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Pewterers were incorporated 1482. In 1487 William Smallwood, Master, gave to the Company their Common Hall and six tene- ments adjacent thereto, by will dated 23 Aug., 1487.

Plasterers. Incorporated 1500. Their Hall was in Addle Street in 1708, and at least as late as 1732.

Plumbers are not referred to by MR. McMuRRAY. They were the 31st Company, and were incorporated in 1611.

Poulterers were incorporated 1503.

Sadlers are of great antiquity, and were incorporated in the time of Edward I. The year has not been named. This is the 25th Company.

Salters were incorporated, and arms granted them, by Henry VIII. ; they are represented as being a wealthy Company. The ninth of the twelve. Their Hall was in Swithin's Lane up to at least the middle of the eighteenth century.

Shipwrights were constituted in the time of James I. ; but at the surrender of the charter, in the reign of Charles II., their meetings ceased, though they began again in January, 1706. If this is correct, then the records do not begin from the time of the constitution, nor from the period at which the meetings of the Company re- started. ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

Bognor.

(To be continued.)

THE PLANTIN EMBLEM. In the * Biblio- theca Mundi ' of Vincent de Beauvais, Duaci, 1624, 4 vols. fo., the printer, Baltazar Beller, uses the Plantin device a hand issuing out of a cloud, and drawing a circle \vith a pair of compasses. The surrounding motto is " Labore et Perseverantia." It is unusual for one printer to employ the device of another, and Beller may, perhaps, have been in some way connected with the Ant- werp house. RICHARD H. THORNTON.

BOHEMIAN DEPUTATION TO CAMBRIDGE* In * Relations of the Most Famous King- doms,' translated out of Boterus by Robert Johnson, and " inlarged and amended " by an unknown third hand (London, 1630), the following statement occurs :

" Within these two Ages that State [Bohemia] made choice of one M. Tyndall, an English Gentle- man, father to M. Doctor Tyndall, Master of Queenes College in Cambridge, sending over their Ambassadors to him and by them their presents, which story is famously known in Cambridge." P. 276.

The story may have been famously known in those days, but probably has since been forgotten. L. L. K.

Cgwrus.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

BATTLE OF BLORE HEATH : PHILIP YONGE. In a pedigree of the family of Yoiige of Caynton, co. Salop, by Randle Holmes, contained in Harl. MS. 2011, the following note appears to the name of Philip Yonge of Caynton : " ? slayne at the battel of Blowerheath." The suggestion is intrinsic- ally probable. I know aliunde that Philip died between 1457 and 1463, and the battle in question was fought on St. Tecla's Day, 23 Sept., 1459. The defeated Lancastrians were commanded by Lord Audley, who was himself slain, and the Audley s were neigh- bours of the Yonges. Philip Yonge, besides his own manor of Caynton, was a tenant of the Audley manor of Edgmund. I would accordingly suggest that Philip Yonge may be the " seigneur de Charinten " whose death at the battle is recorded by Waurin, vi. 3, 10. I gather from Col. Twynehoe's monograph on the battle that he has been unable to identify the seigneur in question. I should be glad of any further evidence for or against my theory. G. R. Y. R.

" PRO PELLE CUTEM." This is the motto, I understand, of the Hudson's Bay Company. My son, who is living in Canada, asks me what is the exact meaning. It evidently suggests in some way the substitution of a human skin for an animaFs skin. It is really the converse of a phrase in Juvenal (x. 193), "pro cute pellem," which forms part of a description of some of the dis- advantages of a protracted old age, in which, inter alia, the natural human skin gradually comes to assume the appearance of the dead hide of an animal. I presume that in the converse phrase, " pro pelle cutem," the skin of the hunter is improved in appear- ance by the suitable food he has been able to obtain by selling the skins of the animals he has caught. J. FOSTER PALMER.

8, Royal Avenue, S.W.

A SYNOD OF' ARLES, 1620. A pamphlet of 1641 under my eye is entitled ' Principles of the Synod [sic] of Dort and Aries reduced to Practise ' ; and inside it refers to two Synods that of Dort in 1618, universally known, and one at " Aries in the province of Cevennes " in 1620. The former bulks large in every cyclopaedia or Church con- spectus, and is mentioned in every notice