took any interest at all in sculpture and the medieval sufficient resistance to keep itself straight, and to make a arts, they would know that in the classical periods they firm point for painting. The hairs of bears are very good, had plenty of sculpture; the Sarcophagi brought them so are those of martens and similar animals. Small brushes down to the 5th or 6th century, after which sculpture was made of hog's or pig's bristles are also used, and pencils of unknown. The earliest sculptures known in England were fishes' hair for softening." In a MS. preserved in the the figures in churches, and the earliest of them was library of the University at Padua, is a receipt for making dated about the year 1300, so that from 600 to 1300 no excellent boiled hair. The following translation of it is carving was known in the world which at all equalled given by Mrs. Merrifield :-" Take the manes, forelocks, and the beautiful specimens of early art now exhibited. A tails of oxen, horses, cows, and calves (but remember that succession of the pieces during the 6th century were very the tails of horses are not good), place them in fresh water, badly done, and showed the wonderful degradation of the and wash them, so that there may not remain any grease or art, being all wooden-like, inexpressive, and unpleasant. dirt; then string them on a cord, afterwards put them into Classical scholars would know the value of 50 Roman a vessel with lye, and let them boil for six hours." pieces, mostly dated, and so he would leave the Roman, another part of the same MS. directions are given for and speak of the earliest Christian ivories. The later making a brush for "graining," by inserting hogs' bristles Roman Consuls introduced Christian symbols on their dip-into a flat back of wood. tychs, the most frequent being the Greek cross. The first Christian ivory to which he would call their special attention was the diptych of Pope Gregory, which was sent by him to the Visi-Gothic Queen, Theodolinda, in the 6th century; in it Pope Gregory was represented with the tonsure, a Notes. SHAM CHURCH. (Continued from p. 43.) In THERE were ten altars in this church, in addition to the high altar, dedicated respectively to St. Erasmus, St. John, St. Luke, St. Clement, SS. Peter and Paul, SS. Crispin and Crispinian, St. Catherine, St. Thomas, Jesus, and Morrow Mass; one named St. Peter in an old will, I think, is intended for SS. Peter and Paul. Besides the Corpus Christi light in the chancel, there were others named after St. Ann, St. Edmund, and one called the "Bachelar's." There are two tables mentioned, namely, St. Christopher's and St. Margaret's; and there were statues to St. Katherine (of alabaster), St. Mary, called, "oure lady of Bedlem," as well as to SS. Peter and Paul. It is unknown where most of the altars stood. St. Thomas's was in the named SS. Peter and Paul I place in the Trinity chapel ; chapel dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury; the one the Morrow Mass altar was, I have no doubt, in the south transept, where it appears as if a mass was said in connec tion with a brotherhood of men and women every week-day, St. Edmund's light was in St. Thomas's chapel, the at half-past-five in summer, and half-past-six in winter. "bachelar's" light was at the entrance to the south transept, and St. Ann's light was in that transept, near the Morrow Mass altar, in my opinion. Among the vestments, &c., mentioned in the inventory dated 4 Hen. VIII, them; a corpas had E..S.; a frontel was crowned, with several have our Lord, Mary, and John, embroidered on but in all other respects dressed exactly like a Consul; | ARCHEOLOGICAL NOTES ON FAVERhe bore in his hands a staff tipped with a Greek cross. It had been much disputed whether it was not a diptych of a Consul, which had been later converted into one of Gregory, but he might say positively, from a careful examination, that the statement which had been made about the falsification of the inscription was a great mistake. Another interesting object was the diptych of St. Paul, and Adam, naming the beasts, which was wonderful piece of art. St. Paul was represented blessing a church dignitary; there was the scene where he was throw ing the serpent into the fire, and below was a group in which he was curing the sick man in the island. At a later date ivories were used for a great many purposes besides that of diptychs. Some were made with three leaves, the central one being twice the size of those at the sides, which closed over it, and it thus became a triptych, while when it had several, perhaps five or seven pieces, it was called a polyptych. They also had round pieces, which were exceedingly interesting, especially to the ladies; many were no doubt Pagan, and were made for Roman ladies patchboxes or rouge-boxes; they had been, however, converted to the use of foreign churches, where they were found holding the host. Then again, he had exhibited three great bookcases, one of them containing the figure of an archangel in the British Museum; it was one of the most glorious figures ever carved in ivory. The upper part of another cover had a transverse piece, on which was carved the Holy Child and father and mother, while the Lamb of God was represented in the centre, and below were a number of minor groups, one of which had long been a puzzle, but had now been ascertained to be the annunciation. underneath the crown; a cross cloth had on it "the The curious part about it was that the Virgin was represented drawing water, and they had found in the Apocry phal Gospels that she was so represented; this was very interesting, as showing that in the 6th century the Apocry phal Gospels were taken before the Bible in Italy, at any rate in the delineation of Gospel subjects. Another cover represented the Virgin seated between Melchisedec and (probably) Isaiah. It might give them some idea of the value of the originals from which his fac-similes were taken, when he told them that South Kensington gave 4007. for one piece, and 250/. for another; the value of such exact castings was therefore very great. THE ART OF PAINTING.-In the public library at Brussels there is preserved a MS., written in 1635, by Pierre le Brun, a painter, in which a description of various matters connected with the art of painting is given, and many technical terms explained. In the first chapter, "De la Platte Pienture," a passage occurs which is translated by Mrs. Merrifield, in her work on the subject, thus-"The pencils are made of a soft kind of hair, but which has assumption of our Lady," another had "the pyctor of cloth had on it a picture of St. Thomas. The inventory seynt George and a chalyce of gold," a stained (purple) includes 9 chalices, 2 pixes, 3 paxes, 4 cruets, 3 "sencers, small bells of silver and laton, canopies with staves, basons a chrismatory, a number of candlesticks of silver and brass, of pewter and laton, holy water stops of laton, and “6 Sconces of borde for the quyer," which I suppose were for holding lights for the choir boys-three to each of the stalls. One entry I am unable to explain, namely, “It. 2 Whether these are for a statue of St. Nicholas, or an altar little vestments for seynt Nicholas with 2 course mitos." not mentioned elsewhere, or that they were for the feast of St. Nicholas, is not clear. It is evident there were several statues in the church of which we know nothing from this entry. "Imprimis. 26 old steyned cloths for to cover the images in the churche in Lente." At the Morrow Mass altar was a chasuble of green damask with golden lions on it, and as this was where the members of the town guild had services performed, I think the arms of Faversham were on the vestment. One entry seems to intimate that in the reign of Hen. VIII. it was not uncommon to administer the communion under both kinds-"It. A pyxe of copir and gylte with a little cuppe of sylver within for to visit sick folkes." Later on this occurs, "It. A lyttel bell of laton for to go on visitation." There are forty-one books mentioned, missals, graduals, psalters, epistles, manuals, collects, sequences, &c., some in MS., but, judging from the following entry, most of them, I think, were printed-4 Mannellys, two written, two preynted." A printed missal was at the Morrow Mass altar, the other volumes were in the vestry. A much larger quantity of books were no doubt in the vicarage. Among the corporation MSS. at Faversham are two documents, drawn up by Robert Hithiot, a lawyer, in the 22nd of Hen. VII., stating at length the duties of the two parish clerks and the sexton. The clerks were (1) to wait on the vicar at all times both at night as well as in the day. (2.) To assist at the Morrow Mass (ie., the first mass), with a "rogett' on; to "apparell" the altars; to help the priest on and off with his vestments; to attend to the Corpus Christi light every day before noon. (3.) To carry the cruets, missal, chalice, and other ornaments to the altar before mass, and to return them after its conclusion. (4.) At high mass they were to sing the gradual at the upper desk in the nave, and to sing the epistle; to bring the books required into the quire at services where there was music, as well as the surplices, &c. They were also to inform the churchwardens what ornaments were required at each feast day, and to assist in bringing them from the treasury into the vestry, and to take them back and fold up the copes and other vestments. (5.) They were to sing their part in the quire. (6.) The cruets were to be cleaned within and without, daily, and clean water put in them. [Those with the wine were attended to by the vicar, I suppose.] (7.) The choir, the Trinity chapel, and the altars in them, with the walls and windows, were to be cleaned, and the cobwebs swept away. (8.) They were to sleep in the dormitory every night. (9) They were not to have or cause disputes with the members of the corporation. (10.) They were to teach children to read, and sing in the quire. (II.) When some of the ringers were absent, they were to assist the sexton. (12.) On Sundays to carry holy water to every house. (13.) To be obedient to the churchwardens. (14.) To clean the holy water stops of brass, and "the bason and ewer which be ordained for christening of children." (15.) To swear to keep these articles before being admitted. the arrangements for carrying out the services of a mediæval church, and I need make no comments on them as the entries speak for themselves. The sexton and clerks slept in the building, but I cannot discover if the chantry priests lived in the town, or in community at the vicarage. The ancient central tower may possibly have contained a dormitory where they slept, I certainly think it was used as such when the church was served by Benedictine monks, as they would then be close to the altar, where they could readily get into the quire at night, for I suppose they adhered to their rule in essentials although outside and far away from their abbey. With regard to the changes in the national religion at the period of the Reformation, so far as I am aware, I believe no documents are extant showing what was altered or destroyed in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI., but the churchwardens' accounts show that purchases of church furniture were made in the reign of Queen Mary, presumably to replace what had been sold a few years earlier; and in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, it appears as if all pre-Reformation ornaments were soon swept away. The following is from the churchwardens' accounts for the year 1554-"Itm. For clothe bought for surplyces to the churche, 26s. Id. Pd. to Mr. Deale for the Chrysmytry, 20s.; for makyng the same surplyces, 7s. 4d.; to John Wrenk, for the bowelle of lattyn for the roode lofte, 40s. 11d." From the small number of these entries it would appear as if very few alterations had been made in the church in the time of Edward VI., in comparison with the doings in some churches. The following is undated, but it is no doubt early in the reign of Elizabeth :Mr. Robard "The account of Michael Allyn, Richard Lorens, and Anthony Love, Churchwrrdenes of Frsham. whe do charge oure selvys of. gatheryd for the clarks wags 19l. 14s. 4d. Itm. pwayments in oure hands of the gatheryns of the communyon money, 4s. 8d. Solde at London 33 boles of latten, a holy wafer stock, a payer of sencers, a shyp, 2 cannelsttycks of latten, a pewtre bassyn and aulure, all waying 2 hondred wayght and 10 lb. at 39s. le hondred, 41. 35. od. Solde to Mr. Sotfewyck the lyttle orgins, 40s. Sold to Thomas Mustard an egyll 20d., and 48 lb. of waxe, 16s. Recyd of the old churchewardenes, 12s. 4d., and of Mr. Buerly's bequest, 20s. Some total, 187. 12s. od." "Solde by me Symon Ancellin for the churche. Fyrst, solde to John Vunter the bordys of sayntt Erusmus aulter pryser, 55. Solde to Thomas Tenckyr the bordys of sayntt Cryspyns aultor pryser, 35. 4d. Sold to John Coltyn sayntt Marguryts table and a lyttyll gratt that dye them before oure lady of bedlem pryser, 25. 8d. Sold to John Vuntler the coffyn of our lady of bedlem pryser, Is. 4d., of Robert the shryptory there ffor the table of sayntt Xprytefyr Is. 8d." G. BEDO. POPULAR RHYMES.-The following rhyme riddle is still Down in yon den there stands a kist, The articles for the sexton were made on the same day as the clerks, and are much shorter. (1.) He had to sleep within the building, in the dormitory, inside the old belltower; at 8 o'clock every night to ring with the usual bell the curfew for a quarter of an hour. (2.) To open the church every day at five in the morning in summer, and six in winter. (3) On saints' eves to ring as had been customary with as many bells as was usual: this was at noon, and again in the afternoon at evensong; and on the feast, to ring at matins, mass, and evensong, with "as many peels as hath of old time been accustomed," and on week-days to ring to mass at the hour appointed by the vicar. (4.) popular in Forfarshire:— The sexton with his ringers were to ring "in as due order and time as they may or can, and not too long, nor too short time." (5.) At the early mass he was to toll thirty strokes with the fourth bell, a quarter of an hour later fifteen strokes with the same bell, and six strokes at the third tolling, and after the parish clerk had rung in the people with the little bell (in the central tower?) three strokes were to be given with the fourth bell. At the high mass on week-days he was to toll with the first three bells. (6.) To make provision for lighting the lamp in the quire. (7.) To light the tapers and beams on holy days at first evensong. (8) To fill the holy water stops with fresh water every Saturday at noon, and as often as necessary in the week. (9.) To clean the nave and transepts with the altars therein. (10.) To be obedient, &c., to the vicar or his deputy. These old MSS. are most valuable in showing = And naebody can eat it, and naebody can drink it, And naebody can live without it! Den house; kist bed; cap nightcap; drap = sleep. This rhyme bears so strong a resemblance to one given by Chambers (Pop. Rhymes, p. 245), that I much doubt whether the latter is genuine. I have a version of another riddle given by Chambers (p. 111)The minister and the dominie and Maister Andrew Lamb, Gaed to the garden where three pears hang, Ilka ane took ane, and still twa hang? Maister Lamb was both minister and dominie, i.e., reader or schoolmaster. A similar trick of language is given by Jervise, in Memorials of Angus and Mearns, p. 379, referring to Sir James Strachan, parish minister of Keith, deposed for Noncomformity, in 1690 "The beltit knicht o' Thornton, An' Laird o' Pittendreich The minister o' Keith!" ALISON. The Oke tree sett in the Churchyarde, in the waie going from the Parsonage to the Church porch, was there planted by the saide Anthony, in memorie of the saide Ioane his Moother, at the West end of her saide Graue, March 4, Ao. Dni. 1615 Anthonie Harison, clerk, Sonne of ye saide Joane Stocker by her saide first husband William Harison after many changes and chances of this mortall life, died at Catfielde God one thousand Sixe hundred thirty and eight, and was buried in ye Churchyarde of Catfielde, nere his aforesayde beloved Moother, on ye eighteenth day of September Ao * and desireth as followeth D. When I am dead, then burie me DOMUM TREE AT WINCHESTER.-Perhaps the follow-ye seuenteenth daie of September, In ye yeare of our Lord ing may interest some of your readers, if you think them of sufficient interest to publish in the Antiquary. Dulce Domum was formerly sung under an old tree that stood in the ground recently used as a wharf, but now converted into a garden. This I have heard from my relative, the Rev. Henry Sissmore, one of the oldest Fellows of Winchester College on record, who died in 1851, at the age of ninety-six. He related, that when a boy at school, it was the custom to sing Domum round the old tree, and he well remembered on one occasion a shed of some sort had been built round the tree, and the boys set to work to demolish the obstruction vi et armis, while Dr. Wharton, the head master, sat on his pony close by, looking on, and enjoying the fun. The tree now standing is not the same, but an offshoot from it. FROM THE PARISH REGISTER OF CATFIELD, NORFOLK. In Incke most black, and voide of blottes; Rector of Catfielde, 1609. But laie me not in any coffe, Earth is for earth moste meete. By me, ANTHONIE HARISON ROUNCE; ROUNCIE; ROUNCY.-Chaucer, describing a On consulting Bailey, I find he says, "rounce," "a little 66 "a common "a tit, a pony." Johnson, Webster, Richardson, Hyde Clarke, all leave the word out; nor does it occur in Jamieson. In his useful glossary to The Canterbury Tales, Mr. Wright says, "rouncy (A.N.) hackney horse;" and again, in his Dictionary of Obsolete Words, I find the following entry: rouncie, rouncy, (A.N.)” = “(1) a common hackney horse, any horse. (2) A vulgar woman." Mr. Wright, as will be seen, looks on the term as of Anglo-Norman origin. Why travel so far afield, when in the Welsh, as spoken at the present day, we have rhwnsi " "a rough coated horse"? The Shipman came from Dartmouth close by a district where, in the poet's days, Welsh was a spoken tongue, and was anything more likely than that a writer of his amazingly keen accuracy would give the horse its native name? Chaucer, by the way, must have had a quick eye for the points of a horse and eke for the behaviour of its rider, as I will show you in my next Note. = H. P. CHAUCER'S HORses and their RIDERS.-The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales are full of minute but graphic touches, bearing intimately on the manners and customs of the time at which the poem was written. In the matter of horses and horsemanship, for example, where in the same space shall we find so much information? Chaucer's eye would seem, indeed, to have been as keenly alive to the points of a horse as that of any Guy Livingstone. To begin with the Knight : He was a verray perfight gentil Knight. His hors was good, but he ne was nought gay. The words in italic he also left blank, Then, again, of his son, the Squire : Schorte was his goune, with sleeves long and wide. Turning to the Monk we have : A Monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie, His palfray was as broun as eny berye. A Merchant was ther with a forked berd, A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also, The Sergeant-of-Law was a modest man : He rood but hoomly in a medled coat, Gird with a seynt of silk, with barres smale; The Shipman came from Dartmouth, and, no doubt, like a little Welsh. knot behind the head, the ends resting on the neck. The silver appears to have slipped a little on one side when it was stamped, as the right-hand side of the legend is not wholly impressed. The legend around the head consists of the following letters: DNVHLENTINIANVSPFAVG, i.e., Dominus noster Valentinianus Pius Felix Augustus. In this legend the mintmaster has used the Greek II for the Latin A. On the reverse of this coin is the figure of the emperor clothed in a military garment [paludatus], having the sabarum in his right hand. This standard is square. On it is represented the monogram of the name of Christ, which was first used by Constantine the Great, after he had embraced Christianity. It has the letters A and 2 on it to signify the divinity of Jesus, who says of Himself in the Revelation of St. John the Divine, chap. i. verse 8, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending." In the left hand the emperor bears a globe, to signify that he is the master of the world. This globe is surmounted by a winged Victory presenting a crown, to remind his majesty that he owes the empire of the world to her favour. The legend around the emperor is, RESTITVTORREIP, .e., Restitutor Reipublicæ, the Restorer of the Commonwealth, or the State. In the exergue are the letters PLVC, i.e., Pecunia Lugduni signata: money coined or stamped at Lugdunum. Lugdunum is now called the city of Lyons. The half-moon character is used instead of the letter S ; it was the Greek sigma. Valentinianus, son of Gratian, was elected to wear the purple for his talents and bravery, A.D. 364. He defeated the Alemanni, and by his General Theodosius repelled the Caledonians from Britain. This coin was struck in honour of Valentinianus, after he had raised Britain from a sinking state, and called that part which he had recovered by his own name, Valentia. The district comprehended the five Scottish tribes named Mæata, lying between the walls of Antoninus and Senorus. GEO. Dodds, D.D., &c., Vicar of Corringham, Gainsborough. ESSEX HOUSE, PUTNEY.-This edifice in the High Street is doomed to destruction. Here Thomas Cromwell, son of the Putney blacksmith, is believed by some persons to have been born. A survey of Wimbledon, A.D. 1817 described, as upon that spot, "an ancient cottage, known as the smith's shop, west of the highway leading from Putney to the upper gate, and on the south side of the highway, from Richmond to Wandsworth, having the sign of the Anchor." Essex House was built A.D. 1596, which is the The following lines form the close of the short but exquisite date upon the old plastered ceilings of the house, with the picture of the noblest of ploughmen : His tythes payede he ful faire and wel, The last of the gay cavalcade to be mentioned is the Reene, the name of whose steed, "Scot," I have been told, is to this day still to be heard among the ploughboys in the stables of the counties of Essex and Suffolk. This reene sat upon a wel good stol, That was a homely gray, and highte Scot. royal arms of England and the initials of Queen Elizabeth. Cromwell was created Earl of Essex A.D. 1540, and executed shortly afterwards, hence his birthplace was a building which was anterior to the Essex House above mentioned. But, prior to the destruction of the building, still standing, a photograph should be taken, and that without delay. GARRAWAY'S COFFEE HOUSE.-This old building in Change alley, London, is to be removed shortly. It was for many years a notable city coffee house, where sales by auction were held. Thomas Garway, the original proprietor, was a tobacconist and coffee man, who here popularised the Were I to go into the Tales, I might add largely to the use of tea, early in the 17th century. He offered it at about heap, but I forbear for the present. H. P. THE EMPEROR VALENTINIAN.-I send you a sketch of a coin which was found in the year 1870, by a ploughman on the estate of T. D. Embleton Fox, Esq., in the parish of Northorpe, near Kirton-in-Lindsey, in the county of Lincoln. It is a silver medallion of the Emperor Valentinianus, who was born A.D. 321, elected emperor A.D. 364, and died A.D. 375. The head on this coin is very well formed, and ornamented with the diadem peculiar to the emperors of the Lower Empire. The diadem was not used by the Roman emperors until after the time of Constantine the Great. It consists of a fillet of pearls of two rows, and it is tied in a from sixteen to fifty shillings per pound. The price had been 67. and even 10l. per pound weight. Formerly, at this house, wines, timber, &c., were sold by "inch of candle," ie., it was necessary to conclude each auction before the inch of candle had been consumed. It was frequented by Dr. Radcliffe, the notable physician, during the South Sea Bubble Panic, when it is stated that he lost 5000 guineas in the scheme. After the next month of March, the site of this coffee house will be occupied by a new building, and thus another landmark will be removed finally from the city of London, familiar to the readers of the Spectator," "Rambler," &c., and probably to the authors of these well-known periodicals, .C.C SS. CRISPIN AND CRISPINIAN.-There are some odd THE COINS OF THE BAEBIAN FAMILY.-This family If either of these ceremonies be neglected, a crooked tooth name often occurs in Roman history, but the coins and will ensue. The celebrant must bear in mind that in throw. medals that can be attributed to them with certainty do not ing the tooth over the shoulder, he must not turn round to very frequently come to hand. In the days of the Consulate see where it fell, as that will also be unlucky. of Marcus Babius Tampilus, great plagues appear to have J. JEREMIAH, Jun. raged in Rome, and also in the towns and villages of Italy. [This ceremony in regard to an extracted tooth was lately noticed The surnames that distinguish this family are Dives, in Notes and Queries.-ED.] Herennius, Julea, and Tampilus, but it was the descendants of the branch of the Tampili family that were commemorated by great sacrifices. These lasted for three successive days (A.U. 571), and the then pontiff is alleged to have declared that spears were seen to move of themselves, and that the senate decreed solemn supplications to all the gods and to Apollo in particular. It was also reported that it rained blood in the courts of the Temples of Vulcan and Concord. The relation of these prodigies and wonders, with which fear and superstition were associated, were readily believed and imagined. Livy, Hippocrates, and Homer, all testify to this belief God of the silver bow! thy shafts employ, Pope's Homer. legends about these Roman saints that are worth noting. At Stone End, near Hythe, is a heap of stones which is pointed their bodies were washed ashore, and they were buried on out as the grave of SS. Crispin and Crispinian; it is said the spot. towards the end of the seventeenth century, left some MSS. Thomas Southouse, of Faversham, who died which were printed in 1727 by Lewis, in his "History of Faversham." In these it is said, an ancient house called the "Swan," was actually the residence of these saints, and where they made shoes for a living. He also says, that " foreigners of that gentle calling," namely, shoemakers, still visit (ie., circ. 1680) the house to pay their love, if not their devotion, to their patron saints. Now I have taken much pains in trying to get at what this Mr. Southouse meant in saying this; I know he was a wag, and it seems as if he is simply poking fun at the "profession," for the "Swan" was an ale house, and he meant that a devotion to Bacchus was the kind they paid to SS. Crispin and Crispinian; at any rate, shoemakers are notoriously credited with doing quite their share at such "devotion." The "Crosse-well adjoined the "Swan," that is to say, a large stone cross was beside the well. Perhaps it was a holy well, and called Galeated head of Roma. SS. Crispin and Crispinian's; certainly they were somehow associated with the place, for an altar in the parish church (beneath the horses' was dedicated to them, and it is possible a legend was trumped up from this, and made to apply to the house close by. I can find no trace of either of these legends in any well-known work on the subject. The fact is, SS. Crispin and Crispinian died at Soissons, in France; at least all good works on lives of the saints tell us so. The family or consular coins generally bear on the obverse the head of the goddess Roma, which is reckoned the most ancient type, although others are known. On the reverse of nearly all the coins of the Baebian family, Apollo is represented driving a car drawn by four horses, and with the bow and the pestiferous arrow in one hand, and the lustral branch in the other. 1. Obverse Reverse In Exergue Silver Types. TAMPIL. M. BAEBI. Q.F. = legs). Apollo in a quadriga, hand. Head of Roma. Apollo (as on the last). M. BAEBI. Q.F. = + TAMPIL. ROMA. M. BAEBI. Q.F. = Apollo, as in the former. NOTES ON OLD KENTISH MANSIONS.-From Add. MS. 14,306 is the following relating to ten shields of arms which were in the windows of Sharsted Court, in the parish of Doddington, early in the 17th century. The first eight were in "ye greate parler windowe," the nineth was "in glasse going to ye stayers in ye great chamber." 1. Quarterly, Ellis, with a fess gules between six fleurs de lis, impaling Cromer and Squirry quarterly. 2. 1. Gules, three mullets or. 2. Vert, two lions rampant The head of Roma | guardant azure. 3. Argent, a cross-crosslet azure. 4. Not drawn. 5 as 2. 6 as 3, in pale with Cromer and Squirry quarterly, a crescent for difference. with a helmet. Apollo on a car with The on the above stands as the mark of the Denarius. The Q.F. stand for (Quinti) (Filius). Although I have only given the above readings from the silver types, specimens are known in first, second, and third brass. The silver vary in weight, 59.2, 59.7, to 60.7 grains. The numbers 3 and 4 are rare and rather scarce. At some future time I may furnish accounts of some of the other rare consular Roman coins. C. G. FOLK LORE.-If, in walking along with a companion, you both should chance to think of the same thing (as a name, &c.), you mention it first, you will be luckier than your companion. If you see a man with a white hat on, you will be lucky. If you crack a nut and find therein two or more kernels, you must wish, and it will be fulfilled, but if you reveal it, the luck departs. When a tooth is drawn, it must be sprinkled with salt and thrown into the fire; or, without using the salt, it must be thrown over the right shoulder, and a good straight tooth will grow in its place. |