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-the gudgeons work. " Cart-gum," though it has been supposed to make whiskers v grow (Peacock, ' Glossary,' s.v.), would be much less likely than bell-comb to be of use against ringworm, forwhy it contains only iron detritus. J. T. F.

Winterton, Doncaster.

RICHARD II. : HIS ARMS (10 S. vii. 188, 249). Willement says that the shield of Richard II. " rests on his ordinary badge, the white hart."

Rymer mentions that Richard II. in his ninth year pawned certain jewels " a la iguyse de cerfs blancs."

In the ' Wardrobe Accounts ' of his twenty-second year mention is made of a belt and sword-sheath of red velvet, em- broidered with white harts crowned.

Holinshed says that Richard, at the time of his capture, was attended by his friend " Jenico d'Artois, a Gascoigne, that still ware the cognizance or device of his master, King Richard, that is to saie, a white hart." He refused to relinquish it, -and was imprisoned in Chester Castle.

In the Lansdowne MS. (British Museum) No. 874, fol. 105 B, are heraldic drawings from churches by the Heralds H. St. George and N. Charles. Among them are the arms of Richard II. from a painted window in St. Olave's, Old Jewry, On each side of the base of the shield is a stag collared and chained. It is engraved in colours by Willement, pi. vi. fig. 3.

A MS. in the Harleian Library (No. 1073), temp. Charles II., says Richard used as a device " a man behind a tree shooting at >a white hart as a boud."

A MS. in the College of Arms, L 14, fol. 378 B., has a drawing of this last device.

A MS. of considerable antiquity in the Harleian Library, No. 2259, says that " Kyng Ric. II. forsoke ye ii antellops for hys bests, and toke ii whyte hertys bering up ye armys u' her bakys."

Richard II. made a special visit to Ire- land ; and a badge given for Ireland is a white hart issuing from the portal of a golden castle (Harleian MSS. Nos. 1471, fol. 1 C., and 2165, fol. 1). See ' Regal Heraldry,' by T. Willement, 1821, pp. 20-23.

Sandford says that Richard's arms are " over the Porch at the North-door of West- minster Hall by Him erected," and that

<k beneath both which Escocheons is His Device, viz. a white Hart couchant gorged with a Gold Coronet and Chaine, under a Tree. The same Hart is Painted bigger then the Life on the wall in the South-cross of Westminster- Abbey, and expressed in Coloured-glass over the Portraiture of this King

in a South-window of the said Monastery. This embleme without doubt he derived from that of Princess Joan his Mother, which was, a white Hind Couchant under a Tree, gorged and chained as the other : For wearing this His Badge of the Hart some after His Deposition lost their lives." ' Kings of England, 1 1677, pp. 191, 204.

I do not, however, find the stag on Richard's Great Seals, nor on his tomb in Westminster Abbey, where, rather curiously, he is in his epitaph compared (of all people) to " Omerus " (Homer) !

I do not find any mention of Richard's arms in Guillim. F. H.

In ' Divi Britannici,' by Sir Winston Churchill, Kt., 1675, p. 245, appears what purports to be the arms of Richard II. I do not attempt heraldic terms. There are four quarters, two containing lions and two fleurs-de-lis. The garter, with the Garter motto, surrounds the arms ; above is a crown ; the supporters are a lion with a crown and a stag with two pairs of antlers, having a crown round his neck. Under- neath is " Dieu et mon droit." The only point of the above is that in a certain book published over 230 years ago a stag with a crown on its neck is given as a supporter of the arms. I have little doubt that the arms from Brute, Malmud, and Belin to Charles II. given by Sir Winston Churchill bristle with armorial " inexactitudes."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

CLASSICAL QUOTATIONS (10 S. v. 27, 75). 2. " Ubi rudentes stridunt, et anchorse rumpuntur, et malus gemit." The words, wrongly attributed in the query to Seneca, are an inaccurate recollection (? or an imitation by some much later writer) of a passage in the younger Pliny. See his ' Epistles,' ix. 26, 4 :

" Ideo nequaquam par gubernatpris est virtus, cum placido et cum turbato mari vehitur : tune admirante nullo inlaudatus ingloriosus subit por- tum ; at cum stridunt fnnex, curvatur arbor, yuhernaciilci gemunt, tune ille clarus et dis maris proximus. "

The expression malus gemit was probably due to Horace, ' Odes,' I. xiv. 5, 6.

It is not an unknown thing for quotations from other writers to be fathered on Seneca. There is a place in Seneca where the thought resembles that in Pliny, though the lan- guage is different :

" N"e gubernatoris quidem artem tranquillum

The words occur in the part which Seneca quotes from the Consolation addressed to