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NOTES AND QUERIES. en s. vi. SEPT. a, 1912.

TOADS AND POISON (11 S. vi. 87, 157). " D'ou vient 1'idee d'une relation entre la placide bete, amie des jardiniers et grand destructeur des limaces, et le diable ? " asks M. Th. de Cauzons in his ' Histoire de la Magie et de la Sorcellerie,' t. i. p. 218. He confesses :

" Je 1'ignore. Peut-e'tre cela vint-il de 1'opinion attribuant une influence disproportionnde a la liqueur plus ou nioins venimeuse que lance 1'animal pour se defendre."

At the witches' Sabbath toads are said to have been whipped in order that they might be irritated into an extreme state of juiciness, and then the votaries of the Evil One anointed themselves with the fluid and declared their unity with him. It is asserted that children were set to guard shall I say herds of ? frogs for magical purposes. Rue, says the ' Speculum Mundi ' (p. 248), " is an enemie to the Toad, as being a great enemie to poysons."

ST. SWITHIN.

REFERENCES WANTED (11 S. vi. 169). The quotation given by W. H. B. is, as he suggests, from Nietzsche. It reads in the original as follows :

" Der freigewordene Mensch, und wieviel mehr der freigewordene Geist, tritt nrit Fiissen auf die verachtliche Art von Wohlbefinden, von dem Kramer, Christen, Kiihe, Weiber, Englander und andere Demokraten traumen der freie Mensch ist Krieger."

I cannot, however, tell W. H. B. from which of Nietzsche's works it comes ; I take it from H. Vaihinger's ' Nietzsche als Philosoph,' 1902, p. 102. H. I. B.

FlTZWILLIAM AND GuiMALDI AEMS (US. VJ.

144, 215). I once had the curiosity to make some references concerning the coat of arm Lozengjr argent and gules, and while engaged on the investigation it occurred to me that I ought to include Lozengy gules and argent, also " fusily," because it is possible thai in early heraldry there were not such fine distinctions as were introduced at a later period. I do not suggest that the results have any bearing on the subject dealt witl under the above heading, but, as thej comprise foreign heraldry, the following list may be of general interest in connexion with the coat under discussion. Althougl the information in Papworth is within the reach of all heraldic students, I venture to include the instances found in that work ir order to make the collection more com prehensive ; at the same time I feel sure tha it is still far from being complete.

I subjoin a list of English and foreign

lames to which the arms " lozengy " or

'fusily" "argent and gules" (or "gules

and argent ") are ascribed (* fusily; f gu. and

arg. ; $ Papworth ; unmarked = arg. and

plT \

Alatra, Italy.

fAppiani (Appiana), Florence. tArgenti, Trieste. Bain, Brittany. Bertoldi, Padua. fBrucken, Lorraine. JChaveney. jCogan.
 * Bec (du), Normandy.

tjColom (Fitz Colom). Espinefort, Brittany. Fabbiani, Padua. FitzWilliam (arg. and gu., gu. and arg., also
 * Diiebeck, Normandy.

fusily).

Gafforini, Verona (also cheeky gu. and arg ). Geffrard de Bernouville, Brittany. Girard de la Cour des Bois, Brittany. tGironella, Spain. Hodenpyl, Delft. Joly de Thonon, Geneva. Latri (Latra), Naples. Levants, Brabant. ^Lozenge. tJMablethorpe. Macmahon, Monaghan. Marteville, France. Matono, Venice.
 * Grimaldi, Italy (Jlozengy).

Mer (de la) de Matha (also or and gu.). Montmoret, Franche Comte. Perier-Beriansais, Maine.

Poissy, de (De Pressy or Precy, with a chief or). Poisv, Artois (also or and gu.). Quillivala, Brittany. Rapioult, Ile-de-France. Rheineck. Westphalia. Rochelle (de la), Franche Comte. JRoclay or Rockley (also erm. and gu.). tStettfurth, Switzerland. tTalamanca (sic), Spain. Tessieres, Limousin, P^rigord. JTidenham (tITydenham). Turpin de Crise, Poitou, Brittany (also or and

Wegisheim, Alsace.

It would seem that variations in tinctures and other differences should perhaps be taken into account in attempting to arrive at conclusions. LEO C.

DICK TURPIN' s RIDE TO YORK (US. vi. 189). MR. TEW may rest assured that most of this famous knight of the road's exploits are chronicled in the press of the day, 1725-39. The murder of the Epping Forest keeper and other crimes of Turpin may be read of in old newspapers. Moreover, his fame as a highwayman appears from the shorthand report (by Kylls) of his trial at York Lent Assizes, 1739, before Sir Wm.