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from his mouth, apparently created three pigeon on the spot, and did many other wonderfu things." P. 39.

I have consulted Mr. Crooke's excellen ' Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northeri India,' 1896, but it does not help me as to the country of Gora or the transformation into sheep. He remarks, however (vol. i p. 163), that there is some reason to believ that the sheep was a sacred animal.

WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK. Ramoyle, Dowanhill, Glasgow.

ARMS OF MARRIED WOMEN. During i severe illness which overtook me some time ago I must have failed to study my ' N. & Q. with proper care, for, on looking through some back volumes, I have found severa" points which escaped my attention.

In the recent discussion in ' N. & Q.' on the arms of married women (10 S; ix. 290 x. 197) the following cases appear to have been overlooked. When an armiger is knight of an order he is entitled to suspend the badge of the order below his shield. In such a case the arms of the wife are not impaled with those of the husband, but are borne on a separate shield, the theory being, so far as I understand, that the wife, not being of the order, cannot share in the honours of the badge. I have the book- plate of my kinsman the late Sir Richard Temple. His arms are on a shield encircled by the collar of the Order of the Star of India. Consequently the arms of Lady Temple (Lindsay, Earls of Crawford and Balcarres) are shown on a separate shield. In this case the wife is also a member of an order, and the badge of the Order of the Crown of India is suspended below her arms. Now the following case might well occur. The husband might not be a member of an order of knighthood, but the wife a member of, say, the Order of Victoria and Albert. In such a case how should the arms of the pair be shown ? Presumably, the husband's coat should not share in the honours of the badge to which the wife's arms are entitled ; so should his arms be borne on a shield separate from that of his wife ?

Will some one learned in heraldry pro- nounce whether the above view is correct or not ? J. H. KIVETT-CARNAC.

Schloss Rothberg, Switzerland.

SHAKESPEARE VISITORS' BOOK. I should be glad to know where this is now to be found, and whether it is accessible to strangers. In 1812 Mrs. Mary Hornby was living as a tenant in Shakspeare's Birthplace, and she provided a Visitors' Book in which

the numerous callers might enter their names. In 1820, the rent being raised, she removed to 23, High Street, Stratford, taking the Visitors' Book with her. On her death it continued in the family, and came into the possession of Mrs. James, her grand- daughter, who lived in that house. It was there that I saw it in 1889 ; and it continued there until 1893, when Mrs. James died. It then came into the possession of Mr. Thomas Hornby, who removed the relics (and, it is concluded, the Visitors' Book also) to Kingsthorpe, near Northampton (Graphic, 1 April, 1893). Since then Mr. Hornby has also died.

The Shakespeare Visitors' Book consists of three quarto volumes, and contains thousands of autographs of all classes and nationalities, many of very illustrious per- sonages, though the only ones I made^a note of were the following: George IV., the .Duke of Clarence, Louis Philippe, the Duke of Wellington (1815), Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron (1821), Charles Kean, Maria Edgeworth, Sarah Siddons, Lockhart, Thomas Moore, James Hogg, A. Opie, Agnes and Joanna Baillie (1814), George "fimaldi, Stacey Grimaldi, and William Grimaldi (1812). The register also contains many little poems and epigrams worth publishing, two specimens of which are printed by Beeton (' Shakspeare Memorial,* 1864, p. 15).

It would be a great pity if such a singular record should be lost, and certainly the most appropriate resting-place would be the Memorial Hall, Stratford. D. J.

BISHOP SAMPSON OF LICHFIELD. Can any reader give me the parentage of Richard Sampson, Bishop of Chichester, and after- wards of Lichfield (1546), and the names of lis wife and children ?

WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.

NORTH BUNG AY FENCIBLES. When I vas a lad at the Launceston Grammar School I took the part at the annual Christ- mas recitations of the drill-sergeant ^in a kit upon the old-time militia called ' The ^orth Bungay Fencibles,' in which I had o sing

Brave militia ! Muster, folk ! Friends and neighbours, Glory's labours Call upon us, 'tis no joke,

So bring your guns and sabres. And, if arms you have not got. Bring your pitchforks and what not ; Umbrellas, my good fellows, Beanstalks, fishing-rods, I wot.