sciences and other hobbies, 

 I have too many irons in the fire already. Any 

 person possessed of the necessary amount of lei- 

 sure, patience, and perseverance, could do it. It 

 is not imperative that the compiler should have 

 had a College education, though it would be well 

 if he had some general knowledge of Heraldry. 

 No new materials are required, but only a dif- 

 ferent arrangement of the old. 



I should be sorry to close these remarks without 

 taking this opportunity of thanking C. J. for his 

 reply (2 nd S. ix. 55.) to a question of the above 

 nature put forward bj' me. And the correctness 

 of his reply has been since corroborated by some 

 passages in an old will recently discovered. 



P. Hutchinson. 



[Our correspondent will find exactly what lie seeks in 

 Mr. Pap worth's Ordinary of British Armorials, publishing 

 by subscription, and of which three numbers are now out. 

 The method there pursued is somewhat simpler and easier 

 than that proposed. All charges are taken in alpha- 

 betical order without regard to whether they be ordinaries 

 or not. The principal charge is first to be sought, and 

 then running the eye down the column the tinctures of 

 the field, taken alphabetically, are found. Thus, if the 

 coat be, or three annulets gules, look for the principal 

 charge," three annulets," which we find at page 5., and 

 opposite to or we find the coat to be that of Button. If 

 there |be any charge in chief we look for it under the 

 next bead, 3 annulets and in chief a greyhound courant 

 sable, which is the coat of Rhodes ; if in base, under the 

 next head. If the principal charge be between or within 

 other charges under the next head, and so on as is de- 

 scribed in the Preface. The work is entirely written, and 

 is appearing in numbers. Particulars maybe had of the 

 Author, 14 a. Great Marlborough Street. We can very 

 sincerely recommend it to our correspondent, and all our 

 readers. Some idea of the labour and research bestowed 

 on the book may be inferred from the fact that it contains 

 about 50,000 coats of arms, all British or Irish.] 



Sflinor flottsl. 



Junius, Boyd, and Loud Macartney. — In 

 1800, George Chalmers published An Appendix 

 in the Supplemental Apology for the Believers in 

 the Supposititious Shakspeare Papers : being the 

 Documents for the Opinion thai Hugh M'Auley 

 Boyd wrote Junius 's Letters. In a presentation 



copy " From the Author to Lord Macartney, as a 

 mark of his sincere respect," is the following MS. 

 note signed. M., and most probably written by his 

 Lordship himself: — 



" Great industry, research, ingenuity, and critical sa- 

 gacity are displayed in this treatise, and afford very 

 plausible grounds for the opinion which Mr. Chalmers 

 has formed. But a variety of circumstances prevents me 

 from adopting it. Having been shut up in a small packet 

 with Mr. Boyd during a four months' passage to India 

 without once letting go our anchor, I had frequent op- 

 portunities of sounding his depth, and of studying and 

 knowing him well. He was strongly recommended to 

 me by some of my friends whom I wished to oblige ; but 

 previous to my Indian appointment, though I knew many 

 of Mr. Boyd's connexions and relations, I was not per- 

 sonally acquainted with him. I do not say that he was 

 incapable of writing to the full as well as Junius ; but I 

 say I do not by any means believe that he was the author 

 of Junius. 



" Mr. Boyd had many splendid passages of Junius by 

 heart, as also of Mr. Burke's parliamentary speeches and 

 political pamphlets, the style of all which he knew how 

 to imitate. He was also a great admirer of Sterne, and 

 often affected his manner in his private letters, and not 

 unsuccessfully. The Whig and Antrim Freeholders seem 

 rather to be imitations of Junius than productions of the 

 same pen. Mr. Chalmers's argument would be stronger 

 if any performance of Mr. Boyd previous to the appear- 

 ance of Junius could be found, which indicated that 

 Junius might be expected from such a writer. 



" As far as I can venture to form an opinion upon the 

 subject of Junius, I should think Mr. Dyer to have been 

 the principal author. M." 



The person noticed by Lord Macartney is Samuel 

 Dyer, the friend and associate of the literati of the 

 last century. Malone is the first, probably, who 

 asserted that Dyer was the author of Junius's 

 Letters. J. Y. 



Bug: Daisy: Feat. — Samuel Purkis, in a 

 letter to George Chalmers, dated Brentwood, Feb. 

 16, 1799, notices the following provincialisms : — 

 . " As I had some time since the honour of writ- 

 ing to you on etymology, I cannot help noticing 

 two curious words, which in a letter I have just 

 received from an ingenious friend in Lincolnshire 

 are said to be in common use with the lower 

 class of people in that county : 



" Bug ; conceited, proud. ' As he is very bug 

 of it,' that is, he is very proud of it. ' A poor bug 

 fool,' that is, a conceited blockhead. 



[Richardson informs us, that " Bug is not an uncom- 

 mon expression in the North. He is quite bug ; i. e. great, 

 proud, swaggering. " Hunt. ' Dainty sport toward Dal- 

 yell ; sit, come, sit, sit and be quiet ; here are kingly 

 bugs words." — Ford, Perkin Warbech, Act III. Sc. 2.] 



" Daisy : remarkable, extraordinary, excellent : 

 as ' She is a daisy lass to work,' that is, she is a 

 good working girl. ' I'm a daisy body for pud- 

 ding,' that is, I eat a great deal of pudding. 



" As I am on this subject, allow me to remark, 

 that in the Act of James I., cap. xxii. sect. 25., 

 the word feat is used in a sense rather unusual. 

 ' No person shall use or exercise the feat or mys- 



