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Bygone Christinas Days. Sir Edwin Arnold in The Daily Telegraph, 26 Dec., 1903.

Household Words, Sept. or Aug., 1896. An article on fare for particular seasons.

Christmas Eve in Bethlehem. By Ella T. Wheeler. The Queen, 1899.

Christmas Customs. In The Queen, 11 Jan., 1868, quoted from The Broad tmy.

Christmas in Mediseval England. By G. Holden Pike, in The Queen, 22 Nov, 1903.

Yule and Christmas: a Study in Germanic Origins. A paper read at the January, 1897, meeting of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, by Dr. Alexander Tillie. See The Antiquary, March, 1897.

Brand s Popular Antiquities. Bohn, 1853, vol. i.

Christmas in Mexico. The Globe newspaper, 23 Dec., 1903.

Yule-Tide Celebrations. The Globe, No. 810.

Christmas Carols aud Customs. The Queen, 29 Dec., 1S66.

Christmas-Tree Land. The Queen, 20 Dec., 1902.

Christmas Cakes. The Globe, 27 Dec., 1902.

Gloucestershire Wassailers' Song. The Penny Post, 1 May, 1871.

Games for Christmas Parties. Pearson's Weekly, 1 Jan., 1898.

Twelfth Night : its Decay as a Festival. House- hold Words, Nov. or Dec., 1896

Christmas Cards : their Origin and Manufacture. The Windsor Afaya~ine, I think, of the year 1897. Also a note by Peter Lombard in The Church Times, 1 Jan., 1892.

Twelfth Night in 1810. The Globe, 8 Jan., 1904.

Christmas Stories. The Globe, 26 Dec., 1903; also a paragraph of the same date, ' Mumping' and ' Furmety.'

J. HOLDEN MACM~ICHAEL.

HERALDIC (10 th S. ii 408). The arms im- paled, Sinister, "a chevron between two fleurs- de-lis in chief and a crab in base," belong to the Scottish family of Crab of Robslaw.

In ' Burke's Armory ' they are thus given : " Az., a chevron arg between two fleurs-de- lis in chief and a crab in base or." Crest : "A salmon naiant."

In the collection of seals in the British Museum there are two impressions of these arms : the one is said to belong to Paul Crab (A.D. 1310), bearing the words s' PAVLVS CRAB ; the other is that of William Crab, burgess of Aberdeen (A.D. 1499), which has, besides the arms, a crest on a helmet, "a cherub's head in profile, between two wings erect"; supporters, two swans rising; and the legend '* S : wilelmi crab." The numbers of these two seals are 15,987 and 15,988.

The original founders of many towns in Scotland were Flemish settlers. One of the most famous of these was John Crab, who is first mentioned in the siege of Berwick, 1319, where stones discharged from his crane shat- tered the roof of the English "sow," and payments occur for his services at Berwick (1329-31). When Edward Balliol besieged Berwick, 1332, he conducted ten ships from

Berwick to the Tay and captured Henry of Beaumont's ship, the "Beaumonts Cogge " ; but his vessels were burnt in the engage- ment which followed, and the Treasury paid 35y. 4s. to the Flemings who owned them. Shortly afterwards Crab acquired land near Aberdeen, and became burgess and custuraar of that town. His name is spelt in various- ways, Crawe, Crab, Crabb, Crabbe. An Adam Crab was Bailie of Aberdeen between 1384 and 1387 ; and a Sir John Crab, chaplain, was a custumar of St. Andrews between 1384 and 1402. I think the arms dexter could be traced by reference to Papworth and Morant's- ' Dictionary of Coats of Arms,' which I have- not to hand.

I venture to call attention to my own heraldic query, under the name Waterton (10 th S. ii. 29), of which I have at present received no solution. CHR. WATSON.

MR. EADCLIFFE'S description of the arms on his tankard conveys no indication of tincture. That of the dexter side might apparently be the coat of (1) Kelland of Painsford, Devon (Sable, a fess argent, in chief three fleurs-de-lis of the last) ; or of

(2) Kempton, of Cambridge, or of Hadley, in Middlesex, or of London (Azure, a fess or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis of the last) : or of

(3) "Sire W. Wolford, a Gascoigne" (Sable, a fess or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis of the- last).

That of the sinister side may be the coat of (1) Crabb of Castlewich, in Cornwall (Azure, a chevron between two fleurs-de-lis in chief and a crab in base or) ; or of (2) Crab of Robslaw, in Scotland (Azure, a chevron argent between two fleurs-de-lis in chief and a crab in base or). From the last- mentioned! coat there may possibly be other develop- ments in which the charges remain unaltered while the tinctures are changed. It is here- assumed that the fess in the one case and th& chevron in the other are not differentiated by variety of outline, but formed by simple- straight lines. H. A. W.

CHILDREN AT EXECUTIONS (10 th S. ii. 34G> 454, 516). In ' Nollekens and his Times,' by John Thomas Smith, the author, amongst very many curious and interesting remi- niscences, narrates the following :

" I remember well, when I was in my eighth year, Mr. Nollekens calling at my father's house in Great Portland Street, and taking me to Oxford Road to see the notorious Jack Rann, commonly called ' Sixteen-string Jack,' go to Tyburn to be hanged for robbing Dr. William Bell, in Gunners- bury Lane, of his watch and eighteenpence in money ; for which he received sentence of death on Tuesday, the 26th of October, 1774. The criminal