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years ago, when a drain was cut from the railway bridge, right through the lower part of the camp, past the barrack wall (just where the Pomoerium would be, if anywhere), there I picked up many frag- ments of Romano-British urns, which I still possess.

I submit that these facts prove that this part, at any rate, of " Pumbery," as it is called by W. Whiteway in his ' Diary ' (1618-34), was used as a burial-ground a purpose to which Mr. Gomme will allow a pomcerium would never be devoted.

J. J. FOSTER.

We have in Guernsey an illustration of the early use of pomerium or pomarium in connexion with the name of a church. In or about the year 1048 Duke William of Normandy gave to the Abbey of Marmoutier six churches in the island, one of which is styled " Ecclesia Sancti Andree de putenti (v.L patenti) pomerio." G. E. LEE.

St. Peter Port, Guernsey.

KINGSLEY'S ' LORRAINE, LORRAINE, LORREE ' (10 S. x. 210, 278, 377). This poem was first published in one of the magazines, probably The Nineteenth Century. If one may trust to a somewhat vague recollection, a note was then appended explanatory of the mysterious " Barum." It was to the effect that the ring-master in the circus, stern and unrelenting, kept pacing round, whip in hand and eye on the performer, muttering the while " Barum, barum," &c. The ejaculation was not believed to have any specific meaning. It was simply a rough accompaniment to the rhythm of the horse's gallop, indicative, as far as it went, of the intense devotion to business that characterized the director of the proceedings. The subject was dis- cussed in these columns some years ago, when probably the explanation now offered was fully elaborated. Perhaps some one may be able to give the reference.

THOMAS BAYNE.

PARLIAMENTARY APPLAUSE : ITS EARLIEST USE (10 S. x. 248, 296, 376). Respecting foreign equivalents for our " Hear, hear ! " as a mode of Parliamentary applause, it is of interest to note how Renter's Berlin representative translated the manifestations during the speeches in the German Reichstag on 10 November, in the course of the debate upon the Kaiser's famous " interview." " Very true " is the phrase most frequently interpolated, with occasionally " Quite

true," twice " Hear, hear ! " and once " Bravo ! " The French Chamber, it may be gathered, mainly uses the phrase, " Tres OL j POLITICIAN.

^HERALDRY IN FROISSART : "PILLOW'* (10 S. x. 369). These " piUows " are evi- dently the three cushions or (or topaz ), lozenge-shaped, or pendent by the corners, two and one, which still occur quarterly (3rd) in the arms of the present Earl of Moray. It is a mistake, however, to describe them as " gules," for that should be the tincture upon which they are blazoned. Do not the following lines upon the arms of the Johnstones of " the noble house of Annandale " occur in ' Marmion ' ?

The Bruce' s sable cross On his argent shield I bear ; And Murray's golden cushion On his blood-red chief I wear.

The arms of Johnston, Marquis of Annan- dale, were : Quarterly, 1 and 4, Pearl, a saltire diamond, on a chief ruby three cushions topaz ; 2 and 3, Topaz, an anchor in pale ruby. See Salmon's ' Short View of the Families of the Scottish Nobility/ 1759, pp. 36, 37, and (Murray arms) 53.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

The arms of Douglas were the well-known Argent, on a chief azure, three mullets of the field, referred to in Scott's lines :

On the Chief three mullets stood, The cognizance of Douglas blood.

T. F.

D.

Thus Guillim's ' Display of Heraldrie,* 1611, p. 213 :

" Hee beareth Gules, three Cushions Ermine, Buttoned and Tasselled, Or, by the name of Red- man. Howsoever these are now taken for Cushions, others are of opinion, that they are more truely Pillows, and given to some Ancestors of this bearer (if Fame bee true) for that by occasion of a Combate challenged upon him by a Stranger, for the per- formance whereof the day and place being ap- pointed, this man, being more forward than the Challenger, came very early to the place at the day appointed, and by chaunce fell on sleepe in his Tent : the people being assembled and trie houre come, the Trumpets sounded to the battell, where- upon he wakened suddenly, ranne furiously upon his Adversary, and slew him."^

WM. NORMAN.

MR. QUILLIN'S second query may be due to a misprint, arising out of the similarity of " arg." and " az.," the usual MS. con- tractions for " argent " and " azure." On reference to Burke's ' General Armory,' this seems to be the case, for the arms of the first Earl of Douglas, nephew to Sir James