2 nd S. IX. April 28. *60.] 



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miniature. On one side is a grove with serpentine walks ; 

 on the other a little meadow and a greenhouse, with a 

 studv (which she calls her chapel), hanging over the 

 sea. Between these is a broad walk, leading down al- 

 most to the edge of the water; along which run two nar- 

 row walks, commanding the quay, one above the other. 

 But it cannot be long before this excellent lady will re- 

 move to a nobler paradise." 



Lady Arabella died there on Sunday, 18th 

 March, 1792, aged eighty-five years, and was 

 buried in the family vault at Tralee, in the county 

 of Kerry. 



As stated in the Dublin Chronicle, 10th April 

 of that year, 



" The Royal Irish Academy at their next meeting pur- 

 pose to offer a prize medal, value one hundred guineas, 

 for the best monody on the death of the late Lady Ara- 

 bella Denny. Six "months are to be given for the above 

 performance. That esteemed lady's virtues and angelic 

 life certainly afford an opportunity for touching the most 

 delicate keys of the humau heart." 



Can you oblige me with any information re- 

 garding this monody ? To whom was the prize 

 awarded ? and has the performance appeared in 

 print ? I have not as yet been able to ascertain 

 these particulars. Abuba. 



[See A Monody on the Death of Lady Arabella Denny. 

 By John Maeaulay, Esq., M.R.I. A. 8vo. 1792 ] 



Heights or Mountains (2 nd S. ix. 179.) — 

 The work of which W. W. is in quest is entitled— 



" An Account of the Trigonometrical Survey, carried on 

 by Order of the Master General of His Majesty's Ord- 

 nance, in the Years 1800, 1801, 1803, 1804, 1805. 1806, 

 1807, 1808, and 1809. By Lieutenant-Colonel William 

 Mudge, of the Ro3-al Artillery, F.R.S., and Captain 

 Thomas Colby, of the Royal Engineers. London : YV. 

 Faden, Geographer to His Majesty, Charing Cross, 1811." 

 3 vols. 4to. 



The third volume contains (at p. 302.) the 

 heights of the mountains, &c, which formed the I 

 principal stations for the triangulation, and which '. 

 Leights are usually quoted. I am not aware that ! 

 the book is now to be had. My copy was obtained 

 from a secondhand book catalogue at the price of 

 three guinea?, half bound in calf. The work is not 

 yet completed, I believe, but about six or seven 

 years ago I saw some account of its being in pro- 

 cess of continuation. Particulars may. no doubt, 

 be obtained from Captain Yolland, R.E., Ord- 

 nance Map Office, Southampton. Should W. W. 

 apply there, will he be good enough to give, 

 though the columns of l, N. & Q.," any farther 

 information he may obtain ? R. B. P. 



Lancaster. 



Latin Versions op the "Pgok of Common 

 Thayer" (2 nd S. ix. 262.) — For an account of 

 tin m, iee Procter on tin' Booh of Common Prayer, 

 1855 edition, p. 61. j and also Luthbury, History of 

 the Book of Common J'roiicr, 18-38 edition, p. 61. 



C. W. N. 



Aldcrley Edge. 



Heraldic Engraving (2 nd S. viii. 471.; ix. 

 110. 203.) — Is not Mr. French a little mistaken 

 in supposing taille-douce to be the technical term 

 in French for expressing that the colours in ar- 

 morial engravings are indicated by the hachures? 



I have always imagined that an engravinj; in 

 taille-douce was simply a copper-plate engraving, 

 and not necessarily an heraldic one. 



On the title-page ofFavyn's Theatre a" Honneur 

 et de Chevalerie, published in Paris in 1620, eigh- 

 teen years before Sancta Petra's Tessera Genii- 

 litia?, that work is said to be illustrated " avec les 

 Figures en taille douce nai'vement representees," 

 though if the lines in these illustrations were 

 taken as guides to the tinctures they would in, 

 I think, every case convey a very false idea of the 

 appearance of the shields ; in fact, Favyn never 

 meant them to be so used, and in tome ii. p. 1797., 

 he greatly praises the German method of indicat- 

 ing each tincture by its initial letter attached to 

 the shield, — a sufficient proof that in his time the 

 very convenient method at present adopted was 

 not in use. 



In Les Recherches du Blazon, Paris, 1673, the 

 tinctures are indicated as at present, but in V Ar- 

 morial Universel, published six years later, Pur- 

 pure and Sable are shown in the same manner as 

 the corresponding Morada and Kegro in La De- 

 claration Mystica de las Armas de Espaha. 



A copy of the engraved facsimile of the death- 

 warrant of Charles I. with the seals, hangs in one 

 of the rooms of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Institution, Park Street, Bristol, where I have 

 often seen it. J. W. 



An earlier instance than has yet been no- 

 ticed in " X. & Q." of the use of lines to indi- 

 cate tinctures, is to be found in Weever's Ancient 

 Funerall Monuments within the united Monarchie of 

 Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Hands adjacent, 

 London, 1631, — eighteen years before the execu- 

 tion of King Charles I. 1 enclose some examples 

 (p. 841.) : the arms of Robert Lord Scales. It is 

 curious that on the same page the tinctures are 

 indicated, in some cases throughout, in others 

 partially, in some not at all. F. L. 



Bavin (2 nd S. ix. 25. 110.) — Another example 

 of its use is to be found in the dedication of Hey- 

 lin's Sermons on the Parable of the Tares, 4to. 1658, 

 as follows : — 



" Zeal without knowledge, or not according to know- 

 ledge, may be compared unto the meteor which the philo- 

 sophers call an Ignis Fatuus, which for the most part 

 leads men out of the way, and sometimes draws them on 

 to dangerous precipices, or to a brush- Bavine-fiujgot in a 

 country cottage, more apt to fire the house than to warm 

 the chimney." 



The word is still extant in the Yorkshire Dales, 

 and I have myself heard it applied to a quick- 

 burning crackling faggot. Wh. Mattuews. 



