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upon the escutcheon in his seal a human 

 heart proper, pierced with five nails, in allu- 

 sion both to the " quinque vulnera" and his 

 own surname. 



We have been too much amused by Pea- 

 cham's account of the rebuses that were in- 

 vented during the reign of Charles the First, 

 to withhold them from our readers. This au- 

 thor says " Excellent have beene the conceipt 

 of some citizens, who wanting armes, have 

 coined themselves certaine devices as neere 

 as may be alluding to their names, which we 

 call rebus. Master Jugge the printer, (as you 

 may see in many of his bookes,) tooke, to ex- 

 presse his name, a nightingale sitting in a 

 bush with a scrowle in her mouth, wherein 

 was written Jugge, Jugge, Jugge." 



" One Foxe-crafte caused to be painted in 

 his hall and parlour a foxe, counterfeiting 

 himselfe dead upon the ice, among a company 

 of ducks and goslings." 



