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with the early date, is presumptive evidence against Henry having assumed arms at the time of his accession. Whether he did so at a later date there is nothing to show.

The first seal of Richard I. shows a lion rampant in the visible half of the shield, whence it has been supposed that there were 2 lions on it. But Mr. Barron the leading authority, I believe, on mediaeval heraldry writes that on this seal

"appears a single lion rampant, crowded into the visible half of his shield by the primitive conven- tion by which the lion of Flanders is thus repre- sented upon some of the seals of the counts." Ancestor, i. 209.

When or why Richard changed his arms to the 3 leopards, or " lions passant gardant," which first appear on his second seal (April- May, 1198), we do not know. One might suggest that he wished to make his arms quite different from those of the King of Scots, assuming that the Scotch lion was already in existence ; or, if the change of arms synchronized with the change of seal, that he wished to increase the difference between his two seals. Perhaps it is safer to attribute the change to mere caprice or love of change. It may be noted that we do not know the colours of his earlier arms.

Would MR. BAYXEY kindly give us the colours of the shield and lions attributed to Geoffrey of Anjou ? G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

CROSS-LEGGED EFFIGIES (11 S. viii. 446 ; ix. 14). The following note is to be found in R. Brathwait's ' Remains after Death,' sig. H, 1618. It relates to "an Auncestour of the Cogniers " :

" His Monument rernaineth in the body of the church at Sockburn, where hee lieth crosse-legged (which inferreth his being before the Conquest), hauing his Fauchion by his side, his Dogge at his feete. 57

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

8, Mornington Crescent, N.W.

THE APOCRYPHA : STORY OF JUDITH (11 S. x. 389). The old Lectionary con- tained the whole of the Book of Judith and various other parts of the Apocrypha which are not in the present one. The latter came into use on 1 Jan., 1872. W r. A. FROST.

" BROTHER JOHANNES " (11 S. x. 370, 397). According to The Evening Standard of 24 Oct., the Latin original MS. of Brother Johannes's prophecies was found, in 1890, by the son of the late Adrieii Peladan, among his father's papers, who was the author of a book on ' Prophecies,' and editor of a review named The Annals of the Supernatural. The

son " believes " Brother Johannes to have been a French monk in the sixteenth century. The October number of The Month had an instructive article on such prophecies.

L. L. K.

[MR. J. B. WAIXEWRIGHT, who refers to the article in The Month by the Rev. Herbert Thurs- ton, S.J., thanked for reply.]

WILT, OF MRS. MARY KINDERLEY : PETER PEGGE-BURNELL (11 S. x. 368). The above- named gentleman, who is stated to have married Mary, widow of T. Lee of Chester- field, apparently left no descendants, as his property passed to the son of his sister Mellicent Pegge, who had married Thomas Steade. This son assumed the names of Pegge-Burnell, and his descendants still possess Winkburn Hall, co. Notts, the old Burnell property. P. D. M.

' CHICKSEED WITHOUT CHICKWEED ' (11 S. x. 366). This book was first published by Darton & Co. in 1839, price Is. It was last reprinted by Lockwood & Son in 1892, and is now out of print. WM. H. PEET.

on ?800ks.

The Titled Nobility of Europe. Compiled edited by the Marquis of Ruvigny. (Harri & Sons, 21. 2s. net.)

OUT of fifty-one European sovereigns thirty-four are German, eleven are married or closely related to Germans, and only five are free, more or less, from German admixture. These figure* are significant at the present time, when there is a feeling that German influences have reached a climax. Formerly in order to arrive at data of this description we should have had to consult the Gotha annual or similar books printed abroad, but in the volume before us we npWr possess a publication which furnishes information concerning not only princely houses, but also the nobility of nearly the whole continent. As the sub-title explains, it is an ' International Peerage.' Its further title, ' " Who's Who " of the Sovereign Princes and Nobles,' sounds a trifle undignified, but perhaps we must not fall behind the times in the matter of popular expressions.

This useful work, as one need hardly remark, is peculiarly well timed. The Preface is printed in five languages, the notices of the governing houses in thirteen languages with English translation; and the Peerage division is a medley, being partly in English and partly in the language of the country to which the title belongs. The inter- national character of the work would have been better maintained if French could have been used for the general information instead of English, for the number of foreign subscribers is considerable, though it is doubtful if many of them will receive the volume this year. A feature of the ' Peerag r is the descriptive headings of the titles, whi