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periodical for August, 1881, pp. 269-74. I hasten to add that I have abandoned long ago the theory (championed in both articles) of the Saracen colonization of the Saas Valley, just east of the Zermatt Valley.

W. A. B. COOLIDGE.

ARMS OF THE GHIBELLINES (11 S. v. 349). The ; ' Capo d'Angid " (the chief of Anjou), Az., a label of four points gules with three fleurs-de-lis or between the points, is con- sidered as indicating the Guelph party, and the " Capo dell' Impero " (chief of the Empire), Or, an eagle displayed sable, beaked, membered, and crowned gold, as indicating the Ghibelline party. A large proportion, ^amounting perhaps to one-seventh, of Italian arms, bear the Capo dell' Impero.

LEO C.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED (11 S. v. 388). The lines beginning

A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole were composed by General Sir E. Haniley. They relate to the colours of the 43rd Mon- mouth Light Infantry. I give them in full :

On Monmouth Church. A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul. '"Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth- eaten rag,

When the pole was a staff and the rag was a flag. For on many a morn in our grandfathers' days, When the bright sun of Portugal broke through

the haze,

Disclosing the armies arrayed in their might, It showed the old flag in the front of the fight. By ridges, o'er bridges, past vineyards and downs, Up the valleys, where stood, all deserted, the

towns, It followed the French ; and when they turned to

bay,

It just paused for the fight, then again led the way. And whenever it chanced that a battle was nigh, They saw it hung out like a sign in the sky, And they soon learned to know it its crimson

and white,

O'er the lines of red coats and of bayonets bright. In the church where it hangs, when the moon

gilds the graves And the aisles and the arches, it swells and it

waves,

While below, a faint sound as of combat is heard From the ghostly array of the old Forty-third.

S. W.

LURED FROM PARADISE (11 S. v. 386). The Provencal legend mentioned by ST. S WITHIN was also utilized for a short story by Alphonse Daudet, under the title of " Jarjaille chez le Bon Dieu, Legende Proven?ale, Imitee de Louis Roumieux.' It is included, with other stories, in a small,

paper-covered volume called ' La Belle Nivernaise ' from the first and longest tale (Paris, n.d.). In this version the hero comes from Saint-Remy, and it is St. Luke who suggests the device to lure him from Para- dise, after St. Yves has failed to help St. Peter. (St. Yves had advised that they should seek an " avoue " ; " mais des avoues en paradis, jamais personne n'en a vu.") St. Luke sends a flock of cherubs to shout " Les boeufs ! les boeufs ! " &c., outside the gate, and Jarjaille rushes out. The final paragraphs are to the same effect as those quoted by ST. SWITHIN, although the words differ. G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

THE LADY MARY GREY AND THOMAS KEYES (11 S. v. 369, 408). Sir Richard Sackville (d. 1566), Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer and Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations (the father of Thomas, first Earl of Dorset), was first cousin to Queen Anne Boleyn, being the eldest son of John Sackville of Chiddingley, Kent, by Anne, daughter of Sir William Boleyn, and sister of Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wilt- shire and Ormonde. A. R. BAYLEY.

Thomas Fuller, in his ' Worthies of Eng- land,' 1840, vol. ii. p. 227, calls Lady Mary's husband " Martin Kayes, of Kent, Esq., who was a judge at Court (but only of doubtful casts at dice, being sergeant- porter)." Apparently good old Fuller was not too accurate here in giving the name. FREDK. A. EDWARDS.

HENRY BLAKE (11 S. v. 168, 273, 358). It may interest MR. HIPWELL to know that, since his communication to me some years ago, a copy of the earlier admissions, con- taining the entry of Henry Blake, has been presented to the School. G. F. R. B.

PUNCH AND JUDY (11 S. v. 289, 376). The dialogue of Punch and Judy can be obtained for a penny. It forms No. 42 of " Books for the Bairns," edited by the late W. T. Stead. The illustrations are by George Cruikshank. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire

THE NONSENSE CLUB (11 S. v. 129). James Bensley is mentioned as a member of the Nonsense Club in Phillimore's ' Alumni Westmon,' Election 1751. He is the same apparently as the Bensley in a note in Southey's ' Cowper,' vol. i. 324. Mr. de Grey is also named. Was he at Westminster ? D. M. L.