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or three years spent in rather an accurate analysis 

 of the Domesday for Devon only, which I have 

 done for my own use and amusement, and in 

 which I have gone somewhat deeply into the 

 original holders of land, their families and de- 

 scents as far as they can be traced by original and 

 public records. 



My work is far from finished ; but if there is 

 any one point, on which I can be of use to him (if 

 it be a single point of research), I shall be most 

 happy to assist him in what is to me a most en- 

 grossing field of research. I have a full analysis 

 of tenants and subtenants T. R. E. and T. R. W. 

 and C. ; but your correspondent will find a short 

 list of Devon manors, with some of the modern 

 names, in the first volume of Lysons' Devon, giving 

 there the tenants in Edward's reign, as well as at 

 the Domesday survey. M. A., Oxon. 



Poor Belle (2 nd S. ix. 364.) — Your corre- 

 spondent tells us that among the Ormond MSS. 

 were four letters from Nell Gwynne complaining 

 of the non-payment of her annuity. A like " dis- 

 tressful situation" was that of his "Poor Belle." 



I suggest a misreading of B for N. 



P. B. 



There is much that is incorrect in the cutting 

 sent by W. J. Fitz-Patrick, and headed " Poor 

 Belle." The repository alluded to was not " sub- 

 terraneous," neither could it ever have been ne- 

 cessary to employ chimney sweeps to effect an 

 entrance thereto. It was a vaulted room in the 

 north-western tower of the castle, and notwith- 

 standing its nine feet thick walls is now fitted up 

 as a bed-room. Nell Gwynne's letters are pre- 

 served in the present Evidence Chamber, but I 

 have never seen anything bearing on " Poor 

 Belle." Will Mr. Fitz-Patrick say what paper 

 the cutting is from ? James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



"Filles d'Honneur" (2 nd S. ix. 345. 394.) — 

 This title is somewhat equivoque, and may not 

 always comprehend the four cardinal virtues. A 

 French author thus describes the manner in which 

 Louis XIV. and the court passed their evenings : 



"Le souper c?tait son repas de pre'fe'rence ; il le prolon- 

 geait, et le faisait suivre quelquefois de danses et de 

 petits bals, qui n'ltaient pas difficiles a. former, parmi la 

 troupe vive et folatre des jeunes personnes qui compo- 

 saient la tour de la jeune Heine, sous le nom des filles 

 d'honneur, — litre, disait un malin, difficile a soutenir dans 

 tin tclpays." 



Y. 



Herb John in-tiie-Pot (2 nd S. vii. 456.) — In 

 reply to a question as to what plant was meant by 

 Gurnall in his Christian Armour by Herb John, 

 I have no doubt it was that which Cotgrave calls 

 Jlerbe dc S.Jean — thin-leaved Mugwort — some 

 also call it Clarie, which was formerly used as a 

 pot-herb. S. Beisly. 



Sydenham. 



Crab's "English, Irish, and Latin Diction- 

 ary" (2 nd S. ii. 372.)— Since I sent my Query 

 respecting this Dictionary, which was presented 

 by Mr. Burton Conyngham to General Vallancey, 

 I have ascertained that it is safely deposited in 

 the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, having 

 been secured about the year ] 829 for the sum of 

 50l. Indeed, the fact is mentioned in the Dublin 

 Literary Gazette, p. 77. (30th January, 1830); 

 and the editor informs his readers, that " we shall 

 give the very curious history of this MS. volume, 

 for which we are indebted to the learned and able 

 historian of Galway [the late Mr. Hardiman], 

 through whose intervention it was purchased for 

 the R.S.A., whenever our space will permit." I 

 am anxious to read what Mr. Hardiman has writ- 

 ten on the subject; but I cannot find it in the 

 Dublin Literary Gazette. Can you, or anyone, 

 assist me in finding it elsewhere? Abhba. 



Three Kings of Colon (2" d S. viii. 431. 505.) 

 — Chaucer's Millere describes " hendy Nicholas,'' 

 the clerk of Oxenforde, as making melodie on ■ 

 " A gay sautrie, 

 So swetely that all the chambre rong; 

 And Angelus ad Virginem he song, 

 And after that he song the kinges note." 



Cant. Tales, 1. 3213—3217. 



Tyrwhitt confesses his ignorance as to what 

 "the kinges note" was: his note being as fol- 

 lows : — 



" What this ' note ' or ' tune ' was, I must leave to be 

 explained by the musical antiquaries. ' Angelus ad Vir- 

 ginem,' I suppose, was ' Ave Maria,' &c." 



I know not whether the musical antiquaries 

 have accepted Tyrwhitt's challenge to explain the 

 phrase : but may not this " tune of ' The Kinges ' " 

 have been the " Anthem of the Three Kings of 

 Colon " ? Ache. 



Jack. (2 nd S. ix. 281.) — In reply to your querist 

 allow me to suggest that " Union Jack " may 

 be a corruption of " Union Check; " and to query 

 whether this popular emblem of British supremacy 

 on the seas may not have been, if the fact be so, 

 applied to all flags, and thus solve the question 

 which G. B. requires to be elucidated. Puck. 



G. B. would find an explanation of the " Union 

 Jack " in a clever little production, said to be by 

 Mr. Allen of Greenwich Hospital, wherein is 

 shown the manner in which the Union flag of 

 England was formed. In the first place, by the 

 heraldic combination of the Cross of St. George 

 (for England) and the Saltier of St. Andrew (for 

 Scotland), on the accession of James I. to the 

 English throne ; and, in the second place, by the 

 addition of the Saltier of St. Patrick at the legis- 

 lative Union of Ireland to Great Britain in 1801. 



Jamesl. usually subscribed his name "Jacques," 

 and it. is supposed this originated the term " Union 

 Jack." J. S. R. 



