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similar lists are in MSS. B. 355 and C. 20 ; and ' De Mirabilibus Mundi tempore Alex- andri ' in MS. ^A. 273. W. D. MACRAY.

A list of these wonders is contained in Wm. Harrison's ' Description of England ' in Holinshed's ' Chronicles.'

W. ROBERTS CROW.

PRINT: " IN PRINT" (10 S. ix. 447). To the interesting examples collected by SIR J. A. H. MURRAY I wish to add the following :

" They that sport and laugh at sinne are fooles, and damned fooles, reprobate fooles, fooles in folio, fooles in print." Otes on Jude, p. 462.

The sermons of Samuel Otes were printed in 1633, but preached about thirty years earlier. Any book-collecting reader of ' N. & Q.' who has a chance of getting this work should seize the opportunity. Otes tells of the Pigmaeans, the frog Borexo, the beast Bonosus ; the adamant, the elephant, the basilisk ; earthquakes, tobacco, sleepi- ness, covetousness. For him the earth is " seventeen hundred miles thick, and odde." One could well imagine Ben Jonson or Shakspeare " sitting under " Samuel Otes " of Sowthreps in Norfolke."

RICHARD H. THORNTON. 36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

ARMS OF ENGLISH ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS (10 S. x. 228, 316, 458). MR. HIBGAME in his query states that in the illustrations in ' The Westminster Calendar for 1908 ' of the arms of the Archbishop of Westminster and of the Roman Catholic bishops of England, the arms given are, in nearly every case, those of the bishop's own family. He notes Southwark as an excep- tion. Argent, on a saltire gules a key or and a sword argent, hilted or, he assumes to be the arms of the diocese, and asks where illustrations of the arms of the other dioceses are to be seen.

I think that MR. HIBGAME will probablj find the reason of this to be that such officia arms are virtually non-existent. The lat_ Dr. John Woodward, a high authority on these matters, in his book on ' Ecclesiastica Heraldry' (1892), p. 499, states that " uj to the present time Roman Catholi prelates in England have very rarel; adopted any official arms." He gives on diocese, however that of Salford wherei: official arms had been recently assumed b; the then bishop, as Azure, a seated figur of the Blessed Virgin, crowned, sceptred and holding in her hand a scapular suppon ing the Holy Child proper.

Southwark Dr. Woodward does not men- on ; possibly its arms were not adopted efore the publication of his work. But nth reference to the arms of the Archbishop f Westminster, which I gather were given n the list in ' The Westminster Calendar,' )r. Woodward makes the following obser- ations :

" The arms lately assumed, by Cardinal Arch- ishop Vaughan arc Gules, an archbishop's cross i pale or, over all a pall proper. The arch- ishop's eminent predecessors, Cardinals Wise- aan and Manning, were content to use only ieir paternal arms, and had no idea of assuming

coat which (since no tinctures are marked on ic archiepiscopal seal) appears to the ordinary bserver to be a direct annexation of the arms f the archiepiscopal see of Canterbury ! It is urious that even the appearance of such a thing ld have had the sanction of an officer of the College of Arms."

J. S. UDAL, F.S.A. Antigua, W.I.

aling and casing cannot both be right. basing is probably wrong, and due to con- usion of I with a long s. Ealing is a re- markable, but legitimate formation, from he A.-S. celan (with long ce), to kindle ; and means " kindling," the precise sense required. The A.-S. celed (with long ce), meaning " fire," is allied to the Icel. eldr, !)an. ild, fire, whence the prov. E. elding, uel. The derivative on-eal is now spelt anneal. WALTER W. SKEAT.
 * BALING" (10 S. xi. 87). The forms

Ealing means burning, from O.E. celan , A burn, kindle. Cp. Sco. eldin, fuel, and Eng. an-n-caling. H. P. L.

An ealing is a shed against another build- ing, a " lean-to," and is still in dialect use in West Yorkshire (vide 'Dialect Dictionary').

Easing is a contracted form of eavesing, i.e., the edge of a roof of a building, or of the thatch of a stack, which overhangs the side. Eaves was formerly used for " roof," and hence for dwelling (vide ' Hist. Eng. Diet.,' s.v. ' Easing ' and ' Eavesing ' ).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

MENDEZ PINTO (10 S. x. 488; xi. 76). To those who still believe in Fermio Mendez Pinto's " good faith and veracity " I would point out that in my introduction to Letters from Portuguese Prisoners in Canton, written in 1534 and 1536,' printed in The Indian Antiquary in 1902, I was able, by means of these letters (then published for the first time), to convict the writer, or writers, of the notorious ' Peregrinagam ' of several sheer mendacities, and, by refer-