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conceivably have been the original reading ; but, as no MS. of the song exists, and it is impossible to say definitely who was the author, the text depends altogether upon editorial preference and supervision. Herd, in the 1776 edition of his ' Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs,' prints " gaun," and the rest, from. Johnson and Ritson to Gilchrist and Mary Carlyle Aitken, quite properly follow his initiative. " Ga'in," besides, is not a form, that has secured the highest literary favour. In such a matter Burns may be taken as the supreme and final authority, and he never uses " ga'in." On the other hand, he furnishes fourteen instances of " gaun," giving it his imprimatur in such important lyrics as ' Death and Dr. Hornbook,' ' The Twa Dogs,' ' The Inven- tory,' ' The Holy Fair,' and the ' Kpistle to William Simpson.' THOMAS BAYNE.

BUCKHOBSE, NOT BUCKHORN, THE PRIZE- FIGHTER (11 S. xii. 85). Owing to a printer's error the familiar name of Buckhorse, the famous pugilist, appears as Buckhorn.

I shall be obliged if you will make the correction. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

BURLESQUE SERMON (11 S. xii. 68). Lucis will find the text of this humorous discourse., as well as several others of the " Hard Shell Baptist " order, in Cole's ' Fun Doctor,' published at Melbourne by E. W. Cole, Book Arcade, and by George Routledge & Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill. The text of the sermon is as follows, and each section of the discourse concludes with it :

" They shall gnaw a file, and flee unto the mountainsof Hepsidam [nof'waters of Hepsiba"]* whar the lion roareth and the wang doodle mourneth for its first born."

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

The * Burlesque Sermon ' was part of the contents of an ' Annual ' issued by a trades- man of this city some forty years back. [Text ut supra.'} W. DIXON.

St. James's Terrace, Lincoln. [MB. W. E. CREED also thanked for reply.]

HERALDIC QUERY: BOTELER ARMS (11 S- xi. 399, 496 ; xii. 33). Your correspondent CROSS-CROSSLET cites Burke's ' General Armory ' for the statement that Theobald Walter, Chief Butler of Ireland (temp. Henry II.), who established in that kingdom the family of Butler, bore for arms, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or, a chief indented az. ; 2 and 3, Gu., three covered cups or, the arms the subject of this discussion.

Surely this statement cannot be correct, seeing that the quartering of arms did not

come into vogue until more than a century later ! See as to this the discussion as to ' France and England Quarterly ' in vol. x. of the present Series, passim, where it is stated (p. 510) that the Roll of Edward II. (1308-11) affords the first known English example of a quartered coat by a subject,, namely, that of Sir Simon de Montagu. J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

(US. xii. 29.)

The arms of Vezian in Languedoc are d'az. a une bande d'or surmontee de deux croissants d'arg. The family of de la Porte, Barons de Vezins (Bret).' bore, de gu a un croiss. d'herm. There seems no family of this name in the usual books of reference bearing the arms suggested.

MARQUIS DE TOURNAY.

Frant, Sussex.

PICCADILLY TERRACE (US. xi. 361, 437,

498).

" Between Park Lane and Hyde Park Corner there was a terrace elevated some feet above the road, which was lowered within the last thirty years ; the houses between Hamilton Place and Apsley House are sometimes called the Terrace still." ' London,' edited by Charles Knight, 1841, i. 313.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

CLERKS IN HOLY ORDERS AS COMBATANTS (11 S. xii. 10, 56, 73, 87). What King William thought of such appears from Dr. Murray's ' Revolutionary Ireland,' p. 158 :

" Near the same place and at the same time fell the Right Rev. George Walker, sometime Governor of Derry. An attendant informed the King of his loss, and William dryly inquired, ' What took him there ? ' :

T. A. O'MoRCHOE, Clk.

Kilternan Rectory, co. Dublin.

In D. Scott's * Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland ' (1899) will be found much material on this subject in a chapter bearing the title ' Fighting Bishops and Fortified Churches.' ?

ST. ANDREW (11 S. xii. 49). Green is the colour of the Scottish Order of the Thistle, with which St. Andrew is associated.

J. T. T.

BETTS (US. xii. 44). Another example is Bettisfield, a parish in Flintshire, and also the seat of Sir Wyndham Hanmer, who wrote to me that he had not discovered the cause the change from the Welsh name used befoi 1600 to the English Bettisfield.

E. F. WILLIAMS. 10, Black Friars, Chertsey.