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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. xii. OCT. 9, 1915.

We marked a few books of local heraldry, of which the best is the valuable ' London's Armory ' (1677) by Richard Wallis (Sotheran, 211.). The -others which may be mentioned are 'The Heraldry of ^Worcestershire ' (1873), 11. la., in the catalogue of Mr. Barnard of Tunbridge Wells, and ' The Heraldry of Herefordshire,' by George Strorg, published in 1848 (Sotheran, 21. 2s.).

.Messrs. Dobell have a collection mounted in volume form of over 700 pencil tracings of coats, crests, &c., with a MS. index headed "Heraldry, Charles Bout ell, M.A., London, 1864," 15s.; and Mr. Barnard has two MS. items of some import- ance : an Ordinary of Arms, containing about 6,500 <;oats, collected in the second half of the sixteenth century, it is said by Cooke, King of Arms, 21. 6s., and a letter dated 1724, written by Vanbrugh to Peter Le Neve, on the subject ' A Search for the Arms of Boynton and Sykes,' 21. 2s. Two useful books which stand a little apart irom the rest may be found described in Messrs. Hill's Cata- logues : 'a copy of Husenbeth's ' Emblems of the 'Saints,' by the late Dr. Jessopp (3rd edition, 1882), 21. 10s. ; and one of Joseph Foster's " The De Walden Library," in three volumes, a work produced for subscribers at 61. 6s., and never published (11. 15s.).

There are several opportunities for acquiring cheap copies of Boutell's, Lower's, and Flanche's works on Heraldry. All three appear, for example,
 * in the catalogue of Mr. Henry Davey, who also

has Burke's 'Illuminated Heraldic Illustrations ' (1856, 15s.). Messrs. Galloway & Porter of Cambridge have a new copy of Boutell, with the additional chapter by Mr. Fox-Davies, 4s.; and Mr. Mayhew offers a copy of Boutell s ' Manual of Heraldry ' for 10s. Other inexpensive modern works we observed are Mr. Commin's copy of Parker's ' Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry ' ; and Vinycomb's ' Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art ' (1906, 3s. Qd.), cata- logued by William George's Sons of Bristol; While among the more elaborate recent books on Heraldry are Fox-Davies's 'Armorial Families, which is offered in Messrs. Parsons's list for TIL 16s., and Vols. I.-XVII. of ' The Visitation of England and Wales,' by J. J. Howard and F. A. Crisp, offered by Messrs. Sotheran for 14Z. 14s.

Two of the Catalogues before us that of Messrs. Sotheran entitled ' Catalogue of Books on English Topography, and that of Mr. Albert Sutton of Manchester, entitled ' Bibliotheca Cestriensis ' are devoted to topics of which genealogy forms a major constituent. Both are excellent collections, and should be consulted by any student on the lookout for family histories, pedigrees, parish registers, and other like records. Ormerod, we may notice in passing, is well represented in both. Among many genealogical items included in general catalogues we marked as worth particular attention Sir Herbert Maxwell's '-History of the House of Douglas,' 2 vols. 1906, 12s. Qd. (Mayhew); toff's ' Excellentium Familiarum in Gallia Genealogise, ' Norimbergse, 1687, 8s. Qd. (Dobell) ; Lodge's ' Peerage of Ireland,' 7 vols., 1789, 31. 15s. (Hill) ; J. W. Clay's ' Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England,' 1913, 8s. Qd. (Miles) ; ' The Parish Registers of Kirkburton, co. York, 1541-1711,' edited by Frances Anne Collins, 2 vols., 1887, 11. (Lupton, Burnley) ; three volumes of collections of MSS. and correspondence relating to genealogy {pedigrees, registers, &c.) of Thomas Christopher

Banks, 21. 10s. (Dobell) ; and some interesting French and Flemish pedigrees in Mr. Barnard's hands. Messrs. Lupton in common with Mr. Sutton and Messrs. Sctheran are well provided with publications of Lancashire and Cheshiie societies ; and Mr. Francis Edwards has a com- plete set (21 vols.) of ' Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica,' 1868-1914, which he offers for 16L, as well as a copy of the quite recent mono- graph on the Parshall Family by Dr. H. E. Parshall, 21. 10s.

Our next article which will appear on 2? Oct. will be on books written in or concerned with the first half of the fifteenth century, and, in particular, books connected with Henry V. and Henry VI. and their French wars.

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MR. E. B. KNOBEL. Note forwarded to G. F. R. B..

MR. H. S. BERESFORD - WEBB. Forwarded to MR. J. ISAACS.

MR. W. DEL COURT. ' Le Meunier de Sans- Souci ' is by Francois Andrieux (1759-1833).

MR. W. STRUNK, JUN. Many thanks for reply on ' A Sonnet by Wordsworth ' anticipated at p. 166.

MR. W. SURR. For The Tomahawk and also for Matt Morgan, see 11 S. vii. 369,413,454, 515 ; viii. 53, 133, 433.

M. HENRI GOUDCHAUX (Paris). We have had much pleasure in forwarding your transcript of Victor Hugo's poem (ante, p. 240) to MR. W T ALMS- LEY at Barcelona.

MR. GEORGE HORTON. " Boche " has been a, good deal and recently discussed in our columns (see US. x. 367, 416/454, 495, and xi. 78). The correct spelling is " boche," and no connexion with German seems to be made out. " Boche," or more fully " tete de boche," is a slang term = blockhead ; the word itself in the patois of Mar- seilles being used for a ball. This is one suggested origin. Others prefer to explain " boche " as a contraction for " Alboche." This latter word is some generations old, and is explained as either derived from " Allemand " and " caboche " (tete}, or as the product of the well-known popular trick of making slang by affixing a given syllable to words or parts of words. " Allemand " by this process would have become " Alleboche." The correspondents of our contemporary L' Inter medi- aire do not seem to have arrived at anything " defi- nitive " on the subject.