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 10 th S. I. JAX. 9, 1904.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

edging adopted as part of her costume ? anc did she wear it in Scotland ? One more question, On what authority is it said that she was painted by Peter Pourbus 1 Are any examples of her portrait by this artisl known to exist in this country 1

H. H. CRAWLEY. Stowe-nine-Churches Rectory, Weedon.

" HEARDLOME ;: : " HEECH." A Court Roll of an Oxfordshire manor, dated in 1604, con- tains the following regulation or order :

"Item. Yt ys ordered in lyke manner that no man within the Manner shall putt or suffer to goe into any parte of the feylde any calfes untill Lammas, and then there the calfes to be kept with the heard amonge the heardlome of bease until harvest be in, upon penaltie to forfeyt to the lord for every one which shall herein offend for every default, vjd."

Can any reader of 'X. & Q.' kindly explain the meaning of "heardlome of bease"? "Bease" signifies, no doubt, "beasts"; but can " heardlome " mean lamb pens or folds ?

Another order in the same Court Roll refers to " land in the new heech." What is "heech"? EDMUND T. BEWLEY.

PICTURE OP KNIGHT IN ARMOUR. At the " Duke's Head Hotel," Ham Street, Kent, I have found a small panel on copper, very much in the style of Antonio Moro's 'Tailor' in the National Gallery, representing a bearded, middle-aged man in armour and cloak, with a ruff, somewhat high, and wear- ing both round his neck by a gold chain (?) and embroidered on his black cloak a red Maltese cross outlined with a single gold thread or fillet. What order of knighthood would this be? and who is the probable artist ? The picture was bought by the land- lord some years ago at a village sale from an old native of Ham Street, in whose possession it had been for some time. H.

HENRY FREDERICK AND WALTER LOCKHART HOLT. The former gentleman appears to have possessed a considerable collection of relics of Gustavus Adolphus and kindred matters. He died at King's Road, Clapham Park, on 15 April, 1871. He apparently had a brother Walter Lockhart Holt. Is any- thing known of the latter ?

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

PERSIAN PAINTINGS. I have lately come into possession of two Persian paintings, the one representing the portrait of a man, the other of two women. There is an inscription above each picture, which has been translated to me as follows over the man, "Ali Adil Shah, the Lesser " ; over the two women, "Queens Bonti Haroun." Can any of your

readers give me any particulars about the personages named ? There was an Ali Adil, I know, who succeeded his uncle Nadir as Shah of Persia in 1747; but would he be referred to as " the Lesser"? and if not, who was the man whose portrait I have ? I should greatly value any information whatever about him and about the queens. R. M. L.

PENRITH. May I ask where was Penrith, mentioned as a suffragan see in the Act of Henry VIII. (I think "it is spelt Penrethe) ? Also where is the town of Pereth in the same Act ? John Bird was consecrated Bishop of Penrith by Archbishop Cranmer.

W. S. LACH-SZYRMA.

Barkingside Vicarage.

[Penrith is still pronounced Perith in the North. See 9 th S. xi. 328, 411, 471 ; xii. 75.]

QUEEN HELENA. Has any Queen Helen entered London since the age of the Empress Helena (mother of Constantino the Great, who probably was here) until Helena, Queen of Italy, passed in state to the Guildhall in 1903? It is said the Empress Helena was also a Dalmatian (in spite of the British legend of her being daughter of King Coel of Colchester). If so, the coincidence is singular, for Queen Helena is a Montanigrene, born near Dalmatia. W. S. LACH-SZYRMA.

SETTING OF PRECIOUS STONES. In Ben Jonson's ' The Devil is an Ass,' acted first, I think, in 1616, the goldsmith, Gilthead, speaking of a precious stone, says, t: He 's set without a foil too." Jewels set, as it is called, a jour (that is, without a back or foil) were not, I believe, common before the end of the ighteenth century; but I should be glad to C enlightened on the subject by any of the readers of 'N. & Q.' who are learned in the matter. BURGHCLERE.

JAPANESE CARDS. In which of the in- numerable works on Japan can I find described the various kinds of Japanese play- ng cards ? I have a. pack of forty-eight suits (four cards each) representing the months of the year. They appear to bear ,he following emblems: (1) pines and a stork, 2) plum-blossom and some bird, (3) cherry- )lossom and a curtain, (4) wistaria and a
 * ards, which, I understand, consists of twelve
 * uckoo, (5) flags, (6) peonies and a butterfly,

7) clover and a boar, (8) eularia, geese, the moon, (9) chrysanthemum and a cup, (10) maple-leaves and a deer, (11) rain, a swallow, i willow, a frog, a man with an umbrella, 12) paullownia and the phoenix.

JAMES PLATT, Jun.