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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. iv. OCT. u, ion.

FUNERAL WITH HERALDIC ACCESSORIES IN 1682. The following transcript of an estimate for a funeral with heraldic acces- sories, from an original paper in my possession, may be usefully inserted in N. & Q.' :

For Mr Dugdale to give an Acct. to Mr Henry Grey of Envile Com. Staff, for ye Funerall

of an Esqr. Publiquely Solemnized : The Boom for ye Corps to be ringed -with Bayes [baize], the Escocheons for the Corps on Buckram, a Pall of Velvet Five breadths, a Penon -of his Armes His Helme & Crest, his Coat of Armes, a, Chief Mourner and two Assistants.

This is ye Rule Established by ye Lords Comm'rs 1668. But is generally varyed in these 2 par- ticulars :

1. The Room for ye Corps to be hung with bayes, and ye outer Room ringed with bayes, .and the passage or Stair Case to be ringed also.

2. The Escocheons for ye body to be silk, those in ye Room for ye Corps Buckram, the outward Room & passage Paper & so the Church or Chancell which is usually ring'd with bayes also.

If there be three officers of Armes, then one carries ye Penon, another the Helme & Crest & the third ye Coat of Armes, but if there be onely two, then ye Penon is born by a Relation or Principal Seryt to ye Defunct, as ye Officers of Armes shall direct :

There may require :

s. d,

8 Silk Scocheons 6s. 8d 2 13 04

2 doz. of Buckram @, 30s. per doz. . . 3 00 00

.3 dozen of Paper @ 12s. per doz. . . 4 16 00 A Penon of ye Armes to hang up in ye

Church. . . . . . . . 2 13 04

A Surcoat of Armes to hang up in ye

Church. . . . . . . . 3 00 00

Helm & Crest & Wreath to hang up in

ye Church 2 00 08

Irons to hang them up, boxes, &c. . . 10 00

An Atchievemt over ye'dore. . . . 3 10 00 'The Hire of a Velvet Pall 6s. 8d. p. diem

10 days 3 6 08

A Depositum on Copper for ye Coffin. . 1 10 00 'Two Officers of Armes & Transporta- tion money. . . . . . .. 60 00 00

88 06 00

Where there is a publick Funerall ye Officers of Armes Register a Funeral Certificate Gratis which otherwise would be 20 Nobles the Fee.

The Chief Mourner and his Two Assistants ye Officers of Armes & he who carries ye Penon may be in close morning vizt Gownes and hoods, the Rest as many as they think fitt in long Cloakes. If there be a Horse to Carry the body from ye House to ye Church then ye Trimming of ye Horse with Shields, Shaffroons, Scocheon & Pencills or Feathers may be lOZi. more.

The charge for the helm and crest was originally entered as 21. 6s. 8d. ; the 6s. was struck through, but was included in the total, 88Z. 65. Qd. G. B. M.

GORDON OF PARK BARONETCY. G. E. C. was quite correct in noting ( ' Complete Baronetage,' iv. 345) that Ernest Gordon and his son John had no right to assume this baronetcy, as the former did on the death of Sir John James Gordon, 4th Baronet, in 1780. But he was not appa- rently aware that Sir John James Gordon left a son, John Benjamin Gordon (born 1 September, 1779), who survived him, for he appears among the children in a ' List of Cadets in England ' dated 25 Aiigust, 1782, though he is not in the next issue, 28 December, 1783. The baronetcy was taken up in 1804 by this child's younger brother Sir John Bury Gordon, the founder of the 30th (Indian) Lancers, (Gordon's Horse), who was therefore 6th and not 5th Baronet. Historians of the baronetage may be interested in the fact.

J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall, S.W.

THE MACDONALD CHIEFTAINSHIP. The Times of 22 September, under the heading ' Highland Feud Settled : the Chieftainship of the Clan Macdonald,' contained the follow- ing :

" An arrangement has been arrived at for the settlement of the feud which has existed for several hundred years as to the chieftainship of the Clan Macdonald. The matter was made public at a dinner held in the Highland Village at the Glasgow Exhibition under the joint auspices of the Mac- donald Society of Glasgow and the Clan Ranald Society of Edinburgh.

" The chair was occupied by Sir J. H. A. Mac- donald, who, in responding to the toast of the Clan Macdonald Societies, remarked that he thought the question of the chieftainship had been settled in a reasonable and sensible way. He did not know whether the feud was so terrible that they could not live in the near neighbourhood of one another, but he noticed that the signatures to the agreement had been appended one in Russia, the second in South Africa, and the third in England. He hoped, now that the feud was at an end, that at their next gathering they would see the three chiefs assembled at their festive board.

" Sir Alexander Bosville Macdonald, replying to the toast of ' The Chiefs of Clan Ranald, Glengarry, and Speat,' said that at any time during the past 400 years it would have been impossible for one chief to respond to the toast of the two others. With the smash up of the Lordship of the Isles at the end of 1400, the policy of the Government of the day was to breed discord among the three branches of the clan until jealousy became almost a hereditary instinct. That had gone on down to the present day, to the detriment of the clan. All three of them professed an unbroken line of pedigree, while even if it could be proved that one of them represented the senior line, that would not make him chief of the whole clan. They had to get the voice of the whole clan, but as the clan was scattered all over