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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* B. m. FEB. *, uo&

HERALDIC MOTTOES (10 th S. iii. 49). Besides Elvin's/ Hand book of Mottoes,' 1860, and the various editions of Fairbairn's ' Crests ' (a new edition of which has just been published), also the list given at the end of Burke's 'General Armory,' I would refer your cor- respondent to the following :

' A Translation, in Verse, of the Mottos of the English Nobility and Sixteen Peers of Scotland.' By Amicus. 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1822-5.

Knight and Butler's * Crests of Great Britain and Ireland,' &c. Edited by Joseph MaoLaren. 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1883.

Washbourne's ' Book of Family Crests.' 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1882.

English mottoes will also be found in the following foreign works :

' Dictionnaire des Devises historiques et herald- iques avec figures et une table alphabetique des noms.' By A. Chassant and Henri Tausin. 3 vols. 8vo, Paris, 1878.

' Die Wahl- und Denkspriiche, Feldgeschreie, Losungen, Schlacht und Volksrufe, besonders des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, gesammelt, alpha- betisch geordnet und erlautert.' By J. Dielitz. 4to, Frankfurt-a.-M., 1888.

'An Alphabetical List of English Mottoes, as they occur on British and American Book- Plates,' was compiled in 1900 by J. F. Verster, of Amsterdam. Reference should also be made to the list of works treating of mottoes at p. 65 in Gatfield's ' Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts relating to Heraldry,' &c., 8vo, London, 1892.

ARTHUR VICARS, Ulster.

There is a 'Dictionary of Mottos' in 'The Book of Family Crests/ 1856, vol. i., and a list of the mottoes appertaining to the City Companies in The Penny Post of 1 March, 1886. Heraldic mottoes, with explanatory illustrations, will be found in Burke's ' Heraldic Illustrations ' ; also in Burke's 'Vicissitudes of Families,' 'Rise of Great Families,' ' Anecdotes of the Aristocracy,' and ' Romantic Records of Families ' ; G. L. Craik's ' Romance of the Peerage," and, I think, Walford's 'Tales of our Great Families': ' House Mottoes and Inscriptions, Old and New, drawn from many Lands,' by S. F. A. Caulfield ; a tract on ' Martial Mottoes,' by W. H. Longstaffe ; ' The Book of Public Arms,' compiled and edited by Arthur Charles Fox- Davies and M. E. B. Crookes; Palliser's 'Devices'; 'The Blazon of Episcopacy,' by the Rev. W. K. Riland Bedford ; Paradin's 'Devices'; Pallavicini's 'Devices and Emblems/ and many similar works.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

An excellent list appeared in an offshoot of the original edition of Fairbairn's 'Book of Crests/ entitled "Book of Mottos borne by

Nobility and Gentry, Public Companies, Cities, &c., with their English significations, bearers' names, titles, &c., and occasional note* and illustrations, selected from ' The Book of Family Crests ' and other sources," 1851, crown 8vo. Another list may be seen at the end of Chambers's ' Twentieth-Century Dictionary.' WM. JAGOARD.

Will not Messrs. Routledge's excellent little work on ' Mottoes and Badges,' which is mentioned with praise ante, p. 40, answer fully or in part the requirements of C. S. ?

H. T.

If C. S. will go to the Reading-Room at the British Museum he will find a considerable number of books having lists of mottoes collated under the head of ' Heraldry.'

I venture to say that a comprehensive book of heraldic mottoes would be attractive to the public at the present time, and that a com- plete list of canting or punning mottoes such as " Ver non semper viret," for Vernon ; "Quitel,"for Kettle; and "Festina lente," for Onslow (I quote from memory) is a desideratum. LLEAVELYN LLOYD.

Blake House, Winslow.

ISABELLINE AS A COLOUR (10 th S. i. 487 ; ii.

75, 253, 375, 477, 537). I think PROF. SKEAT will allow that a sixteenth-century English mercer may very easily have transformed some such Italian phrase as " color di zibel- lino " into /sabella. I merely gave escarpin as an illustration of my meaning as to the prefix because I could not think of any Italian word with the i prefix at the time, and was writing in the country away from books of reference. PROF. SKEAT fails to note my proof from Littre that the word occurs in England a good many years before it does in France, and therefore may very con- ceivably be of English origin. He also does not note my far graver slip in speaking of the summer coat of the same ; it should of course have been the winter coat. Perhaps PROF. SKEAT will now kindly tell us who the fair Isabella was who was the sponsor of the colour ; or, if not, what the origin of the name really is. Was the sponsor our own Queen Elizabeth ? H. 2.

SOUTHEY'S 'OMNIANA/ 1812 (10 th S. ii. 305, 410, 530). At the last reference COL. PRI- DEAUX says:

" My authority for adding the names of Gale & Curtis was contained, to the best of my recollec- tion, in a heap of memoranda which had been collected by Mr. Shepherd in view of a revised edition of his work, and which were temporarily placed at my disposal."